Research
Research Carried out / Ongoing

• Sport, social policy and planning.
• Sports structures and organizations.
• Professionalism and volunteerism in the sport, fitness and leisure industries in Ireland.

• Optimisation of the recovery process in sport.
• Lactate kinetics and optimisation of training intensities to improve sport performance.
• Optimisation of sport science testing applied to different sports.

• The use of movement analysis in identifying effective treatments from neuromuscular pathologies.
• Identification of appropriate strength training practices based on an individual's force generating characteristics (e.g. rate of force development, maximum strength, power).
• Improvements in performance of elite athletes based on intra-individual differences.
• The use of muscle-tendon vibrators to facilitate muscle and bone development.
• Development of novel sensor based technology for monitoring movement.
• The cause and effective treatment of knee ACL injury.
• Identification of effective strategies for learning movement skills through demonstration.

• How polymorphic variations in genes that code for specific proteins contribute to human variation in both health and disease.
• Application of high-resolution ultrasound to assess the relation between endothelial function and cardiovascular disease and the therapeutic application of physical activity in disease states where endothelial function is impaired.
• Efficacy of pharmacologic, dietary, physical activity and behavioral interventions in the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.
• Response of the thrombotic, fibrinolytic and inflammatory systems to pharmacologic intervention and exercise training.
• Interaction between physical activity, neural, endocrine and immune processes.
• The role of perceptual preference in regulating exercise intensity and promoting adherence.

• Promotion of physical activity and adherence to active lifestyles across the lifespan.
• Public health impact of physical inactivity.
• Physical activity and its relationship to clinically defined areas such as stress or depression, or to health behaviours such as cessation of smoking or health eating.
• The psychology of physical education.
• The psychology of sports performance.