The PESS Internship is an opportunity for UL students to spend up to eight weeks in the Physical Education and Sports Science Department gaining experience in one of a number of research areas. The internship […]
Research Report: Shared Responsibility Across a Shared Island (SRASI): Teaching Social Justice in Initial Teacher Education
Research Impact: The findings of the SRASI project, which explores the experiences of teacher educators and PSTs in the North and South as they engage in social justice education, align with the broader body of […]
PhysEd-Academy: Facilitating radical change in physical education through international collaboration – Dr. Marina Castro García.
What is the PhsyEd-Academy project and what are its goals? PhysEd-Academy is an Erasmus+ teacher Academy that has been granted €1.5 million for a period of 36 months. Our university is among the partner institutions […]
Have your say! opportunity to provide feedback on the new Physical Activity guidelines for ireland – pROFESSOR eLAINE mURTAGH.
Whether you are a member of the public or someone working to promote physical activity, we want to hear from you! The Physical Activity for Health (PAfH) Research Centre, and a wider research team, is […]
An interactive AIESEP 2024 pre-congress event on engaging with policy in PE – Dr. Jenna R Lorusso.
Are you curious about what policy is; why it is important in your practice as a physical education stakeholder; and how you can develop your own and others’ interest, understanding, and engagement with policy? […]
Professor Mary O’Sullivan; The legacy of a giant – Dr. carmen baruqero-ruiz.
In October 2023, Professor Mary O’Sullivan was awarded with the prestigious Michael Darmody Award at the Physical Education Association of Ireland Conference in Carlow. She collected the award surrounded by her former PESS physical education […]
Publication: The lived experience of a primary physical education teacher educator engaging in action research: cycling into change
Research impact: This paper presents the lived experience of a practitioner researcher working as a teacher educator engaging in action research with primary pre-service teachers (PSTs). It is hoped that it may serve as a […]
Health-Enhancing Physical Activity (HEPA) Conference 2023 – daire fitzmaurice.
The 12th Health Enhancing Physical Activity (HEPA) conference took place in KU Leuven, Belgium in September 2024. The conference was jointly organised with the World Health Organisation/Europe and focused on the following title “Implementing Health-Enhancing […]
Wait, can you lift your mood and overall mental health? – Prof Matthew P. Herring, PhD, FACSM.
Wait, can you lift your mood and overall mental health? Yes. The healthful benefits of resistance exercise, or muscle-strengthening exercise involving exerting force against a load, are well-established. However, the psychological effects of resistance exercise […]
A personal perspective on the challenges of conducting applied research – Dr. Adam sullivan.
This piece is centered on my journey as an applied researcher, but also ties into some key points made during a recent keynote presentation by IRFU’s Medical Director Rod McLoughlin, at the inaugural SHPRC conference […]
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