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The aim of this exploratory research has been to examine the lean startup methodology process and foster a better way of applying this method in the global south. This is done by assessing the method’s application process of a solar startup targeting the Kenyan market - the strengths and weaknesses the company encountered during the process, measures taken by the company to overcome those weakness

The purpose of this study was to understand how field workers in social services work on drug prevention efforts with young people and how they cooperated with other actors in this work. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with five field workers from different parts of Sweden, all of whom work with youth. The theoretical approaches used to analyze the material were learning theory a

This thesis explores how Chinese students in Sweden navigate and reconfigure the practice of eating together in transnational and digital contexts. Drawing on the theoretical framework of commensality, community, and conviviality, it examines how students sustain shared eating practices amidst cultural differences, spatial constraints, and technological mediation. Through qualitative methods inclu

Criminality is an issue that is dealt with by many different agencies. The purpose of our study was to interpret and analyze which factors are of importance to an individuals road into criminality, the time spent in criminality, and the road out of criminality. The study was implemented using a qualitative method by conducting six (6) semi-structured interviews with male criminal offenders that ha

The following thesis discusses a recent debate that occurred in Sweden regarding gender equality. In the beginning of 2018, a new agency was founded - The Swedish Gender Equality Agency. However, less than a year later, the agency was threatened to be shut-down when two right-wing parties proposed a budget where the funding for the agency was retracted. This started an interesting debate in Sweden

The aim of this study was to interpret and examine what factors that affect single mothers opportunities and limitations to participate in physical training, as well as to examine what advice mothers give to each other about the limitations to participate in physical training. Our objective was to examine the difficulties single mothers face in relation to physical training. The used method was a

Emotions play an important role in social work, including child welfare. Child welfare workers interact daily with clients in difficult life situations, in which strong, negative emotions are common. As a professional, a child welfare worker cannot express too many emotions, but is expected to show a calm and objective expression. This makes child welfare workers at risk to experience emotional st

In this master thesis the writer has studied museums and their organization under the Covid-19 pandemic breakout of 2020. The 11 museums that been contacted are all located in southern Sweden. They are all varied in ownership, from municipality and state owned to those driven by private organizations. The museums in the study have all struggled with the pandemic. But the degree of financial loss a

Concepts as the entrepreneurial city and the creative class closely correlate with the ideas presented in the theory of neoliberalism and neoliberal urban planning policies. These concepts have spread widely throughout the modern world and effect the planning of almost every city today, from developed countries to developing countries. Typically seen as a stronghold for social democratic policies

This essay aims to analyze Australia’s ambivalent relationship towards the asylum seeker in general, boat people in particular, using the theoretical framework of institutional panic, as formulated by Blum and ‘securitization’, as developed by the Copenhagen School. It outlines the country’s past and present relationship with migration, while focusing its analysis on events preceding and following

When the rest of the world sank deeper into the mire of gold shortage and the Great Depression, China, a country still adhered to the silver standard, maintained a relative independent connection to the global economy. In the initial stage of the Great Depression, Chinese economy under relative inflation benefited from the blessing of the silver standard. However, with international silver prices

This study sought to explore the socio-economic impacts of stigmatization on young women (16-24) infected with HIV in Accra, Ghana (Ridge hospital). Qualitative study was performed with five young women 16-24 infected with HIV attending HIV clinic at Ridge hospital. Interviews were conducted to explore respondents’ perception of stigmatization and discrimination based on their HIV status and gende

Power is everywhere and even egalitarian movements which are fighting against hierarchy are reproducing inequality among their members in formal or informal ways. Here, I will tell the story of the challenge of elitism in one of our recent feminist campaigns in Iran through interviews with four campaigners and through an analysis of members’ published texts and their critiques. In the One Million

För närvarande finns en stark trend med forskningsmiljöer där flera ämnen samverkar och där forskare inom flera fält samarbetar, exempelvis geriatrik, psykologi, psykiatri, arbetsterapi och hälsoekonomi. Forskare i tvärvetenskapen blir ofta eftersatta och hittar inte alltid det stöd de behöver i det kursutbud som erbjuds idag inom ramen för informationshantering. Lunds universitets bibliotek är en