Bright Baffour Antwi

Ph.d Research Fellow
Faculty of Humanities, Sports and Educational Science
Department of Sports, Physical Education and Outdoor Studies
Campus Bø (1-025)
Ph.D fellow with a research focus on the nexus between performace-enhancing technologies and elite sports participation.

Responsibilities

Member of the research group Culture and Sports policy

 

Competences

Antwi holds an MSc in Sport Management from the Molde University College (2018) and an MPhil in Culture, Environment and Sustainability (2014) from the University of Oslo. 

Research Interests:

Performance-enhancing technologies in elite sports

  • Techno-doping
  • Cyborg bodies in elite sports
  • Assistive technologies in disability sports
  • Emerging and controversial sports technologies

 

Practical perspectives on projects within Sports for Development (SFD) themes.

  • Sport and sustainability
  • Sport policy and politics
  • Sport and inclusion 

 

Youth football and talent scouting

CV

Publications

Articles

Derrick CharwayBright Baffour AntwiØrnulf Seippel & Barrie Houlihan (2022). Sport and sustainable social development in Ghana: analysing the policy-implementation gap. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2022.2130051

 

Dissertations

Antwi, Bright Baffour; Hauso, Lars Ramberg (2018). Pay to Play: Exploring parent's motives to enroll children into commercial football academies in Norway. Master's thesis, Molde University College  https://himolde.brage.unit.no/himolde-xmlui/handle/11250/2572865

Antwi Bright Baffour (2014). Illegal Gold Mining as a Livelihood Approach in Ghana: From a Poverty Reduction Strategy to a Money-Spinning Business. Master's thesis, University of Oslo  https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/40808

 

Chronicles / Debate

Antwi, Bright Baffour & Herskedal, Kjell-Marius (2018). Why do parents doubt the Norwegian model? https://www.fotballtreneren.no/fagartikler/spillerutvikling/hvorfor-tviler-foreldre-p%C3%A5-den-norske-modellen

"You deserve the team you get." https://www.fotballtreneren.no/nyheter/m%C3%B8te-med-kevin-keegan

Norwegian Petroholism: Norway must break out of its oil dependency. https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikk/i/Wb8zL/den-norske-petroholismen

Publications in Cristin