In Swedish higher education, the students have a right by law to partake in the decisions that concern them and the education. The participation in such decisions is organized through student representatives elected by the student unions. Previous studies on representation in student unions and politics suggested that a certain socioeconomic background might be overrepresented among the student un

Bakgrund: Den verbala kommunikationen förmedlar budskap, den icke-verbala kommunikationen förmedlar information om budskapen och kan antingen förstärka eller motsäga det som sägs verbalt. Genom att använda icke-verbal kommunikation anpassad efter mottagaren kan den icke-verbala kommunikationen utgöra ett hjälpmedel, istället för ett hinder, för vårdpersonal. Syfte: Att belysa hur den icke-verbala

The purpose of this study was to examine how social workers working with people selling sexual services perceive the purpose, effects, and normative function of the Swedish Sex Purchase Law. The study is based on six semi-structured qualitative interviews with (social workers from the field). Theories that were used to analyse the data were social constructivism, radical feminism, and liberal femi

Studies have shown that people working within social work are more exposed to threats and violence in the workplace than people with other occupations. The pur-pose of this study was to investigate the exposure to work-related threats and vio-lence among social workers and examine how situations involving work-related threats and violence are handled. More precisely, the study examines social work

Pallets are the most common tertiary packaging solution with over 80% the world trade currently being carried out using pallets. The most widely used pallet type is the four-way wood pallet which accounts for 86% of the pallet production worldwide and the most common pallet size is the Euro Pallet. A department at Tetra Pak called Additional Materials (AddMat) is mainly using Euro Pallets, which h

Due to the era of digitalization increased demands have been set upon businesses to stay up-to-date, being adaptive, flexible and innovative which contributes to a higher focus on learning at the workplace. To cope with these demands organizations have begun using e-learning platforms. This study is based on a case where we, in collaboration with a global organization, have been looking closer at

The aim of this study is to explore how employees at fountain houses in south of Sweden describes differences and similarities between them and members. The study is based on six qualitative interviews with employees, who has the title supervisors, from three different fountain houses. The empirics are analyzed throughout two main theories: Hannah Arendt’s theory about action, and Erving Goffman’s

The aim of the study was to investigate the participating psychologists’ experiences with compassion fatigue, and to identify individual, interpersonal and organizational factors and strategies perceived as contributing or protecting in relation to compassion fatigue. Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with eight psychologists (three men and five women) with more than five years o

The aim of this study has been to distinguish how the social workers make decisions on which activations program that the client is demanded to participate, in relation to their eligibility for social assistance. Eight social workers in four different municipalities working within the field participated this study. They participated in a semi-structured interview as well as vignettes. The study sh

Bumblebees and other pollinators have recently experienced population and diversity declines linked to habitat loss and fragmentation due to land use change. A previous study in Sweden showed a big shift in bumblebee community composition, where the Bombus terrestris complex (B. terrestris, Bombus lucorum) highly increased in relative abundance, but the relative contribution of the two different s

"Is it the children's right to their parents or is it the parents right to their children?" : A qualitative interview study about social worker's description about "visitation sabotage" in cases involving intimate partner violence The aim of this study was to understand how social workers at women’s shelters describe “visitation sabotage”, to be accused or risk being a

Globaliseringens påverkan på marknaden leder till att fler och fler företag har ett behov av att använda sig av tillfällig- arbetskraft. Med tillfälligarbetskraft kan de snabbare an- passa sig efter variationen i marknadens efterfråga. Det skapar en flexibilitet och en lägre kostnadsstruktur. För att undvika kostnaden och tiden som rekrytering tar så använ- der sig många företag av bemanningsföret

The aim of this study was to research how social workers working with homelessness use their discretion in relation to the categorization of clients. This study was performed in the context of a new guideline being set at the researched organization. The guideline determined that one of the classifications of clients, which the social workers previously actively worked with, no longer will be a pa

The aim of this study is about work motivation, finding joy in work and how social worker at hospitals perceive this. The essay begins with a look at the history of work motivation and work joy. The study also brings up previous research that has been done within the subject. The study then brings forth relevant theories that present a deeper insight on work motivation and work joy. The theories p

The aim of this study was to examine important elements of recovery as told by people with first-hand experiences of mental health issues. A qualitative approach was used to obtain knowledge of what is helpful versus obstructive in a recovery process. Six interviews were conducted with participants that view themselves as partly or fully recovered from mental illness. Most of the participants are

Elderly trust in welfare : A quantitative study on how interaction with home help services and need assessors influences trust in welfare A large number of studies have shown that trust in societal institutions is the foundation of a stable and developing society. Trust is highly important for economic growth and for expanding social services to a population. But what affects trust in institution

The purpose of this study is to analyze how the child’s perspective is used in social services today and how the usage of the child’s perspective is expected to change due to the incorporation of the convention on the rights of the child. We collected data through qualitative interviewing with six participants from the same social service office. In our study we have established that the concepts

The aim of the study was to examine gender differences regarding the activity on Instagram, and the correlation between mental health and Instagram usage amongst social work students at Lund University. More specifically, the study aimed to identify whether men and womens’ Instagram usage and motives for Instagram usage differentiated and if their usage affected them negatively. The study was cond

Soundcloud is the worlds third largest streaming platform for music. Despite this, the website is riddled with spam comments that disturb user experience. This spam diers much in format and content from the email spam that we are used to seeing, and that most classic spam lters have been developed to detect. On soundcloud, 90% of spam comments are written by users wanting to self-promote their own

This work aims to examine the strategies that social workers at non-profit organizations in Barcelona work with in meeting children who are in need of social support. The study was conducted qualitatively, with the method semi-structured interviews. The respondents were selected through a snowball selection and were all employees of non-profit organizations located in Barcelona, Spain. After the e