The PESS Internship is an opportunity for UL students to spend up to eight weeks in PESS gaining experience in one of four research areas, (1) Food for Health, (2) Physical Activity and Health, (3) […]
Category: Research
Qualtrics is not as scary as it looks: a guide to setting up your questionnaire – caera Grady.
UL ITD have recently set up Qualtrics with the Single sign on and multifactor authentication. What does this mean? Well it means we can login with our UL login details. Qualtrics is an online survey […]
Publication: Embedding assessment in learning experiences: Enacting the principles of instructional alignment in physical education teacher education
Research Impact: This paper focuses on interrogating ‘why’ and ‘how’ assessment can be effectively embedded in the delivery of learning experiences. That is, assessment as a means to engage students in the learning process rather […]
Publication: The perceived needs of teacher educators as they strive to implement curriculum change
Research Impact: The focus of this study was to explore teacher educators’ experiences as they prepared preservice teachers to implement a new physical education curriculum, and to identify their professional needs to support this work. […]
Publication: Remote, face‐to‐face, and group‐based interventions for promoting strength training in healthy community‐based adults (Protocol)
Research Impact: Cohort studies have demonstrated an association between participation in muscle strengthening activities and a reduction in all‐cause, cardiovascular, cancer, and chronic lower respiratory tract disease mortality (Stamatakis 2018; Zhao 2020), and reduced risk of type […]
My experiences of Data Collection – Jonathan Holmes.
My research topic is focused on mapping out the responses in the sprint start in athletics. My research is part of the Feasibility Analysis of Sprint Start Technologies group within the PESS Biomechanics Research Unit. […]
PESS INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE JUNe 2022 to december 2022.
The PESS Internship is an opportunity for UL students to spend up to eight weeks in PESS gaining experience in one of four research areas, (1) Food for Health, (2) Physical Activity and Health, (3) […]
Learning to be a teacher in online only environments – Dr Antonio Calderón.
Recently, together with my colleagues Dr Mary Masterson and Ebru Boynuegri, we have presented at ESAI conference, some findings from the study where we explore teacher educators and student teacher experiences on online teaching and […]
Publication: ‘Are all domains created equal? An exploration of stakeholder views on the concept of physical literacy’
Research Impact: The purpose of this study was to gather empirical data from key stakeholders working with young people in areas related to physical literacy across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, to capture […]
Publication: The clustering of physical activity and screen time behaviours in early childhood and impact on future health-related behaviours: a longitudinal analysis of children aged 3 to 8 years’
Research Impact: Meeting physical activity and screen time guidelines has been associated with improved health in children. Research has shown that lifestyle behaviours happen in combination and can be tracked into later life. Thus, a […]
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