Josefine Frøshaug

Background and experience

Josefine Frøshaug is a PhD candidate in Sport Management at the Department of Sport and Social Sciences (IIS). Her PhD project examines paradoxes in the development of elite sport for young athletes within the Norwegian sport model. The model is based on egalitarian values such as “sport for all”, but is also under pressure from tensions between grassroots and elite sport, professionalisation, commercialisation and individualisation.

The project places young athletes at the centre and explores how they experience and navigate this landscape. To understand the context in which they develop, the project also examines what the model is intended to be, as expressed by the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NIF) in its governing documents, and how it is understood, justified and operationalised by coaches. Youth sport appears to be a relatively unregulated phase, while the perspectives of young athletes themselves have received limited attention in research.

Josefine Frøshaug has completed five years of higher education at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, where she obtained both a bachelor's and a master's degree in Sport Psychology. Through her education, she has gained qualifications in sport psychology consultancy. She also holds a qualification in Special Needs Education from the University of Oslo.

Josefine has several years of experience as a teacher and working with children and young people. In addition, she has experience in basketball, both as a player and a coach.