UCD Public Health, Physiotherapy & Sports Science

Sneak preview! Say hello to the stars of our upcoming postgraduate course videos🤩 Thanks to our students, graduates, programme directors, Rosemary @UCDGS and Lucas and Rebecca at Hedgehogs vs Foxes - exciting videos coming soon! In the meantime, if you want to find out about our postgraduate courses, see ucd.ie/phpss/courses/… @bronafullen @brownenutrition @CshwSafety @Blake_Cath @patriciaefitz @CACorish @ucddublin @UCD_HPG @ucd_global @UCDALUMNI

Huge congratulations to our BSc Health & Performance Science final year students who presented their theses at a poster presentation at UCD today. Thanks for sharing such interesting research🌟

📢Last opportunity to join the HBM4IE sampling campaign, which concludes on 18th May📢 Interested participants are encouraged to contact the research team soon to book a slot: HBM4IE@ucd.ie. Participants will receive a goodie bag and a One4all voucher, and will also be contributing to important public health research on chemical exposures.

Well done to all of the graduate students who displayed their research at the UCD College of Health & Agricultural Sciences Graduate Research Student Symposium at UCD today. Pictured are some of the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science researchers and their posters. Thanks to Cormac Ryan, Eline de Jager, Damien Byrne, Darragh Doherty, Conor White and all of the students and their supervisors for sharing some really interesting research💡 #graduateresearch

We're delighted that Daragh Searing, UCD MSc Sport Management alumnus, has been listed in the Sport for Business and PwC Ireland 30 under 30 2026. Daragh is a Business Development Manager with TicketCo, operating across the UK and Ireland, where he supports growth and innovation within the sports sector. Find out more at sportforbusiness.com/sport-for-busi… Image Credit: Sport for Business

If you are a female athlete, 18 years or over, you might like to participate in one of these really interesting studies being conducted by UCD SPHPSS PhD student Eline de Jager, supervised by Dr Sinead Holden. Eline is researching a number of areas including how measures of recovery using wearables vary with ovarian hormone profiles, and how females use menstrual tracking in sport. Further info is in the posters.

Beautiful morning on campus 😊🦢 @ucddublin

Today on Earth Day 2026, we are proud to be participating in the Planetary Health Report Card initiative, which has the goal of evaluating and improving planetary health content in health professional schools. Led by UCD SPHPSS MSc in Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics students Jessica Barbulescu and Aoife Kelliher, and mentored by Dr Sarah Browne, we have evaluated our MSc in Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics programme for planetary health and recorded the initiatives we are currently undertaking in this area, in addition to identifying further opportunities for improvements that we can pursue to ensure we protect the future of our planet. Read more at phreportcard.org/nutrition-diet… #EarthDay2026

Congratulations to Carrie O'Keeffe, UCD BSc Sport & Exercise Management alumna, who has been listed in the Sport for Business and PwC Ireland 30 under 30 2026. Carrie is an Anti-Doping Education Executive with Sport Ireland. Read about her journey so far at sportforbusiness.com/sport-for-busi…

Dr Nicol Van Dyk is an Ad Astra Lecturer/Assistant Professor at UCD SPHPSS. He is a trained physiotherapist and performance health researcher and has studied, worked and researched around the world. A clinical researcher with a special interest in muscle injuries and injury prevention, he has great appreciation for integrated healthcare, shared decision making, and evidence based medicine. Read more about his career and research to date ⬇️ @NicolvanDyk @t_tcusack @Blake_Cath @CaulfieldBrian @caitrionacunn @Sinead_Holden @OliveLennon1 @MaryOKeeffe007

The latest issue of our newsletter 'SPHPSS In Focus' is out now. It contains lots of news about what's been happening recently in the School and in the wider school community. We hope you enjoy reading it! ucd.ie/phpss/t4media/…

Watch this video to see final year UCD BSc Sport & Exercise Management students debating for and against the motion "Sport-for-development programmes in the Global South that prioritize global sports such as football over indigenous games perpetuate neo-colonial power structures" which they debated as part of their Sport Ethics and Governance module. Watch more videos showing how UCD SPHPSS is celebrating International Day of Sport for Development and Peace at ucd.ie/phpss/newsande… or on our YouTube channel @ucd_sphpss" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@ucd_sphpss #IDSDP #SportDay @ucddublin @UCD_CHAS @UN @UCD_EDI @ucdsportsclubs @UCD_HPG @Joelrookwood @KatePumpa @Blake_Cath @EamonnDelahunt @patriciaefitz @CaulfieldBrian @t_tcusack @katy_horner @UCDMedicine @ucdsnmhs @ucdagfood @ucdvetmed @UCDALUMNI @ucd_global

