Tag: Malmö University

This study proposes changes to physical education. The aim of this action research project was to explore ways of empowering pupils in physical education. The study involves ten-year-old children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, their physical education teacher, and a teacher-researcher. The study is at the intersection of three different fields in relation to physical education: influence, language, and creativity. Exploratory circus activities are used as a means to empower pupils and challenge the conventional structure of the subject.

Aurélien Daudi’s dissertation deals with the emergence, attraction, and normalization of a widespread, digital exhibitionism and its implications. In this age of imagery, the compulsive sharing of personal photographs on social media has become pervasive. Unabashedly narcissistic displays are all but encouraged. The study illuminates the profound impact of social media, challenging conventional wisdom and offering new insights into the relationship between technology, culture, and human behavior.

Den här avhandlingen handlar om likvärdighet i skolämnet idrott och hälsa. Mer precist är syftet att bidra med ny kunskap om hur likvärdighet i idrott och hälsa kan förstås, mätas och har förändrats under åren 2000–2017. I välfärdsstater runt om i världen, såväl som i Sverige, är likvärdighet ett centralt mål – men vad betyder och innebär egentligen likvärdighet? Vad är det som ska vara likvärdigt och när är skolan (tillräckligt) likvärdig? Hur kan man mäta likvärdighet och hur har likvärdigheten förändrats över tid – har den försämrats, förbättrats eller bestått oförändrad?

Karin Andersson’s mixed methods dissertation employs a survey, semi-structured interviews, and focus group discussions to investigate the health consciousness of Les Mills International (LMI) group fitness instructors. Using Foucauldian concepts such as discourse and bio-power, the study examines instructors’ construction of their professional identity, and the link between professional identity and healthism, a discourse that promulgates health as an individual responsibility.

Mindfulness has become a large and recognized field within sports research driven by the sports psychology perspective. It is also growing exponentially; currently, there are around 450 mindfulness studies in the field of sports science with a focus on social science and the humanities. Joacim Andersson, associate professor in sports science at the Maömö Department of Sport Sciences, has just compiled a knowledge overview of the state of research around mindfulness in the world of sports.

Christian Tolstrup Jensen, PhD, is a sports historian affiliated with Malmö University where he currently works as a postdoc researcher at the Dept. of Sport Sciences. His current research focuses on sports events, but his interest in sport studies is varied and wide: Danish and Scandinavian sport history ranging from Norwegian ice hockey to Danish football; youth history and culture, and especially the history of the scout movement. An ongoing project revolves around sport events and their role and position in the Nordic countries.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport studies journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Motives, Motivation, and Motivational Climate of Young Norwegian Swimmers, and their Parents’ Belief by Ingeborg Ljødal, Bjørn Harald Olstad & Anne Marte Pensgaard (open access).

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport studies journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Reflections from CrossFitters on the themes of body and community by Arild Boge, Ove Olsen Sæle & Hilde Stokvold Gundersen (open access).

Fakulteten för Lärande och samhälle vid Malmö universitet har fått en stor donation för forskning i mindfulness. Affärsmannen Greg Dingizian ligger bakom donationen, som är gjord genom hans investmentbolag Agartha AB. Syftet är att stärka forskningen om mindfulness vid Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap men även för hela fakulteten för Lärande och samhälle.. Hans förhoppning är att forskningen ska bidra till mer kunskap om psykisk ohälsa.

Klara Boije af Gennäs is a doctoral student in sport science at Malmo University since September 2021. She is part of the doctoral school Learning in Multicultural Societal Contexts. She holds a BA in Sports Coaching and a MA from Gothenburg University. Klara’s research aims to increase the knowledge on sport related injuries in adolescents. She focuses on equestrian sport injuries using an interdisciplinary research approach combining sociology, sports medicine, and media and communication.