Background and experience
Irmelin Instebø Larsen is a PhD student at the at Child and Youth Sport Research Center at the Department of Sport and Social Sciences.
In her Ph.D. project Framing climate knowledge and climate action in sport Irmelin wants to investigate how sport club leaders frame scientific documentation of sport’s impact of the climate and how they envision solutions at the club level. The project will address the climate work in three sports: motorsports, football and skiing.
The Ph.D. project is a part of a larger project called From climate knowledge to climate action in sport (CAS) at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, together with Center for International Climate Research (CICERO). CAS consists of five work packages, where her Ph.D. is work package three.
Irmelin has a Bachelor’s degree in Teacher in Physical Education and Sport (2020), attended a One-Year Programme in Sport and Society (2021), and has a Master’s degree in Cultural and social studies (2023) from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.
Research
Sociology, environmental sociology, climate, qualitative methods