Jesper Andreasson
Jesper Andreasson holds a PhD in Sociology and is professor in sport science at the Department of sport science, Linnaeus University, Sweden. Andreasson has extensive experience of working with ethnography and different internet methods. His research can mainly be positioned within health, gender studies and cultural sociology, and he has published extensively within the area of doping, gym/fitness culture, embodiment, family life and more. Recent books are Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies. Gender, Identities and Bodies in Motion (2019), Fitness Doping. Trajectories, Gender, Bodies and Health (2020), (both published with Palgrave MacMillan and co-authored with Thomas Johansson), and Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies. Challenging Categories, Gender Norms, and Policy Responses (2021), (published with Common Ground, and co-authored with April Henning). Andreasson is in charge of a Linnaeus university´s PhD programme in sport science, and teaches at the graduate and postgraduate levels, mainly in the areas of research methods, sport science and social theory.