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The aim of this study was to examine how middle managers experience the impact of internal and external stakeholders bound to the organizations and how middle managers form their legitimacy. The study examined the complex situation of social workers in a middle managing position using stakeholder theory and legitimacy. The middle managers are working in Swedish welfare organizations providing supp
The aim of this study was to examine the employees experiences of the collaboration between the probation service, the social service and the labor office within the organization Krami. The study relies on six qualitative, semi structured interviews with two employees from each authority at two separate Krami offices. The organization aims to guide and help persons with former criminal backgrounds
The aim of this study is to investigate how school counselors describe control over their work situation and to conclude which factors compicate and ease the counselors to feel in control. This study is empirically based on semi-structured interviews of seven school counselors. The conclusions indicates that the counselors generally though they had control over their work although there were uncle
The aim of this study was to explore sea-level rise (SLR) exposure in South-East England by conducting a broad analysis of some of the possible impacts of inundation in the region under different SLR scenarios in a warming climate. The potential effects of coastal inundation were mapped and quantified by applying a modified bathtub modelling approach in GIS to a low-elevation coastal Digital Terr
It is still not well defined how the anatomy of the hip in healthy pediatric patients develop. Defining the span of normal anatomical development could help identify patients that deviate from healthy development and enable early diagnosis of certain pathological conditions of the hip. To study the normality range of the 3D morphology of the hip for pediatric patients, a statistical shape model (
Recently heavy rainfall frequency in Kyushu Island, the southwestern part of Japan, during the rainy season, has been increasing due to possibly climate change, global warming. Owing to the recent increase of heavy rainfall frequency, natural disasters related to heavy rainfall including flooding and landslides have occurred and caused serious damages to infrastructures and human lives. Therefore,
This thesis investigated how one can build a PowerLink network and Control Nodes that act as, e.g., sensor, actuators, etc., together with B&R:s products. Establishing different PowerLink networks was also investigated such as PLC connected to Raspberry Pi2. Configuration and step-by-step introduction of what PowerLink is and how it works is also mentioned in this thesis. In addition to creati
The aim of this study was to examine adolescents in the age ranging between 20-25, with one or two foreign-born parents from the former Yugoslavia, experiencing their identity as this is a group considered to be established and well integrated in the Swedish society. As the study was based on a qualitative method using focus groups, the questions in the group sessions were initially more structure
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether social work students experience a discrepancy between what they learned at the School of Social Studies and what they experienced in the practical field and, if so, how they describe this discrepancy and how they respond to it. The group of respondents considered of 5 students from Lund University. The study was based on qualitative interviews. T
Housing first has been introduced as a new method in the field of social work, aimed at homelessness in Sweden. The conventional way of tackling homelessness has made it difficult for people in homelessness to access and retain housing. In the hands of the social services, housing programs, has developed into becoming a tool of control and surveillance. As a new approach to the issue of homelessne
The aim of this study was to interpret and understand how Caribbean music talks about women and if it can affect gender and social norms. The study reflects on how music affects us and how relevant it may be to have knowledge about it in social work. The study was based on Caribbean music where the analysis was conducted on lyrics from soca and dancehall music. Observations were also conducted to
The aim of this study was to examine and understand treatment counselors´ working methods and strategies in relation to empty labor. The study has also focused on examining how the attitude is expressed, partly from colleagues and partly from superiors. With an ethnographic approach, the phenomenon empty labor, i.e., when someone spends time on activities that are not considered as working tasks,
Mångfald är ett begrepp med stark förankring i arbetslivet. Trots detta är definitionen inte helt självklar eftersom flera aktörer konkurrerar om ägandet och tolkanderätten av termen. Begreppet definieras huvudsakligen utifrån inre och yttre mångfald, där ett mångfaldsarbete påverkas av vilket perspektiv en organisation har gentemot dessa faktorer. Studien är gjord genom kvalitativ intervjuunders
The aim of this study was to explore the way out of homelessness for women with children and a history of substance abuse. The study population were women who had personal experience of being homeless, a substance abuser and a mother, but had left the homelessness and substance abuse behind. Four semi-structured interviews were conducted with four different women, and the empirical material was th
The aim of this study was to examine social workers educational material about violent extremism. This included investigating how violent extremism and risk behaviors are produced and how they can be interpreted by social workers. In many ways extremism and democracy can be regarded as contradictory to each other. Therefore an important part of the preventive work aims to protect the democracy aga
Young people’s and young adults’ own perceptions of alcohol- and drug use. A qualitative study. The thesis examines young people, age 18-24, and their thoughts on drugs and alcohol. We examine their views on cannabis, alcohol, and heavy-end drugs. We examine their attitudes with focus on identity, normalization and social context. We come to the conclusion that the youth of today are in the proces
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyse how case-workers manage the mental and social needs within elderly care. Many elderly suffer from mental illness, depression och loneliness. The study was conducted by qualitative semistructured interviews with case-workers through a targeted selection process. The study showed that physical needs are easier to manage and carry out rather than
Energy harvesting, from ambient vibrations, can be a very effective method for solving the problem with powering electronics were the need for constant power or regular battery replacements is a trouble or an inconvenience. But, since all energy harvesters, using mechanical vibrations, need to operate in resonance in order to generate maximal electrical output, and ambient vibrations usually do no
The aim of this study is to, with depth in the coping theory presented by Lazarus and Folkman, analyse two different self biographies written by people brought up in families with an alcoholic mother. Namely “Vi har inga hemligheter i den här familjen” by Therése Eriksson and “Glöm mig” by Alex Schulman. The focus is to investigate which coping resources the authors used to deal with their life si
