Applied Sports Performance Research Group

The Applied Sports Performance Research Group (ASPRG) in the School of Health and Human Performance and is made up a unique multi-disciplinary team of sport and exercise science researchers.

The primary focus of the group is investigating critical factors which influence athletic performance and identifying and evaluating the influence of key performance determinant (KPD) on performance outcome. The ASPRG is made of sport and exercise physiologists, biomechanist, psychologist, physiotherapist and applied researchers who investigate how physiological, psychological, technical and injury factors influence elite athletic performance.

Sports Medicine Research Group

The Musculoskeletal Medicine Research Group is a newly formed multi-centre and multi-disciplinary group with an interest in various aspects of the relations hip between physical activity in its diverse forms, musculoskeletal health and musculoskeletal performance.

The primary aim of this research group is to determine the impact of exercise on the prevention, pathophysiology and treatment of metabolic, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The group comprises sports & exercise medicine clinicians, hospital consultants (in the fields of general surgery, orthopaedic surgery and diagnostic imaging), physiotherapists and a performance psychologist.

Physical Activity, Education and Health Research Group

The Physical Activity, Physical Education and Health (PAPEH) research group in the School of Health and Human Performance is a unique multi-disciplinary team of life science researchers.

The primary aim of this research group is to study physical activity in its broadest sense, inclusive of active living, physical education, youth sport and adapted physical activity. We want to establish how physical activity can enhance population health, how methods of teaching can impact on the quality of physical education experienced by children, and to understand what motivates or alienates all individuals to be active.

Y-Path

All children and youth should be physically active for at least 60 mins on all days of the week in order to benefit their current and future health.

The Y-PATH project is concerned with identifying how active Irish second level youth currently are, identifying how well they are able to carry out fundamental movement skills (such as run, jump, throw), and developing strategies for helping young people to become more active.

Our goal is to have more young people, more active, more often.