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Amorphization of MoS2 Cocatalysts on CdS Nanorods via Facet-Selective Deposition for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

The construction of heterojunctions between catalysts and cocatalysts is a widely recognized strategy to enhance catalytic activity. The precise placement of cocatalysts is widely understood to optimize charge transfer pathways and catalytic active sites. In this study, we demonstrate that site-selective decoration on an anisotropic catalyst, achieved by modulating solvent polarity and precursor r

Harbor Porpoise Presence in relation to relative prey distribution, current, and temperature - An eDNA Approach

Förekomst av tumlare och deras bytesfisk spårade med eDNA kring ön Ven i Öresund Tumlaren (Phocoena phocoena) är den enda bofasta valarten i svenska vatten. Tumlaren är hotad och under nivån för god ekologisk status i svenska vatten. Dessa marina däggdjur är svåra att studera på grund av deras höga rörlighet. Passiv akustisk övervakning, exempelvis med en F-POD, som registrerar tumlarnas klickljuThe mobility of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) makes the small, toothed whale complicated to study, especially regarding their distribution and foraging over a longer timescale. To overcome this, passive acoustic monitoring, which detects their high-frequency echolocation clicks (ranging from 125-140 kHz), offers a way to track their presence with high temporal resolution (measured as detecte

Development Assistance for a New Era? The Reconfiguration of CSO Agency in Swedish Development Cooperation

This thesis examines how Sweden’s new development policy, Development for a New Era, reconfigures the agency of its civil society organizations (CSOs). The policy marks a major shiftin Sweden’s foreign aid landscape, moving from a human rights– and needs-based approach to one driven by strategic, trade, and migration interests. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of interviews with CSO staff and med

Fearing fear itself - Exploring Fear Speech through Quantitative Analysis and Machine Learning: Sweden’s 2024 EU Election Campaigning on Facebook

This thesis investigates the strategic use of fear speech, political communication designed to evoke fear by presenting threats, by Swedish political parties and lead candidates during the 2024 European Parliament election campaign on Facebook. Departing from audience-focused studies, the analysis centres on political actors’ intent, examining who employs fear speech, how frequently, and on which

Glimpses of everyday resistance : Understanding the "queer" in Swedish queer housing collectives

Queer housing collectives in Sweden are places of living that are generally designed to encompass shared values regarding community building and notions of care and support through providing a safe space. Through semi-structured interviews and queer theory, this study analyzes what queerness produces in those collectives through subtle everyday embodiments of queerness by its residents. It highlig

Raving Resistance: Queer Utopian Imaginaries and the Embodied Politics of Riposte

Nightlife, often considered detached from political meaning regarded as solely serving self-indulgent purposes actually serves an important role in healing, identity exploration, and community-building within the queer community. Through an interpretivist research approach, this thesis examines a queer art rave collective Riposte based in London, as a space for queer healing and alternative politi

Gender Role Attitudes and Fertility Intentions: A Quantitative Analysis Using the Generations and Gender Survey

This study uses McDonald's gender equity theory as its core framework, combined with gender revolution theory, to explore the impact of gender role attitudes on short-term fertility intentions and the moderating role of institutional contexts. Using GGS data from Sweden and Hungary, gender attitude dimensions were extracted through principal component analysis and Varimax rotation. The results

Balancing Care and Control: Exploring the Everyday Practices and Dispositions of Train Hosts as Unofficial Border Agents in the Øresund Region

Situated in the ambiguous position as agents of both care and control, train hosts find themselves constantly engaging in balancing acts related to their professional role as frontline workers. This dynamic is especially relevant in cross-border regions where train hosts arguably assume the role of unofficial border agents. This thesis explores the professional practices and personal dispositions

Aid on Whose Terms?

