When it comes to children’s health, most research tends to look at one type of movement—like how much time they spend sitting or how active they are. But life isn’t that simple. Children move in […]
Month: July 2025
Silenced and stressed: impact of reporting workplace bullying and harassment for academic staff in Irish higher education
The study Silenced and stressed: impact of reporting workplace bullying and harassment for academic staff in Irish higher education exposes the profound consequences of reporting workplace bullying and harassment in Irish higher education. Drawing on lived […]
Adolescent Time Use and Cardiometabolic Health: A Cross-Sectional Compositional Analysis to Explore Associations Between 24-Hour Activity Behaviours and Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Health
This study pioneers the use of compositional data analysis (CoDA) to examine how adolescents’ 24-hour activity behaviors—sleep, sedentary time, standing, light-intensity physical activity (LIPA), and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA)—collectively influence cardiometabolic health. Using device-based measures […]
Multiple sclerosis is associated with worse body composition across compartments
This series of meta-analyses quantified overall and compartment-specific differences in body composition between people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and controls and identified individual and disease-specific moderators of differences. 180 effects derived from 37 studies showed […]
Physical Education Micro-Credits at the PESS, UL.
This year, the PESS Department delivered three NFQ Level 8 Physical Education (PE) micro-credentials (MC) in Adventure Education and Water Based Activities with Pedagogy, Competitive Team and Individual Based Activities, and Aesthetic and Expressive Activities. […]
RECRUiTMENT: Associate Teacher/University Teacher in physical education, UL.
Associate Teacher/University Teacher in Physical Education, University of Limerick. Associate Teacher (2 positions)/ University Teacher (1 position) Physical Education – 1 Year Fixed Term Contracts. Salary Scale: Associate Teacher €38,008 – €51,427 p.a.pro rata/ University […]
RECRUiTMENT: Associate Teacher/University Teacher in sport and exercise sciences, UL.
APPLICATIONS INVITED FOR Associate Teacher/University Teacher in Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Limerick. Associate Teacher (2 positions)/ University Teacher (1 position) in Sport and Exercise Sciences – 1 Year Fixed Term Contracts. Salary Scale: […]
MSc Sports Performance Testimonial from Graduate, Graham O’Brien.
My pathway into high-performance sport began as an athlete in cycling, competing nationally with a few years also spent in Europe before progressing to coaching within high performance cycling for several years and building experience […]
leading expert on Athlete develoment in sport visits ul – dr Phil kearney.
In June the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at the University of Limerick hosted Professor Stephen Cobley from the University of Sydney. Professor Cobley is one of the world’s leading experts on […]
Humans of Gaelic Football Podcast – karol dillon.
Recently, PESS PhD researcher Karol Dillon had the opportunity to join Kevin O’Brien on the Humans of Gaelic Football podcast to discuss his PhD research on the complex, and often misunderstood, world of bilaterality […]
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