This month’s featured blog post is from Shirley O’Shea, I-PARC Project Team member and Senior Health Promotion Officer for Physical Activity, Health & Wellbeing Division, Health Services Executive October is ‘International Walk to School Month’, an opportunity for children to join hundreds of thousands of pupils across the globe celebrating the walk to school.…
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A warm welcome to our new featured blog page! Here we will be posting blog posts from guest writers across all sectors involved in physical activity throughout Ireland. Keep an eye out for exciting posts on all things physical activity – from local opportunities to nationwide events, research happening at different institutes across all Ireland,…
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The past two months have seen the I-PARC team travel to a number of conferences and workshops in order to disseminate findings and discuss the next steps of the project In August, members of the I-PARC team traveled to the University of South Denmark, Odense, Denmark to present at HEPA 2019. In the spirit…
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The first I-PARC symposium on “Effective Evaluation and Implementation of Physical Activity Initiatives” was held on the 10th of June 2019 in the Clock Tower, Department of Education, Dublin. This included 43 individuals from various backgrounds but all interested in the evaluation and implementation of initiatives for increasing physical activity levels in Ireland. A half-day…
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A key aspect of I-PARC is to build a collaboration of researchers, practitioners and policy makers to understand how we successfully implement effective interventions that lead to increased physical activity in all sections of the population. We aim for this collaboration to grow in the future but at the moment it includes the core project…
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The first meeting of the I-PARC project happened at the 23rd annual congress of the European College of Sport Science in Dublin, July 2018. This meeting included members of the project team, research collaborators and acted as a pre-project meeting in order to plan the key aims and objectives of I-PARC, which officially started in…
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Welcome to the Irish Physical Activity Research Collaboration (I-PARC) web page. I-PARC aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers to establish how best to implement effective interventions for promoting population level physical activity. On this web page you can find all the information about I-PARC including its background, personnel involved, project updates and…
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