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Cecilia Stenling is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education, Umeå University, where her teaching, supervision, and research focuses on organizing, organizations, and governance within the context of sport and general working life. She earned her PhD from Umeå University's Department of Education in 2015 and has been affiliated with the institution since 2016.
Dr. Stenling's research examines the complex processes at the nexus between public sport policy and the norms, values, and practices that characterize sport's internal organizing and governance. Her work investigates how these processes influence what is considered legitimate sport activities and affect patterns of power and influence within and outside sport. She is particularly focused on sport's legitimacy-making activities, including the creation of 'alternative' sport activities, board gender quotas, strategic change, and public sport policy advocacy.
Her current research portfolio includes four major projects: 1) Gatekeeping sport governance and board nomination processes; 2) Negotiations between member needs and external expectations in sport club boardrooms; 3) Legitimizing transformational change through sport consultants' implementation of Strategy 2025; and 4) Public sport policy advocacy processes. These projects are primarily funded by the Swedish Research Council for Sport Science and Umeå School of Sport Sciences, with one project supported by the Swedish Research Council's international post-doc grant, which has her working at the University of Otago in New Zealand.
- Gatekeeping sport governance: the (re)production of (mis)representation in board nomination processes
- Exploring negotiations between member needs and external expectations in sport club boardrooms
- Legitimizing transformational change: sport consultants' role in the implementation of strategy 2025
- Making the case for organized sport: the construction of legitimizing accounts in public sport policy advocacy processes
Dr. Stenling teaches courses on public sport policy, organization theory, project management, human resource development, and qualitative research methods. She supervises students at the bachelor's, master's, and PhD levels, contributing significantly to scholarly development in sports studies. Her extensive publication record demonstrates expertise in sport governance, organizational theory in sports contexts, policy implementation, and representation in sports leadership.
