Research Impact: When schools were closed during COVID-19 restrictions, many students had difficulties in staying physically active. The environments changed, types of social interactions moved online and there were PE teachers who had to provide […]
Research Impact: We investigated the impact of acute COVID-19 public health restrictions on time spent outside in April 2020 and quantified the association between outside time and both stress and positive mental health using secondary […]
Research Impact: We determined the self-reported prevalence of meeting US physical activity guidelines, stratified by sitting time, during the early lockdown phase of COVID-19 (April 3rd – May 4th, 2020) among 5,036 US adults (65.3% […]
Schools have the ability to reach a wide range of children from across the population regardless of social background and over a continuous period of time (Anderson, 2016) making them a key gatekeeper for important […]
Research Impact: Common images going around during the spring lockdown were empty aisles of toilet roll and empty streets. The panic shopping extended beyond the rush to buy toilet paper but also for hording food […]
Research Impact: The COVID-19 pandemic has elicited changes to how and even whether we work. How COVID-19-related changes in employment conditions are associated with activity behaviours has remained unstudied. Among 2,303 US adults employed prior […]
Research Impact : This paper, which is part of a Special Issue on ‘The Impact of COVID-19 on Irish Higher Education System’, reflects on the experiences of student and staff team members at the National […]
Barriers and Facilitators to changes in Physical Activity among Irish Adolescents Ng, K., Cooper, J., McHale, F., Clifford, J and Woods, C. Barriers and Facilitators to changes in Physical Activity among Irish Adolescents. BMJ […]
Research Impact: Psychological science faces a call to action researching the implications of the corona virus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. Rapid reviews have reported that maintaining rigorous research standards is a priority for the field, […]
This October I once again contributed to the Masters class at PESS, teaching on the Professional Practice and Ethics in Applied Psychology module. My perspective was however narrowed by the camera lens of Zoom as […]
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