Research Impact: The COVID-19 pandemic had created many restrictions on the lives of adolescents around the world. In this report, we looked at those adolescents in 22 countries who reported COVID-19 had a negative impact […]
Publication: Psychometric Validation of the Tactical Assessment Instrument in Football for Use in Physical Education and with Youth Sport Teams
Research Impact: Recently, the Tactical Assessment Instrument in Football (TAIS) was developed to address football’s tactical requirements. In this study, TAIS obtained psychometric support for assessing learning of football tactics in PE and youth sport […]
2023 Most Outstanding Paper – Antonio Calderón.
The paper titled ‘Digital technology and teacher digital competency in physical education: a holistic view of teacher and student perspectives’, has been selected as the 2023 Most Outstanding Paper for the journal of Curriculum Studies […]
Publication: Teachers’ professional development needs: a critical analysis of TALIS through structural equation modelling
Research Impact: This paper aims to contribute to TALIS corpus of critical research literature by exploring teachers’ voice through structural equation modelling, to challenge teachers’ professional development needs based on TALIS 2018. 153,674 teachers from […]
Is high-repetition strength training important for rowers? – Dr. Frank Nugent.
High-repetition strength training (HRST) also known as circuit training has always been an interesting area for me as I have previously performed this type of training during the winter months when I was a competitive […]
PESS PhD students awarded Presidents Volunteer Award for committment to emerge phd network – aidan buffey, claire Walsh & caera grady (co-authors).
Last week, on International Volunteer Day, three PESS PhD students were awarded for their outstanding commitment to the UL PhD community. PhD students Claire Walsh, Caera Grady and Aidan Buffey (missing from picture) were presented […]
Updating the Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines for Ireland – Dr. Dylan Power.
Guideline: Team led by PESS Researcher produces updated physical activity and sedentary behaviour guidelines for Ireland. In 2009, the Department of Health & Children published the National Physical Activity Guidelines for Ireland offering recommendations for […]
Publication: If ‘the medium is the message’, what do students learn to do in NLP and GBAs within physical education?
Research Impact: There is a proliferation of Game Based Approaches (GBAs) and Non-Linear Pedagogy (NLP) approach in research literature. Although comparisons between approaches have arisen at a theoretical level, there is no comparison of the […]
2023: Highlights of activities/events involving staff and students in the PESS department – Kathleen Mcnally.
As we come to the end of 2023, I have taken some time to reflect on some of the exciting events and activities that were organised by, and involved, staff and students in the PESS […]
The experience of two PME graduates attending the Physical Education Academy research gathering in Ankara, Turkey – Anthony O’Leary & Chelsee Snell.
This blog accounts the experiences of two students enrolled in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences (PESS) who participated in an international research initiative known as ‘The Physical Education Teacher Academy.’ The overarching […]
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