Megan O’Connor

Stream: Conservation Science
Areas of Interest: preventive conservation, sustainability in conservation, decision-making processes

Megan O'Connor is in the Mid-Career Research Stream. Megan has a B.A. from the University of Victoria, a Master of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto, and a Diploma in Collections Conservation and Mangement from Fleming College. While on education leave from her position as a Preventive Conservation Specialist at Parks Canada, where she has worked for the last eight years,  Megan will be focusing her Master of Art Conservation thesis research on considering life cycle analysis data with material testing data to investigate the integration of sustainable alternatives to traditional artifact packing and support materials into conservation practice. She plans to develop her decision-making and risk assessment skills for preventive conservation and bring those skills back into her work at Parks Canada.