Eurasia represents a unique blend of European and Asian geographies, transcending geographical conceptualization to encompass cultural and ethnic elements embodying the ideology of Eurasianism. Initially developed by Russian philosophers for Russian politics, Eurasianism extends across Europe and Asia to varying degrees. In Türkiye, its engagement ranges from nationalist to Kemalist and even socia

This study investigates the relationship between insider trading activities and share repurchase announcements in the Swedish market. While buybacks and insider trading have been individually studied, their interaction remains underexplored. This research fills the gap by analysing insider trading patterns before buyback announcements and examining the impact on post-announcement market returns. T

The debate between advocates and critics about the link between trade and labour standards is still relevant. Looking at history, labour rights have been important in the international trade system since the 1890s, when the import of goods by prison labour was prohibited by international treaties and national laws. Nowadays, the need to strengthen sustainability rules is growing because more and m

By taking a starting point in the climate action, implemented by the climate activist group Återställ Våtmarker, in the summer of 2023 at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm this thesis explores the topic of climate activism and climate actions set within the museum room. The purpose of the study is to gain a deeper understanding of climate activism and climate actions in museums by gathering knowledge on

Popular involvement in Swedish society has gone through what can be described as a “death of associations”, a decreased participation in formal organizations. The involvement has not vanished, it merely seems to (partially) have changed shape to the benefit of less formal types of organizing, among others social movements. The informal structures raise questions about fundamental archival concepts

This Master’s thesis concerns librarians and community work in Zimbabwe, and investigates the ways in which librarians may be seen as agents of change. The focus areas are five public and community libraries in Matabeleland, southern Zimbabwe, where the first language is Ndebele. The libraries are situated in the city of Bulawayo, in suburbs, in a town and at rural sites. The study investigates wh

This study aimed to investigate how gender is constructed by the court in court orders regarding the Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act. We wanted to draw attention to how gender discourses were used to describe the norm-breaking behaviors of boys and girls. To do this we used the method of discourse psychology and the empirical material consisted of 32 court orders with an even distri

The research examines Germany’s feminist development policy (FDP), presented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in 2023. This is done to see how the BMZ engages with the feminist discourse on development and in what ways it is drawing on (neo)liberal feminist approaches, thereby relying on the status quo of feminism in development, and in what ways it is drawing

University libraries have an important mission to support researchers in their work. Among researchers the PhD student is in a special position. They are in a process of transitioning from being students to becoming researchers. To properly support PhD students, it is important that the support is relevant to the group. The aim of this study is to increase the knowledge of how librarians and PhD s

The fundamental principle of investing, applicable at both systematic and individual levels, is the art of balancing the portfolio between expected returns and acceptable risk exposure. Risk management involves predicting the direction of the underlying asset’s movement and taking appropriate actions accordingly. Traditionally, statistical models such as GARCH have been used to achieve this object

Studying translations gives us more insight into cultures and languages. Machine Translation is an application area of the field Natural Language Processing (NLP), used to transfer information from one language to another. Creating these tools require a lot of data, including data about the semantic relationships of the texts, and for unspoken languages like Ancient Greek, there does not exist a l

This thesis examines the preservation of social media user activity as digitala folkminnen (digital folk memories), using as a case the two Swedish platforms of LunarStorm and Bilddagboken (Dayviews), which were integral to the daily lives of young people in Sweden in the early 2000s. As these platforms face closure or data loss, there is a risk of losing users’ contributions forever. While govern

Juvenile crime has become a significant social problem. This issue is highlighted in the media and political debates, so we have chosen to study Juvenile crime. In our study, we will investigate the risk and protective factors for young people and how these have influenced their criminal life choices. We will apply a qualitative research method using semi-structured interviews. Our empirical mater

Studiens syfte var att belysa hur erfarna psykodynamiska psykoterapeuter tar sig an döden som tema i psykoterapirummet. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med åtta legitimerade psykodynamiska psykoterapeuter. Varje enskild psykoterapeut hade mer än tjugo års erfarenhet av att bedriva psykodynamisk psykoterapi. Intervjumaterialet analyserades med hjälp av tematisk analys vilket kom att resultThe purpose of the study was to shed light on how experienced psychodynamic psychotherapists address the topic of death in the psychotherapy room. Semistructured interviews were conducted with eight licensed psychodynamic psychotherapists. Each therapist had more than twenty years of experience practicing psychodynamic psychotherapy. The interview material was analyzed using thematic analysis, res

Vi har under vår ämneslärarutbildning i musik på Musikhögskolan i Malmö sett en problematik med tolkningsbara betygskriterier och likvärdig bedömning. Betygskriteriet personligt uttryck i kursen Instrument eller sång 1 har vi fastnat för, då vi har sång som vår instrumentinriktning. I vår utbildning har vi fått lärdom om att skolans uppdrag innefattar elevers rätt till likvärdig utbildning och bedDuring our music teacher training programme at Malmö Academy of Music, we have encountered a problem with interpretable grading criteria and equivalent assessment. We have chosen to focus on the grading criterion personal expression in the upper secondary school singing course (Instrument eller sång 1), because we have singing as our main instrument. We have been taught that the Swedish school mis

Mänskliga kvarlevor förstås inte längre bara som föremål utan också som avlidna individer. Utställda mänskliga kvarlevor kan ha en suggestiv kraft som ger dem liv genom mötet med besökare, tillspetsat skulle man kunna säga att de befinner sig i ett slags limbo mellan liv och död. Denna studie jämför museiutställningar som innehåller mänskliga kvarlevor mellan tre europeiska länder. Syftet med uppHuman remains are nowadays understood not solely as objects but also as deceased individuals. Exhibited human remains may possess a suggestive power that gives them life through the encounter with visitors, to the point that one could say that they are in a kind of limbo between life and death. This study seeks to compare the museal exhibitions containing human remains in three countries within Eu

In Sweden, it is reported that a lot of Social Services are having difficulties recruiting staff, especially experienced staff. With a high turnover rate and a great need for social workers in these areas of work, this study aimed to investigate social work students’ attitudes towards work with the exercise of public authority and try to detect which factors could be affecting these attitudes. The

This thesis has the title Open your door? The purpose of this study is to learn about museum professionals’ opinions and thoughts surrounding publicly accessible storage solutions. The research questions for this study are: • How do the museum professionals reflect over their attitudes and thoughts to publicly accessible storage in the interviews? • What are the underlying factors for regional

Byggbranschen är sedan länge känd för att vara en mansdominerad bransch som kännetecknas av macho-beteenden. Trots ökad medvetenhet om behovet av mångfald och inkludering, där det alltmer arbetas med dessa frågor i dagens byggbransch, är representationen bland kvinnor och andra minoriteter fortfarande låg. Stereotyper och fördomar kvarstår än idag, vilket hotar branschens framtid att vara mångfald