Mojca Doupona
Biographic Data
| ID | 329443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mojca Doupona |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mojca |
| FAMILY NAME | Doupona |
| SIGNATURE | DOUPONA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ljubljana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6715-0391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Precarious Employment, Individualization Processes, and Professional Cyclists in France
This article explores the relationship between the experience of precarious employment and individualization processes. Drawing from the historical‐sociological approach of Norbert Elias, we explain how and why individualization processes advanced in France over the course of several centuries and how this shaped the employment experiences of professional cyclists. Elias's theoretical explanation of individualization differs significantly from th…
A scoping review of student Athletes’ perspectives on dual career policies, provisions and challenges
Dual career (DC) athletes face significant challenges in balancing dual demands of academic and athletic commitments. A scoping review of 25 studies published between 2014 and 2024 included data from over 3,000 student-athletes across 23 countries, with 88.5% focused on European contexts. Most adopted qualitative (52%) or quantitative (44%) approaches, with one study (4%) using a mixed method. Findings, synthesized using PRISMA guidelines, addres…
A study on the implementation of dual career at European higher education institutions: The student-athletes' and experts' views
Introduction The holistic development of elite athletes is a priori ty within European sports policies, necessitating a coordinated approach to dual career support. This study evaluated the perspectives of both university experts and student-athletes (S-As) on various dual career aspects, aiming to provide actionable insights for improving policies within European higher education institutions (HEIs). Materials and methods Data was collected thro…
Physical, psychosocial and dual-career loads as risk factors for injuries and illnesses in elite handball players: A 45-week prospective cohort study
Introduction While training and competition load are well-documented risk factors for injury, the influence of dual-career loads, life stressors and overall load on both injury and illness remain less clear. The aim of this study was to investigate whether injury/illness occurrence is influenced by the training, competition, academic and work loads, as well as the overall load (sum of academic/work, training and competition loads) and life events…
The talent project and the validation of standards for the identification of student-athlete talent
Introduction The aim of the TALENT project is to promote equality in education, prevent exclusion, support dual careers (sport and school), create new role models for the benefit of young talents and prepare them for lifelong learning and professional sport from an early age. It is promoted by a European consortium of 7 partner institutions and runs from December 2022 to May 2025. It consists of five work packages. In the first work phase, develo…
Now she has everything, a happy family story and an Olympic medal: Representations of Gloria Kotnik in the Slovenian media landscape
Over the last four decades, feminist sports media research has developed into an established transdisciplinary branch of research that contributes to highlighting the contradictions and unevenness of social change at the level of women's sports and its positioning in society. In this context, the increasing media visibility of athlete mothers as an expression of an emerging social phenomenon provides an opportunity to examine and reflect on the p…
Elite athletes: What lessons for the future can be learned from their responses to the social disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
In mid-March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic was declared, disrupting established routines and impacting every aspect of our lives. Sport as a social phenomenon was no exception. On the one hand, with the suspension and postponement of competitions and the various restrictions, the pandemic seemed to stop time, destroying the previously familiar ways of functioning of the sports sector, and forcing it to constantly reinvent, restructure and adapt. On…
The holistic development of talented sportspersons through dual-career
OPINION article Front. Sports Act. Living, 28 July 2022Sec. Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.929981
In praise of urban walking: Towards understanding of walking as a subversive bodily practice in neoliberal space
Focusing on the steps that literally and metaphorically guide us today, this paper takes walking as its main subject and establishes it theoretically as a form of subversive bodily movement. If contemporary sociological and humanistic treatments of walking show that this everyday practice has not been completely overlooked, the gap opens at the level of thinking it in relation to the dominant social order and its spatial and temporal manifestatio…
The Contribution of the European Athlete as Student Network (EAS) to European Dual Career Erasmus+ Sport Collaborative Partnerships: An update (La Contribución de la Red European Athlete as Student (E…
To inform on the objectives and progression of the AMiD, EMPATIA, DONA, Ed Media, More Than Gold, Starting 11 and SOS ERASMUS+ Sport Collaborative Partnerships in which EAS cooperates with sport bodies and educational institutions to envisage novel solutions for the development of opportunities in education and sport paths of athletes. Dual career dimensions, evidence-and eminence- based methods include literature reviews, and desk, gap, SWOT and…
He's ours, not yours! Reinterpreting national identity in a post-socialist context
This paper focuses on the relationship between sport, national identity and the media in the post-socialist nation-states of Croatia and Slovenia. It describes what has changed during the eight years since Jakov Fak, a Croatian-born Slovenian biathlete, changed his citizenship and began competing for the Slovenian national team. It also examines how the perception of Jakov Fak as an athlete and of his success has changed through time in different…
The holistic development of talented sportspersons through dual-career
OPINION article Front. Sports Act. Living, 28 July 2022Sec. Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.929981
He's ours, not yours! Reinterpreting national identity in a post-socialist context
This paper focuses on the relationship between sport, national identity and the media in the post-socialist nation-states of Croatia and Slovenia. It describes what has changed during the eight years since Jakov Fak, a Croatian-born Slovenian biathlete, changed his citizenship and began competing for the Slovenian national team. It also examines how the perception of Jakov Fak as an athlete and of his success has changed through time in different…
In praise of urban walking: Towards understanding of walking as a subversive bodily practice in neoliberal space
