Dr. Wesley O'Brien
@wesleyob1
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Senior Lecturer Physical Education & Coaching Science. Research Physical Activity, Physical Literacy & Wellbeing. 2023 Athletic Development Coach Cork Camogie.
@UCC
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Bonnie got the match ball and Clara got the cup. Corcaigh Abú 🔴⚪️✅
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💖Meet our little bundle of pure love; our gorgeous baby girl Bonnie May O’Brien arrived on 21.10.21 💖
@HoranJillian
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Very honoured to receive the International Federation of Physical Education (FIEP) Europe Thulin Award for 2021. Thank you!
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When you put education and sport at the centre of the model, you get
@ucc_gaa
club, binded together by John Grainger. Happy Monday morning all, the Fitzgibbon Cup is back home 🏆⚫️🔴
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A huge honour and a very special afternoon being inducted into the Hall of Fame in my Alma Mater
@ccs_info
. The best of memories, friends and teachers from my time in the school 1999 to 2005. THANK YOU 🤝
Past pupil Dr. Wesley O’Brien receiving the Carrigaline Community School 2022 Hall of Fame Award for commitment to teaching and learning at 3rd Level.
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Will it be easy? NOPE. Worth it? ABSOLUTELY. Congratulations Dr. Lester and Dr. O Brien - I am beaming with supervisor pride this morning for our two exemplary professionals
@UCC
. Be Bold, Be Brave, Change the World, and Keep on Smiling :)
@DrFiChambers
#PhD
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📝 Hot off the press publication🚨 Read about physical activity, screen time, body mass index, and wellbeing in a very large sample of Irish children from social disadvantage across the entire island of Ireland. Free
@tandfonline
eprints at:
#Ireland
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🚨A paper for all my motor competence colleagues🤞Fundamental movement skills recommendations for children & adolescents, rooted in the
#FITT
principle? 3 years in the making, thank you to my co-authors &
@IJERPH_MDPI
for giving this study a landing space
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I think this is my favourite lift. Movement is Medicine. Encouraging 'steps' forward.
#physicalactivity
#movement
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Fundamental movement skills with a twist and shout 🎵 an exciting snapshot of our 'Gaelic 4 Girls'
#research
@UCC
@LadiesFootball
@edsheeran
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Today’s official Children’s Sport Participation and Physical Activity (CSPPA) 2022 report launch
@sportireland
- so pleased to be part of this great research team
@UL
@UCC
@DCU
@UlsterUni
, led by Professor
@CatherineBWoods
& Dr.
@kwokwng
@PAfH_UL
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A brilliant few days at the
@aiesep
#Specialist_Seminar
in the beautiful Brixen-Bressanone, Italy 🇮🇹 Thinking and discussing all things ‘Motor Competence Assessment in Educational Settings’
@DiarmuidLester
@DrFiChambers
@UCCSSPE
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A pleasure putting Project FLAME’s adolescent movement study on the international map with PhD student
@DiarmuidLester
at the
@NASPSPA
2018 conference. Thank you to the delegates for the insightful feedback
#research
#FMS
#physicalliteracy
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When the
@UCC
Project FLAME crew get together... In Verona
@IMDRC_MotorDev
conference 🇮🇹 It will be great to disseminate our work on
#adolescent
#movement
over the next few days
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✅ New publication, just in time for the academic year start
@ATEE_Brussels
#EJTE
#PETE
“Implications for European Physical Education Teacher Education during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-institutional SWOT analysis”
Please RT, 50 free copies at:
@UCC
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Very nice post to receive today. Thank you for the opportunity to contribute a chapter on Gaelic Games
@DrFiChambers
, with
@briancuthbert
- always nice to see sports coaching research in action.
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**Take a look at my new publication, hot off the press, reviewing
@DrJoHarris
&
@DrLorraineCale
’s book on promoting active lifestyles in schools. Just in time for the 2019/20 school year - putting value on health-related learning
@tandfonline
#SESJournal
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No pedometer needed - 1, 2, 3… Bonnie loves the beach 💕🏝
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Oisín Kelly was also an exceptionally talented Physical Education and Sports Studies student
@UCC
@UCCSchoolofEd
- this remarkable young man continues to make his presence felt from afar by campaigning for
@Giveblood_ie
🩸
Talented
@NaomhEoin_GAA
and
@Carlow_GAA
dual-star, Oisín Kelly, passed away in August after a two-year battle with cancer. His family and club hope his campaign to raise awareness about the importance of donating blood to
@Giveblood_ie
will leave a lasting legacy.
