Huge congratulations to PhD researcher Kevin Volf on his successful PhD defence this week! 🎉

Kevin has carried out some excellent research on physical activity environment policy.

#ULResearch #PostGradAtUL #StayCurious #PESSUL #Ireland Physical Activity for Health Research Centre @UL Policy Evaluation Network (PEN)

Congratulations to Dr Kevin Volf post successful PhD Viva. Thank you to ⁦Dr Charlie Foster⁩ & Ciaran MacD for examining ⁦Physical Activity for Health Research Centre @UL⁩ ⁦Policy Evaluation Network (PEN)⁩ ⁦PESS @ UL⁩ ⁦ ⁦⁦⁦Nicole den Braver⁩ ⁦Sarah Forberger⁩ ⁦Sven Messing⁩ ⁦Aurélie Van Hoye⁩

Well done WEALTH, great to see this wonderful progress Physical Activity for Health Research Centre @UL HealthResearchBoard HRI PESS @ UL

Gambling is a commodity. The industry tends to put the blame of harms related to gambling on the individual. Results?
➡Stigma
➡Minimises the role of the products and strategies of the industry
➡Minimises the role of regulation
➡Focus on 'safer gambling' messages

Great to indeed-project.eu getting started. Great opportunities for talented PhD students in PAfH research Physical Activity for Health Research Centre @UL PESS @ UL HRI

Great work, super to get the national PA guidelines updated. Thank you Elaine Murtagh for leading. Irish Physical Activity Research Collaboration HEPA Europe ISBNPA ISPAH

Give your views, an important consultation to consider. HealthyUL HRI HealthyIreland Irish Physical Activity Research Collaboration PESS @ UL

📚🍏📣Are you a staff or student working on health and wellbeing in your institution?

Our Healthy Campus Evaluation Toolkit Project Team would love to hear your thoughts in their stakeholder survey -
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*Closes March 25th!

Fiona you were a dream student, the first Active School Flag graduate! Looking forward to continued work together Physical Activity for Health Research Centre @UL Active School Flag kwok Caera Grady Elaine Murtagh HealthyIreland PESS @ UL

Great to contribute to the launch of the new Physical Activity & Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines for Ireland today

Available for download: gov.ie/en/publication…

#EveryMoveCounts

Well done to our Senior ⁦Castletroy College⁩ Applied Maths team of Oliver,Matthew and Nadim on their second place in the Regional IAMTA finals last night- well done also to Robert, Luigi and Josh and thanks to colleague, Audrey for her support and facilitation

Honoured to feature in this esteemed line up, wishing you all a wonderful International Women’s Day 2024 Nanette Mutrie Marie Murphy Elaine Murtagh Niamh Murphy Ann MacPhail Catherine Norton Aurélie Van Hoye

Catherine Woods is our first spotlight for #InternationalWomensDay2024 .

Lead of Physical Activity for Health Research Centre @UL, Chair of HealthyUL.

Tip: you should always keep the big picture in mind, don’t be afraid to say ‘not for me, just now’.
#HRI_UL #IWD24

Thank you to all our attendees, a full house with great input from local reps from HSE Health & Wellbeing Irish College of GPs Sport Ireland and HRI Physical Activity for Health Research Centre @UL MS Ireland and more. Valuable discussions on ways forward to increase PA. Tadhg Pyne Daire Fitzmaurice

A super session yesterday, really informative and great f2f discussions. Thank you Dr Charlie Foster Elaine Murtagh for presenting and Brian Carson and Roisin Cahalan for organising. Next up GoPA! in April. Watch this space.

Join us in PESS @ UL for this HRI and Physical Activity for Health Research Centre @UL seminar on the 22nd February!

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Anne Cronin When my default was bus, rainy days were the days I got the bike out! I'm not sure there's a better feeling than cycling past km's of single occupancy, private cars stuck in traffic on your bike in the rain. Freedom, and all it requires is waterproof gear or a change of clothes.

You are coaching amateur sport. The ‘Promoting Physical Activity and Health in Sports Clubs’ working group invite you to respond to a 15-minutes online survey.
Link: enquetes.univ-lorraine.fr/index.php/4771…

We are very excited to announce our next seminar on February 22nd, featuring two insightful talks from Elaine Murtagh Dr Charlie Foster.
Join us in PESS @ UL
HRI Catherine Woods Roisin Cahalan Brian Carson #ResearchImpact #PhysicalActivityGuidelines

Elevated, especially persistent, worry is probably one of the more underrecognized issues, particularly among young adults. Oldies but goodies - even single bouts of exercise can reduce worry:
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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