As September approaches we welcome the 3rd cohort of PME students while saying goodbye to the 2nd. At the same time we honour the 1st cohort of students who graduated in August 2016. The first […]
Category: Research
Shifting Focus Down the Severity Spectrum – Can we Intervene Earlier with Exercise? Matthew Herring
The available evidence, including much of my own previous work, supports that acute and chronic exercise results in small-to-moderate reductions in anxiety among otherwise healthy adults, adults with a diverse range of chronic illnesses, and […]
What’s causing the obesity epidemic in young people? Gráinne Hayes
Let me set the scene, it is 8.30am on Monday the 31st of August. I am sitting at my desk discussing all of the weekend’s adventures with my buddy Rachel Sheehan, I swing on my […]
From CO-OP Kid to Trainee Researcher – Jennifer Higgins
In January 2013 I was appointed as one of two research interns working with the Food Health Ireland (FHI) research team in PESS. Five years later I now have a desk, a grand total of […]
Publication: The Effects of Exercise Training on Anxiety in Fibromyalgia Patients: A Meta-analysis.
Research Impact: Physical inactivity and co-morbid anxiety symptoms are prevalent among people with Fibromyalgia. Exercise training is a potentially effective alternative therapy to reduce these symptoms. Our current paper synthesizes the most methodologically rigorous trials that […]
Post Doctoral Researcher in Physical Activity and Health
Applications are invited for the following position: Post Doctoral Researcher in Physical Activity and Health (The Dean’s Post Doctoral Fellowship Programme) Specific Purpose Contract Department of Physical Education & Sport Sciences Faculty of Education & Health […]
Assessing Reactive Strength Measures in Jumping and Hopping Using the Optojump™ System – Robin Healy
Research Impact: The aim of this study was to assess the concurrent validity of the OptojumpTM system (Microgate, Bolzano, Italy) versus a force platform in the estimation of temporal and reactive strength measures. In two […]
Scanning Your Body for Health Risk and Sports Performance – Phil Jakeman
Most are aware of the obesity epidemic and associate obesity to be the result of an increase in body fat. The World Health Organisation monitors population trends in obesity by body mass index or BMI […]
Collaborative Care: The University of Limerick Interdisciplinary Forum for Healthcare – Brett Gordon
I am Brett Gordon, and I am a second year postgraduate student in PESS working with Dr. Matthew Herring to examine the effects of resistance exercise training on mental health outcomes. Additionally, for the past […]
Drive Performance for Able-Bodied and Disabled Golfers – Ian Kenny
Golf is an extremely popular sport, played by people of all ages and skill levels across the world (McHardy et al., 2006). According to Farrally et al. (2003) a total of 55 million people played […]
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