Program Overview

PhD Recreation and Leisure Studies - Aging, Health, and Well-being

The Faculty of Health offers the first collaborative PhD program in Canada with a focus on aging, health, and well-being. This doctoral program is an interdisciplinary platform to develop a broad understanding of the issues related to the health and well-being of our aging population.

Collaborative PhD

• Students can register in any department/school in the Faculty of Health, utilizing an interdisciplinary platform upon which to develop a broad understanding of issues related to the health and well-being of our aging population.
• The application deadline is February 1. Late applications will be reviewed and considered until June 1.

Student Research

• Taylor Kurta's PhD Aging, Health and Well-being research aims to use collaborative song writing with people living with dementia as a tool to expose and challenge the harmful consequence of dementia-stigma.
• Arany Sivasubramaniam's research is looking at how to abolish the medical industrial complex by looking at the experiences of the BIPOC community.

Program Overview

The Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies is a unit of the Faculty of Health. The PhD Recreation and Leisure Studies - Aging, Health, and Well-being program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the issues related to the health and well-being of our aging population.

University Context

The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is co-ordinated within the Office of Indigenous Relations.