Research Impact: Under the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, data should be disaggregated by disability status. In other words, we are at liberty to report statistics with differences by disabilities, just in […]
Category: Publications
Reaching consensus on definitions for food and physical activity policies – dr. liam kelly.
Today’s blog post covers research conducted as part of Policy Evaluation Network (PEN). The research was led by Dr Liam Kelly (University of Limerick) and Dr Janas Harrington (University College Cork). Other contributing authors were […]
Publication: The Effect of Different Strength Training Modalities on Sprint Performance in Female Team-Sport Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Research Impact: Sprint performance in female team-sport athletes can be enhanced by strength training (i.e., reactive-, maximal-, combined-, and special-strength modalities). Compared with maximal- or special-strength programmes, reactive- and combined-strength training methods can have a […]
Publication: Exploring Recommendations for Child and Adolescent Fundamental Movement Skills Development: A Narrative Review
Research Impact: Fundamental movement skills (FMS) are frequently referred to as the “building blocks” of movement for children and adolescents in their lifelong physical activity journey. This paper explored whether the frequency, intensity, time, and type (FITT) […]
Publication: Online teaching and learning in physical education teacher education: A mixed studies review of literature
Research Impact: Delivering physical education teacher education (PETE) programmes through online platforms has been proposed as an alternative (or complementary) to traditional in-person modes of learning. Prompted by the shift to online learning during the […]
Publication: Teacher educators’ perspectives on gender responsive pedagogy in higher education
Research Impact: The enactment of gender responsive pedagogical approaches has the potential to support learning for all students and foster gender equality within and beyond education systems. This study investigated teacher educators’ perceptions of gender […]
Publication: A systematic review of school-based suicide prevention interventions for adolescents, and intervention and contextual factors in prevention
Research Impact: This is the first systematic review to narratively synthesize available evidence from 28 studies of post-primary school-based suicide prevention (PSSP) on suicidal thoughts and behaviors among 47,000 participants. Findings showed significant improvements, poor […]
Publication: Exploring Adolescents’ Perspectives on and Experiences with Post Primary School-based Suicide Prevention Interventions: A Meta-Ethnography Protocol
Research Impact: This meta-ethnography protocol outlines methods to synthesize adolescents’ perspectives on engaging with post-primary school-based suicide prevention (PSSP) interventions, as participants/end-users, intervention advisors, facilitators, and co-designers and co-researchers. Identified full texts will be reviewed […]
Publication: Effects of exercise on cognitive functioning in adults with serious mental illness: A meta-analytic review
Research Impact Summary: These random-effects meta-analyses estimated the population effects of exercise on cognitive outcomes/domains across 15 randomized controlled trials of 899 participants (~43% female) with Severe Mental Illness. In the overall sample, exercise resulted […]
Sprinting on empty: fasted training for better adaptation? dr. brian carson.
Why train fasted? Training in the fasted state has been practised by athletes for various reasons for centuries. Most early adopters likely pursued fasted training based on the fact that they trained early in the […]
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