Eleanor Gittens, Ph.D.
Georgian College

Eleanor Gittens, Ph.D. is a professor and program coordinator in Community Safety portfolio at Georgian College. She teaches primarily in the Police Studies degree and Police Foundations programs. She has taught courses in Contemporary Social Movements, Research Methods for Policing, Community Policing, Cybercrime, Mental Health Issues in Policing and Cross-Cultural Communications. Dr Gittens spearheads student-based research with various community partners. Her current research interests lie in academic integrity, mental wellness and resilience, diversity training, diversity hiring, the spatial behaviour of offenders, the development of criminal behaviour and the progression of the criminal career; sexual violence, evidence-based policing; and community policing. She holds several grants in pursuit of her research interests.