{"id":11671,"date":"2025-02-19T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/?page_id=11671"},"modified":"2025-02-19T14:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:08:02","slug":"begum-aybar-damali","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/colleges\/nursing-health-sciences\/recreation-tourism-therapeutic-recreation-department\/faculty-staff\/begum-aybar-damali\/","title":{"rendered":"Begum Aybar Damali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Post-Doctoral Fellow <strong>|<\/strong>&nbsp;Clemson University (2007)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PhD:<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Park, Recreation and Tourism Management | Clemson University (2007)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MS:&nbsp;Industrial Management | Clemson University (2002)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BS:&nbsp;Psychology | Middle East Technical University | Turkey (1999)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching Areas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Foundations of Recreation and Leisure&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evaluation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Therapeutic Recreation Services, Programming, Trends, and Issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leisure behavior, relevance of leisure experience to human development and growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Publications &amp; Presentations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kleiber, D. A., Fortune, D., &amp; Aybar-Damali, B. Z. (Submitted to be printed in 2024). Selective social leisure engagement as a pathway to aging well. In M. Stodolska, D. Scott, &amp; T. Lietchty (Eds.), Leisure Matters: Exploring Leisure in a Changing World (4th ed., pp. 237-244).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kleiber, D., Aybar-Damali, B., &amp; McGuire, F. A. (Presented: March, 2022). \u2018Wisemen\u2019 managing their free time during a pandemic. The Academy of Leisure Sciences, Annual Confere<em>nce.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aybar-Damali, B., McGuire, F., &amp; Kleiber, D. (2021). Adaptation to the COVID-19 Pandemic among older adults in the United States. World Leisure Journal, 0, 1-11. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/16078055.2021.1957009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/16078055.2021.1957009<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supervising Student Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RTTR students who are interested in pursuing their own research interests have a chance to design and conduct their own research through independent studies for credit or not-for-credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Examples from projects supervised by Dr. Aybar Damali:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sociability of public places<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evaluation of community events (e.g., Earth Day)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Part-time employee retention and loyalty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                            <div class=\"h3\">Contact<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n            \n<div class=\"wsu-block contact-card mb-1\">\n   <div class=\"contact-card__content\">\n       <div class=\"contact-card__title h4\">\n           Begum Aybar Damali (PhD)\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__subtitle h4\">\n           Department Chair, Professor\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n           <p>Memorial 119<\/p>\n<p>507.457.2564<\/p>\n\n       <\/div>\n       <a class=\"wsu-link contact-card__link\" href=\"mailto:baybardamali@winona.edu\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Email Begum Aybar Damali <\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about the academic background of Begum Aybar Damali, a faculty member of WSU&#8217;s RTTR Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":11668,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[330,352],"class_list":["post-11671","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-rttr","tag-contact-profile","tag-legacy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11671"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16692,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11671\/revisions\/16692"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}