PESS POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS’ CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS Summer 2016 was a busy season for PESS postgraduate students who attended a range of international and national conferences. From Tralee to Boston and Seattle to Salzburg, PESS postgraduate students showcased the extensive and innovative research in the department. Jenny Higgins, PhD Student in PESS, illustrates some of the conferences that PESS postgraduate students presented at during the Summer. MARCH 2016 2016 Physiological Society Topic Meeting - "Biomedical basis of elite performance", Nottingham, UK ● Robert Davies – Seasonal changes in body composition of inter-county Gaelic Athletic Association hurlers measured by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry APRIL 2016 Research in Imagery and Observation Conference, Manchester, UK ● Eoghan McNeill - Motor imagery use in golf ● Jessie Barr - Imagery use amongst injured Rugby players (pictured left with Dr. Tadhg MacIntyre and Eoghan McNeill )
JUNE 2016 American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), Boston, USA ● Cormac Powell – Accuracy of energy expenditure measurement using Sensewear Pro3 and the Activpal3 micro devices ● Gráinne Hayes – The comparison of free-living sedentary time using the ActivPAL3 micro and the Actigraph GT3X ● Cillian McDowell – Sex-related differences in mood responses to acute aerobic exercise ● Hannah McCormack – Taking care of our mental health: The self-care habits of applied sport psychologists SHAPE America National Coaching Conference, Seattle, USA ● Ian Sherwin – Coaching Behaviours and their impact on athlete development (pictured right)
JULY 2016 European Congress of Sport Sciences, Vienna, Austria ● Rachel Clancy - A longitudinal examination of elite athlete well-being (pictured left) European Congress of Adapted Physical Activity, Olomouc, Czech Republic ● Tomas Aylward - Active reviewing techniques for use at inclusive or segregated outdoor adventure activity APA sessions International Society of Biomechanics in Sports, Tsukaba, Japan ● Robin Healy - The association between common measures of stretch-shortening cycle function ● Michelle Norris - The application of detrended fluctuation analysis in running and its integration into a real-time system International Sports Engineering Association Conference, Delft, Netherlands ● Robin Healy - A novel protocol to measure short sprint performance ● Michelle Norris - Possibilities for real-time DFA based injury detection and skill level differentiation
AUGUST 2016 European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Dublin, Ireland ● Cassandra Iannucci- In search of something more: one physical educator's career path (pictured right)
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