When it comes to children’s health, most research tends to look at one type of movement—like how much time they spend sitting or how active they are. But life isn’t that simple. Children move in […]
Category: Research
Silenced and stressed: impact of reporting workplace bullying and harassment for academic staff in Irish higher education
The study Silenced and stressed: impact of reporting workplace bullying and harassment for academic staff in Irish higher education exposes the profound consequences of reporting workplace bullying and harassment in Irish higher education. Drawing on lived […]
Adolescent Time Use and Cardiometabolic Health: A Cross-Sectional Compositional Analysis to Explore Associations Between 24-Hour Activity Behaviours and Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Health
This study pioneers the use of compositional data analysis (CoDA) to examine how adolescents’ 24-hour activity behaviors—sleep, sedentary time, standing, light-intensity physical activity (LIPA), and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA)—collectively influence cardiometabolic health. Using device-based measures […]
Multiple sclerosis is associated with worse body composition across compartments
This series of meta-analyses quantified overall and compartment-specific differences in body composition between people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and controls and identified individual and disease-specific moderators of differences. 180 effects derived from 37 studies showed […]
leading expert on Athlete develoment in sport visits ul – dr Phil kearney.
In June the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at the University of Limerick hosted Professor Stephen Cobley from the University of Sydney. Professor Cobley is one of the world’s leading experts on […]
Humans of Gaelic Football Podcast – karol dillon.
Recently, PESS PhD researcher Karol Dillon had the opportunity to join Kevin O’Brien on the Humans of Gaelic Football podcast to discuss his PhD research on the complex, and often misunderstood, world of bilaterality […]
New research into athlete and coach experiences of Para Sport in Ireland
Congratulations to PESS postgraduate researcher Alan Dineen, Project Lead Sean Healy and all staff members who contributed to the research supporting the official launch of Gateways & Pathways: Athlete and Coach Experiences of Para Sport […]
Movement Competency in Rowing: The Key to an Effective Stroke.
Movement competency combines fundamental patterns and movement quality that enables the confident and competent execution of activities, sports and everyday tasks. This perspectives article addresses the lack of a clear definition and guidelines relating to […]
EFFECTS OF RESISTANCE EXERCISE ON DEPRESSED MOOD STATE: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL – Darragh O’ Sullivan
Young adults with and without Generalized Anxiety Disorder are at-risk for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Transient feelings of depressed mood (feeling sad, empty, hopeless, gloomy), or ‘depressed mood state’, is a primary characteristic of MDD, […]
The incidence, burden and impact of tackle injuries in schoolboy Rugby Union – Lauren Guilfoyle
This four-year study of under-19 schoolboy Rugby Union in Ireland reveals that tackling players sustain significantly more match injuries in the tackle than ball-carriers. The research, covering 50 teams and nearly 11,000 hours of match […]
