Tag: Peter Krustrup

Mihaly Szerovay and colleagues’ edited collection Football in the Nordic Countries: Practices, Equality and Influence (Routledge) explores football culture, organisation and development in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway. To our reviewer Payam Ansari, the anthology offers a rich, multifaceted exploration of football on national, “glocal”, and global levels, making it a valuable addition to the field of sports sociology and a beacon for future research on football.

The purpose of the Scandinavian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology is to collect and disseminate knowledge and experiences between researchers, practitioners, athletes, coaches and others with interest for sport psychology. .It is an open access journal published yearly. The Forum Editor’s choice from the current issue: Investigating the relationship between achievement motive and performance in elite-level football goalkeepers by Esben Elholm Madsen, Tina Hansen, Dadi Rafnsson, Peter Krustrup, Carsten Hvid Larsen, Anne-Marie Elbe.

Managing Sport and Leisure is a refereed journal that publishes high quality research articles to inform and stimulate discussions relevant to sport and leisure management globally. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Cyclists or avatars: is virtual cycling filling a short-term void during COVID-19 lockdown? by Daniel Rojas-Valverde, Juan M. Córdoba-Blanco & Luis González-Salazar.

Managing Sport and Leisure is a refereed journal that publishes high quality research articles to inform and stimulate discussions relevant to sport and leisure management globally. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Advancing positive youth development-focused coach education: contextual factors of youth sport and youth sport leader perceptions by Tarkington J. Newman, Leeann M. Lower-Hoppe, Mark Burch & Lauren M. Paluta.

Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Last and fast? – A gender-specific analysis of effort gains in swimming relay events across Olympic Games and World Championships during the past 20 years by Claudia Braun, Sebastian Fischer, Xiao Qiu, Julia Limmeroth, Armin Kibele.

In this original review for idrottsforum.org by Dominic Malcolm, Peter Krustrup’s long-awaited summing-up of 17 years of research around the health benefits of football, Football as Medicine: Prescribing Football for Global Health Promotion, edited with Daniel Parnell (Routledge), is critically assessed. While commending the basic premise of the book and its trust in football as medicine, he regrets the lack of critical perspectives.

Med pengar från Nordea-fonden och i samverkan med de stora danska idrottsorganisationerna har Centrum for Holdspil och Sundhed vid Københavns Universitet dragit igång kampanjen ”Bevaeg dig for livet”. Om detta skriver Peter Krustrup och Jens Bangsbo i Boldspil for livet: Spil sammen om sundhed og velvære (Frydenlund). Torsten Buhre är vår kunnige och uppskattande recensent.

The alleged benefits of sports for humans, individually and collectively, is put to the test as regards its health rewards in an edited volume by Daniel Parnell & Peter Krustrup, Sport and Health: Exploring the Current State of Play (Routledge). Katarina Sjögren Forss’ review takes us through the various chapters and eventually concludes with strong recommendations.

Det är av Ejgil Jespersens recension att döma en viktig och nyttig bok för idrottslärare och idrottslärarutbildare, antologin Motion og bevægelse i skolen sammanställd av Jens-Ole Jensen, Henrik Taarsted Jørgensen och Esben Stilund Volshøj (Hans Reitzels Forlag). Den följer på en skolreform i Danmark som ger alla barn i genomsnitt 45 minuters motion och rörelse varje skoldag.