As climate change continues to escalate, the need for drastic changes is urgent. The world has agreed on a limit to global warming, and all countries are aware of the problem. The theory behind the Environmental Kuznets Curve is based on an inverted relationship between emissions and environmental impact and GDP growth. It could easily be interpreted as an easy way out of, which means that if a co

Parallellt med ökningen av cancer i samhället ökar behandlingsmöjligheterna för cancersjukdomar. Allt fler människor kan i nuläget erbjudas kurativ cytostatikabehandling mot sin cancersjukdom. Syftet med studien var att belysa livet hos en människa som genomgått cytostatikabehandling för malignt lymfom sett ur ett patientperspektiv. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med nio patienter på en

Inom onkologin är det vanligt att patienter som får konventionell behandling samtidigt använder sig av en eller flera komplementära metoder (KAM). Syftet med studien var att undersöka patientens erfarenhet av hur det är att använda KAM tillsammans med konventionell onkologisk behandling och vilken betydelse detta val har i mötet med de professionella på en onkologisk mottagning. En kvalitativ inte

Den här uppsatsen är författad av Amanda Evertsson via Institutionen för kommunikation och medier vid Lunds universitet och har titeln ”’Kill them wherever you find them’ – en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av den Islamiska statens videopropaganda riktad mot Frankrike”. Uppsatsen skrivs i en tid där hotet från den våldsbejakande sociala rörelsen Islamiska staten är mer påtagligt än någonsin. Alarmerad

The aim of this study was to examine social workers perceptions of medication assisted treatment and how the cooperation gets affected when several professional logics meet. Through a qualitative research we interviewed nine municipal social workers that have knowledge and experience of working with people who have substance abuse problems, in particularly with heroin, and medication assisted trea

Authors: Gabriella Odell and Iga Sikora Title: "It's just that you get to see the families around the clock and that you’re not able to hide" - a qualitative study on employee perceptions of how the investigative work and families become influenced by the investigation in an institutional environment. Supervisor: Lina Ponnert In this study we looked into investigatory homes where ch

Denna studie genomförs med syftet att undersöka huruvida företag som förvärvar presterar långsiktigt bättre eller sämre än företag som inte ägnar sig åt förvärv. Vidare undersöks vilken påverkan olika omständigheter vid förvärvstillfället kan ha på utvecklingen av det förvärvande företagets aktiepris. Studien är utförd som en kvantitativ eventstudie. En multipel regressionsanalys har gjorts för at

The purpose of this study was to explore, from a Lean perspective, the possibilities to improve IKEA DC Älmhult's operational efficiency in the processes of receiving and shipping. Through Process activity mapping, the current practices for shipping and receiving operations were described and analyzed in detail. Waste, primarily in the form of transport, motion and waiting, was identified and

The aim of this study has been to discuss how couples that have shared the division of parental leave equal discuss parental leave and gender equality in a Swedish context. It has been done through caring out interviews with five couples that has shared the parental leave equal. The motives behind an equal division of parental leave is motivated around ideas of gender equality and awareness of mor

Abstract Author(s): Robert Hildingsson Title: When zero-vision is no longer valid. A study in Social Work on the experiences of the Substitution treatment. Supervisor: Annika Capelán Köhler Assessor: TBA The purpose of the study was to shed some light on the national drug policy of “zero-vision” – that is, the Swedish governmental no-drug policy – from the point of view of the participants of th

Author: Alida Karlman and Emma Jonerud Title: Young Children's Opportunities towards Development and Attachment at an Orphanage in Uganda Supervisor: Bodil Rasmusson Assesor: Malin Arvidson This study was performed at the orphanage Sanyu Babies Home in the capital city Kampala of Uganda and became possible with the financial support through the Minor Field Study (MFS) scholarship from SIDA. T

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