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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. ...
Worldwide trends in children’s and adolescents’ body mass index, underweight, overweight and obesity, in comparison with adults, from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2,416 population-based measurement studies with 128.9 million participants (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2017)
Background: Being underweight as well as overweight and obese in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body ...
Teachers’ and students’ perspectives of participating in the ‘Active Classrooms’ movement integration programme (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2017)
This paper evaluates perceptions of 5 teachers and 129 students of participating in an 8-week primary school movement integration intervention. Following training and provision of resources, teachers were asked to teach 2 ...
Experiences, barriers and identity: the development of a workshop to promote understanding of and empathy for the migrant experience
(Centre for Global Education, 2017)
This article explores the development of a workshop that was designed to provide participants with a safe space in which to explore and empathise with the experiences of migrants. In this case the Irish centenary ...
Developing critical citizenship in an evolving Irish culture through interactive workshops
(The SPHE Network, 2017)
This chapter explores the development and facilitation of a workshop exploring migration in Ireland. The workshop was piloted at the Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) Conference in 2016 and was facilitated on ...
Incentivising advanced mathematics study at upper secondary level: the case of bonus points in Ireland.
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-08-22)
Secondary level mathematics education in Ireland has recently experienced a period of significant change with the introduction of new curricula and the addition of an incentive to study upper secondary mathematics at the ...