Professor Josef Fahl茅n
IAS Residential Fellow
Ume氓 University
Josef Fahl茅n, PhD, is Professor at Ume氓 University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway. Currently, Professor Fahl茅n serves on the editorial boards of the European Sport Management Quarterly, the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and the European Journal for Sport and Society.
In his research, Professor Fahlén focuses on the interaction between sport policy and the organization of sport and has led numerous research projects on sport policy making and implementation in the Swedish, Scandinavian, and European contexts. Recently, Professor Fahlén reported the findings from a large comparative research project that has studied the potential of voluntary organized club sport in contributing to the integration of newly arrived migrants. Together with colleagues in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland, he has compared contextual characteristics, national strategies, club activities, and migrant experiences.
Currently, Professor Fahlén is involved in a project studying the increasing regulation of sporting practices. The project involves 25 colleagues from 15 countries and will result in a collection of work on how, why, in what shapes and by whom regulations are developed, what problems they are launched to solve, and what consequences that follow from them. During the next couple of years, Professor Fahlén will be also involved in a Swedish research project studying the organizational implications of ethics management systems.
During their Residential Fellowship, Professor Fahlén will be collaborating with Professor Paul Downward from the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences.