Ellen Sverkersson

Lecturer

Department of Social Work Faculty of Social Sciences

ellen.sverkersson@lnu.se

+46 480-44 63 44

+46 76-830 05 40

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My research groups

Ethnographic Forum Ethnographic Forum is a research group where members share a common interest in qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork. The group consists of researchers and graduate students from…
Health, Gender and Embodiment Health, Gender and Embodiment is an interdisciplinary research group consisting of both national and international scholars, including senior researchers and doctoral…

My ongoing research projects

Doctoral project: Women’s fitness doping The project focuses on women’s meaning making of doping and doping use, in a gym and fitness context. More precisely, the project aims to seek an understanding…

My completed research projects

Project: Pumping up the ego: Biographical studies on young people’s doping trajectories The goal of this project was to provide increased knowledge of different types of pathways to doping, and also…

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Sverkersson, E. (2025). Fit and fit in - exploring women's IPED trajectories. Performance Enhancement & Health. 13 (3).
Status: Published
Sverkersson, E., Andreasson, J., Henning, A. (2024). Women’s risk assessments and the gendering of online IPED cultures and communities. Drugs : education prevention and policy. 31 (4). 422-430.
Status: Published
Sverkersson, E. (2022). 'I'm quite tired of people saying that I don't do enough or know anything' : male hegemony and resistance in the context of women's online communication on doping. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 25 (6). 1176-1192.
Status: Published
Sverkersson, E., Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2020). 'Sis Science' and Fitness Doping : Ethnopharmacology, Gender and Risk. Social Sciences. 9 (4).
Status: Published

Conference paper (Refereed)

Sverkersson, E. (2024). The Unveiling of Women’s PIED Trajectories : Navigating Time and Space in Fitness Culture. Presented at International Network of Doping Research (INDR) "Pushing boundaries in Enhancement", Aarhus, Denmark, 15-16 August, 2024.
Andreasson, J., Sverkersson, E. (2019). A new doping demography? : Female PIED users in the context of online communication. International Network of Doping Research, 2019 Conference, WADA’s 20th Anniversary, 22.-23. August 2019, Aarhus University, Denmark : Book of Abstracts. 8-8.
Andreasson, J., Sverkersson, E. (2019). Female Fitness Doping : A new doping demography. Narrowing paths - transgressive routes. Youth in changing times : new forms of inequality, risk and resistance : Nordic Youth Research Symposium (NYRIS) in Aarhus 14 - 16 August 2019. 22-23.
Andreasson, J., Sverkersson, E. (2019). Fitness doping and the female body : Negotiating gender and contesting the limits of the body through drug use practices. Narrowing paths-transgressive routes : Youth in changing times: new forms of inequality, risk and resistance.

Article in journal (Other academic)

Sverkersson, E., Henning, A. (2020). Bodies of knowledge : Women, ethnopharmacology, and online space. Performance Enhancement & Health. 8 (2-3).
Status: Published

Conference paper (Other academic)

Sverkersson, E. (2025). Kvinnors riskhantering och genusförhandlingar online. Presented at Vetenskapliga Antidopingkollegiets årliga seminarium, Stockholm, Sweden, March 13, 2025.
Andreasson, J., Sverkersson, E. (2019). Pumping up the ego : Biographical studies on young people's doping trajectories. IPEDs and Polydrug Use.

Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)

Sverkersson, E. (2025). Women’s use of Image and performance-enhancing drugs : Exploring Gender, Bodies and Risks in Digital forums and Beyond. Doctoral Thesis. Växjö, Linnaeus University Dissertations. 163.

Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Sverkersson, E. (2025). Kvinnors användning av utseende- och prestationshöjande substanser.
Digital muntlig presentation vid Forum för social hållbarhet den 31 januari 2025. Forum social hållbarhet är digitala, kunskapshöjande inslag i samverkan mellan Länsstyrelsen Kalmar län och Linnéuniversitetet.
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