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 […]
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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 […]
Academic Adventure – Katie Andrews
In less than two months’ time, myself and two fellow PESS postgraduate researchers, Cillian McDowell and Brett Gordon, along with Dr. Matthew Herring will be heading across the pond to Denver, Colorado to attend the […]
The importance of communicating science appropriately to media and the general public – Tom Aird
The fields of sport science and performance nutrition get considerable attention from the general public and mainstream media in comparison with other academic research circles, and popular topics that dominate headlines frequently divide opinion amongst […]
‘A nation of couch potatoes?’ featured on UL’s research podcast channel
UL’s first podcast series is now available on the UL Research Impact podcast channel. The series explores the tremendous contributions UL research is making in the real world. Featured on the podcast channel is the 2015 case […]
