Always great to work with Dave Collins and thanks to all the contributors to the Frontiers - Sports and Active Living special education on Women in Coaching and Leadership

t has been great to see so much interest in the 2025 entry to DCU_Performance Professional Doctorate and MSc in Elite Performance Applications are open and accepted on a rolling basis - youtube.com/watch?v=kcFaHf…

Well done to Paul O’Brien publishing his first paper from his Professional Doctorate on mentoring in Gaelic Games Robin Taylor Available open access ⬇️

What a pleasure to work with such a strong and invested group of Limerick GAA Hurling Coaches - a real testament to the quality of work happening across the Academy. Looking forward to the next phase of our DCU_Performance collaboration

A busy week DCU School of Health and Human Performance Thank you to Prof Julie Gore for a visit to run a Cognitive Task Analysis workshop with staff and Professionals Doctorate students Followed by a trip to Limerick GAA for delivery of one of our MSc modules, supporting coaches in practice The Naturalistic Decision Making Association

DCU_Performance Professional Doctorate - Student Series Our programme offers practitioners across a range of domains the opportunity to pursue a practical alternative to a traditional PhD. First in our series, testimonials from students working in the physical education sector.

DCU_Performance Student Series Second up, we see how our Professional Doctorate in Elite Sport Performance can offer S&C practioners the opportunity to pursue practical alternative to a traditional PhD, and further their personal and professional development.

A professional doctorate is a perfect pathway for someone working in strength & conditioning. If you think it would suit you, please get in touch with DCU_Performance to discuss the structure of our courses See below why Patrick Harding chose to pursue a prof Doc at DCU School of Health and Human Performance

Well done Michael and Kate O Connor 🥈🥈 It was great to have Michael involved last year with Sport Ireland's PEP Coach Development for Irish Olympic Sport coache module delivered in collaboration with DCU_Performance - always great to work with such invested coaches

A great win from Munster Rugby - congrats to coach and DCU_Performance Professional Doctorate candidate ian costello!

Another significant piece of the puzzle, great work again ⁦DCU_Performance⁩ - No solutions, only trade-offs: An exploration of contextual factors influencing rugby union talent development environments tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Well done to DCU_Performance Prof Doc Candidates and Clontarf Rugby Club coaches Andy Woods and Sam Ryan who won the Irish Rugby AIL Div 1A last week - well done!

We are very proud of all our staff members who were nominated for the Dublin City University presidents awards. In particular we want to congratulate Kate Sheridan for wining the presidents award in the distinctive approach to teaching category 👏🏻

Listen to DCU staff member Jamie Taylor discussing applied skill acquisition on the Dan Abrahams podcast ⬇️

Well done to Paul O'Brien The second paper from his professional doctorate now published ⬇️

Kicking off DCU_Performance Student conference Kate Sheridan doing a fantastic job speaking about her (soon to be completed) Professional Doctorate - a brilliant example of impactful research.

It was great to host DCU_Performance MSc and Prof Doc students in DCU School of Health and Human Performance with a range of workshops, keynotes and presentations. The theme of the day was 'Making Impact' and it is always an interesting day to hear about the impact our cohorts are making in their domains

Great to see DCU_Performance Professional Doctorate candidate Jami Mulders headlining the Hockey Ireland Coaching Conference

How do we reconcile the tension that athletes need to make mistakes in order to learn, but compete in environments where errors have consequences? (1/6)

Give a busy man a job! All this and not to mention completing his DCU_Performance Professional Doctorate thesis too. Well done Paul!