Conor is a current IRC and Universities Ireland History scholar at University College Dublin. Currently researching the role of exercise in Irish men and women’s lives from 1890 to 1939, Conor is deeply interested in the meanings attached to physical fitness by individuals and states alike. Outside the University, Conor runs physicalculturestudy.com, a history of fitness website, which has worked on collaborative projects with several different groups in the hope of raising people’s understandings of health and fitness. One of the most popular is a history of the treadmill animation with the education body, Ted-Ed.
