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Welcome message
Welcome to the home page of the Diversity Research Laboratory! The Laboratory was established in 2001 as part of the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For the past eight years it has established itself as a leader in interdisciplinary research on issues of race, ethnicity, immigration, gender, disability, and leisure. On this website you will find descriptions of numerous research projects and outreach activities undertaken by the faculty and graduate students affiliated with the Laboratory, as well as resources that might be helpful to those involved in research on diversity and leisure.
Welcome and thank you for visiting our webpage!
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Student Hightlights!
Juan Carlos Acevedo, a member of the Diversity Research Laboratory, is a senior MS student in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois. His interests focus on how immigration, transnationalism, ethnic identity, and discrimination influence Latino's leisure behavior. He also investigates the cultural differences in leisure between first, second and third generation immigrants. Juan Carlos is a co-PI on a Robert Wood Johnson-funded study on the effects of crime on physical activity and outdoor recreation among Latino adolescents and a co-author on a paper on the effects of fear of gang crime on Latinos' recreation behavior that was published in the latest issue of Leisure Sciences. |
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Mission Statement
The mission of the Diversity Research Laboratory is to advocate diversity by facilitating, producing and disseminating multidisciplinary research dedicated to leisure as it relates to diverse and distinct communities.
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Recent Events
In October, 2009, four faculty and six students from the Diversity Lab (Drs. Kim Shinew, Julie Son, Laura Payne, and Monika Stodolska, and Ira Sharaievska, Jungeun Kim, Maya Skowron, Brooke Davitt, Juan Acevedo, and Sebastian Burset) attended the National Recreation and Park Association conference in Salt Lake City. Members of the Lab presented there four papers, a poster, and an education session.
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Research Highlights
In 2009-2011, Drs. Stodolska and Shinew, along with a graduate student - Juan Carlos Acevedo and Dr. Caterina Roman of Temple University are conducting a study to examine the relationship between crime and physical activity participation and outdoor recreation among Latino adolescents ages 11-14 and 15-18. The study is funded by a grant from the Salud America program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It evaluates participation in physical activity and outdoor recreation in parks, neighborhood streets, sidewalks, alleys, front/backyards, and school yards/school grounds. Ultimately, the goal of the study is to provide more information on the relationship between crime and physical activity participation among Latino female and male adolescents of various acculturation levels in order to devise strategies that would help increase physical activity participation among members of this group and, thus reducing their obesity levels. |
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