Norway
My research mission is to explore how sporting organizations can promote social inclusion, sustainability, and human rights. As a professor at Høyskolen Kristiania, I lecture and conduct research on these topics, using a variety of methods and perspectives. I have also served as expert consultant on reports about sport and values commissioned by the European Parliament and the Norwegian Federation of Sport (NIF). I have published several books and articles on the commercial, social, and cultural aspects of sport. I also have extensive editorial and writing skills, and have served as an editor-in-chief, and independent researcher and writer.
I am at the Department of Leadership and Organization where I lecture and do research on sport management, especially good governance and human rights.
At Westerdals Oslo ACT I work with the development, implementation, management and evaluation of strategies for research and artistic work.
I have written more than 80 columns, essays and book reviews in various magazines and newspapers like Minerva, Ny tid, Dagbladet, Aftenposten, Bokvennen and Samtiden. Currently I contribute regularly to the motorsport magazine Rally Emotion.
In my doctoral thesis I investigated the promotional qualities of FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) through interviews and fieldwork in Argentina, France and Finland, among other places. I came to the conclusion that commercial forces and sporting identity guardians should treat each other as allies, not enemies, simply because it is profitable from a marketing point of view. A book version was published by Palgrave Macmillan in October 2014. Additional comments about the promotional progress of the championship are published on my blog: thrillsandskills.wordpress.com From 2010-2014 I was part of Department of Sociology and Human Geography as well as the interdisciplinary research program CULTRANS (Cultural Transformations in the Age of Globalization). Besides doing research for my PhD, in addition to co-organizing an international conference on popular culture and social transformation in 2012, I was teaching and supervising students in sociology, qualitative methods and cultural studies at BA and MA-levels. I also participated in putting together the syllabus in various courses and wrote course descriptions.
Teaching and supervising students in sociology, qualitative methods and cultural studies at BA and MA-levels.
Sosiolognytt is the member magazine of the Norwegian Sociology Association.