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Eileen O’Connor is an Associate Professor in the School of Human Kinetics. She obtained her PhD in History, and was a postdoctoral fellow in Health Sciences, University of Ottawa (2004).

Dr. O’Connor was interim-Director of the Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society (RCSCS) at �糵���� 2014-2015, and is member of several research groups on the history of health, sport or gender studies.  She was recently appointed to the Ontario Women’s Health Scholars Awards Selection Committee by the Council of Ontario Universities. Her research has been funded by CIHR, CRTI, FQRSC, Associated Medical Services, and Health Canada, and is published in journals such as the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, JOLT: Journal of Online Learning and Teaching; Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine; Journal of Emergency Management; and the American Journal of Disaster Medicine. Eileen is a member of various scholarly associations including the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, North American Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education, and the Canadian Association for Community Service Learning.  She is an engaged scholar in the field of experiential learning and sits on the academic advisory committee of the Centre Michaëlle Jean for Global and Community Engagement at �糵����, as well as the advisory board of the Work-Integrated Learning toolkit supported by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO). Dr. O’Connor was an invited participant to the UNESCO Mobile Learning conference in Paris, and to a recent FSS-led workshop to develop a Certificate in Community Mobilization for Syrian Refugees.

Eileen is recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Faculty of Health Sciences in 2007; the �糵���� Community Service Learning, Outstanding Achievement, Professor of the Year Award in 2009; an OCRI National Capital Educator’s Award in 2010 and a �糵���� Excellence in Education Prize in 2016.

• History of medicine, sport
• Experiential and work-integrated learning

Dr. O’Connor’s research focuses on socio-historical analyses of health, sport, gender and leisure.   Current research in the history of sport in Canada include projects on swimming pool safety legislation; and development of therapeutic aquatic rehabilitation. She is also collaborating to create a French-language video on Canadian women’s sport history. A second focus of research includes the collaborative development of tools to provide training for students prior to experiential learning in the community.

• Cai, Y.*, & O’Connor, E. (2025). . History and Philosophy of Medicine, 7(2), 1–9.
• Cai, Y.*, & O’Connor, E. (2025). . International Journal of Sport in Society, 16(2), 1–24.
• Member of Advisory Consulting Committee on: Stirling, A., Kerr, G., Banwell, J., MacPherson, E., & Heron, A. (Eds.) ( 2024 2nd edition; 2016). . Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO).
• O’Connor, E., Marcogliese, E.*, Anis, H., Faye, G., Flynn, A., Hayman, E., & Stambouli, J. (2023). . Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 8(4), 49–56.
• O’Connor, E., Nikoobin*, N., Ndukauba*, P., Zhang*, K., Heidari*, K., & Hadidi, M.* (2022). Students as partners: Reflecting on attitudes towards learning during Covid-19 from the viewpoint of students and faculty. In L. Masengo, M. Lummiss, A. Davis, J. Groen, A. Germain-Rutherford, & B. Karamifar (Eds.), Scaffolding a transformative transition to distance and online learning (). eCampus Ontario Open Library Pressbooks.
• O’Connor, E., Cianciotta, J.*, & Crete, D. (2021). . New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2021(167), 23–32.
• Nzindukiyimana, O.*, & O’Connor, E. (2019). . Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, 42(1), 137–164.
• McCarroll, L.*, O’Connor, E., & Garlough, J. (2019). . Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 4(2), 87–94.
• Community knowledge mobilization: O’Connor, E., & McCarroll, L. (2018). A greater view of the landscape: Co-creating a brokering tool for community-campus engagement.
• O’Connor, E., Bridges*, C,  Garlough, J., Whitmore, E. (2017). Contextualizing Possibilities and Challenges of a Third-Party Environmental Brokerage Mechanism for Ottawa-area Community and Academic Partners, published abstract in , University of Ottawa, Symposium 110, pp. 132-133.
• Valentino*, K., O’Connor, E.(2015)  Private Pool Safety Bylaw Regulation and Compliance in Ottawa. , KIT Institute, Amsterdam.
• Nzindukiyimana, O.*, & O’Connor, E. (2013). . Recorde: Revista de História do Esporte, 6(1), 1–30.
• Bashir, K.*, & O’Connor, E. (2013). . International Journal of Civic and Political Studies, 7(2), 1–12.
• O’Connor, E. (2012) . Extended abstract/research note published in Conference Proceedings of EduLearn 12: 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, pp.4360-4363.
• O’Connor, E., & Vertinsky, P. (2011). . In Negotiating the terrain of sport, medicine, and health in historical context (special issue) Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 28(2), 239–247.
• Chun, K.*, & O’Connor, E. (2011). , QoL and support. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 5(11), 113–126.
• Chapter: Amaratunga, C., Phillips, K. P., O’Connor, E., O’Sullivan, T., Boscoe, M., Lemyre, L., & Krewski, D. (2010). . In M. G. Tyshenko & C. Paterson (Eds.), SARS unmasked: Risk communication of pandemics and influenza in Canada (Chapter 7, pp. 172–187). McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Film Review : Ellis, D.*, & O’Connor, E. (2010). . Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, 9(2).
• O’Connor, E., O’Sullivan, T., Amaratunga, C., Thille, P.*, Phillips, K. P., Carter, M., & Lemyre, L. (2009). . Journal of Emergency Management, 7(5), 48–56.
• O’Sullivan, T. L., Amaratunga, C. A., Phillips, K. P., Corneil, W., O’Connor, E., Lemyre, L., & Dow, D. (2009). . Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 24(4), 317–321.

