Dr Niamh Ní Chéilleachair
Dr Niamh Ní Chéilleachair is course co-ordinator and
lecturer on the BSc (Hons) in Sports Science with Exercise Physiology where she has
lectured across several modules specialising the delivery of Physiology for the High
Performance Athlete.
Niamh graduated from the University of Limerick with a BSc
(Hons) in Sport and Exercise Sciences and a PhD, which incorporated a multi-
disciplinary approach to investigate alternative training methods for endurance
athletes.
Niamh is also an accredited Performance Physiologist with the Sport
Ireland Institute and has worked with high performance athletes across a range of
sports including rowing, swimming and athletics. Her research interests are of a
multi-disciplinary, applied sports science nature involving physiological and
biomechanical approaches to improve the performance of well-trained and elite
athletes.
To date Niamh has supervised a number of Masters students across the
discipline of Sports Science and is currently supervising PhD students investigating
methods of improving performance in team sport athletes, including high intensity
interval training and resisted sprinting, in addition to PhD students investigating
fundamental movement skills in Irish primary school children and the psychology of
musculoskeletal injury.