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Sport and Body Culture

The Research Unit for Sport and Body Culture works within a humanities and social sciences framework. We focus on the study of sports and body culture based on historical, pedagogical, philosophical, psychological and sociological theories and methods. Our research falls within the following research areas:

  • Doping in elite sport
  • Drug use in recreational sport
  • The history of sports policy and politics
  • Current issues in sport politics
  • Talent development
  • Mental health in sport
  • Sociology of sport
  • Sociology of the body
  • Sport ethics and philosophy

In addition, we are responsible for and teach on the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in Sports Science.

The research unit has an international focus and currently hosts and manages the International Network for Doping Research, INDR.

Recent publications

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Parks Pieper, L. & Krieger, J. (2023). Women in the Olympics. Common Ground Research Networks. The International Journal of Sport and Society https://doi.org/10.18848/978-1-957792-47-7/CGP
Krieger, J. (2022). “And Then There Was One”. The Role of Sport in Divided and Unified Germany: From a Tool of Confrontation to a Tool of Cohesion. In J. W. Lee, Y. Cho & G. Reid (Eds.), Sports Diplomacy from PyeongChang 2018 to Gangwon 2024: Inter-Korean Communication and Collaboration through Sport Mega-Events: Conference Proceedings (pp. 59-67). University of Edinburgh. https://library.olympics.com/doc/SYRACUSE/2435491
Krieger, J. & Duckworth, A. (2022). Annexation or fertile inclusion? The origins of handball’s international organisational structures. Sport in History, 42(2), 235-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1927810
Krieger, J. (2022). Athletes Pressing Charges: Fighting for the Future of Modern Pentathlon. Common Ground Research Networks. The International Journal of Sport and Society https://doi.org/10.18848/978-1-957792-05-7/CGP
Christiansen, A. V. (2022). Caster Semenya er ikke bare en kvinde med højt testosteronniveau. Politiken, Sektion 2 (Kultur), 6. https://politiken.dk/debat/debatindlaeg/art8905844/Caster-Semenya-er-ikke-bare-en-kvinde-med-h%C3%B8jt-testosteronniveau
Møller, V. (2022). Competition, fairness and equality in sport and society: response to review. Common Ground Research Networks. https://doi.org/10.18848/978-1-957792-02-6/CGP
Møller, V. (2022). Competition, Fairness, and Equality in Sport and Society. Common Ground Publishing.

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