Focusing on the steps that literally and metaphorically guide us today, this paper takes walking as its main subject and establishes it theoretically as a form of subversive bodily movement. If contemporary sociological and humanistic treatments of walking show that this everyday practice has not been completely overlooked, the gap opens at the level of thinking it in relation to the dominant social order and its spatial and temporal manifestatio…
Now she has everything, a happy family story and an Olympic medal: Representations of Gloria Kotnik in the Slovenian media landscape
Over the last four decades, feminist sports media research has developed into an established transdisciplinary branch of research that contributes to highlighting the contradictions and unevenness of social change at the level of women's sports and its positioning in society. In this context, the increasing media visibility of athlete mothers as an expression of an emerging social phenomenon provides an opportunity to examine and reflect on the p…
He's ours, not yours! Reinterpreting national identity in a post-socialist context
This paper focuses on the relationship between sport, national identity and the media in the post-socialist nation-states of Croatia and Slovenia. It describes what has changed during the eight years since Jakov Fak, a Croatian-born Slovenian biathlete, changed his citizenship and began competing for the Slovenian national team. It also examines how the perception of Jakov Fak as an athlete and of his success has changed through time in different…
The Contribution of the European Athlete as Student Network (EAS) to European Dual Career Erasmus+ Sport Collaborative Partnerships: An update (La Contribución de la Red European Athlete as Student (E…
To inform on the objectives and progression of the AMiD, EMPATIA, DONA, Ed Media, More Than Gold, Starting 11 and SOS ERASMUS+ Sport Collaborative Partnerships in which EAS cooperates with sport bodies and educational institutions to envisage novel solutions for the development of opportunities in education and sport paths of athletes. Dual career dimensions, evidence-and eminence- based methods include literature reviews, and desk, gap, SWOT and…
The holistic development of talented sportspersons through dual-career
OPINION article Front. Sports Act. Living, 28 July 2022Sec. Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.929981
In praise of urban walking: Towards understanding of walking as a subversive bodily practice in neoliberal space
Focusing on the steps that literally and metaphorically guide us today, this paper takes walking as its main subject and establishes it theoretically as a form of subversive bodily movement. If contemporary sociological and humanistic treatments of walking show that this everyday practice has not been completely overlooked, the gap opens at the level of thinking it in relation to the dominant social order and its spatial and temporal manifestatio…
Elite athletes: What lessons for the future can be learned from their responses to the social disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
In mid-March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic was declared, disrupting established routines and impacting every aspect of our lives. Sport as a social phenomenon was no exception. On the one hand, with the suspension and postponement of competitions and the various restrictions, the pandemic seemed to stop time, destroying the previously familiar ways of functioning of the sports sector, and forcing it to constantly reinvent, restructure and adapt. On…
Now she has everything, a happy family story and an Olympic medal: Representations of Gloria Kotnik in the Slovenian media landscape
Over the last four decades, feminist sports media research has developed into an established transdisciplinary branch of research that contributes to highlighting the contradictions and unevenness of social change at the level of women's sports and its positioning in society. In this context, the increasing media visibility of athlete mothers as an expression of an emerging social phenomenon provides an opportunity to examine and reflect on the p…
A scoping review of student Athletes’ perspectives on dual career policies, provisions and challenges
Dual career (DC) athletes face significant challenges in balancing dual demands of academic and athletic commitments. A scoping review of 25 studies published between 2014 and 2024 included data from over 3,000 student-athletes across 23 countries, with 88.5% focused on European contexts. Most adopted qualitative (52%) or quantitative (44%) approaches, with one study (4%) using a mixed method. Findings, synthesized using PRISMA guidelines, addres…
A study on the implementation of dual career at European higher education institutions: The student-athletes' and experts' views
Introduction The holistic development of elite athletes is a priori ty within European sports policies, necessitating a coordinated approach to dual career support. This study evaluated the perspectives of both university experts and student-athletes (S-As) on various dual career aspects, aiming to provide actionable insights for improving policies within European higher education institutions (HEIs). Materials and methods Data was collected thro…
Physical, psychosocial and dual-career loads as risk factors for injuries and illnesses in elite handball players: A 45-week prospective cohort study
Introduction While training and competition load are well-documented risk factors for injury, the influence of dual-career loads, life stressors and overall load on both injury and illness remain less clear. The aim of this study was to investigate whether injury/illness occurrence is influenced by the training, competition, academic and work loads, as well as the overall load (sum of academic/work, training and competition loads) and life events…
The talent project and the validation of standards for the identification of student-athlete talent
Introduction The aim of the TALENT project is to promote equality in education, prevent exclusion, support dual careers (sport and school), create new role models for the benefit of young talents and prepare them for lifelong learning and professional sport from an early age. It is promoted by a European consortium of 7 partner institutions and runs from December 2022 to May 2025. It consists of five work packages. In the first work phase, develo…
Precarious Employment, Individualization Processes, and Professional Cyclists in France
This article explores the relationship between the experience of precarious employment and individualization processes. Drawing from the historical‐sociological approach of Norbert Elias, we explain how and why individualization processes advanced in France over the course of several centuries and how this shaped the employment experiences of professional cyclists. Elias's theoretical explanation of individualization differs significantly from th…
Psychology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Athletes (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (4 works) · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Sport Psychology and Performance (4 works)