Introduction I’m a bit of an oddball within this department. You won’t see me going out watching a GAA match or entering the great Limerick run anytime soon. Those pursuits do not interest me. Granted […]

Introduction I’m a bit of an oddball within this department. You won’t see me going out watching a GAA match or entering the great Limerick run anytime soon. Those pursuits do not interest me. Granted […]
Becoming a researcher is a long-distance race with hurdles. You have to train, compete and fight to succeed. According to the Collins dictionary, a “scientist is someone who has studied science and whose job it […]
Research is vital to the progress, enhancement and dissemination of the work undertaken by the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences. The Human Science Research Group contributes in areas of human metabolism, body composition, […]
The Human Sciences Research Unit (HSRU), housed within the department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences at the University of Limerick, are seeking candidates interested in pursuing postdoctoral fellowships in the areas of Healthy Ageing […]
This goal of this blog post is to present an argument against how an area of study I have claimed to hold expertise in is currently defined, that area being motor control. First, let me […]
The question came from various places; patients, colleagues, family and friends, and while the exact words varied, the message was the same – “Will you still be a physio if you do a PhD?” I […]
The fear of writing is a PhD student’s nightmare, add dyslexia to the equation and BAM the fear has trebled. The fear of writing but also the fear of someone reading your work, ‘I don’t […]
In this seminar, Dr. Toth will discuss the role that inner ear information has in areas of cognitive neuroscience, biomechanics, neurophysiology, clinical therapies and sport sciences. Galvanic vestibular stimulation, a sophisticated technique used to explore […]
Thursday 30 November 2017 10am to 3.30pm P1-033, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Limerick The University of Limerick issued an invitation to policy makers and teacher educators nationally to […]
In Ireland, limited physical activity data exist that have been collected from representative samples of children and even fewer data collected where physical activity has been measured with precision (1-5). Action 50 of the National […]