Research Impact : To further investigate the physiological impact of blood flow restriction exercise (BFR), we examined i) the effect of different occlusion pressures on several cardiovascular measures (echocardiographic images, heart rate, blood pressure), ii) […]
Research Assistant Opportunity Education for global justice, solidarity and interconnectedness: Developing and disseminating social justice approaches across physical education teacher education programmes (Justice Ed) The Justice Ed project is looking to recruit a Research Assistant (half day […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