#GAABelong
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🚨Hot off the press publication🚨Read about our social support, physical activity and sports participation findings in a very large sample of female youth across the entire island of Ireland
@JPAHjournal
#Ireland
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Parents and coaches take note: 82% of
@LadiesFootball
inter-county 14-year old players in 2019 considered winning a title to be the LEAST IMPORTANT aspect of playing with their county. Our review features in this month’s PEIL magazine
#20x20
@HoganIrene
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Our recently published adolescent screen time and physical activity paper comes at a nice time prior to the commencement of the 2018-19 school year.
#Health
#physicalactivity
#ScreenTime
#Youth
@sjbelton
@Johann80Johann
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Proud to see our highly talented & competent
@UCC
Physical Education teachers at graduation today🎓A pleasure on behalf of my colleagues and I to work with you all over the past 4 years - now go and inspire the next generation of children & youth
#PE
#education
#Graduation2019
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“Good things come to those who wait.” A great feeling to pick up our first piece of intermediate hurling silverware with
@CarrigalineGAA
in almost 8 years this weekend 🏆
#sport
#community
#GAA
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Thank you
@PHECanada
, the
#PHEMontreal2019
conference
@mcgillu
was a super opportunity to learn, and meet so many like-minded professionals. I enjoyed presenting, and we topped off the conference with a great bike trip to see
@impactmontreal
in the
#MLS
league 🇨🇦 ⚽️
@UCCSSPE
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A year later, and the sun is still shining, all the way from the top of Mount Batur in Bali☀️Happy one year anniversary to my wife
@HoranJillian
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Come and join our research team if you are interested in doing a Masters to evaluate the impact of the LGFA’s GaelicforMothers&Others programme. Pleased to advertise this funded opportunity
@UCCSchoolofEd
@UCC
@MTU_DeptSLCS
- deadline, 27th Sept. Please RT
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🗞Hot off the press publication🚨Motor competence assessment in physical education published in
@sport_pedagogy
. Convergent validity between FMS & functional movement assessments in adolescence. 50 free copies available at:
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The country has been waiting
@PEAI_IRELAND
@PDSTpe
"Leaving Cert students can gain CAO points with new PE subject" -
#PE
#assessment
#CAO
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🚨NEW REVIEW!🚨
Functional movement screening with children and adolescents? Yes, no, not sure?
Check out our newest systematic review & meta-analysis to find out more
@SportsMedicineJ
#research
#movement
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As May draws to a close, I am excited to commence our work on the National Consensus Statement Development for
#PhysicalLiteracy
in Ireland, with
@sjbelton
@sineadconnolly
@KyleAFerguson
@MarieHMurphy
@ElaineMurtagh
. Thank you
@sportireland
for bringing this topic to the table.
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Congratulations to one of the best professionals I know for Physical Education
@sjbelton
@dcu
- our subject is in very safe hands, that’s for sure👏
#Research
with
#Impact
Huge congrats to
@sjbelton
on receiving the
@DCU
Presidents Award for Research Impact this afternoon, recognising the breadth of work over the past 10 years in the field of physical education ‘in close collaboration with a range of
@dcu_shhp
colleagues’
@DCUFSH
@muirtheimhne
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Our new published paper “Do Irish Adolescents Have Adequate Functional Movement Skill and Confidence?” - Super for
@ucc
@UCCSchoolofEd
to contribute to this special issue with PhD students
@DiarmuidLester
@OrlaghFarmer
and
@covcampus
colleague
@MikeDunky
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Some great discussion at today’s
#ECSS2019
#Prague
invitational session on children’s physical development and
#motorcompetence
with
@MikeDunky
- imagine Mr. Messy and the Gruffalo popped in to say hello too!
@covcampus
@UCC
@UCCSchoolofEd
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“We came, we saw, but we haven’t yet conquered”
#motorcompetence
in children!!! More design thinking needed, but thank you everyone for attending today’s really productive
#meeting4movement_UCC
@UCC
@DrFiChambers
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Thrilled to be reigniting our Y-PATH PE4ME CPD programme for teachers tonight
@cork_cesc
- a milestone for our
@Irishheart_ie
@DCU
@UCC
team, as we align this physical literacy programme to the new Junior Cycle PE curriculum specification. 13 years on the go, and more to come ⭐️
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Hands up for
#physicalliteracy
- thank you
@SportForLife_
for allowing me to present an Irish perspective on
#movement
at this morning’s
#IPLC2019
conference in Winnipeg. Great questions from a superbly engaging audience, a pleasure to present.
