Blar i Doktorgradsavhandlinger / PhD Dissertations på tittel
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Recognition in sport: love, rights and solidarity
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-10-10)The main research question in this thesis is why sport morally matters, or, reframed in Honneth’s terminology, what is the potential of sport as a sphere for recognition? I have argued for the relevance of Honneth’s ... -
Reducing risk for eating disorder development and muscle-building supplement use in high school students: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
(Doctoral thesis, 2022)Background: The global burden of eating disorders (EDs) is increasing and is highest in Western countries. Development and implementation of interventions successful in promoting mental health and preventing EDs in adolescents ... -
Relations of meaning : A phenomenologically oriented case study of learning bodies in a rehabilitation context
(Doctoral thesis, 2009)This dissertation investigates the learning that takes place between participants in a rehabilitation setting. More specifically, I have made use of the phenomenological philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1963; 1968; ... -
Reliability and methodological concerns of vertical drop jumping and sidestep cutting tasks: implications for ACL injury risk screening
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)Vertical drop jumping (VDJ) and sidestep cutting tasks have been suggested as movement screening tasks to identify players with increased risk for ACL injury. Previous studies have investigated the reliability of kinematics ... -
Reliability and validity of match performance analysis in soccer : a multidimensional qualitative evaluation of opponent interaction
(Doctoral thesis, 2010)Match performance analysis is widely used as a method for studying technical, tactical and physical aspects of player and team performance in a soccer match. Therefore, ensuring the validity and reliability of the collected ... -
Retracing the steps towards professional football: practice engagement characteristics and performance attainment among Norwegian elite youth and senior players
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)The overall purpose of this thesis is to identify characteristics that may explain why some players manage to progress to professional football while others do not. Specifically, I focused in this thesis on practice ... -
Revelations in bodily play : a study among children in an after-school programme
(Doctoral thesis, 2010)This dissertation is based on a project that investigates children‟s bodily play in a Norwegian After-School Programme (ASP). The project uses a life-world approach and the theoretical perspective is phenomenological. ... -
Role conflict, facework and vulnerable identity: Exploring the social complexities of becoming an exerciser in a workplace exercise group – A longitudinal ethnographic field study
(Doctoral thesis, 2017)The focus of this study is on workplace exercise groups and, in particular, the experiences of those labelled 'unaccustomed to exercise': that is, those who struggle to participate, and their journey to become exercisers. ... -
Role of glycogen content on glucose uptake and glycogen synthase in skeletal muscles: The effect of contraction and insulin
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-04)The present thesis is based on 4 papers which have investigated contraction- and insulin-mediated regulations of glucose uptake and GS activation in skeletal muscles with different glycogen contents. The level of glycogen ... -
Safe sport for all?: Exploring safety and safeguarding in Zambian sport
(Doctoral thesis, 2019)Safeguarding policies and regulations provide a way for sport associations to address abuse and promote “safe sport”. In recent years, formalized safeguarding in sport has gained ground within sport governance in many ... -
School-based obesity prevention in Norway: Correlates of weight statues and intervention effects on physical activity and body composition: The Health in Adolescents Study (HEIA)
(Doctoral thesis, 2013)Prevention of childhood obesity is an international public health priority given the significant impact of obesity on short- and long-term functioning, health and wellbeing. Although recommended in several recent reviews, ... -
Sedentary behaviour in young people: assessment methods and predictors
(Doctoral thesis, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT Introduction: Both children and adolescent spend a lot of their awake time sedentary, and studies have shown that sedentary behaviour may be detrimental to health. Several studies have examined correlates ... -
Sensitivity towards strangeness (STS): development of a concept-based measuring instrument in the context of intercultural movement education
(Doctoral thesis, 2011)Strangeness is a central theoretical concept within a larger research project of “Intercultural Movement Education” (Erdmann 1999). The aim of this thesis was the development of a concept- based device in order to measure ... -
Sexual Harassment and Abuse among Adolescent Elite athletes, Recreational athletes, and Reference students: A prospective cohort study among high school students in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2023)Background: All athletes have the right to participate in “safe sport”. Although sports participation is associated with many health benefits, the sport context also suffers from negative experiences like sexual harassment ... -
"Shaking or stirring?": a case-study of physical education teacher education in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2011)The aim of this study was to research physical education teacher educators’ (PETEs) (and to a lesser extent physical education [PE] students’) perspectives on the nature and purposes of physical education teacher education ... -
Skogens "blå bånd": Fremveksten av Oslomarka som friluftsområde
(Doctoral thesis, 2021)Avhandlingen omhandler Oslomarkas fremvekst og tilblivelse som friluftsområde for befolkningen i Oslo og tilgrensende distrikter. I avhandlingen argumenterer jeg for at det først er i mellomkrigstida at Marka endelig vokser ... -
Soldiers´ reach for optimized performance
(Doctoral thesis, 2011)This dissertation is concerned with the challenge of better understanding how soldiers develop skillfulness needed to deal with the various challenges they face in their life-worlds, as soldiers. The study bears on ... -
Spenningssøkingens sosialitet: En sosiologisk undersøkelse av verdisystem
(Doctoral thesis, 2012)The present study illuminates participation in risk sports with an emphasis on voluntary risk taking. Throughout the western world, risk sports are getting increasingly popular. The rising interest in such activities and ... -
Spillets gang!: En institusjonell etnografisk undersøkelse om kjønn, makt og styring i idrettsorganisasjonen i Norge
(Doctoral thesis, 2023)Idrettsorganisasjonen i Norge er en medlemsorganisasjon uten økonomiske formål, basert på demokratiske samhandlingsformer1. Ifølge Lov for Norges Idrettsforbund og olympiske og paralympiske komité (NIF) skal organisasjonens ... -
'Sport for all' in new settings: A study of the Norwegian Confederation of Sports' Sport for All project in Tanzania in the 1980s and Zimbabwe in the 1990[s]
(Doctoral thesis, 2013)This study is an examination of the Norwegian Confederation of Sports’ (NIF) Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) engagement in Tanzania and Zimbabwe from its inception in the early 1980s until 2000. The main research ...