Professor, Applied Health Sciences – Recreation & Leisure Studies

Education
PhD (Recreation Resource Management) New York University
MEd (Outdoor Recreation and Outdoor Education) University of Minnesota
BSEd (Recreation Education) SUNY Cortland

About Tim

Dr. Tim O’Connell is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies who specializes in outdoor recreation, outdoor education and outdoor leadership. Tim’s research examines the topics of sense of community in groups of people engaged in outdoor activities, sense of place, land-based and place-based outdoor education, mental health impacts of participation in outdoor pursuits and reflective practice (with a focus on reflective journaling).

Tim is the Chair of the Research Advisory Committee for Outward Bound Canada. Dr. O’Connell is a 3M National Teaching Fellow (2017), the recipient of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Teaching Award (2015), Brock’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2012), Brock’s Faculty of Applied Health Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award (2012), and the Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario Dorothy Walters Leadership Award (2011). Tim has worked as an outdoor leader for Wilderness Inquiry, facilitating wilderness trips for integrated groups of people (including people with and without disabilities) and is a Senior Staff for SUNY Cortland’s Department of Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies annual outdoor education practicum. He is a member of the Research Advisory Committee for the Coalition for Education in the Outdoors

E-mail: tim.oconnell@brocku.ca
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tim-o-connell
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timothy_Oconnell5