Tag: Camilla Strömberg

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Coaching by doing: communities of practice at Swedish sport schools in XC skiing since the 1970s by Daniel Svensson (open access).

There is limited knowledge about PhD students’ backgrounds and how these backgrounds affect their research, particularly in sport sciences. This study aims to contribute with knowledge about the backgrounds of sport sciences PhD students by investigating whether their backgrounds affect both becoming PhD students and how they conduct their research.The study descriptively presents PhD students’ stories about their backgrounds and explores whether there are general themes in these stories.

Centrum för idrottsforskning (CIF), vars uppgift är att initiera, samordna, stödja och informera om forskning inom idrottens område, fyller 30 år i år. Det firades med en jubileumskonferens på Clarion Skanstull i Stockholm. Under två dagar möttes ledare, tränare, fysioterapeuter, läkare, idrottslärare, förbundsrepresentanter och forskare inom idrottsvetenskap för att diskutera barn-och ungdomsidrott samt elitidrott.