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Sports Medicine
Dr. Siobhán O’Connor
Siobhán is an Associate Professor in the School of Health and Human Performance in DCU. She is a Certified Athletic Therapist, and her work focuses on strategies that enhance health and wellbeing particularly among under-served and under-researched populations such as women, community sports and high stress occupations. Her research interests span injury surveillance, injury prevention, concussion, women’s health and mental health. She is passionate about women’s health and spearheaded the development of the Graduate Certificate in Women’s Health in DCU.
Email: siobhan.oconnor@dcu.ie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2001-0746
X: @SiobhanOConnor3
Dr. Sinead Holden
Sinéad holden is an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow at the School of Public, Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science UCD. She is program director of the BSc Health and Performance Science/ Sport, Health and Exercise Science Program.
Her research interests include supporting safe and continued participation in sport and exercise, with a particular emphasis on the critical developmental phases of adolescence. She also has an interest in leveraging wearable and health data analytics to optimize strategies for enhancing human health, well-being, and athletic performance.
Sinéad leads several strategic research initiatives, including the HEA-funded initiative "RID Injury" (Understanding Risk and IDentification of Musculoskeletal Injury in Adolescent Sports), which integrates mobile and wearable health technology to understand and mitigate injury risks in youth sports. She is actively involved in research on women in sport, including leading the "Cyclesync" program, which investigates the relationship between ovarian hormone profiles on wearable derived biometric data. Sinéad collaborates with national governing bodies, sports clubs, and schools to ensure her research has practical applications. She is deeply committed to research integrity, open science, and stakeholder engagement.