Invited talks

• International-Brazil (2024) Leisure as Pathway to Well-being: Supporting Immigrant Women’s Leisure through a Newcomer Settlement Service Organization in Ottawa, Canada, Universidad Federal de Brasil, Santa Catarina, UFSC, Santa Catarina, Brazil, May 2024.
• International FISU World University Games (2023). Title: Students, Sport, Community Development: Enhancing University-Community Partnerships for Experiential and Engaged Learning, Invited speaker. , Chendgu Sport University, China, July 2023.
• Keynote lecture (2022): Mentoring students on their academic journey in the classroom and in the community / Mentorat des étudiant(e)s dans leur cheminement scolaire en classe et dans la communauté. Invited by VP Academic, Academic Success Services, �糵���� mentoring orientation training for all new and returning �糵���� mentors, August 31, 2022.
• Keynote lecture (2017): Integrating Work-Integrated Learning into your Courses with Success, (TLSS) 2017-2018 New Professor Orientation, launch of TLSS Teaching Chair.

Academic conferences

• Cai*, Y., O’Connor, E. (2025) Exploring the History of the Development and Practice of Tai Chi in Ottawa. Annual Convention of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), Canadian Museum of History, Quebec. May 26-29, 2025.
• Bozzetti*, J., Fernandes da Silva, C., O’Connor, E. (2025) Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and Gender Performativity: Clothing and Subjectivities of Brazilian Women Athletes on Instagram. Annual Convention of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), Canadian Museum of History, Quebec. May 26-29, 2025.
• O’Connor, E., Abu-Zahra, N., Wills, E., Ambrosio, L., El-Mohtadi*, J. PAND Settlement Services (2024), Co-Developing Inclusive Leisure for Farsi-speaking Immigrant Women in Ottawa, Canada: Adopting a Community-Campus Approach with a Local Settlement Service Organization, Poster and presentation, , University of the West of Scotland UWS Paisley, Scotland, July 2024, pp 202-205.
• Letícia de Borba*, B., Defaveri Begossi, T., O’Connor, E., Fernandes da Silva, C. (2024) “Falando às Mães” (Speaking to the mothers) in the magazine Jornal das Moças: Deconstructing advice to Brazilian mothers on children’s physical education curriculum (1930s-1960s), Poster presentation, Leisure Studies Association Conference, UWS Paisley, Scotland, July 2024, pp. 81-83.
• Cai*, Y., O’Connor, E. (2024) Balancing Mind, Body, and Qi: Towards a Social History of Tai Chi in Ottawa, Canada, Symposium on Physical Cultures of the Body, Virtual presentation, The H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports, University of Texas (Austin) January 2024.
• O’Connor, E., Kantartzi*, I., Crete, D., Cai*, Y. Enhancing Capacity for Student-Athletes as Partners in Community-based Experiential Learning (2023), Poster presentation. World Congress of Sociology of Sport conference, ISSA, Poster presentation, �糵����, August 2023.
• O’Connor, E., Nikoobin*, N., Hadidi*, M., and PAND Settlement Services (2023) Reflections on the Process of Co-developing Community-based Leisure Activities for Farsi-speaking Immigrant Women in Ottawa (2023), Canadian Congress Leisure Research Conference, �糵����, 2023.
• O’Connor, E. (2022). Integrating student-focused support models to enhance student- athletes’ experiential learning and engagement, 14th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Edulearn 2022, Poster presentation, Palma Congress Center, Spain.