This thesis explores if, and how, what is written in the newspaper can be used to forecast macroeconomic variables such as inflation, unemployment and consumption. A large data set consisting of articles from the largest Swedish business newspaper is transformed using different methods from the Natural Language Processing field. The focus lies on topic modelling by Latent Dirichlet Allocation as w

Within Social Work in Sweden, there has been a long-established tradition to work cooperatively across organizations to achieve various preventive measures, for instance with juvenile crime issues. The purpose of this study was to investigate how such cooperation across two organizations - the police force and the social services- is perceived by the professionals involved in practice. The method

As Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are becoming the increasingly popular method of taking a company public, the lack of research on abnormal returns for this asset class since its introduction to the major exchanges validates a reason to expand the investigation. This thesis examines the potential abnormal returns found in different stages of recent SPACs lifecycle, dividing the SPAC

Med den ökande portföljen av olika lösningar när man letar efter nya mobilappar och webbverktyg finns det ett behov att utmärka sig. En av de möjliga lösningarna för att fånga och hålla fast användarna är genom att införa gamification som motiverar användaren och ger dem möjlighet att känna sig mer engagerade med ens produkt. Detta examensarbete undersöker en möjlig gamification-design för mjukvarWith the increasing portfolio of options when looking for new mobile apps and web tools their is a need to excel. One of the possible solutions is to capture and hold on to the users by introducing gamification that motivates the user and gives them the opportunity to feel more engaged with a product. This master thesis examines a possible gamification design for the software solution KLAR. KLAR c

Even though virtual work is becoming more prominent, especially due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, this aspect has not yet been taken up in the research field of change communication as part of organizational and internal communication. There-fore, this study explores the impact of virtuality on change work through the lens of the processual view of change, highlighting the middle manager’s per

The aim of this thesis was to analyse and compare how two Swedish parliamentary parties, the Left Party and the Sweden Democrats, have discursively problematized and depicted narcotics through the parties' political motions between the years 2010/11 to 2020/21. This was achieved by collecting all political motions regarding narcotics from each political party during this time span and finally

Enligt art. 53(1)(b) EUTMR och art. 7 EUTMD utgör ond tro ett registreringshinder, samt en ogiltighetsgrund för varumärkesregistreringar. EU lagstiftare erbjuder inte en mer djupgående förklaring för vad ond tro inom varumärkesrätten innebär. Istället har uppgiften att definiera begreppet ’ond tro’ fallit på EUD, Tribunalen och EUIPOs administrativa nämnder. Föreliggande uppsats har undersökt hur According to art. 53(1)(b) EUTMR and art. 7 EUTMD, trade mark applications filed in bad faith are to be refused registration, or invalidated if already registered. The European legislators do not provide a more in-depth description of what it means for a trade mark applicant to be in bad faith at the time of filing an application. The task of defining the concept of bad faith has been placed in th

COVID-19 pandemic caused massive disruption to livelihoods and the education sector was not spared as forced closures of academic institutions became widespread triggering a shift to e-learning. In response, governments swiftly moved to confinement, lockdown, or curfew measures to strongly curtail travel and movement of people. Educational activities, among other facets of life, came to an abrupt

This study aims to provide further knowledge on the social interaction between the sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression (SOGIE) asylum seekers and their asylum adjudicator from the Swedish Migration Agency (SMA) by applicating Erving Goffman’s (2014) dramaturgical perspective. The study used the following two research questions; (1) How can the asylum seeker use different type

The thesis explores the making of Malmo Swedish third city, through an exploration of relevant literary texts that have the city's identity as its central focus. Taking a point of departure in a queer/reparatory methodological reading as well as in feminist postcolonial traditions; the thesis analyzes how and why certain ideas about the city of Malmö as a home are constructed and thus which id

The aim of this study was to examine how the Swedish news media portrays children, their next of kin and social services in articles related to child care. To conduct the study we examined five different newspapers from 2017 until 2018. From those five we selected 18 different articles. To select these articles we used keywords such as “child care”, “social services'', “report of concern”

The igniting spark to this project was my aching back as I saw a fellow student standing by her height adjustable desk. I thought It would be great to be able to adjust my working position as well, however I already own a vintage desk that I want to keep. This made me think, could I create a solution that gives my desk, as well as most of all other analouge desks, the function of height adjustabil

Sweden is aiming to become world-leading in utilizing the possibilities of digitalization and is expanding automated government decisions with the use of algorithms and robots. A project sponsored by the Swedish government was initiated in 2017 to spread “Trelleborgsmodellen”, the model of the first municipality to introduce automated income-support processing, to other municipalities in Sweden. W

Den tekniska utvecklingen har ändrat hur människor kommunicerar med och om varandra. Den har också fört med sig nya former av övergrepp, däribland så kallade bildbaserade sexuella övergrepp. Begreppet bildbaserade sexuella övergrepp innefattar alla former av framställande och/eller spridande av privata, sexuella bilder utan samtycke från den avbildade. Exempel på sådana övergrepp är ”hämndporr”, sTechnological developments have changed the way people communicate with and about each other. It has also brought with it new forms of abuse, including so-called image-based sexual abuse. Image-based sexual abuse includes all forms of creation and / or distribution of private, sexual images without the consent of the person depicted. Examples of such abuse is “revenge porn”, stealth photography, u

The 20th century, as well as the 21st, is ripe with hermeneutic anxiety concerning the survival of the object of interpretation and the right way to study literature. In this thesis, the Canadian scholar-poet Anne Carson is studied as a framework to an understanding of how poetry and literary criticism – the event of hermeneutics – co-occur, converge, and diverge. Specifically, it studies Carson’s

This thesis investigates affective and semantic meaning-making in online audiovisual propaganda published by the Danish nationalist youth organization, Generation Identitær. Specifically, the study uses the notion of affective investments and relations in order to account for the ways in which the organization’s propaganda operates. It follows a feminist and postcolonial tradition and centers the

The aim of this study has been to explore the perceptions of evidence-based practice among social workers along with how they perceive their prerequisites for working according to the evidence-based model. The social workers have been found within the children and family unit of the Swedish social services, and the evidence-based model was compared to that of the Swedish National Board of Health a

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur den visuella kommunikationen i dagens samhälle kan användas som ett strategiskt kommunikativt verktyg. Mer specifikt ämnar undersökningen att bidra med djupare kunskap kring hur unga kvinnors kroppsaktivistiska stillbilder från Instagram kan tolkas i relation till blick-teori samt om dessa bilders visuella kommunikation kan bidra till att motarbeta den maThis study aims to investigate how visual communication in today´s society can be used as as a strategic communicative tool. More specifically, the study aims to contribute with deeper knowledge of how young women's body activist still images from Instagram can be interpreted in relation to gaze theory, and whether their visual communication can contribute to counteracting the male gaze's

This thesis examines gender equality policies of the European Union in external affairs. The aim is to discover how the meaning and “problem” of gender (in)equality is constructed, represented, and problematized in the gender policies for external action. The study also ascertains what logics underpin the problem representations, whose voices are silenced, and what subject positions are created. E

Since the end of the Great Moderation, there has been a great surge in studies proposing alternatives to the current dominant monetary policy regime of inflation targeting. One popular such alternative has become NGDP targeting. However, as studies tend to gravitate towards larger economies, an unintended side effect has become a significant degree of homogeneity in regards to the economic setting