The purpose of this study is to explore health sector social worker’s experiences of the implementation of Lean management. Five interviews were conducted with social workers working at departments where Lean-management had been implemented. In addition, observations were made during 4 days at one such department. Backed up by Julia Evetts’ theory of professions and the concepts “occupational prof

In this thesis, we approach the different types of violence that is manifested in the Chilean narrative of post-dictatorship. The genre is of a violent fictional nature and not a testimonial one. Yet, it possesses the same function as the one of testimonial literature because it reflects a real past and real historical events, and therefore it contributes to the general memory of the Chilean socie

Undersökningen tog ansats i den bristkompetens som finns på dagens arbetsmarknad inom IT. Syftet med studien var därför att studera hur olika IT-konsultföretag använder sig av employer branding i rekryteringen av nya medarbetare. Ur detta kunde även diverse likheter och skillnader mellan företagen urskiljas. Då undersökningen grundades i en kvalitativ metod samlades data in ur nio semistrukturerad

The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of children growing up with a sibling with a chronic and/or life-threatening disease by interviewing the healthy children and health care professionals. The object of the study was to understand the healthy children’s view on the level of support given to them during the course of the disease of their siblings. It was also aimed towards understa

This paper studies how unaccompanied children and minors are framed on editorial pages in four national Swedish newspapers. The purpose is to analyze how the editorial pages are forming and contributing to a frame of unaccompanied children and minors in the wake of the so-called ’refugee crisis’ in Europe during the fall of 2015. This paper finds that unaccompanied children and minors are, durin

I följande uppsats undersöks hur publiken konstrueras och positioneras vid grön marknadsföring och hur detta påverkar ett varumärkes trovärdighet. De två objekt som studeras är Oatlys annons Mjölklobbyn vs Oatly – the final countdown samt Coops reklamfilm Kära köttbit. Analysen genomförs med hjälp av en hermeneutisk metod och består av tre delar. Först görs en deskriptiv semiotisk analys av materi

This study is a content analysis which examines how attitudes and the social trust towards social services looks on the social network ”Flashback Forum”. Sweden is known for being a country with high trust, thus having high trust towards the state and its associated agencies. We have investigated if this high trust is correct through selected relevant comments on Flashback Forum. These comments ha

The aim of this study was to analyze social workers description of their care-support of the receivers through a queer-theoretical perspective within two non-profit organizations. The two non-profit organizations are working with sexual health in Sweden. Six qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted. The social worker’s experiences with giving care-support were analyzed through queer t

I uppsatsen redogörs det för vilket rättsligt skydd offentliganställda i Skandinavien har när det gäller att påtala missförhållanden på sin arbetsplats och vad detta skyddet innebär för arbetstagaren. Det redogörs även för vilka begränsningar som kan finnas i det rättsliga skyddet och vilka jämförelser som går att göra mellan Sveriges, Danmarks och Norges regleringar på området. Slutligen görs en This paper describes the legal protection of public sector employees in Scandinavia, when it comes to articulate grievances in their workplace and what this means for the employee. It also describes the limitations that may exist in the legal protection and what comparisons that can be made between Sweden, Denmark and Norway's regulations in this area. Finally, a comparative analysis of the le

Bränder i nattklubbar är ständigt återkommande och många gånger med förödande konsekvenser till följd. Station nightclub och Kiss nightclub är två exempel på bränder med ett stort antal döda. För oss i Sverige lever inte minst minnena från Göteborgsbranden kvar, en brand som kostade 63 ungdomars liv. Att se till att nattklubbar och krogmiljöer är så säkra som möjligt att vistas i är av största vikThe aim of this thesis is to investigate how alcohol affects people’s tendency to evacuate. There are many examples of fires in nightclubs where people have been drinking alcohol, and where the number of fatalities became high. To be able to study the effect that alcohol can have on evacuation, laboratory experiments were performed. The participants were divided in three test groups: one non-alcoh