Abstract This thesis aims to examine the development cooperation between Sweden and Kenya, focusing on how aid is used, the norms and values Sweden seeks to promote, and the potential consequences for Kenya’s political and institutional independence. Using a qualitative research design, the study is based on secondary sources, including academic literature, government reports, and reliable databa

Assessing the Impact of Sida’s Funding Withdrawal on Cambodia’s Education System: Challenges and Adaptations

This study explores the perceived significance of Sida’s funding in Cambodia’s education sector and how education-related organisations have adapted to the financial shortfall following Sida’s withdrawal. Drawing on Resource Dependence Theory (RDT), the research highlights the critical role Sida played as a valued donor, supporting a wide range of educational initiatives from primary to higher edu

Resisting the Red Label: Discourses on Red-tagging in the Philippines

In the Philippines, being labeled as “red” is akin to being given a death sentence. Red-tagging is a political strategy, most notably employed by national security forces, to accuse, denounce, and persecute individuals and civil society organizations as members or supporters of front organizations of communist guerrilla groups. It is the act of indiscriminately associating individuals or organizat

Long Live the Future: Exploring Sustainable Consumption Frames in the Swedish Second-Hand Fashion Market

This thesis focuses on the concept “sustainable consumption” and how it is conceptually constructed by Swedish secondhand actors, specifically non-profit actors who actively engage in the resale of clothing. Our current excessive overconsumption of fashion and pressing need to shift to a more sustainable mode of consumption requires us to critically assess the definition of our sustainability idea

Shaping Identities, Shaping States: Transnational Habitus and Strategic Statecraft in Hong Kong and Singapore

This thesis examines how state strategies and transnational lifestyles co-produce identities in Hong Kong and Singapore. Both global city-states share colonial legacies, open economies, and roles as regional hubs, yet differ in nation-building trajectories and governance structures. Drawing on Bourdieu’s habitus and field theory and Jessop’s strategic-relational approach, the study conceptualises

"If You Are Not Giving Birth, You Are Not Doing Anything": Negotiating Gendered Structures Regarding Contraception Among South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda

Refugee women are particularly at risk of having their sexual and reproductive health and rights compromised due to a high unmet need for contraception. Through fifteen individual interviews in Pagirinya refugee settlement, Northern Uganda, this thesis documents the gendered structures regarding contraceptive usage among South Sudanese refugee women and how they negotiate these structures. The the

From Moratorium to One-Channel: Who Governs Indonesian Female Domestic Worker Migration to the GCC?

This study examines whether formal state authority determines governance zone placement and whether governance zones shift (“zone migration”) across the ANIME stages, Agenda-Setting, Negotiation, Implementation, Monitoring, and Enforcement, in Indonesia’s female domestic worker migration to the GCC. Drawing on qualitative interviews with meso-level actors, it combines the ANIME framework with the

Bridging Narrative and Language Divide Online? Networked Languages, Soft-Power, and Language Brokering on Russian Social Media

State-controlled social media platforms can result in authoritarian soft power assets when the users' mediated communication extends across borders. Especially in times of hostile conflict and narrative divide, these transnational communication networks – without the coordination of the authoritarian state – can promote authoritarian narratives to non-domestic audiences when multilingual users

Queer(ing) School Spaces? How Spatiality and Institutional Practices Work to Limit and Enable Agency and Social Belonging Among Queer Students in Danish Upper-Secondary Schools

The aim of this thesis is to investigate how queer students in Danish upper-secondary schools expe- rience and navigate their school environments and how this is influenced by institutional practices. As such, this thesis adopts a dual perspective on queer students by investigating experiences of and agency within school environments, in the form of how they choose to respond to situations of dis-

The State-Market Nexus in Discourse and Labour Exploitation in Agrarian Capitalism: The Case of Sicily’s Tomato Sector

This thesis examines how labour exploitation in Sicily’s tomato sector is legitimised through both the Italian labour migration policy and agri-food industry discourse. It argues that exploitation is not the result of policy failure, but rather a structural feature of capitalist agriculture, normalised through public and private narratives that present inherently exploitative labour relations as e

Performing Violence - A Visual Analysis of Telegram Channels Linked to the IDF and Hamas after October 7th

This research analyses the communication strategies of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades on Telegram following the October 7th, 2023, attack. Focusing on 40 images and videos posted between October and December 2023, it investigates how visual content is used to perform violence, shape narratives, and legitimise actions. The study adopts a qualitative, social construct