Luc Cousineau, PhD

Education:

• Ph.D. (2022) Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo
• Certificate of University Teaching (2019), University of Waterloo
• M.A. (2016) Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo
• HBA (Women's Studies), Lakehead University, 2010
• HBOR (Honours Bachelors of Outdoor Recreation), Lakehead University, 2010
• BSc, Lakehead University, 2010

    Professional Development:

• The Fundamentals of OCAP®
• Certificate of Project Management
• Instructional Skills Workshop
• Associate Certificate in Local Governance

Knowledge Mobilization:

• Safe, Inclusive and Meaningful Camp Experiences for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth: A 2024 – 2025 partnership study report (2025)
• Safe, Inclusive and Meaningful Camp Experiences for 2SLGBTQIA+ Youth Key Findings – Infographic (2025)

Selected Publications:

• Sandau, E.L.,* & and Cousineau, L.S. (2025). ‘Trying to talk white male teenagers off the alt-right ledge’ and other impacts of masculinist influencers on teachers. Gender and Education, 37(5), 595–610. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2515863
• Cousineau, L.S. (2025 – In Press). Leisure as ideological infrastructure: four nodes of far-right and new-right mobilization. In Lashua, B., Spracklen, K., & Yuen, F. (eds). Research Handbook on the Sociology of Leisure. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Cousineau, L.S. (2024). Navigating a feminist ethics of care, ethnographic methods, and academic activism in researching men’s rights and the far right: a researcher’s struggles. In: Vaughan, A., Braune, J., Tinsley, M., & Mondon, A. (Eds.) The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right. Manchester University Press.
• Cousineau, L.S., Ollier-Malaterre, A. & Parent-Rocheleau, X. (2023). Employee Surveillance Technologies: Prevalence, Classification, and Invasiveness. Surveillance & Society, 21(4), 447-468. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v21i4.15763
• Cousineau, L.S. (2023). “Are there any other male friendly subs on here?” - Online men's rights groups as simultaneous communities of care and entrees into soft misogyny, supremacist discourses, and pipelines to radicalization. Leisure/Loisirs: special issue on Leisure, Inclusion and Belonging, 47(4), 681-702. https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2252812
• Cousineau, L.S. (2022). Digital Research for Social Justice. In Johnson, C.W. & Parry, D.C. (Eds.) Fostering Social Justice through Qualitative Inquiry: A Methodological Guide, 2nd Edition, (pp. 231-250). Routledge.
• Cousineau, L.S. (2021). “A Positive Identity for Men”? Pathways to far-right participation through /r/MensRights and /r/TheRedPill. In Devries, M., Bessant, J. & Watts, R. (Eds.), Rise of the Far-Right: Technologies of Recruitment & Mobilization (Edited Collection), (pp/ 127-146). Rowman & Littlefield International.