Research projects

Bowling separately or bowling together – an investigation of organization in Sámi sport

Sport is often organized by sex, age, level, weight, and disability. Since most people lack experience of alternative models, it is difficult to se...

Research project

1 January 2026 until 31 December 2027

Study Culture, Labour Market and Professional Practice (STAY)

The STAY project develops a pedagogical tool to enhance students’ understanding of professional practice within semi-professional university...

Research project

1 January 2026 until 31 December 2027

Trans-sporting the understanding of gender – the transformative effects of transgender inclusion

The possibility of exercising sport is considered a basic right in many parts of the world. However, for transgender individuals and for the...

Research project

1 January 2026 until 31 December 2028

Volunteering in sports organizations – Taken for Granted or Open to Negotiation?

This project explores how members of sports clubs understand and define voluntary work. While volunteering is vital for grassroots sports, what...

Research project

1 September 2025 until 31 December 2026

The meaning with physiological testing of athletes: The coach perspective

A common practice in sports is the use of physiological tests to measure the physical capacity of athletes with the aim of developing and optimizin...

Research project

1 June 2025 until 1 June 2027

Educating Children to Become Lifelong Physically Active Individuals: A Physical Literacy Approach to Movement Education in Swedish Primary Schools

How do we get children to want to move? It is a global challenge that many children’s levels of physical activity are decreasing – and this is also...

Research project

1 January 2025 until 31 December 2027

Emotional abuse and culture of silence in children's sports - parents' role and experiences

There is a lack of scientific knowledge regarding parents’ perceptions and actions in relation to emotional abuse of their children in sports. This...

Research project

1 January 2024 until 31 December 2026

Towards new moral high grounds? Sport integrity instruments and their transformative effects

This project maps and conceptualises the properties and organisational transformative effects of instruments implemented to tackle unethical conduc...

Research project

1 January 2022 until 31 December 2023

Physical Literacy Enriched School Environments – A pilotstudy

Many children lack the basic skills, knowledge, and physical activity behaviours needed to lead healthy and physically active lifestyles.

Research project

1 January 2021 until 31 December 2022

A way forward? Using narrative pedagogy to prevent abusive behaviour towards young referees

There is ongoing evidence in Sweden that young referees must deal with abusive behaviour in sport. Surprisingly little research has been conducted ...

Research project

1 January 2021 until 31 December 2023

A journey of inclusion within the Swedish Floorball Federation

In this project, the Swedish Floorball Federation’s (SFF) ongoing process to include parasport in their organisation is investigated. This process ...

Research project

1 May 2020 until 30 April 2022

An in-depth study of the survey conducted with pupils studying the subject special sports

Research project

1 January 2020 until 30 June 2021

Be Like an Athlete (BLA)

The aim with this project is to improve sport and school results of those involved in dual careers programmes, while enhancing the balance of these...

Research project

1 January 2020 until 30 December 2022

Equal conditions in Sweden's largest popular movement- success factors for increased inclusion in the field of sport

The Swedish Sports Confederation is performing a large organizational change, which involves closing down the Swedish Parasport Federation and...

Research project

1 April 2019 until 31 March 2024

Inkluderande idrott för alla - mot likvärdiga villkor i Sveriges största folkrörelse

Although almost all children and young people are members of a sports club at some point in life, it is relatively few children and young people wi...

Research project

1 April 2019 until 31 March 2022

Staying in sport clubs on the physical literacy life journey: A vision of Strategy 2025

The need for sport clubs to enable lifelong participation in sports is highly relevant in Sweden. The minister of sports, Annika Strandhäll, recent...

Research project

1 January 2019 until 31 December 2021

The forgotten child – abusive behaviour towards young referees in Swedish sport clubs

There is ongoing evidence in Sweden that, in sports, young referees must deal with abusive behaviour. If the phrase 'young referee' is searched on...

Research project

1 January 2018 until 31 December 2020

Gatekeeping sport governance-the (re)production of (mis)representation in board nomination processes

The focus of this project is what arguably has been and continue to be one of Swedish voluntary organized sport's biggest challenges: members'...

Research project

1 January 2016 until 31 December 2018

Emotional abuse in Swedish children’s sport - existence, experiences and effects

Due to the large amount of children in Sweden spending their time in sport there is a need to understand the existence, experiences and effects of...

Research project

1 January 2016 until 31 December 2018

Teaching/Learning expertise in sport- to become an elite football player

My project focuses educational systems for expertise in sport as in becoming an elite football player, with emphasis on educational processes withi...

PhD project

1 September 2014

Child-rearing in public spaces: the challenging dual-role relationships of parent–coaches and child–athletes of coaches in Swedish team sports

What does it mean for the child athlete to have its father or mother as a coach, and the reverse, what does it mean for the parent to coach their o...

Research project

1 January 2014 until 31 December 2016

To quit sport. An analysis of the disengagement process and why girls drop-out from floorball

Many girls and boys quit sport in their teens. The reasons for this has eluded scientists and sports organizations for many years.

Research project

1 January 2013 until 31 December 2014

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Swedish Child Sport

Research project

1 January 2011 until 31 December 2012

The doors opened for more - a study on school sport in primary schools

Research project

1 January 2010 until 15 December 2011