Ulrik Wagner

Primary fields of research

Modern systems theory, organizational sociology, mass media and doping, Sport scandals, international anti-doping efforts with attention on the UCI, FIFA, IAAF, IOC, WADA, UNESCO, the European Union and the Council of Europe. Particular focus on doping issues in relation to sport and politics and the challenges for public management. Additional theoretical inspiration is found within discourse theory and sociological New Institutionalism. Also applying methods from comparative studies where it is found useful.

Knowledge of languages

Scandinavian languages, German and English.

Teaching

Organizing and teaching the master-level course `Sport and Organizational Theory´ (2009-2010).

Current research

My current post.doc. project is presented here:

• Olympic Games and mass media doping discourses

I am also elaborating some of the findens and aspects of my PhD. study `The Struggle for Clean Sports´. This concerns anti-doping efforts of international sport federations such as the UCI, FIFA and IAAF. In addition, I analyse the challenges for national politics in the process of implementing global anti-doping rules.

In collaboration with Rasmus Storm (SDU/IDAN) I am engagemed in a project on the phenomenon `sports scandals´. By using Luhmann, Laclau and Weber we try to outline a theoretical model as well as a model for categorization of sports scandals.

Together with Rasmus Storm and John Hoberman (University of Texas, Austin) I am the editor of the anthology `Observing Sport´. The inspiration from the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann is the pivotal point. It appears on Hofmann Verlag early summer 2010.

Toghter with Lone Friis Thing I am the editor of a new Danish reader in Sport Sociology. It will appear the summer 2011 at the publisher Munksgaard - Gyldendal Academic.  

  

  

 

CV

1999-2005: Sport Studies, University of Copenhagen. Master Thesis about discourses on Danish road cycling and doping in the period between 1996 and 1999.

2002 to 2003: Studies at Dept. of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

August, 2006: PhD. project initiated. Submitted august, 2009.

Summer 2007: Receiver of ISSA´s Graduate Paper Award.

Early 2008: Visiting scholar, Sportscience at the University of Malmö.

November, 2009: Receiving my PhD. Degree. Opponents: Jan Ove Tangen (Telemark University College, Norway), Barrie Houlihan (Loughborough University, UK) and Sine Agergaard (University of Copenhagen, chairman). Post Doctoral scholar since the defense.