Management

The subject area of management at GIH has a focus on Sport Management and Health Management, which includes studies of the organization, management and development of sport and health as areas of society and cultural phenomena.

Focus areas

The subject area includes education and research on:

How organisations and activities in sport and health are organised, led and developed, and how this can and should be done in relation to aspects such as efficiency, justice, equality, sustainability, security, inclusion and democracy.
How sport and health can be understood as areas of society, with a focus on institutions, organisations, forms of activity, resources, policies, laws, rules and forms of governance.
How sport and health can be understood as cultural phenomena, with a focus on functions, meanings, meanings, ideas, norms, values and power relations.
How sports and health organizations and activities develop in relation to societal change processes such as professionalization, commercialization, globalization, individualization, mediatization and digitalization.

Specialisations

The subject area uses sports science, health sciences, sociological, educational, psychological, legal, ethical, historical, and organizational and leadership theoretical perspectives.

Research at GIH focuses on the role of sport and health in society, and on the conditions that shape people's participation, development and security in these areas.

It includes studies of how children and young people encounter sports and health, how structures and norms affect their opportunities to participate and develop, and the risks associated with selection, exclusion and unsafe environments. A central element is analyses of ethical and social sustainability, where issues of vulnerability, abuse and relational conditions are in focus.

The research at GIH also includes historical studies and analyses of how sport and health change in relation to societal change processes.

It also includes studies of governance, policy work and influence processes in organizations, with a focus on how decisions, structures and power shape development.

Collaboration and partners

GIH collaborates regionally with Södertörn University through the degree programmes Sport Management and Health Management. In addition, with non-profit, commercial and public sports and health-related organizations at local, regional and national level.

GIH also conducts research and seminar activities in collaboration with colleagues at several other universities, both nationally and internationally.

Short address to this page: www.gih.se/management