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📣 I am delighted to have received my hardcopy version of “12-Year-Old Ready” over the weekend. I wrote a book chapter for parents and guardians on the practical importance of movement during the tween years with
@SZKH77
📚 See below for more exciting info 🌟
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Very proud of our 3rd year
@UCCSSPE
students this morning, 100% virtual attendance and engagement in my
#onlinelearning
coaching science class on
#flexibility
and
#stretching
- how ironic that the students showed superior
#flexibility
for virtual learning today off campus
@ucc
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While we may be grounded
@YWGairport
due to thunder storms in Toronto, we will try to ensure that the Irish spirit will not be defeated ☘️ A great
#IPLC2019
, organised and hosted by
@SportForLife_
-
#physicalliteracy
is in a very ‘healthy’ place, a very healthy place...
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Interested in doing a Masters within the field of promoting physically literate adolescent youth? I am delighted to advertise the funded opportunity below
@UCCSSPE
@UCCSchoolofEd
@UCC
- deadline 10th April, 2018. Email me for informal enquiries.
#movement
#youth
#physicalliteracy
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We have to ensure that our
#FMS
and
#PA
interventions are delivered WELL! Putting some sense on our intervention fidelity protocol for
#Project_FLAME
today 😊 Thank you to
@covcampus
@Deakin
PhD student
@Jiani_M30
for leading these great discussions today
@UCC
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A truly historical moment for the graduates of
@UCCSSPE
@UCCSchoolofEd
- Congratulations to the newly elected
@PEAI_IRELAND
President Tony McSweeney, and Vice-President
@EoinJoy1
for 2018-19 - I look forward to our continued hard work together for the year ahead on the executive!
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Two weeks in, our outstanding
@UCCSSPE
students have truly embraced
#onlinelearning
Content delivery via
@CanvasLMS
@MicrosoftTeams
@zoom_us
@Webex
@GoogleForEdu
, to name but a few. While we press pause on face to face interaction, the
#digital
world has certainly come up trumps
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The rain did not dampen our spirits at yesterday’s B.Ed Sports Studies and Physical Education graduation - 19th October 2022. Such a proud day for our graduates, families, friends and loved ones. Thinking of our dear colleague Éamonn Ryan also 🙏
@UCCSSPE
@UCCSchoolofEd
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Thank you
#ISBNPA2017
, putting Irish research on the map in Victoria 🇨🇦 with
@DrBMcGranePE
@UCCSSPE
@UCC
@DrFiChambers
@DCU_IoE
#research
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We look forward to welcoming coaches from all sports to our free 2021 training. Not to be missed, save those dates in order to up-skill your practice on the message of
#movement
⭐️
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My October Halloween highlights🎃
1.
#PhysEd
interview with
@freddeconinck
2.
#FMS
@IMDRC_MotorDev
conference presentations
3.
#PhysicalLiteracy
book chapter
@DrFiChambers
4.
#SystematicReview
in
#FMS
to top it off led by
@LisaBolger2
- all links below in chat.
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Not everyone brings a Gaelic Football to the
@UCC
Quad for PhD graduation, but Dr. Farmer does ⚽️ Huge congratulations
@OrlaghFarmer
, and thank you
@LadiesFootball
@KevinCahill5
🎉
PH.inishe.D👩🏻🎓
A very special moment officially graduating
@UCCSSPE
with my
#Gaelic4Girls
PhD Doctorate promoting young girls sport participation🏐
Thanks to everyone who supported me over the years especially my family, my Supervisors
@wesleyob1
@KevinCahill5
&
@LadiesFootball
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A really enjoyable presentation on our
@EUErasmusPlus
QualiTePE project today with my colleague
@JoaoC81
@PEPAYS_Ireland
2024
@MTU_ie
Tralee. Great to share some examples of our
@UCCSchoolofEd
physical education teacher education practice. Smiles all round 😁😁
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As we move towards the summer break with some uncertainty regarding the subject of Physical Education for the next academic year, today’s
@EUPEA_tweet
position statement is a welcome document 👏
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Hot off the press
#research
in collaboration with
@UCC
@LadiesFootball
- ⬆️ girls "physical" self-confidence
@OrlaghFarmer
@sjbelton
#FMS
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12 years later, and our Y-PATH work is now at a proposed Curriculum Model phase for Physical Education. A very timely output to kick start the New Year ✅ Longitudinal school-based research takes time ⏰
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The 2018 CSPPA study involved 6,651 children with a focus on PA, sport, PE, active travel and sedentary behaviour.
