Selected publications

• Grønset, J, Langagergaard, M. & Sæther, S.A. (2024) Mental processes in professional football players. Frontiers in Psychology.
• Thorfinnsson, B. B., & Mehus, I. (2024). Betydningen av lærerstøtte for elevers selvregulerte læring i kroppsøving – mediert gjennom elevenes mestringsforventninger og målorienteringer. Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education, 8(2), 20–40.
• Bergström, M., Okkenhaug, I., Høigaard, R. & Sæther, S.A. (2024). Aldersbestemte landslagsspillere i håndball sin opplevelse av eget utviklingsmiljø.  Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, 15, 131-152.
• Bergström, M., Sæther, S.A., Solli, G.S. & McGawley, K. (2023) Tick-tock goes the biological clock: Mother-athlete challenges facing elite Scandinavian cross-country skiers. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal.
• Røsten, S., Sæther, S.A., Aspvik, N.P & Bjørndal, C.T. (2023) Embedded, embodied, enculturated, and enabling processes: The identification and evaluation of sporting talent by ice hockey coaches in Norwegian youth international teams. International Sport Coaching Journal.
• Feddersen, N.B., Champ, F., Sæther, S.A & Littlewood, M.(2022) Confidentiality and Surveillance Challenges for Psychologists working in English Men’s Football Academies. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology.
• Sæther, S.A, Feddersen, N., Andresen, E., & Bjørndal, C.T. (2022) Balancing sport and academic development: Perceptions of football players and coaches in two types of Norwegian school-based Dual Career Development Environments. International Journal of sports Science and Coaching.
• Hem, M., Fuhre, J., Høigaard, R. & Sæther, S.A. (2022) Talent development abroad. Young football players´ experience of being recruited to English academies. Soccer & Society, 1-12.
• Haukli, J. S., Hvid Larsen, C., Feddersen, N., & Sæther, S. A. (2021). The athlete talent development environment in the best ranked football academy in Norwegian football: The case of the U16 team in Stabæk football club. Current Issues in Sport Science (CISS), 6, 008.
• Gangsø, K., Aspvik, N.P., Mehus, I., Høigaard, R. & Sæther, S.A. (2021) Talent Development Environments in Football—Comparing Top-Five and Bottom-Five Ranked Football Academies in Norway. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(3). 1321.

Conferences

• Mehus, I., Aspvik, N.P. & Sæther, S.A. (2024) Successfull talent development environments and achivement goals of age-specific national teams in football, handball and ice hockey. FEPSAC, Innsbruck, July 2024.
• Sæther, S.A., Mehus, I. & Aspvik, N.P. (2023) Stress and perfectionism among male and female age-specific national team players in football, handball, and ice-hockey. ECSS, Paris, July 2023.
• Mehus, I., Aspvik, N.P. & Sæther, S.A. (2023) Talent development environments in Norwegian age-specific national teams in handball and ice hockey. ECSS, Paris, July 2023.
• Røsten, S., Sæther, S.A., Aspvik, N.P. & Bjørndal, C.H. (2022) Embedded, embodied, enculturated, and enabling processes: The identification and evaluation of sporting talent by ice hockey coaches in Norwegian youth international teams. 4th International Motor Skills Acquisition Conference, 16-18 November, Finland.
• Bergström M., Sæther S.A., Solli G.S. & McGawley K. (2022) Tick-tock goes the biological clock: Mother-athlete dilemmas facing elite Scandinavian cross-country skiers. Nordic Winter Sport Conference, Østersund, 3-4 oct. 22
• Sigvartsen, K.K., Sæther, S.A., Haugen, T., Erikstad, M.K., Peters, D.M. & Høigaard, R (2022) Elite team sport athletes´perceptions and experiences of destructive coach leadership behaviour. ECSS, Sevilla, july 2022. 
• Feddersen, N.B., Francesca Champ, F., Sæther, S.A & Littlewood, M. (2022) Challenges and Solutions to Humanistic Psychology Delivery with Male U9-U16 Football Players in Professional English Academies. FEPSAC, Padova July 2022.
• Feddersen, N.B., Francesca Champ, F., Sæther, S.A & Littlewood, M. (2022) Confidentiality and Surveillance in Psychology Provisions in Men’s Football Academies in England. FEPSAC, Padova July 2022.
• Höök, M., Bergström, M., Sӕther, S.A. & McGawley, K. (2021) Focus-group discussions of the female hormonal cycle as a tool for increasing knowledge and communication among elite endurance athletes and their coaches. WOMEN IN SPORT & EXERCISE CONFERENCE 2021 (Virtual event).

The research group collaborates with several research groups from other universities and collaborates with several special sports federations and clubs on projects within sports. Read more about our partners here:

• The research group LET´S University of Southern Denmark
• The research groups The Football Exchange and the Coaching and Pedagogy Research Group at Liverpool John Moores University
• Rosenborg FC (Salmar academy)
• Kristiansund FC (NEAS academy)
• Ranheim Football
• The Norwegian Football Association
• The Norwegian Handball Association
• The Norwegian Ice Hockey Association