Tag: Staffan Karp

Floorball is a team sport associated with many potential injuries, but several studies have shown that injury-prevention programmes (IPEPs) can reduce the risk of injuries occurring. The results of this peer reviewed study by Taru Tervo, Andreas Simensen and Staffan Karp, show that the conditions necessary for floorball players’ motivation in their sporting environment to perform injury-pre­ven­tion exercise programme are insufficient, despite knowledge of their significance in avoiding injuries

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).

The aim of this study by Madelene Nordlund, Kim Wickman and Staffan Karp was to map the major organizational change that is currently taking place in Swedish sports, with people labelled with disabilities leaving the Swedish Para-sport Federation (SPF) to participate in mainstream sports under the Swedish Sports Confederation. The study aimed to outline the expectations of this ongoing process of the stakeholders of the SPF.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport study 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 sports such as professionalization, globalization, commercialization, urbanization, technologization, medicalization and juridification.

Drawing on frame factor theory, this article by Anna Renström and Staffan Karp examines the establishment of a sports programme offering recreational and fitness activities for adults within the Swedish Sports Confederation. Data from eight interviews with local sports instructors were analysed to investigate the content of activities for adults and how and why the instructors carried out these activities.

The European Journal for Sport and Society is the official journal of the European Association for Sociology of Sport, EASS. Its function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year.

Ett antal ledande svenska idrottsforskare har tänkt till om idrottsutveckling utifrån satsningarna Handslaget och Idrottslyftet, och deras tankemödor redovisas i Idéer för idrottsutveckling (SISU Idrottsböcker). I sin grundliga och kritiskt analytiska recension hittar Jørn Hansen mycket som är typiskt svenskt, och därtill en besvärande konflikt mellan samhällets mål med idrotten, och idrott som en mål i sig.