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In the past few years women’s empowerment and gender equality initiatives have been under increasing pressure to measure their impact. This thesis explores the stakeholders’ experiences with the monitoring and evaluation practice with a case study of a women’s fund that provides grants to grassroots women’s organizations in South Africa. The study is based on previous research, the grassroots deve

Titel: Ett Paradigmskifte i Hållbar Stadsutveckling? En Fallstudie av Malmö och Curitiba och Interaktionen Mellan Medborgare och Institutioner. Seminariedatum: 2014-05-23. Kurs: FEKN90 Examensarbete på Civilekonomprogrammet, 30 ECTS. Författare: Märta Lagergren och Sandra Olsson. Handledare: Matts Kärreman. Nyckelord: Hållbarhet, Hållbar Stadsutveckling, Integrering av Medborgare, VärdekonfigTitle:A Paradigm Shift in Sustainable City Development? - A Case Study of Curitiba and Malmö, and the Interaction Between Citizens and Institutions. Seminar date: 2014-05-23. Course: FEKN90 Masters Thesis in Science and Business Administration, 30 ECTS. Authors: Märta Lagergren and Sandra Olsson. Supervisor: Matts Kärreman. Key Words: Sustainability, Sustainable City Development, Citizen Inte

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the Western influence in three different articles from the late 19th century, Egyptian Women’s Magazine, al-Fatāh. The analysis is based on the hypothesis that they used similar arguments in their debate for girl’s education, as did women in the West. In order to compare the analysis to Western writers, a background on the debate about girls’ education among We

Landskrona is a distinct industrial city and has since the 1700th century had many major industries, which has contributed to negative effects on the environment and caused pollution in soil and water. When the land wasn’t enough and more space was needed for exploitation, the area started to get filled up with dredged and filling material. Many of the industries are suspected to have dumped waste

In this thesis I examine the experiences of three racialized students regarding their academic environment at Lund University and the student activities surrounding it. The purpose is to add a student␣␣ perspective to a, with international measurements, relatively small Swedish field of anti-­racist studies on academia. Using Sara Ahmed␣s phenomenology, thoughts of Patricia Hill Collins and Bourdi

This research is a qualitative inquiry into the experience and everyday lives of international volunteers. Given the novel aspect of international volunteering in being a social phenomenon, this research was conceived with the aim to be an explorative study and to yield new elements with implications for future research. Indeed, the research participants account for a yet unexplored area of resear

The future of our society is in need of changes to survive. Our cities are not sustainable the way they are today, nor the way we consume our resources. For those reasons, sustainable development has become fashion today. Eco-cities are being built all over the world to find new solutions to problems we face every day, such as too much traffic and waste. The topic for this master thesis is who ini

The present paradigm on transitional justice dictates that diverse interventions are needed in the aftermath of conflict. The West African country Liberia suffered from 14 years of civil war that ended in 2003 and is now the location for several interventions run by local NGO’s funded from abroad. In the rural post-conflict communities of Liberia’s Northern region, Lofa County, The Community Heali

Global mean temperature has been observed to increase over the last hundred years; this increase is coupled with a global increase of warm extreme indices and a decrease in cold extreme indices. In this study, daily observations of mean and extreme temperatures from ten different weather stations in Sweden during the time period 1961-2010 were analyzed. A warming trend was identified for every dat

As the primary objective of the thesis was to reduce the need for staffing and manual rounds at Västhamnsverket and to be able to control the process from Filbornaverket, we have developed a new feature description for Västhamnsverkets fuel transportation system and made a realization of this feature description in an ABB 800xA system. At present day the fuel transportation system is regulated fro

This study aims to contribute to solving the mystery associated with smart investment strategies. It seems impossible to find an extraordinary investment strategy that can outperform the usual returns on the market. Including 116 stocks from Stockholmsbörsens large and mid cap, this study examines if alpha values are stable over time, and if so an investment in a portfolio based on high alpha valu

Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka kommunikationsprofesionen i ett postfordistiskt arbetsliv. Metod: Studien fokuserar på kommunikationsprofessionen ur ett frilans- och egenföretagarperspektiv. Vi undersöker uppgifterna, arbetsvillkoren samt hur arbetarna upplever sitt arbete som frilansare. För att genomföra studien har vi genomfört 9 kvalitativa intervjuer och en intervju via mejl. Vi anPurpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the profession of communication in a post-fordistic work environment. Methodology: This study is focusing on the profession of communication in a freelance and self-employment perspective. We wish to investigate the tasks and the working conditions of freelance workers. To do this we have carried out nine qualitative interviews and one interview

Syftet med studien är att analysera huruvida Svenska börsbolag agerar opportunistiskt när man väljer diskonteringsränta för nedskrivningsprövning av goodwill genom en jämförelse med teoretiska diskonteringsräntor framräknade enligt CAPM.The purpose of this study is to analyze whether Swedish listed companies act opportunistic when choosing the discount rate in the impairment testing of goodwill, according to IAS 36, and if the discount rates comply with theoretical discount rates computed according to CAPM.

Föreliggande studie är en kritisk diskursanalys av ledarskapsprogrammet Ledaren i Mig. Programmet riktar sig till skolor och syftar till att lära elever att “leda sig själv”. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur begreppet och behovet av ledarskap konstrueras samt förstå resultatet utifrån disciplinering och styrningsmentalitet. Det teoretiska ramverket för studien utgörs av socialkonstruktionis

Photoionisation dynamics occurring in Ar and N2O upon the absorption of soft X-ray radiation, have been studied through the extraction of the beta parameter from the angular distributions of Ar 2p 3/2 and N2O Nt 1s photoelectrons by a means of Velocity Map Imaging Spectroscopy. The results of beta determined in the dipole approximation for N2O at different photon energies, coincided with pre-docu

Denna studie analyserar sambandet mellan finanspolitisk åtstramning och jämviktsarbetslöshet utifrån historisk, teoretisk och empirisk synvinkel. Den finner att mer finanspolitisk åtstramning är signifikant korrelerad med en ökad jämviktsarbetslöshet. Fackföreningstäthet och högre arbetslöshetsersättning är också signifikant korrelerade med en högre jämviktsarbetslöshet, något som möjligen är kännThis study analyses the relationship between fiscal austerity measures and equilibrium unemployment from historical, theoretical and empirical perspectives. Greater amounts of fiscal austerity measures are found to be significantly correlated with increases in equilibrium unemployment. Trade union density and unemployment benefits are also found to relate significantly to higher rates of equilibri

The aim of this thesis is to explore how religious practices of the immigrants are shaped after migrating to a more secular country. As a more concrete case, I am interested in the religious practices of Turkish immigrants in Sweden. For the purposes of the study fourteen semi-structured interviews with first generation Turkish immigrants in Malmö were conducted to investigate the changes in relig