Abstract
In the 1990s questions began to be raised about whether leisure studies were a dying field of study. Departments and programmes were closing, and attendance at leisure studies conferences appeared to be declining. Yet in the twenty-first century we have seen the emergence of a new leisure studies journal and multiple book series' being commissioned that are dedicated to leisure. The question therefore arises of whether leisure studies is dead, dying, or alive and well. Through an analysis of the departmental affiliations of all the authors who have published in all the leisure studies double-blind peer-reviewed journals this paper examines the health of leisure studies. It suggests that in terms of the number of authors publishing in leisure studies journals, the field is healthy. Furthermore, the departmental homes of the authors indicate leisure studies is a healthy multidisciplinary meeting ground that has never been dominated by those based in departments explicitly linked to leisure through their title.