Each Spring UL’s Biomechanics Research Unit works to create a public lecture series that tries to bridge the gap between research and practice in biomechanics. Coinciding with the BSc Sport and Exercise Sciences final year […]
Category: Research
Female Athlete Triad/ RED-S – what do the guidelines say? Jennifer Higgins
Many of us have heard the harrowing stories of athletes suffering the consequences of the female athlete triad (triad) or Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S). Accounts of injuries, disrupted training and long term health […]
Publication: Interaction patterns of physical education teachers in a professional learning community
Research Impact: This study examined the ways teachers interact within a newly developed community to understand how conversations evolve; how teachers question, challenge, and/or encourage one another to grow professionally in a learning community. Bales’s […]
Publication: Sex-related differences in joint-angle-specific hamstring-to-quadriceps function following fatigue
Research Impact: An imbalance between hamstring and quadriceps function can predispose an athlete to injury, therefore, it is important to understand functional ratios between hamstrings/quadriceps (H/QFUNCT) at different joint angles, angular velocities and how this […]
Publication: Recreational physical activity context and type preferences among male and female Emirati university students
Research Impact: This study assessed physical activity context and type preferences in Emirati university students. University students typically report low levels of physical activity and the UAE has high levels of inactivity related disease. It is […]
Biomechanics Research Unit/PESS Seminar on ‘Strength Testing & Sprinting Analysis – High Performance Training Instrumentation’
Ms Claire Brady is a UL PhD candidate jointly with the Sport Ireland Institute under the IRC Employment based Postgraduate Scholarship Programme. Working as a Strength & Conditioning specialist, Claire is researching the reliability of […]
Biomechanics Research Unit/PESS Seminar on ‘Wearable Sports Performance Analytics’
Dr Darragh Whelan and Dr Martin O’Reilly are sports medicine and sports engineering scientists with the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, and https://www.outputsports.com/ Output Sports system has been developed to test and track multiple […]
Exercise is Medicine on Campus (EIM-OC). Dr Matthew Herring
Many people may not yet be aware that Dr. Brian Carson and I recently registered UL as an Exercise Is Medicine On Campus program. EIM-OC is effectively an international promotion and recognition program that is […]
Biomechanics Research Unit/PESS Seminar on ‘Player Monitoring’
Patrick Hogan is a Sport Scientist at STATSports https://statsports.com/ . STATSports provides sports science and performance analysis service within the elite sporting industry and its growing client list has included: Juventus, Manchester United, Manchester City, […]
Publication: Identification of health-related behavioural clusters & association with demographic characteristics in Irish university students
Research Impact Summary: Risky health-related behaviours (physical inactivity, alcohol abuse, smoking, poor dietary behaviours and illicit drug use) are primary causes of premature morbidity and mortality. There is a risk that individuals will engage in risky health-related […]
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