Research Impact: Fundamental movement skills (FMS) are frequently referred to as the “building blocks” of movement for children and adolescents in their lifelong physical activity journey. This paper explored whether the frequency, intensity, time, and type (FITT) […]
Photograph credit @MarkSmythy Early November saw Ireland’s first Women in Sport Female Coaches Networking Day take place at the Clayton Hotel in Dublin, and gradates of the Department of Physical Education & Sport Sciences played […]
Research Impact: Visual exploratory activity (VEA), or scanning, refers to head and/or body movements made by a player prior to receiving the ball with the aim of picking up information to guide future actions – […]
Movement and Skill Acquisition Ireland are hosting a webinar series running from February to April 2022 starting February 10th at 6pm Irish time. The theme for this year’s event is: Applying Skill Acquisition in Different […]
Research Impact Summary: This research has added to the literature by providing an in-depth description of the planning of coaching sessions within a high-performance team sport context. It has revealed planning to be a multifaceted […]
The 5th International ICOACHKIDS Conference will be held online on the 13th and 14th of December with the theme of Future Proofing Youth Sport: Courage and Optimism. I am honored to be presenting some […]
Course Director Phil Kearney: The first cohort of coaches on the MSc Applied Sports Coaching at UL completed their studies in August and I am very much looking forward to the graduation ceremony in January. […]
Recently, coaches from the first cohort of the Masters in Applied Sports Coaching submitted and defended their research projects. These coaches work in a variety of contexts from grassroots to high performance sport across a […]
In addition to their regular sessions, students on the MSc Applied Sports Coaching at the University of Limerick have a standing invitation to the Cluster for Research into Coaching (CRiC) MSc Coaching Club. Every Friday […]
Jim Crawford is the manager of the Republic of Ireland U21 football team. He joined the MSc Applied Sports Coaching in September 2021, and we asked him to share his thoughts on the programme to […]
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