Research
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Latest papers
Building bridges: codesigning & sense of belonging
Leisure/Loisir · 2025 · first author
Providing Provisions in Uncertain Times: Benefits and Challenges of Partnerships Developing and Facilitating Recreation and Leisure Services for Rural Low-income Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Proceedings of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation · 2025
“Hands off”: responsibilizing low-income citizens through fee assistance programs
Managing Sport and Leisure · 2024 · senior author
17 publications.
Building bridges: codesigning & sense of belonging
Jackie Oncescu, Julia S. Frigault, Daneka Headley, Jules Maitland, Madeleine Whalen
Providing Provisions in Uncertain Times: Benefits and Challenges of Partnerships Developing and Facilitating Recreation and Leisure Services for Rural Low-income Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Megan Fortune, Jackie Oncescu, Laura Fisher, Mary Sweatman
“Hands off”: responsibilizing low-income citizens through fee assistance programs
Megan Fortune, Jackie Oncescu
Supporting rural low-income families: a municipal recreation department's response to community crisis
Jackie Oncescu, Megan Fortune, Laura Fisher, Mary Sweatman, Julia S. Frigault
Access to Recreation in Rural Communities: Municipal Recreation’s Approaches to Supporting Citizens Living with Low Incomes
Jackie Oncescu, Megan Fortune, Julia S. Frigault
Neoliberalism’s influence on recreation access provisions: Municipal recreation practitioners’ perspectives
Jackie Oncescu, Megan Fortune
Community sport and recreation organizations’ inclusion of low-income families in sport and recreation in New Brunswick
Megan Fortune, Jackie Oncescu
Balancing act: a socialist feminist perspective of rural low-income mothers’ experiences navigating the COVID-19 pandemic
Megan Fortune, Jackie Oncescu, Laura Fisher, Mary Sweatman
Keeping citizens living with low incomes at arm’s length away: the responsibilization of municipal recreation access provisions
Jackie Oncescu, Megan Fortune
Exclusionary Mechanisms of Community Leisure for Low-Income Families: Programs, Policies and Procedures
Jackie Oncescu, Lauren A. Green, Justine Jenkins
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