Dr. Peter Armstrong Morden, PhD

Prior to joining Concordia University as a full-time faculty member in 2003, Dr. Peter Morden pursued academic training in leisure studies and employment within municipal, not-for-profit, and commercial leisure services for the better part of two decades. Over this time developed a profound interest in community efforts to serve the leisure needs of adolescents, ethnocultural communities, and impoverished populations as well as the psychological outcomes of leisure participation. Dr. Morden received his Master of Arts degree from Dalhousie University in 1998 and was awarded a PhD from the University of Waterloo in 2004.

Dr. Morden has published in diverse areas including the psychological antecedents of leisure satisfaction, leisure behaviour and ethnocultural identity development, and leisure policy and practice in Quebec. He has presented at both national and international conferences and has received numerous awards for his scholarship and contributions to the scholarly community. His most recent book, Deriving Satisfaction: Needs and Emotions in Everyday Life, was published in 2010.

Dr. Morden has been deeply involved in serving Concordia University. He recently served two terms as Chair of the Department of Applied Human Sciences and previously served as an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts of Science.

Education

Research interests

AHSC 380

Quantitative Research Methods for Practitioners

AHSC 385

Social Psychology of Leisure

Research grants

Recent publications

Morden, P. A., Hebblethwaite, S., & Hopp, R., (Eds.). (2008). Book of Abstracts: 12th Canadian Congress on Leisure Research. Montreal, QC: Canadian Association for Leisure Studies.

Morden, P. A. & Stebbins, R. (2007). Leisure in French Canada. In R. McCarville & K. MacKay (Eds.) Leisure for Canadians (pp. 165-172). State College, PA: Venture.

Morden, P. A., & Hopp, R.. (2007). Transracial adoptees: A new frontier in ethnicity and leisure research. Leisure/loisir, 31(1), 57-76.

Delamere, F. M., Morden, P. A., & Rose, H. A. (2006). Promoting resilience in youth through facilitating leisure engagement in self-determined community-serving projects. Journal of Child and Youth Care Work, 21, 18-28.

Havitz, M. E., Morden, P. A., & Samdahl, D. M. (2004).The diverse worlds of unemployed adults: Consequences for leisure, lifestyle, and well-being. Waterloo, ON: Laurier University Press.

Recent conference presentations

Morden,P. A. (2018,July). Understanding the experience of urban leisure spaces: Using geographically-explicit ecological momentary assessment to understand space-usepatterns, perceptions, and preferences of locals versus tourists. Paperpresented at the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Ontario.

Morden,P. A. (2017, May).Urban adolescents’ community perceptions as barriers to physical activity.Paper presented at the Fifteenth Canadian Congress on Leisure Research,Kitchener, Ontario.

Havitz, M. E. & Morden, P. A. (2016,July). Some years later – Perspectives on Diverse Worlds of Unemployed Adults:Consequences for Leisure, Lifestyle, and Well-Being. Paper presented at theThird ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna, Austria.