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"Our wee country": national identity, golf and ‘Ireland’ (Pre published)
(Routledge, 2019-03-19)
The careers of professional golfers offer a noteworthy opportunity to examine the ways in which national identity is imagined, constructed and experienced. This paper examines the nexus of national identity and golf in ...
Shifting hegemony in a "man's world": incremental change for female golf professional employment (Pre-published)
(Routledge, 2017-02-08)
There is much evidence to suggest that the golf environment is unequal in terms of gender. This study examines female golf professionals’ understanding of the barriers and opportunities to employment in the golf industry. ...
Women in golf: a critical reflection (Pre-published)
(Routledge, 2017)
Effect of active lessons on physical activity, academic and health outcomes: A systematic review (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2017)
Purpose. To conduct a systematic review of classroom-based PA interventions which integrate academic content and assess the effectiveness of the interventions on PA, learning, facilitators of learning, and health outcomes. ...
Preliminary findings of Active Classrooms: An intervention to increase physical activity levels of primary school children during class time (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2015)
This study evaluates the effects of a behaviour change intervention, which encourages the integration of PA into the teaching of academic lessons, on PA levels of students. The main outcome is mean minutes of moderate-to-vigorous ...
Self-rated walking pace and all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and cancer mortality: Individual participant pooled analysis of 50,225 walkers from 11 population British cohorts (Pre-published version)
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2018)
Background/Objectives: Walking pace is associated with risk of premature mortality. However, whether this relationship is independent of total volume of physical activity and highest physical activity intensity reached ...
Determinants of uptake and maintenance of active commuting to school (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2016)
The objective was to identify determinants of uptake and maintenance of active school travel (AST) over 4 years in children aged 9 at baseline. Data from wave 1 (n=8502) and 2 (n=7479) of the Growing Up in Ireland study ...
Rhetoric and reality: Examining the policy-practice interface of European and Irish arts policy (Pre-published version)
(EERA [European Educational Research Association], 2013)
This paper addresses European and Irish arts and cultural policy as both a form of ‘rhetoric’, or policy intention and ‘reality’, viewed as policy enactment. Taking a sociocultural view, social, economic, cultural and ...
Teacher educators’ perspectives on the implementation of Beginning Teacher Standards for Physical Education in Ireland: developing and regulating the profession? (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2013)
The physical education teacher education community in Ireland has developed Beginning Teacher Standards for Physical Education (BTSfPE) at the post-primary (secondary) level. This study explored teacher educators' perspectives ...
‘Collaborative creativity’ within a jazz ensemble as a musical and social practice (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2014)
This article seeks to explore ‘collaborative creativity’ within the musical and social practices of a local jazz ensemble in Ireland. Within this study, concepts of creativity are firmly rooted within socio-cultural contexts ...