This week we staged our annual ‘Ready Steady Cook’ healthy food cookery workshop for UL sports scholarship students. This year we had 20 aspiring athlete chefs that were put to test and did incredible well […]
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Life after the hot chicken roll ; could healthier food on campus facilitate better health for life. Dr Catherine Norton
Beginning university is an exciting, yet stressful time for many young adults (Von Ah et al. 2004). Many of our first year registrants at the University of Limerick are aged eighteen or nineteen years and […]
UL and IRFU publish first findings from the IRIS research project
The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) and University of Limerick (UL) have released the first findings from the Irish Rugby Injury Surveillance (IRIS) research project, which looks at injury incidence in both the men’s and […]
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The University of Limerick (UL) with over 15,000 students and 1,400 staff is an energetic and enterprising institution with a proud record of innovation and excellence in education, research and scholarship. The dynamic, entrepreneurial and […]
PESS Adjunct Professor David Lavallee develops a new tool to measure welfare & wellbeing in sport
The world’s first Professor of Duty of Care in Sport, David Lavallee of Abertay University has launched The Sport Census. The new tool, created by Prof. Lavallee, measures welfare and wellbeing in sport and provides organisations with […]
Engaging with our community through the UL Beo Lecture series – Gary Ryan
The University of Limerick strategy “Broadening Horizons” mentions the importance of community engagement. It is a pillar of this University to be connected and part of the community around us and it is part of […]
Supporting Triathletes on Campus – Rosemary Daniel
In this weeks’ blog we give you an insight into some of the fitness tests recently conducted in PESS with the elite triathlon performance squad. As most of you already know triathlon is not a […]
Plassey 5km Glow Run
A 5k Glow Run will be held in memory of Jacinta O’Brien, a former member of the Physical Education and Sport Sciences Department in UL who sadly passed away from SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome) […]
BSc. Physical Education: Celebrating 7 years of i-PLAY – Dr Daniel Tindall
This past Autumn 2017 session, our i-PLAYERS were treated to some special guests in attendance to celebrate our 13th session of the ‘Inclusive Play & Leisure Activities for Youth’ (i-PLAY) programme. Ciara and Mark Cummins, […]
Founding Head of NCPE, Prof Paul Robinson, Dies in Wales – Professor Mary O’Sullivan & Dr Joanne Moles
It is with great sadness we learned that Prof Paul Robinson passed away following a brief illness on December 30, 2017 in Wales. The Physical Education and Sport Sciences department was established initially in 1972 […]