@ucc
&
@OrlaghFarmer
are proud to have been part of this all island collaboration, with an excellent team. Next stage = achieving targets & continued surveillance!!
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My original and ‘go to’ fundamental movement skills Irish adolescent publication
@sport_pedagogy
. I started writing this paper in 2011, with an eventual 2016
#author
publication. Be patient, good
#research
takes time...
Fundamental movement skill proficiency amongst adolescent youth. Published 2016. Authors
@wesleyob1
et al.
@educationarena
.
@afPE_PE
.
#PESP
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Big leap forward for the
@UCC
high performance culture
@MardykeArenaUCC
- an excellent launch this morning, with real excitement and optimism in the room. Let the training commence 💪
Excited to welcome our guests to the official opening of the Elite Athlete/ Team High Performance Gym
@UCC
@UCCSport
@BLKBOXFITNESS
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A pleasure to present our keynote address on Project FLAME 🔥 to the
@IMDRC_MotorDev
UK and Ireland motor competence group today
@covcampus
. Thank you
@MikeDunky
and all
@CoventrySES
for the space to present with
@UCCSchoolofEd
PhD student
@OrlaMurphy97
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📝 Officially Volume 3, 2024, Issue 3🚨 Read about physical activity, screen time, body mass index, and wellbeing in a very large sample of Irish children from social disadvantage across the entire island of Ireland. Free
@tandfonline
eprints at:
#Ireland
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Thank you very much for the invitation to speak to coaches
@DouglasGAAClub
next Tuesday about one of my favourite coaching topics - youth physical literacy!
Date for your diary!
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 @ 7:00pm
Dr. Wesley O’Brien
Zoom call details to follow.
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Thank you to the 72 teachers who attended tonight’s online Y-PATH session ⭐️ 14 years of research informed evidence on the go, and still more to come
@Irishheart_ie
@UCCSchoolofEd
@dcu_shhp
Last chance to attend
@Irishheart_ie
Y-PATH training. Online workshop with
@SligoEdCentre
led by
@wesleyob1
of
@UCC
. Tools and tips for new JC PE spec with focus on HRA & FMS.Includes digital and printed resources(lesson plans and more) Book at
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2 years ago today - proud to have worked with a such special group of players and mentors
@ucc_gaa
⚫️🔴
On February 23rd 2019 Eoghan Murphy and Conor Browne lifted the Fitzgibbon Cup after UCC beat MICL 2.21 to 0.13 in the final. It was the 41st time a UCC captain had lifted the trophy
@UCCSport
@UCC
@HigherEdGAA
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🚨Come and join our team
@UCCSSPE
Permanent Lectureship in Physical Education, Health and Wellbeing currently advertised on
@UCC
website. Closing date 31st August, more details available Please RT
@PEAI_IRELAND
@PEPAYS_Ireland
@HealthyIreland
@PDSTie
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Very pleased to share our latest article ahead of print - ‘Coaches’ Experience of the Gaelic4Teens Program in Ireland’ available at
@ISCJHK
@Human_Kinetics
. The fact is… Coaches can empower female teenagers through sport
@LadiesFootball
🌟
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An early Christmas present🎄Check out our new published article in
@Editor_IES
on pre-service teachers wellbeing, resilience, and physical activity. Led by
@UCCSchoolofEd
PhD student Niamh O’Brien
@DrFiChambers
@breslin_g
@StateofMindIre
@Drmartinlawlor
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Fantastic for our
@UCCSSPE
@UCCSchoolofEd
research team, and doctoral students to present on the international stage together. Thank you
#ISPAH2018
for providing Ireland and
@UCC
with this opportunity to disseminate our findings on
#PhysicalActivity
#PhysicalLiteracy
#Wellbeing
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There were 3 other students and graduates of our Physical Education, Sports Studies and Arts programme (
@UCCSSPE
), who represented
@deisecamogie
last Sunday in Dearbhla Beresford, Aoife Landers and Niamh Rockett. Well done to all.
We are very proud of our staff, students, and graduates from our Physical Education, Sports Studies & Arts programme for their achievement last Sunday!
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Touchdown
@CorkAirport
✈️ Well-worth travelling 3,600 miles to the
@uwinnipeg
to chat about the
#PhysicalLiteracy
dilemma with international colleagues in Canada. The keynote lecture was a bit of fun too. Thank you
@DrNateHall
, building greater internationalisation links
@UCC
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Excited to present some of our functional movement assessment work later today
@IMDRC_MotorDev
#imdrcGR2021
- nice to see motor competence conversations for children and youth going beyond fundamental movement skills only
#FMS
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A resource that I would highly recommend for GAA coaches across all levels of participation. Well done to our own
@Carrig_Coaching
for bringing ‘games based’ thinking to life. A nice surprise in the post, just in time for the summer and autumn championships ahead ✅
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Lots of walking, cycling, and hiking here in the stunning Uetliberg mountain of Zürich - fresh air, great views, and people of all ages moving.
