Profile for Katherine Evans

Jon Evans, Katherine Evans, Laurie Harmon, Brian Kumm-Schaley and Daniel Plunkett, all Recreation Management & Recreational Therapy, presented "WPRA Recreation Management Pre-Conference Panel Discussion" at Wisconsin Park & Recreation Association Annual Meeting on Jan. 30 in La Crosse, WI. This panel discussion reviewed recent curriculum changes, departmental responses to post-COVID student needs, student recruitment and retention strategies, and a Q&A period. Highlights included: modifications for the RM curriculum; development of certificate programs, facilitation of student learning experience, internship requirements and opportunities, departmental reach and initiatives to increase enrollment and professional engagement, and collaboration opportunities between the academic unit and professional counterparts in the field.

Submitted on: Feb. 6

Cord Brundage, Biology; Eugenia Turov, Chemistry & Biochemistry; and Katherine Evans, Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation; were named Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars of UW System on May 30. Throughout the coming year, they will participate in a professional development program to examine teaching and learning issues and be guided through the process of completing a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project.

Submitted on: June 1, 2023

Recep Pekdemir, Accountancy; Cord Brundage and Tisha King-Heiden, both Biology; Kristin Koepke, CATL; Eugenia Turov, Chemistry & Biochemistry; Ashley Edwards and Jessica Welsh, both Communication Studies; Bryan Kopp, English; Jason Sumontha, Psychology; and Katherine Evans, Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation; served by representing UWL at UW System’s Faculty College event May 30-June 2, 2023. The theme for Faculty College 2023 was Teaching & Learning with a Social Justice Lens.

Submitted on: June 1, 2023

Katherine Evans, Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation, presented "Exploring the Role of Leisure in the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls " at The Academy of Leisure Sciences Annual Conference (Theme: Critical Realities - Culture at the Crossroads) on Thursday, March 3 online. Based in notions of resistance inherent within leisure research (e.g., Shaw, 1991; Wearing, 2008), and the essence of what leisure “should be” (i.e., grounded in freedom, autonomy, and self-expression, inherently positive and socially good), this 1-hour presentation focused on two important aspects of this discussion: 1. The role the leisure field can play in the efforts of eliminating violence against women and girls across the social ecology; and 2. An overview of the role leisure researchers can play in helping move leisure theory and programming forward in this effort.

Submitted on: Mar. 3, 2022

Katherine Evans, Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation, co-authored the chapter "The Case for Evidence-Based Outdoor Recreation Interventions for Girls: Helping Girls "Find Their Voice" in the Outdoors" in Education Sciences published on Thursday, April 15 by MDPI.

Submitted on: April 15, 2021

Katherine Evans, Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation, co-authored the article "The Case for Evidence-Based Outdoor Recreation Interventions for Girls: Helping Girls "Find Their Voice" in the Outdoors" in Education Sciences and was accepted for publication by MDPI. "Finding Your Voice" is a recreation intervention created with the focus of introducing middle school girls to outdoor recreation to increase the participants’ self-efficacy and self-empowerment. Empirical research focusing on participant experiences has demonstrated promising results and the best practices from "Finding Your Voice" and the broader research on female empowerment in the outdoors are presented.

Submitted on: Dec. 31, 2020

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Submitted on: Oct. 22, 2018