Multispecies Leisure: Human-Animal Interactions in Leisure Landscapes seeks to 'bring the animal in' to the leisure studies domain and contribute to greater understanding of leisure as a complex, interwoven multispecies phenomenon.

Paula Danby is currently a Student and Foundation Liaison Manager within the MDU and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was previously Lecturer in International Tourism Management at Queen Margaret University. Her research focuses on human-animal relations and experiences within leisure and tourism environments, particularly equestrian tourism. Her work explores human-animal interactions for mutual wellbeing.

Katherine Dashper is Reader and Director of Research Degrees at Leeds Beckett University. Her research applies a critical sociological lens to examine practices of work and leisure, particularly focusing on gender issues and interspecies encounters. Her multispecies research focuses mainly on human-horse interactions and she is author of Human-animal relationships in equestrian sport and leisure (Routledge, 2017).

Rebecca Finkel is Reader and School Head of Research at Queen Margaret University and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Main focus of research frames critical events studies within conceptualisations of social justice, equality and diversity, and cultural identity. New research explores the relational wellbeing dimensions of human-animal interactions in events, tourism, and leisure contexts.

1. Multispecies leisure: human-animal interactions in leisure landscapes

Paula Danby, Katherine Dashper and Rebecca Finkel

2. Individuals, instinct and moralities: exploring multi-species leisure using the serious leisure perspective

Carmel Nottle and Janette Young

3. Tuesdays with Worry: appreciating nature with a dog at the end of life

Justin Harmon

4. Sport horse leisure and the phenomenology of interspecies embodiment

Andrea Ford

5. Relating to reptiles: an autoethnographic account of animal-leisure relationships

Kevin Markwell

6. Dance with a fish? Sensory human-nonhuman encounters in the waterscape of match fishing

Vesa Markuksela and Anu Valtonen

7. Shared spaces on the street: a multispecies ethnography of ex-racing greyhound street collections in South Wales, UK

Kerry L. Sands

8. What's in it for the cats?: cat shows as serious leisure from a multispecies perspective

Emily Stone

9. An ecological-phenomenological perspective on multispecies leisure and the horse-human relationship in events

Katherine Dashper and Eric Brymer

10. Becoming horseboy(s) - human-horse relations and intersectionality in equiscapes

Eva Linghede

11. An exploratory study of British Millennials' attitudes to the use of live animals in events

Elena Marinova and Dorothy Fox

12. A predator in the park: mixed methods analysis of user preference for coyotes in urban parks

Jackson Wilson and Jeff Rose