The purpose of this study was to investigate how young unemployed individuals experienced and coped with their situation. It is a qualitative study conducted through interviews with four young unemployed people who all participate in a municipal project that helps young unemployed people to find a job. The interviews were conducted using a prearranged interviewguide. I applied Jahodas deprivation

A given to share equally when daddy wants to The aim of this study was to investigate parents who have decided to equally share their parental leave and how they came up to this decision. The aim has also been to see which effect the sharing of parental leave has had upon them in their everyday life. The study was based on qualitative interviews with both parties of three couples that had chosen

The purpose of this study was to understand what, according to social workers and people with criminal backgrounds in Panama, contributes to change in criminal behaviour amongst delinquent youth with focusing on projects using football, religion and community as changing means. The empirical data was collected according to micro-ethnographical requirements and consisted of twelve hours of observat

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate how doctors expresses themselves about the state of burnout in relation to gender. It was after reading about the subject on which the idea was created to investigate the physician's perspective on the area. This study is partial for to provide professional knowledge and understanding of the physician's view of the patient group, but also t

The aim of this paper was to increase our knowledge regarding the differences in abilities taught during education of social services´ secretaries and the abilities work at the social service demands. I have done this by investigating 70 job ads from the employment service and three educational plans from three different universities in Sweden. Through qualitative text analysis I have analyzed thr

The aim of the studie was to explore whether social workers in the social assistans handling income support, were experiencing that their work was influenced by New Public Management. The data was collected through four interviews with social workers and assesed through organizational theory. The perspectives used among organizational theory was mainly the human reasource, structural and political

Syftet med uppsatsen är att jämföra vad som skiljer bolagsrevisionen från den kommunala. Vilka skillnader finns det mellan respektive regelverk, revisorernas uppgifter osv.?

Presence outside of time- a phenomenological investigation of the interactive artwork Future Self by rAndom International. The aim of this essay to investigate the experience of the meeting between the spectator (myself) and Future Self, an interactive artwork by artists’ group rAndom International, shown at their exhibition Studies in Motion at Lunds konsthall in 2014. Future Self is made of a ha

The purpose of this study was to examine how external job-coaches consider themselves to perform their entrusted tasks from both the Employment Service's requirements and the jobseekers' needs and expectations. The empirical material consisted of seven semi-structured interviews with job-coaches from different private companies in southern Sweden. Based on the interviews we were able to fi

Threats, violence, bites and punches but not to be really beaten - A study of how nursing staff at a dementia ward define, manage and explain the residents’ action The aim of this study was to examine how nursing staff at a ward for elderly residents with dementia defined and related to situations and acts that could be defined as violent. The study was performed with a qualitative method based o

The aim for this study was to investigate how the service-user identity is constructed and how it interacts with neoliberalism. Service-user emphasizes a person that is independent and autonomy’s in the welfare system. The word started to be used around 1980s and some say it was a result of neoliberalism that spread across the world at the same time. Four interviews have been done with profession

Author: Ditte Edström Title: ADHD a social construction - A discourse analysis on how ADHD is described and communicated in professional school journals [translated title] Supervisor: Anders Lundberg Five percent of all students in Swedish schools have got an ADHD diagnosis (The National Board of Health and Welfare 2014), which is about two children in each class. In ten years, the diagnosed cas

The aim of this paper is to present the kinds of error that implicit bias can cause when we are to judge and rank which available candidate is the most suited for e. g. a job vacancy, and to investigate whether we can de-bias ranking lists in recruiting processes given that we suspect that implicit bias has influenced the ranking. I will argue that the available methods for this (positive discrimi

The North Sea stands out as one of the most rapidly warming regions of the globe and various types of geographic distribution responses have already been reported, from latitudinal changes to vertical changes. Using catch data from an international bottom trawling monitoring survey, this study investigated how the range size of the North Sea fish assemblage has changed during the last three decade

As the development of human civilizations, the classic definition of crowdedness index or population density is not able to describe population dynamic conciliations properly. Furthermore, the detailed population information is normally only stay on urban or country levels. Methods to compute crowdedness index of a small scale-area are lacked. Demographers need some new methods to compute human cr

Kullabergs tumlare styrs av dygns- och månfas I havet runt Kullaberg i Skåne lever Sveriges enda val – tumlaren (Phocoena phocoena). Tumlaren är en liten tandval som mestadels lever ensam och som använder ett slags inbyggt ekolod, kallad biosonar, för att navigera, kommunicera och hitta fisk att äta. Utanför Kullaberg utgör tumlare en vanlig syn, men generellt hotas arten av mänsklig påverkan ochThe harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is the only cetacean regularly found in Swedish waters. Little is known about its movements and behaviour. Around the peninsula of Kullaberg, harbour porpoises are regularly found in relatively large numbers and they are considered to use the area for both feeding and reproduction. Along the northern coast of Kullaberg six passive acoustic data loggers; Cet

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vad som får elever att börja spela brassinstrument och vilka faktorer som motiverar dem till att fortsätta på Musik- och Kulturskolan. Bakgrunden till studien är att antalet elever på brassinstrumenten i Musik- och Kulturskolorna har minskat i Sverige under lång tid. Data består av gruppintervjuer med 11 elever i tre åldersbaserade grupper. Resultatet viThe purpose of this study is to investigate what motivates students to begin playing a brass instrument and the factors that motivate them to continue in the Community School of Music and Arts. The background for this study is that the number of students on brass instruments in the Community Schools of Music and Arts in Sweden has been decreasing for many years. Data collection was performed thro

Det proportionella valsättet bygger på tanken om en samförståndsmodell där olika intressen representeras efter sin storlek, att besluten växer fram efter förhandlingar och att man överbryggar klyftan mellan majoritet och minoritet. Det proportionella valsättet är således ett minoritetsskydd som tillförsäkrar även de mindre politiska partierna rätt till förtroendeposter och därmed makt och insyn.

Virusinfektioner och Diabetes? Diabetes kännetecknas av konstant förhöjt blodsocker. Sjukdomen ökar i lavinartade former och beskrivs som en av det moderna samhällets stora epidemier. Diabetes förekommer vanligtvis i två huvudsakliga former, typ1 och typ 2. I typ I-diabetes (T1D), som framförallt drabbar barn och ungdomar, har de insulinproducerande beta-cellerna förstörts av kroppens immunförsvType 1 Diabetes (T1D) is an immune-mediated disease where the pancreatic beta cells are selectively destroyed by autoreactive CD8+ T cells. However, the triggering events that eventually leads to autoreactive CD8 T cells infiltrating the pancreatic islets and, subsequently, destroying them still needs to be unveiled. Genetic and epidemiological evidence points to a substantial influence of environ

Map design research has strongly come into the agenda with the extensive use of GIS and maps in geoportals. Geoportals are used to find, access and display geographic data via the Internet. Novel opportunities and techniques for displaying geographic data in viewing services also introduce new challenges and issues in cartographic design. Specifically, thematic polygon layers (foreground) will obs