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Previous research shows that men in preschool experience anxiety in physical interaction with children after media discourses about child sexual abuse in preschool. Against this backdrop this study investigates how male students and newly graduated preschool teachers talk about masculinity and physical interaction and how they experience that the preschool education offers them tools or discussion

So, what does a new life for the old fire station mean? It means that it is possible for a new generation to utilize the Gåsebäck landmark and historical building. The building should be attractive for the investors, for the city, and its inhabitants. The provided opportunities for the development of the building could be considered as a temporary solution for maintaining the history of the Gåsebä

This thesis analyses the effect of corruption on Kenya's low and fluctuant FDI inflows. Institutions have increasingly been crucial for all economic aspects, including FDI. As a component of institutions, corruption has been found to 'sand the wheels' of FDI and economic prosperity. To confirm this hypothesis, this paper employed an ARDL model and found that corruption had a negative a

Shared micro-mobility gradually becomes a crucial part of human daily transportation. To develop the shared micro-mobility, discovering the important influence factors of each travel mode is a key aspect. However, there are scarce studies that adopt machine learning methods to model travel choice between shared micro-mobility services and identify the crucial determinants for each mode. This study

This 30 credits master degree project focused on creating a product design with the aim to expand Arduino’s maker community to reach young girls. The goal was to design a wearable merchandise for Arduino #include, which would inspire girls to explore STEM and learn about technology and programming. Arduino is a open source hardware company and Arduino #include is an inclusivity programme to celebr

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att undersöka vilka faktorer som gymnasieelever från ett estetprogram upplever som viktiga för att skapa eller underhålla motivationen till att fortsätta musicera efter gymnasietiden. Undersökningen har genomförts i form av en kvalitativ metod genom intervjuer av tidigare elever från estetprogram som, på professionell eller amatörnivå, har fortsatt med musiken eftThe purpose of this study is to investigate which factors are perceived as important to high school students with a music profile in order to create or maintain the motivation to continue to play music after high school. The investigation has been carried out using a qualitative method through interviewing former students that have studied a music profile in high school and there after continued p

In 1997 several articles from the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. where released about Swedens history with forced sterilization on disabled citizens. The aim of this essay is to analyze the discourses around disabled people and abled people and see the how the journalists write about sterilized citizens. The method chosen for this essay is discourse analysis with the help of Michel Foucault and

Detta är en kandidatuppsats i socialantropologi som handlar om hur kosmologi, religion och spiritualitet är kopplat till ekologi. Jag kommer att granska och kritisera grundorsaken till våra allvarliga ekologiska problem, den dominerande västerländska världssynen, som jag argumenterar vara bland annat dualistisk, antropocentrisk, orealistisk och dysfunktionell. Jag kommer även att granska en sor

This is a bachelor thesis containing a thematic text analysis of trial documents from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the case of The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda. Mr. Ntaganda is up to the present the only one who has been convicted of rape and sexual slavery in the context of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the ICC. The aim of the thesis is to identify and analyze what the IC

Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka om och hur medarbetarengagemang påverkas vid arbete på distans. Vi ställde följande frågor. Hur har det individuella medarbetarengagemanget blivit påverkat i relation till distansarbete? Är medierande faktorer så som kön, ålder, pendlingstid, antal vuxna och barn i hushållet samt trivsel av arbetsplats hemma relaterade till medarbetarengagemang? Är personThe purpose of this thesis was to investigate factors impacting employee engagement, with a focus on the recent increased trend of working remotely. We raised the question: How is the individual employee engagement impacted by the degree of remote work? Are the mediating factors gender, age, commuting time, number of adults and children in household and home office satisfaction related to employee

Den 18 mars 2020 och vårterminen ut övergick Sveriges alla gymnasieskolor till distansundervisning i ett försök att minska smittspridningen av coronaviruset Covid-19. Syftet med den här studien har varit att genom kvalitativa intervjuer undersöka och söka kartlägga hur fyra gymnasielärare i sång löste omställningen till digital distansundervisning utifrån ett pedagogiskt perspektiv. Vidare var syfBeginning March 18, 2020, and continuing throughout the spring semester, all of Sweden’s upper secondary schools switched to remote instruction in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The aim of the study was to use qualitative interviews to investigate and document how four secondary school vocal music instructors handled the transition to digital teaching and learning from a pedagogical

Ämnet för uppsatsen är strategier för receptiv ordförståelse med fokus på gissningsstrategier, mer specifikt kontextuella ledtrådar. Även strategin att använda ordbok tas upp. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka vilken effekt användning av kontextuella ledtrådar och användning av ordbok har för att svenska som andraspråksinlärare ska kunna sluta sig till betydelsen av ett okänt ord. Undersökni

Syftet med studien är att kvalitativt undersöka hur väl en masterutbildning med finansiell inriktning förbereder en student för ett framtida arbete inom Investment Banking. Studien följer en kvalitativ metod där två empiriska källor ställs emot varandra för att urskilja likheter och skillnader. Innehållet för två universitetsutbildningar jämförs med praktisk tillämpning som sammanfattas av intervThe study aims to investigate how well a master programme within finance prepare a student for employment within Investment Banking. The study follows a qualitative method where the two empirical foundings are set against each other to distinguish similarities and differences. Two university programs are compared with a compilation of seven different interviews conducted with persons that are ope

Kullaberg is a unique landscape for southern Sweden and the caves have for long been an exciting phenomenons for people, both in the past and present times. The archaeological research around Kullaberg’s caves has long been focused on the Stone Age area and this has led to the caves being associated with this period. This study will instead consider the caves as a material object and its function

To address child labour, research discusses the potential of social protection programmes. This thesis therefore examines the unresolved impact on child labour and children’s school attendance of its household members’ participation in the public employment programme MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India. By applying the combined difference-in-differences propensity score matching method,

Due to climate change, the average global sea level is rising. Consequently, flood protection is being discussed by cities all over the world. Out of all the proposed solutions for this, those that can offer something beyond the construction of high walls are the ones with the most value. We should create coastal protections that offer added value, for us humans as well as for the ecosystem we liv

Multi-storey buildings constructed in timber have become more common in recent years. A reason for this lies in the growing interest for sustainable building, where timber is seen as a particularly interesting alternative. As efforts have been made to improve the heat insulation in buildings, the energy consumption from manufacturing materials and from constructing buildings, referred to as embodi

Title: Next generation rear axle assembly - A case study at Scania Authors: Richard Andrae & William Bergmark Background: Following the development of industry 4.0, new production technologies enabling more efficient assembly processes constantly evolve. Scania is a leading manufacturer of trucks in Sweden, offering a wide product portfolio and the possibility for their customers to customize

Research connected to sustainability have increased tremendously during the last decades, partially due to the increased attention of businesses practices in sustainability. A field that has gathered traction with many practitioners is sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) and especially performance measurements. This thesis focuses on this field through a literature review of 56 academic art

As climate change continues to threaten us more and more, different ways of governing climate change are considered. Multi-level governance approach is widely used in the literature to examine how global, national, and local actor interacts and influence each other. In this thesis I analyse how multi-level governance of climate change work in the case of Istanbul by adopting a powerbased approach.