Running from Injury

Congratulations to Elisabetta on her first major international conference presentation with the research group. So good, she presented two posters on child footwear habits in collaboration with Maisie Squibb

Congratulations to Kristian on the presentation of his study : The impact of footwear on walking mechanics in hikers - at ACSM 2025

Congratulations to Aneta receiving lots of interest in her study which investigated the impact of footwear on the biomechanics of autistic and neurotypical children

As you can see Jia Wei was incredibly busy representing us this morning. His project on footstrike patterns with and without footwear on different surfaces was extremely popular. Still 3 more researchers to come this afternoon. Let's hope they are all as busy

Congratulations to one of our chief organisers Aoife Langford on her presentation at the American College of Sports Medicine. You can read the study outcomes here

We are still catching our breath after our 12th and best meeting yet, but we haven't got long, because the team are off to America next week to present at the American College of Sports Medicine. Thank you to all of our wonderful speakers for adding to such a feel good factor on the day. Special congratulations to our researcher of the year Jia Wei Siow - you can catch Jia Wei presenting in Atlanta next week

Did you know that we will have 7 speakers, from 5 separate institutions in 4 different countries all Carlow campus on May 8th...

Did you know that they will all be speaking about human potential, it's FREE to attend and members of the public are also welcome

As part of well-being week for staff & students I will be delivering an interactive session: 'Maximising Human Potential: Finding Purpose in a World Gone Mad' Next Monday 22nd April 2-3pm in the ERIC building on Carlow campus. Keep an eye on your emails for details

FYI this event has now SOLD OUT. However, we are adding 20 more places and then that really will be capacity. We are delighted to have had so much interest. Thank you and see you all in May

May 9th. Still a few tickets available.

https://www.eventcreate.com/e/maximising-human-potential