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The aim of this study was to gain an understanding of how a contemporary social movement in Sweden uses social media as a way of mobilization. The case for this study was a social movement initiated by professionals working with unaccompanied minors. These professionals were frustrated with restricted asylum laws and wished to see more “humane asylum politics”. Since its start in the mid-fall of 2
The aim of this study was to examine how care managers work in relation to mental health issues amongst the elderly population in Sweden. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven care managers from four municipalities in Sweden. The empirical data collected from these interviews was analysed through the concept of Michael Lipsky´s theory of street-level bureaucracy and through Robert B
The purpose of this study was to examine how five writers portray their childhood with one or two parents with alcohol abuse problems in autobiographies. The research questions concerned the impact of parents’ abuse problems on the writers’ childhood, if they felt that they had got adequate support and help from others, and important turning points. The empirical material was five autobiographies,
The aim of this study was to focus on how municipal social-workers work with honor related abuse (HRA) in a smaller community in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to study if there were any changes in how the municipal social-workers described their work with honor-related abuse today compared to the year of 2012. The theories and the perspectives used for this study include: the gender theory,
This study details the factors which affect the adoption of electronic and online voting in national elections. It researches adoption theories such as Davies' Technology Acceptance model (TAM) and Rodgers' Diffusion of Innovation (DoI) model. The study pays particular attention to three factors - secrecy, trust and accessibility. The paper then focuses on four nations due to their differe
Aims: This study has investigated how people with both the legal intervention contact person and sheltered housing under LSS (Swedish Rights Law directed to people with disability) view the experience of having a contact person. The aim was to examine the interviewees’ experiences of the relation with contact persons. Method: Empirical evidence is based on four semi-structured interviews with fou
The intention with this study has been to research social workers experience in handling honor-related cases. I interviewed four social workers through semi-structured interviewing. The interviewed was both government practicing social workers and social workers who mainly practices different kinds of conversation support. Many topics were found to repeatedly appear through the interviews that wer
The curriculum for high school changed in Sweden 2011 and sexual education was elaborated in four subjects in high schools. In 2013 the National Agency for Education in Sweden published an education tool to help teachers implement sexual education in all mandatory subjects in high schools. A qualitative research through interviews with six young women have been made to investigate how young adults
The purpose of this study has been to examine how Swedish newspapers and tabloids have constructed gaming problem during the year 2016. We have studied how the press describe the game, the problematic player and the different stakeholders of this social problem. We have used social constructionism as a theoretical perspective in our analysis. A qualitative content analysis was used to analyze 18 a
Our purpose has been to examine their approach and experiences considering the work with needle exchange programs, as well as what perceptions the employees are experiencing from the society. We chose a qualitative approach to our study. In our study we have conducted six interviews with employees at needle exchange programs in three different cities in Skåne. We have asked questions such as what
Prediction of the spread of combustion gases from a fire is a major area of interest when analyzing buildings from a safety point of view. Hence programs with this aim are continuously being evaluated for the estimation of their validity. The purpose of this report was to produce and compare complementary results for an up to date version of the program Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to what was pr
Denna uppsats är skriven på uppdrag av Lunds tekniska högskola och Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap. Uppdraget består av att modellera antalet dödsbränder som sker i Sverige över tid, samt undersöka ifall det har skett någon signifikant förändring. Detta görs utifrån ett antagande om att dödsbränder är Poisson-fördelade, därmed betraktas antalet dödsbränder över tid som en Poisson-proceThe authors of this thesis were tasked with modelling fatal fires in Sweden to answer the question, whether the quarterly number of fires has changed over time. The usage of the Poisson distribution in modelling accidents and mortalities is well attested. Problems arise when measuring the number of fire related mortalities, as several deaths can be attributed to one fire. This violates the assumpt
I Sverige föds varje år cirka 1000 barn med hjärtfel. Föräldrar till barn med livshotande hjärtsjukdom utsätts för stress under lång tid och för att föräldrar ska känna trygghet i samband med deras barns hjärtoperation är därför information av stor vikt. Syftet med studien var att belysa föräldrars upplevelse av den information de fick i samband med sitt barns första planerade hjärtoperation som g
För många innebär datorspel att kliva in i den fiktiva värld som spelet skapar och på så vis undgå verkligenheten. I forskningssammanhang är det precis tvärtom, då är datorspel eller mikrovärldar som det också kallas ett sätt att simulera verkligheten. I detta examensarbete har möjligheten att använda datorspel för studier inom riskhanteringsområdet undersökts. Då det tidigare inte fanns någon miIt has been shown that it can be difficult to study decision making in a risk management context when traditional methods are used. An alternative to traditional methods is to use micro worlds. A certain type of decision making in the risk management context is about investments in capability which has been studied in this thesis. The aim of the project is divided into two parts, where the first p
Abstract Author: Joakim Hammarstrand Title: “I need to meet them where they are” - a qualitative interview study about Swedish school counselors work with young transgender people. Supervisor: Malinda Andersson Assessor: Anders Östnäs The aim of this study was to examine how school counselors in Sweden work with gender variance. The study also aims to examine and understand the school counselor’
This study aims to examine the participants of the project “Jämställda platser Malmö” and their definition of what gender equality is, the aim is further to examine, according to the participants, what the definition of an equal place is. The participants of the project were a group of youth from three different areas in Malmö where the equal places were intended to be built on. The group of youth
The aim of this study was to examine what kind of experience social workers in the voluntary sector has of the health amongst asylum seekers in the asylum process. The aim has also been to construe the social workers statement due to a sense of coherence. The analysis was based on the theories of the salutogenesis and the sense of coherence by Antonovsky. The interviews were based on qualitative i
The aim of this qualitative field study was to investigate and analyse Samburu men’s perspective on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in Samburu, Kenya. The chosen subjects to examine were the men’s perspective of the practice of FGM/C itself, the process of change of mind and their involvement in ending FGM/C. To achieve this aim, in-depth interviews were made with 10 men in the surroundi
In Swedish youth- and adolescent residential care and juvenile care, there are today people held for either being a threat to themselves, their surroundings or have committed a crime yet are too young to be held in prison. There are also youth and adolescents being placed in these facilities when their surroundings too have become a threat to their own wellbeing. The aim for this study was to find
A methodology as well as a suggested solution to the problem of unsupervised anomaly detection for contextual anomalies is presented. Using a combination of statistical and clustering approaches, an ensemble of algorithms provide automatic anomaly detection in an Application-to-person networking environment which can be scaled to different domains using hierarchical time series data. The aim of
