Liv Birgitte Hemmestad

University College of southeast Norway, Bø

Høytpresterende miljøer er arenaer for menneskelige prestasjoner som overskrider det kjente og etablerte. Her handler det om stadig å strekke seg etter et nivå vi ennå ikke har sett. Denne boka handler om betydningen av ledelse i slike prosesser. Med håndball og ballett på toppnivå som eksempler illustrerer boka noen av de komplekse spenningsforhol...

Introduction This study (i) examined Norwegian and Swedish sports coaches' employment, practices, and beliefs during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, (ii) compared these aspects between coaches in Norway and Sweden, two countries with clearly different movement restrictions strategies in this period. Methods An online survey was distribute...

In this article we ask why so few female coaches work at the elite level in Norway. In order to study this topic, we separately interviewed seven women who have experience as elite coaches. The women state that coaching means sacrificing a normal family life, causing many to abandon the profession. Moreover, female coaches are tasked with additiona...

In this article we ask why so few female coaches work at the elite level in Norway. In order to study this topic, we separately interviewed seven women who have experience as elite coaches. The women state that coaching means sacrificing a normal family life, causing many to abandon the profession. Moreover, female coaches are tasked with additiona...

Forestillingen om de skandinaviske landene som “champions of gender equality” er ifølge idrettssosiolog Jorid Hovden “full of contradictions and the struggle for the equal inclusion of women has been – and still is – a contested terrain” (2012, s. 287). De siste 40 år har forskere dokumentert en vedvarende underrepresentasjon av kvinner i beslutnin...

The principal purpose of this paper is to further the case for phronesis as a progressive coaching concept. It is thus argued that coaching be considered (1) as a “geneology”, (2) as contextualist in nature, (3) as being imbedded in the minutiae of action, and (4) as ethical practice. To these we add the notions of emergence and situational literac...

The principal purpose of this study was to record and explore the changing coaching landscape within elite Norwegian women’s handball from 2003 to 2005. This was in relation to critically understanding the culture created within the context, and the precise role(s) of head coach Marit Breivik, the assistant coaches, and the athletes in question, in...

Via the lens of Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (Ursin & Eriksen, 2004) we explored the stress experience in seven Olympic Norway coaches. We present elements that impact their stress experience. The phenomenological analysis of the semistructured interviews helped us identify that their expectancy to cope with the situational demands and spe...

The aim of this paper is to present the case for phronetic social science as an appropriate lens through which to view sports coaching. In doing so, we firstly define and then elaborate upon the principal concepts contained within phronetic social science as related to complex action, flexibility, moral reflection and power. By locating them within...

Ethical challenges in sports occur when the practitioners are caught between the will to win and the overall task of staying within the realm of acceptable values and virtues. One way to prepare for these challenges is to formulate comprehensive and specific rules of acceptable conduct. In this paper we will draw attention to one serious problem wi...