In this video, Anne Grumelard, Development Programmes Manager with World Rugby and UCD MSc Sport Management Alumna 2017, shares the work that is being done in making rugby more gender equal and how the future of women's rugby is unmissable. Watch more videos showing how UCD SPHPSS is celebrating International Day of Sport for Development and Peace at ucd.ie/phpss/newsande… or on our YouTube channel @ucd_sphpss" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@ucd_sphpss #IDSDP #SportDay @ucddublin @WorldRugby @UCD_CHAS @UN @UCD_EDI @ucdsportsclubs @UCD_HPG @Joelrookwood @KatePumpa @Blake_Cath @EamonnDelahunt @patriciaefitz @CaulfieldBrian @t_tcusack @katy_horner @UCDMedicine @ucdsnmhs @ucdagfood @ucdvetmed @UCDALUMNI @ucd_global

"Around the world, researchers, practitioners and communities are demonstrating how sport can contribute to real, measurable change from improving health and wellbeing to advancing gender equality to promoting inclusion and peace". In this video, UCD SPHPSS Dr Joel Rookwood explains how sport can be central to a strategy for development and peace and how this is taught and lived at UCD. Watch more videos showing how UCD SPHPSS is celebrating International Day of Sport for Development and Peace at ucd.ie/phpss/newsande… or on our YouTube channel @ucd_sphpss" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@ucd_sphpss #IDSDP #SportDay @ucddublin @UCD_CHAS @UN @UCD_EDI @ucdsportsclubs @UCD_HPG @Joelrookwood @KatePumpa @Blake_Cath @EamonnDelahunt @patriciaefitz @CaulfieldBrian @t_tcusack @katy_horner @UCDMedicine @ucdsnmhs @ucdagfood @ucdvetmed @UCDALUMNI @ucd_global

In this video, UCD SPHPSS PhD researcher and Para Athletics Academy Co-Ordinator Annmarie Carroll, and UCD student, athlete and Para Project participant Charlie Byrne talk about the Para Project and how it supports athletes to reach their potential on and off the track. Watch more videos showing how UCD SPHPSS is celebrating International Day of Sport for Development and Peace at ucd.ie/phpss/newsande… or on our YouTube channel @ucd_sphpss" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@ucd_sphpss #IDSDP #SportDay @ucddublin @UCD_CHAS @UN @UCD_EDI @ucdsportsclubs @UCD_HPG @Joelrookwood @KatePumpa @Blake_Cath @EamonnDelahunt @patriciaefitz @CaulfieldBrian @t_tcusack @katy_horner @UCDMedicine @ucdsnmhs @ucdagfood @ucdvetmed @UCDALUMNI @ucd_global @PARAProject_IRL @ParaAthletics

Every April 6th, International Day of Sport for Development and Peace is celebrated globally. UCD SPHPSS is committed to promoting the role of sport as a strategic tool for building bridges between people and breaking down barriers to inclusion. Watch this short video to see some examples of how UCD SPHPSS staff, students, researchers and alumni are living that commitment. Find out more and watch more videos at ucd.ie/phpss/newsande… #IDSDP2026 #IDSDP #SportDay @ucddublin @UCD_CHAS @UN @UCD_EDI @ucdsportsclubs @UCD_HPG @Joelrookwood @KatePumpa @Blake_Cath @EamonnDelahunt @patriciaefitz @CaulfieldBrian @t_tcusack @katy_horner @UCDMedicine @ucdsnmhs @ucdagfood @ucdvetmed

Delighted to see SPHPSS alumnus Garry Kehoe being recognised in the Sport for Business PWC 30 under 30 list! Garry graduated with a MSc Sport Management in 2019 and is now the Leinster Activation Officer with Badminton Ireland in addition to a National Team Coach with Boxing Ireland and Head Coach at Marble City Boxing Club. Read more at sportforbusiness.com/sport-for-busi…