Strength and conditioning primarily focuses on the physical development of athletes as well as preventing injury and providing rehabilitation in order to improve sporting performance. The strength and conditioning coach plays an integral role in […]
Category: Research
Four Year Postgraduate Scholarship in Physical Education & Sport Sciences Department
A four year postgraduate scholarship for a full time student, starting in September 2017 is available in the department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences. The scholarship recipient is expected to work on a full […]
Professional development Experiences and Organisational Socialization
Book Chapter Publication: Parker, M., Patton, K. and Tannehill, D. “Professional development experiences and organizational socialization”. In: Richards, K.A.R., & Gaudreault, K. (2017). Teacher socialization in physical education. London: Routledge.
Myokines release after exercise and influence on metabolism. Implications for Type 2 Diabetes
Research Impact: Skeletal muscle represents the largest organ in the body and has recently been recognised as having an endocrine function, whereby, proteins are synthesised in the muscle and released to have an effect on the […]
All-Ireland Postgraduate Conference: A three-peat visit – Rachel Sheehan
Last Friday, a small contingent of PESS postgraduate students set off for the All-Ireland Postgraduate Conference in Sport Sciences, Physical Activity and Physical Education in IT Carlow. This was my third year attending, and marked […]
Personalised Exercise Treatment? Not one HIIT fits all! – Brian Carson
I recently attended a seminar delivered by Prof John Forbes (a colleague here in the business school at UL) entitled ‘Personalised health: a new role for one-person trials’. John neatly made a convincing argument for […]
Physical Education Final Year Project Students Share Their research in PESS – Ciarán MacDonncha
Congratulations to the fourth year Physical Education students who presented their final year projects in a poster session in PESS on Wednesday 26th April. The posters were on display all day and during this time […]
PESS putting the ‘Sports’ into eSports! – Adam Toth
When was the last time you saw a young child playing a video game and thought, ‘they will make a living doing that one day’? Amazingly, that statement is not as far fetched as was perhaps once […]
‘Physical education and sport pedagogy as a freestanding international community and / or an academic discipline?’ – Ann MacPhail
I am delighted to have been invited to present the Keynote at the Physical and Health Education Canada Forum in St.John’s on 4th May 2017. I always appreciate the opportunity to meet with Physical Education […]
PESS PG Student Robin Healy Wins the EHS/HRI Dean’s Award for Excellence in PG Research
Congratulations to PESS PG student Robin Healy who won the University of Limerick’s 2017 Education and Health Sciences (EHS) and Health Research Institute (HRI) Dean’s award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research. The presentations by the […]
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