Research Impact: Despite national-level initiatives to encourage active transport (AT) in New Zealand since 2005, rates of AT have continued to decline in most parts of the country, with negative impacts on health and the […]
Category: Research
Publication: Strength and Conditioning for Competitive Rowers
Research Impact: Strength and conditioning (S&C) is an essential component of performance enhancement and injury reduction for competitive rowers. However, information regarding the practical application of appropriate S&C programming for competitive rowers is limited. This article […]
Bridging the gap between sports performance researchers and practitioners – Alan Griffin
In the area of sports performance, researchers and practitioners are two vital cogs in achieving the most productive and safest environment for athletes to develop and perform. They should go together like a horse and […]
Publication: Evaluation of a brief interval exercise training (IET) intervention for first-time prisoners with elevated anxiety symptoms
Research Impact: Exercise training could be an effective coping strategy for increased anxiety symptoms in response to first time incarceration, but this has been unstudied. Thus, 37 first-time French prisoners were randomised to three weekly […]
Publication: Associations Between PA & Perceived School Performance of Young Adolescents in Health Behavior in School-Aged Children Countries
Research Impact: Physical activity drops dramatically between the ages of 11 to 15y. At the same time, Education assessment is taken more seriously as age increases. Also, at this age, girls then to perform better […]
How did we get here? Enrique Garcia Bengoechea
I hope everyone is keeping well. It is difficult these days not to think of the circumstances created by the COVID-19 crisis and their implications for all dimensions of our lives and our society. The […]
Publication: Depressive symptoms differ across Physical Activity Status based on comorbid anxiety & depression status among adolescents
Research Impact: Comorbid anxiety and depression is increasingly prevalent in adolescents, and comorbidity results in greater symptom severity and duration. Comorbid status may influence the association between PA level and depression. 481 Irish adolescents self- […]
Publication: Clusters of Contemporary Risk and Their Relationship to Mental Well-Being Among 15-Year-Old Adolescents Across 37 Countries
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 […]
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 […]
Introducing the Physical Activity for Health Cluster & Programme Manager – Dr Bláthín Casey
Introducing PAfH The PAfH cluster is funded by the Health Research Institute (HRI) in UL and has recently celebrated its 1st birthday (April 2020). The cluster aims to build a national and international hub of […]
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