#outdoors
#Switzerland
#bliss
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Lots of sticky notes this morning, but all with the intention of sticking to our university’s strategic physical activity plan
#ActiveUCC
@UCC
@MorganBuckleyIR
@DrFiChambers
@FitGill
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Ready to go for the
#PEAI
conference of 2018 - Celebrating 50 years for the Physical Education Association of Ireland. Well done all 👏
@PEAI_IRELAND
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A real pleasure to present with
@DrFiChambers
&
@DrRASandford
today
@ECER_EERA
on
#designthinking
in
#Education
, coaching and sport - super discussion afterwards while having the opportunity to represent
@UCC
@UCCSchoolofEd
#ECER2018
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The blue skies and green spaces in
#Stockholm
certainly inspire our
#Physical_Literacy
research discussions 🇸🇪
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For all teachers with an interest in Physical Education & Inclusion, could you please take 10 mins to complete the following survey by PhD student
@GiampieroTarant
@ucd_sphpss
@UCCSSPE
Please Retweet
@PEAI_IRELAND
@IrishPrimaryPE
@PDSTie
@JCforTeachers
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Bringing some international flare to the undergraduate
@UCC
student learning experience. Thank you to
@covcampus
and
@MikeDunky
for hosting a jam-packed day of activity for our
@UCCSSPE
students - better
#coaches
, better
#professionals
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No more excuses, 15 positive reasons to exercise outdoors 🌳🌿🌺🌤🌧☔️ Fantastic work
@BelievePHQ
@_ukactive
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A real pleasure to work with such a committed team, expertly guided by
@LozFo
. Well done
@Sport_England
, putting this clear focus on Physical Literacy can only be of benefit 🙌✅
We are delighted to announce the publication of the Physical Literacy Consensus Statement for England! 📢
It's been developed to facilitate a shared understanding of physical literacy for those working in the sport, education, physical activity, health and youth sectors.
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Excited to be part of the team for the 3rd iteration of the Children’s Sport Participation and Physical Activity Study (CSPPA) in Ireland 🏃♀️🏊♂️ 🚴♀️
We are excited to announce the launch of the Children's Sport Participation and Physical Activity Study (CSPPA) 2022 led by PAfH director
@CatherineBWoods
. Co-investigators include
@sjbelton
@wesleyob1
@MarieHMurphy
and
@FlynnMc
.
See more here:
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Officially live for our Y-PATH PE 4 Me CPD training. Very exciting to be offering this programme to the Physical Education teachers of Ireland for the 2024-25 school year
@Irishheart_ie
@UCCSchoolofEd
@dcu_shhp
. To register for this programme, click on ().
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This fundamental movement skills (FMS) Irish adolescent paper is one of my personal favourites. It took me a long time to get this paper over the line, but the
#research
wait was worth it. Thanks for sharing
@sport_pedagogy
, and for bringing me back to my
#phdlife
@DCU
.
Fundamental movement skill proficiency amongst adolescent youth. Published 2016. Authors
@wesleyob1
et al.
@educationarena
.
@afPE_PE
.
#PESP
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Today, we found 7
@UCCSSPE
students designing and playing games
@Windesheiminfo
(of course, we joined in…). Tomorrow, we hope to find the remaining 7 students in the group dynamics classroom. A superb BIP experience, thank you Corine Visser &
@jeroensteeman2
#Erasmus
🇳🇱🇮🇪
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Making the sport participation experience for girls REAL and FUN. Fantastic to see our
@UCC
PhD student
@OrlaghFarmer
being connected to the
#SeriousSupport
Future Stars video campaign of
@lidl_ireland
@LadiesFootball
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Coaches are constantly looking for their athletes to seek out those ‘marginal gains’. Great to contribute to this cutting-edge piece written by
@DeclanBogue
@The42_ie
on the art and science of strength and conditioning in Gaelic Games 🏃♀️🏋️
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Chatting about Physical Education Curriculum and Assessment at Friday evening’s
@PEAI_IRELAND
panel discussion. A pleasure to be in great company with
@ClodaghHalloran
@oreillypool
@AnnMacPhail1
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