🚨 Fresh Drop 🚨 Check out our new open access publication on the risk factors for prospective running injuries in Sports Medicine 🔗 sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

Delighted to have attended the PPI summer school in UL this week. Lots of learning, thanks to PPI Ignite UL. Very grateful to ARC: Ageing Research Centre University of Limerick for their support to attend.

Deadline is this *Friday* for our 2 new professional development modules in female athlete health starting Sep 2023. Suitable for those working with active women. Check them out here: bit.ly/3HxJSly & contact me ([email protected]) with any queries

Last week of data collection for this important project. The mental health of our female Gaelic games players must be examined in order to be supported - get involved and share with Camogie and Ladies Gaelic footballers 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

Excited to share our publication about the DCU RISC Study examining what factors might be related to running injuries. Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… Aoife Burke Shane Gore Enda Whyte Siobhán O Connor

Check out our new paper on running related injuries below. Great work by Sarah Dillon & co 👏

Great work again Sarah Dillon 👏👏

Lots of learning at the inaugural SHPRC Conference yesterday in UL. Delighted to present some work from the DCU RISC Study. 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️

👀New In-Press: archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-… This year I had the chance to visit Karen McCreesh at Health Research Institute for 5 wks. While there, I collaborated on a SR/MA with two of her PT Masters student as well as with Sarah Dillon. DM for a copy of the article but here are key elements.

Any chance you could help? 🙏❤️ Niall Duffy, Lauren Guilfoyle, Sinead Murphy, Prof. Fiona Wilson, Kevin Feely, Georgia, SpoSciTem, michelle lyons, Sarah Dillon, EimearFox, Lee Van Haeften, Barry Gorman, Jenny Pryor, Grainne Harris, Dave Casey, Shelly Dineen Thank you!

Great news before the winter break. UL has secured funding for additional places under Springboard+ Springboard+: Applications are now open and will close on 5th January 2024. Learn more eu1.hubs.ly/H06JLYx0 #SpringboardPlus #HEA #staycurious

📭Survey for all Irish educators (academic+practice education staff) for occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech+language therapy, human nutrition+dietetics. We are interested about service users/experts by experience contributing to your programme. unioflimerick.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0v…

University Of Limerick School of Allied Health event on May 28th to hear from patients, service users, family members, patient advocates and the public about how best to support healthcare professional students - more information below - register your interest here​ ticketbud.com/events/3b1e04f… RT welcome!

Still time to register for event next Tues, 28th May. We would love to hear from people involved with health+social services about improving education for healthcare professionals + the role patients, family members, service users and community members could play School of Allied Health

Interested in helping us to shape how healthcare professionals are taught? We would love to hear from you!

Grateful to have spent the last week learning all things evidence synthesis at GESummit in Prague. Such a fantastic way to meet researchers, clinicians and policy makers and to grow the knowledge base. Special thanks to Evidence Synthesis Ireland for supporting me.

Representing University Of Limerick Sarah Dillon and Patrick O'Donnell discussing Advancing Equitable Representation of Minority Populations in #CancerTrials. #EDI #UnderServed #EquityinTrials #MinorityPopulations #TrialsMethodology

Really looking forward to speaking at this next week- registration is still open!

Delighted to be awarded a SWAR Award from Evidence Synthesis Ireland to support the development of capacity in reviews alongside the great team of Elayne Ahern Aoife Whiston and Rose Galvin. Thank you Evidence Synthesis Ireland for the fantastic opportunity to contribute to the research!

✨ Delighted to share a new English Longitudinal Study of Ageing paper led by Aoife Whiston on late-life #depression & cognitive impairments. Key finding:🧠Fatigue is a key depression symptom & potentially important target for early intervention in older adults. doi.org/10.1080/136078… Health Research Institute UL Psychology