Emma Wulff Ginnerup
PhD fellow at Nord University
Emma Wulff Ginnerup is a Ph.D. candidate in the Response Research Group at Nord University. She holds a master’s degree in Sport Science from Aarhus University, and in addition she studied abroad at Norges Idrettshøgskole and Wollongong University. In her master’s thesis she studied how the involvement of referees and players in match-fixing could be understood, and what factors played a role in the decision-making. In her Ph. D. project she is studying sport technology, fair play and inequalities.
Tell us about your project!
Sports technology can reinforce existing inequalities by favoring those with access to resources, since sports technology often requires significant financial investment and the skills to use it effectively. Especially in football sports technology is being used, but access to these resources varies greatly between clubs. When technology is unevenly distributed, it can undermine the moral ideal of fair play, where one of the principles is that clubs and athletes should have equal opportunities to perform. This can create a divide between clubs and thereby challenge the experience of fair play and fairness among players, coaches and managers. The objective of this Ph.D. project is therefore to illuminate how actors in professional football clubs experience differences in access to sports technology, and how this affects the club’s daily practices and the experience of fair play.
“Sports technology can reinforce existing inequalities by favoring those with access to resources, since sports technology often requires significant financial investment and the skills to use it effectively”
— Emma Wulff Ginnerup on her PhD project “The experience of sports technological inequality and fair play in professional football”