Serious Leisure Podcast

Reflecting on ways to balance work and wellbeing via leisure and hobbies.
If you‘ve ever thought you need to find a hobby but not sure how to make time or if you‘ve not had a chance to unpack why your leisure is so important, this is for you.

How do we create space and identities for ourselves outside work and with so many pressures should we even try? This podcast is full of ideas about how we can enrich our lives with a vast array of weird, wonderful and fun hobbies and interests.
We discuss Robert Stebbins’ landmark concept of Serious Leisure and how it can help us re-evaluate the place of leisure in our lives. Guest share open and frank stories about balancing their work-life-leisure and why is it important.

The podcast is produced at UWE Bristol and hosted by:
* Dr Petia Petrova, Associate Director of Academic Practice at UWE Bristol
* Kat Branch, Leader of UWE Bristol’s Centre for Music
* Dr Sam Elkington, the co-author of ‘The Serious Leisure Perspective’, Teesside University