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The Faculty of Education and Health Sciences is mainly based on the Castletroy campus of the University of Limerick for administrative purposes. However, our work is widely distributed across clinical, school and placement sites across Ireland. The original main building of the University of Limerick homes the School of Education, the Department of Psychology and the Faculty Office. The brain child of our founding President, Prof Ed Walsh, the main building is built around a quadrangle, with each side of the square connected to all the others, to make sure that disciplines could connect and communicate with each other. Although the University has outgrown the original building, the opportunities for inter-disciplinary teaching and research are still incredibly important. The Dept of Psychology has facilities to conduct human observational and group studies, with labs containing stateof-the-art AV and CCTV equipment. Biological and health psychology, and cognition labs provide for the collection of physiological samples and individual psychological measurements for analysis. Adjacent, the School of Education’s Education Technology Centre provides all education students with access to a wealth of IT and AV equipment, IT and AV technical support and in-house expertise in the area of ICT integration and use in education. The Centre captures all student teaching for the Micro-Teaching Program using two methods: directly onto DVD and simultaneously streamed and captured using an innovative IPTV system. The Centre has also integrated virtual and augmented reality into the program, which gives our students a truly unique teaching experience. The Science and Education building nearby provides additional facilities, workshops and laboratories for science and technology teacher education (6827m2). Also nearby, the Physical Education and Sports Sciences Department is one of our oldest academic departments and resides in one of the universities’ original ‘new’ buildings constructed in 1972 (6350m2). The Department has extensive facilities supporting research and teaching in physiology, biochemistry, biomechanics, anatomy and motor skills, with purpose-built sports halls and a gym. Physical education and sports sciences students and researchers also have access to the excellent facilities of the UL Sports Arena.
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