Kim Wickman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4087435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Wickman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Wickman |
| SIGNATURE | WICKMAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0622-7321 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Struggles and Falling Between the Cracks”: Experiences of Women With Disabilities on Using Intimate Partner Violence Services
Women with disabilities are at increased risk of intimate partner violence (IPV), yet their experiences of using IPV services are rarely studied. This qualitative study explored the experiences of 11 women with disabilities. Three themes were identified: "violence and disability-the continuums of stigma" describing the forms of stigma that women experienced that impacted the use of IPV services; "the dual nature of social relationships" summarizi…
Developing sports with a children’s rights perspective? Intentions, methods, and priorities of development projects in local Swedish sports clubs
The purpose of this study is to analyze the planned development of sport practice regarding children's rights through project applications from Swedish sports clubs within the Lift for Sport programme. The study on which this paper reports uses data from a large-scale research project that evaluated this sport-for-all programme and is based on an analysis of 2563 applications within five different national sports organizations. Theoretically, the…
Experiences and Perceptions of Young Adults with Physical Disabilities on Sports
People with disabilities seldom get a chance to voice their opinions on their sport experiences. A deeper understanding of the context-related experiences of sport is a prerequisite for teachers and leaders to be able to provide adequate, inclusive and meaningful activities. The aim of this qualitative case study was to examine how young people with disabilities made sense of sport, within both the compulsory school system and the voluntary sport…
Becoming a special educator – Finnish and Swedish students’ views on their future professions
In this article, we discuss the views of 117 special education student teachers related to their oncoming profession in the framework of ecological theory. Together, 68 students from Sweden (26 special teachers and 41 SENCo students) and 49 from Finland responded to a questionnaire. We compared the respondents’ thoughts about their future work content, the focus areas of special education and inclusion. According to the expectations, the main tas…
I do not compete in disability: How wheelchair athletes challenge the discourse of able-ism through action and resistance
Drawing on data from face-to-face semi-structured interviews with five male and four female wheelchair athletes and inspired by poststructuralism, this study illuminates the meaning-making processes through which athletes construct and manage their identities. It deals with the interaction of gender, disability and sport and illustrates how the discourse of able-ism operates among Swedish wheelchair racers. The main finding is that the discourse …
"I try and be as athletic like, forget the other side of me" - Constructions of Elite Female Wheelchair Athletes' Identities
For an athlete to participate in the Olympics is a sign of supreme achievement. The same could as well be the case for those who participate in the Paralympics, the equivalent of the Olympics. The way elite female wheelchair athletes talk about themselves and their sport and their ecperience of being positioned by others and the way position themselves will be discussed in this paper
I do not compete in disability: How wheelchair athletes challenge the discourse of able-ism through action and resistance
Drawing on data from face-to-face semi-structured interviews with five male and four female wheelchair athletes and inspired by poststructuralism, this study illuminates the meaning-making processes through which athletes construct and manage their identities. It deals with the interaction of gender, disability and sport and illustrates how the discourse of able-ism operates among Swedish wheelchair racers. The main finding is that the discourse …
Developing sports with a children’s rights perspective? Intentions, methods, and priorities of development projects in local Swedish sports clubs
The purpose of this study is to analyze the planned development of sport practice regarding children's rights through project applications from Swedish sports clubs within the Lift for Sport programme. The study on which this paper reports uses data from a large-scale research project that evaluated this sport-for-all programme and is based on an analysis of 2563 applications within five different national sports organizations. Theoretically, the…
"I try and be as athletic like, forget the other side of me" - Constructions of Elite Female Wheelchair Athletes' Identities
For an athlete to participate in the Olympics is a sign of supreme achievement. The same could as well be the case for those who participate in the Paralympics, the equivalent of the Olympics. The way elite female wheelchair athletes talk about themselves and their sport and their ecperience of being positioned by others and the way position themselves will be discussed in this paper
"I try and be as athletic like, forget the other side of me" - Constructions of Elite Female Wheelchair Athletes' Identities
For an athlete to participate in the Olympics is a sign of supreme achievement. The same could as well be the case for those who participate in the Paralympics, the equivalent of the Olympics. The way elite female wheelchair athletes talk about themselves and their sport and their ecperience of being positioned by others and the way position themselves will be discussed in this paper
I do not compete in disability: How wheelchair athletes challenge the discourse of able-ism through action and resistance
Drawing on data from face-to-face semi-structured interviews with five male and four female wheelchair athletes and inspired by poststructuralism, this study illuminates the meaning-making processes through which athletes construct and manage their identities. It deals with the interaction of gender, disability and sport and illustrates how the discourse of able-ism operates among Swedish wheelchair racers. The main finding is that the discourse …
Experiences and Perceptions of Young Adults with Physical Disabilities on Sports
People with disabilities seldom get a chance to voice their opinions on their sport experiences. A deeper understanding of the context-related experiences of sport is a prerequisite for teachers and leaders to be able to provide adequate, inclusive and meaningful activities. The aim of this qualitative case study was to examine how young people with disabilities made sense of sport, within both the compulsory school system and the voluntary sport…
Becoming a special educator – Finnish and Swedish students’ views on their future professions
In this article, we discuss the views of 117 special education student teachers related to their oncoming profession in the framework of ecological theory. Together, 68 students from Sweden (26 special teachers and 41 SENCo students) and 49 from Finland responded to a questionnaire. We compared the respondents’ thoughts about their future work content, the focus areas of special education and inclusion. According to the expectations, the main tas…
Developing sports with a children’s rights perspective? Intentions, methods, and priorities of development projects in local Swedish sports clubs
The purpose of this study is to analyze the planned development of sport practice regarding children's rights through project applications from Swedish sports clubs within the Lift for Sport programme. The study on which this paper reports uses data from a large-scale research project that evaluated this sport-for-all programme and is based on an analysis of 2563 applications within five different national sports organizations. Theoretically, the…
Struggles and Falling Between the Cracks”: Experiences of Women With Disabilities on Using Intimate Partner Violence Services
Women with disabilities are at increased risk of intimate partner violence (IPV), yet their experiences of using IPV services are rarely studied. This qualitative study explored the experiences of 11 women with disabilities. Three themes were identified: "violence and disability-the continuums of stigma" describing the forms of stigma that women experienced that impacted the use of IPV services; "the dual nature of social relationships" summarizi…
Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works) · Athletes (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)