The HPSC-PAT project has produced 5 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Study 1: The GAA Healthy Club Project: A CFIR analysis (accepted to Health Promotion International)
Study 2: National to local implementation of the “healthy club” project (under revision in Evaluation and Program Planning)
Study 3: From national to local health promoting sports clubs’ policies in the Republic of Ireland (accepted in International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics)
Study 4: Sports clubs need in regard to HPSC policies (Accepted in Health Education Journal)
Study 5: Creation of the Health Promoting Sports Federation Guidelines (Accepted to Frontiers in Public Health)
Participation to conferences
The researcher has taken part to two HEPA network conferences, EUPHA conference, I-PARC conference, UIHPE conference, EU Sport forum conference, to disseminate the work undertaken in the grant.
MSCA dissemination
A video serie from the National Irish Research Council on the promotion of Marie Curie Fellowship has been created:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2EIsLUlWCQ(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)The researcher has been also contributing to two MSCA training at the University of Limerick, making a short presentation, as well as reviewing two applications and sharing my own application.
Teaching/supervision
In 2021-2022, supervision an undergraduate student in her research course and development, Melanie Mc Knight, and she is helping on study 1, for interview conduction and data analysis.
In 2022-2023, supervision 2 undergraduate (Mikey Prendergast and Nathan Bolger) students working on summarizing the benefits of sports for all practice, as well as a systematic literature review on how national sports federation implement physical activity and health promotion, which are contributing to the INTERACT project.
Organisation with Liam Kelly and Catherine Woods, the Physical Activity for Health research cluster Winter School on “Intervention and Policy Implementation Evaluation”, on January 16th-17th 2023, welcome 25 early career researchers and 5 international speakers.
Grant application writing
Association to the grant application writing of a HEA North-South Research Programme, on active future hubs.
Application to the University of Limerick President Excellence and Impact early career award, but was not successful.
Responsibity of the application of the INTERACT Erasmus+ project with University of Limerick as partners, which has been awarded 400 000 euros (with 60 000 for University of Limerick) to work on the development of sport for all among national sports federation.
Application with my home university for a EU funded Doctoral Network program on health promoting sports clubs theoretical model implementation, which was not successful.
Application to Ulysses program to foster mobility between University of Limerick and my home university.
Training
The objective of the training was to reinforce researcher's competences in three area: (1) policy sciences, (2) researchers’ skills, (3) management skills. The training in policy sciences has been realized through the organization of a winter school for PAfH cluster on this topic, the participation to Policy Evaluation Network studies and events, to different pre-conference workshop at EUPHA, as well as a stay at FAU in Germany. The researchers skills training (30 hours of training) has been obtained, and completed by ad hoc training (systematic review, CFIR framework presentation, linear regression training). The management essential badge training (25 hours of training) has been obtained to enhance professional leadership skills.