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka socialarbetares beskrivning av våldsutsattas och våldsutövares situation samt att undersöka könets betydelse för hur insatser utformas inom socialtjänsten. Vidare var studiens frågeställningar hur socialarbetare definierade våld i nära relationer, hur socialarbetare beskrev mäns respektive kvinnors upplevelse av att vara våldsutsatt i en nära relation samtThe aim of this qualitative study was to examine social workers´ experiences of their work with violence in intimate relationships. This was performed by taking part of the social workers narratives about their work through semi - structured interviews. The social workers are employed at social services in Helsingborg, Sweden. The survey is built upon theories about intersectionality and gender. W

En undersökning av filmseriens tematik i förhållande till pågående samhällsdebatter kring behandlingen av djur.

Varannan fisk som äts av människor är odlad. De odlade fiskarna äter fiskfoder som till största delen består av fiskmjöl. Fiskmjöl är en bra proteinkälla i fiskarnas mat, men bidrar till överfiske och rubbar havens ekosystem. Därför har en annan proteinkälla undersökts, nämligen bakterien Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus. Denna bakterie har högt proteininnehåll och kan odlas i labb genom att mEvery second fish consumed by humans today is produced in aquaculture, and the main protein source in the fish feed is fishmeal. For every farmed salmonid, 1.8 fish are used in that fish’s feed. Hence, there is a great need of alternative protein sources to make aquaculture sustainable. The bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus, used experimentally for hydrogen production, has a protein c

The aim of this study was to examine convictions regarding the Care of Abusers act in the Swedish administrative court. The focus has been on judgements where female substance abusers have been pregnant at the time of conviction. The study has audited, through the courts convictions, what the social services, the administrative courts and the female client has argued about the pregnancy. We have a

Elderly alcohol problems- whose responsibility? – A qualitative study of home care workers and elderly with alcohol problems The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate what home care staff think promotes beneficial care for elderly, who is living in their ordinary home and has a problem with alcohol. This study explore which difficulties the staff endure during their work with this

This bachelor thesis deals with the reporting around the demonstration in Gothenburg on September 30th 2017 arranged by Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen (NMR), a Nordic Neo-Nazi movement. After a cultural debate in Sweden regarding freedom of speech and the attendance of the internet based right-winged alternative media Fria Tider on Mässan Bok & Bibliotek, also known as Bokmässan, always arranged a

Några av de viktigaste molekylära strukturerna för livet på jorden är polymerer. Några exempel på dessa är deoxyribonukleinsyror (DNA) som bär den genetiska informationen nödvändig för att en organisk ska kunna utvecklas och fungera, och proteiner som utför andra komplexa och livsnödvändiga funktioner och utgör maskineriet för till exempel cellandning och ämnesomsättning. Det som DNA, proteiner ocThe co-assembly and temperature-dependent phase behavior of dilute aqueous solutions of a thermoresponsive cationic diblock copolymer and oppositely charged bile salts, sodium deoxycholate and sodium glycodexoycholate, or sodium dodecyl sulphate at different charge fractions in terms of negative charge were investigated by static- and dynamic light scattering (SLS/DLS), differential scanning calor

Earlier studies have shown that when assessing explanations of psychological phenomena, there is a bias for explanations including references to neuroscience, even when these references contain logically irrelevant information (Fernandez-Duque, Evans, Christian & Hodges, 2015; M inahan & Siedlecki, 2016; Weisberg, Keil, Goodstein, Rawson and Gray, 2008; Weisberg, Taylor & Hopkins, 2015

“You start to wonder: should I stay or go aswell?” The purpose of this study was to examine child assistance social-workers views on work-satisfaction, and to find out what they thought mattered for accomplishing work-satisfaction. Our research questions were “How do child assistance social-workers view their work situation and their work-satisfaction?” and “What factors do child protection socia

Bacteria in drinking water distribution systems have aroused considerable attention due to the potential public health risks. Drinking water presents a low-nutrient environment in which various bacterial populations proliferate. Water treatment plants are designed and operated to produce safe drinking water and to protect the drinking water from microbial contamination. To ensure the safety of the