Research Impact: The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study is a World Health Organization (WHO) collaborative cross-national study. The latest 2017/2018 data was compiled with the report launched on the 19th May 2020. There […]
Category: Publications
Publication: Differences in parental perceptions of walking and cycling to high school according to distance
Research Impact: As part of the Built Environment and Active Transport to School (BEATS) study, we compared parental perceptions of walking versus cycling to school in adolescents in Dunedin, New Zealand and examined whether mode-specific […]
Publication: Enable, Reconnect and Augment: A New ERA of Virtual Nature Research and Application
Research Impact: Technology is paradoxically increasing our connection to nature, at least during COVID19 restrictions when we cannot all physically get to nature. Photo sharing of green spaces for example have been inked to higher […]
Publication: Life After Esports: A Grand Field Challenge
Research Impact: This article explores the career challenges that esport athletes may face, the unique skill-set they possess, and industries that could leverage this skill-set; challenging the scientific community and these industries to make this […]
Publication: Correlates of walking among disadvantaged groups: A systematic review
Research Impact: Socioeconomically disadvantaged groups are less likely to be physically active. Walking is important to public health, therefore understanding correlates of walking will inform the development of targeted interventions. We conducted a systematic review to […]
Publication: Adapted Physical Activity through COVID-19
Research Impact: This editorial briefly discusses the field of adapted physical activity (APA) through COVID-19. Although adapted physical activity has lacked sufficient attention in the physical education and sport sciences of late, the work reaches […]
Publication: The Effects of Workplace Nature-Based Interventions on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Employees: A Systematic Review
Research Impact: Susan Gritzka MSc. was a funded PESS intern and an Enterprise Ireland funded research associate on H2020 proposals. Her MSc research was co-supervised by Dr Tadhg MacIntyre and Dr Denise Dörfel (TU Dresden). Professor Giovanna Calogiuri is part of […]
Publication: The impact of a summer sports camp for children with visual impairments on the self-efficacy of physical education pre-service teachers: A pilot study.
Research Impact: Including student with disabilities into general education has become a common practice in the United States, and it is progressively becoming an educational model in other countries worldwide. However, teachers around the world […]
Publication: Students’ attitudes towards and experiences of the Youth-fit health-related fitness test battery
Research Impact: There is a scarcity of pragmatic experimental investigations examining the effects of specific changes to how physical education is delivered on the quality of the experience that students derive. Analysing students’ attitudes and […]
Publication: Built Environment Changes & Active Transport to School among Adolescents: BEATS Natural Experiment Study Protocol
Research Impact: Natural experiments are considered a priority for examining causal associations between the built environment and physical activity. Few natural experiments to date have examined the effects of walking and cycling infrastructure on PA […]
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