Camilla Strömberg

Camilla Strömberg is affiliated with Linnaeus University’s Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sport Science. Her research focuses on the intersection of sport coaching, education, and youth development, particularly examining volunteer professionalization in Swedish youth football and parental roles in talent identification processes. She has collaborated with researchers like B. Carlsson, J.B. Kjær, A. Hafsteinsson Östenberg, S. Linnér, and P.G. Fahlström.

Her recent publications include a 2024 study on semi-professionalized volunteers in youth football and a 2021 conference paper analyzing the dual roles of coaches and educators. Earlier work (2015) explored the parental backgrounds of young athletes in talent programs in southern Sweden. She contributes to the Department of Sport Science’s research on sociocultural and educational aspects of sports.