Research Impact Summary: In the context of the redevelopment of the primary curriculum and the enactment of the Junior Cycle Framework, this publication explores young people’s voice with regards to their experiences of collective physical […]
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Publication: Personality, physical activity, and incident generalized anxiety disorder: findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Research Impact: This study examined interrelations between the Big 5 personality factors (i.e., neuroticism, extroversion, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness), physical activity, and generalized anxiety disorder among older adults. It found that 1) extraversion, openness, and […]
Publication: Implications of attending the closest school on adolescents’ physical activity and car travel in Dunedin, New Zealand
Research Impact: This study sought to quantify the effects of adolescents’ school enrolment at the closest school, or not, on use of private motorised vehicle and adolescents’ moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) levels accumulated during the […]
Publication: Response to Moradi, J. (2020). Benefits of a guided motor mental preperformance routine on learning the basketball free throw
Research Impact: Players and athletes often make use of mental skills, such as relaxation exercises, imagery, self-talk and focusing attention, to enhance their performance. Most commonly observed as part of pre-performance routines during competitions, […]
Publication: Teacher educators’ professional trajectories: evidence from Ireland, Israel, Norway & the Netherlands
Research Impact: This study describes higher education-based teacher educators’ professional trajectories, i.e. their professional activities and learning as developed throughout their career. While socially coherent and idealistic attitudes are present among teacher educators, they are […]
Publication: Between hope and happening: Problematizing the M & the P in models-based practice
Research Impact: By recognising the dangers inherent in an essentialist notion of models (i.e. by nouning or proper nouning them), and by remembering the roles set aside for teachers in the development of pedagogical models, […]
Publication: Attentional Focus and the Effect on Change-of-Direction and Acceleration Performance
Research Impact: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether changing the focus of attention of field sport athletes would affect their performance for a change-of-direction (COD) and acceleration task. Seventeen male college students […]
Publication: Profiling the health-related physical fitness of Irish adolescents: A school-level sociodemographic divide
Research Impact: This study represents the first comprehensive review of multiple components of health-related fitness among a stratified sample of adolescents in the Republic of Ireland. The purpose of this study was twofold; 1) to examine […]
Strength and Conditioning Testing: The Emergence of Real-time Field-Based Technologies and Protocols – Tom Comyns
Strength and Conditioning (S&C) is a phrase commonly related to the development of various physical capacities, such as strength, speed, power and agility. The development of these capacities is important to enhance sporting performance. In […]
Publication: An eight-week RCT of home-based pilates for symptoms of anxiety, depression, & fatigue among people with MS: Study protocol
Research Impact: Evidence supports benefits of exercise, primarily traditional exercise modes, for mental health among people with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS); however, less is known about non-traditional modes like Pilates. Clinical trials should be underpinned by […]
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