Research Impact – The regular monitoring and surveillance of population levels of physical activity (PA) is of huge importance, especially in the tertiary level (i.e. universities, institutes of technology) sector as it continues to grow. […]
Category: Research
Research Funding Advice Clinic
As part of Dr. Orla Power-Grant’s role as the Education and Health Sciences (EHS) faculty research funding officer, Orla is offering an initiative to support PhD students within the faculty. The initiative is a monthly […]
Physical Education Teacher Research: The lives and careers of PE Teachers
Research Impact: Entry into PE teaching in Ireland is highly sought after and competitive. Yet, there is a worrying trend that PE teachers, as they spend more time teaching in schools, seek to reduce the […]
ULBeo PESS Lecture Series
The UL Beo PESS lecture series will be of immense interest to any athletes, coaches or sports scientists interested in learning a little more about performance or the health of athletes. The series delivered, by […]
Book Chapter: Promoting social inclusion and physical activity for students with special educational
Brief Description: The purpose of this chapter is to share how curriculum models are used as part of the post-primary curriculum in Ireland and justify the particular use of one model of outdoor adventure education […]
Sprinting Research: Postactivation Potentiation and Sprint Speed
Research Impact: The performance of specific conditioning activities can result in the acute enhancement of muscular performance. This phenomenon is known as post activation potentiation (PAP). However, due to the individual nature of PAP both […]
Editorial: Engaging Young People in Active Learning
Research Impact: This editorial emphasises the importance of designing instructionally aligned lessons, units of work, and an exciting and challenging physical education curricula that are informed by student voice. Instructionally aligned teaching demonstrates a match between […]
Professional Development for Physical Education Teachers in Ireland Dr. Deborah Tannehill
Physical education is an important part of young people’s education in senior cycle (SC/SCPE) resulting in confident and competent participants in various physical activity areas. As a result of effective physical education, young people will […]
Sport Psychology Research: Assessing Motivation in Sport
Research Impact: This paper provides a detailed analysis of six questionnaires used to assess motivation in sport. As well as reliability and validity information being summarised and evaluated, questionnaires are analysed according to impact. […]
Swimming Research: Does HIT Effect Performance in Competitive Swimmers?
Research Impact: Competitive swimmers are widely acknowledged to perform high training volumes from a young age. It is not uncommon for competitive youth swimmers to train 12 – 18 hours per week.Presently, a popular topic […]
