From Survey to Story: Voices on Equity and Belonging in Finnish Sport
Beskrivning
The interview data are part of a larger research project, Who is Excluded from Gender Equality in Elite Sport: A Transdisciplinary Study of Generational Culture Shifts in Sporting Ambition, Parenting, and Identity (SportEX). This dataset consists of seven conversational interviews conducted with five participants as a follow-up to a national survey on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in Finnish sport.
At the end of the anonymous survey, participants were invited to volunteer for an individual interview by contacting one of the project researchers by email. The interviewees (3 self-identified women, 2 self-identified men, aged 18-42) self-selected into the qualitative phase, reflecting the project’s ethical commitment to agency, care, and relational research practice. The interviewees included migrant and Finnish athletes and professionals at different stages of their careers and with varied sexual and gender identities, offering culturally and generationally diverse perspectives on EDI and systemic challenges in Finnish sport. Two participants engaged in two rounds of interviews, providing enriched opportunities for reflection and deeper narrative exploration.
Before the interview, participants were invited to complete a short demographic questionnaire (e.g., age, sport involvement, gender identity, sexual orientation) to indicate the areas they were open to discuss in the interview. This approach aimed to create a safer space for participants to exercise choice and privacy over sensitive disclosers. The interviews were designed to deepen understandings of lived experience and to elicit participants’ perspectives and critiques of inclusion, exclusion, and structural inequity in Finnish sporting environments. While guided by open-ended thematic questions, the interviews allowed participants to shape the flow of conversation, centring their narrative agency and situated sense-making. All interviews were conducted in Finnish or English, transcribed, and translated as needed. Interviews took place in autumn 2023. Individual interview durations ranged from 58 to 129 minutes, with the total interview time per participant ranging from 58 to 217 minutes.
The dataset is situated within a critical feminist methodology and cultural praxis.
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2025
Typ av data
Upphovspersoner
Jyväskylä universitet - Utgivare
Projekt
Övriga uppgifter
Vetenskapsområden
Psykologi; Övriga samhällsvetenskaper
Språk
engelska, finska
Öppen tillgång
Begränsad tillgång