Abstract Being a public authority, as the Swedish Vägverket, includes communication with youth. A lot of research is done concerning youth and its life conditions – they are the future and thereby important to understand. A common goal for public authorities of today is to cooperate to create more value for the citizen. The web service Körkortsportalen is a result of that. The research questions a

The aim of the thesis is to study and highlight the needs of passenger’s traffic information in the railway station environment, to identify and examine what its deficiencies depend on and come up with proposals on how they can be addressed. Thus, hopefully, improve the quality of information reaching the passengers in station environments. The method used included literature studies, among others

The main objective of my bachelor thesis was to describe and analyse the intricate bipolar power relationship between personal assistants and their clients. My focus was limited to the relationship between personal assistants and clients who have aggressive behaviour as an aspect of their functional impairment. To approach the phenomena I chose a qualitative method and interviewed nine persons fro

Abstract Kandidatuppsats inom Service Management Titel: Marknadskommunikation: En kvalitativ undersökning av marknadskommunikation för det mindre detaljhandelsföretaget. Författare: Patrik Bengtsson, Viktor Olsson och Jakob Redlund Termin och år: VT09 Kursansvarig institution: Institutionen för Service Management, Helsingborg Handledare: Jesper Falkheimer och Charlotte Simonsson Nyckelord: Profil,

Sediment transport pattern in the Himalayan River is complex and sediment sampling in these rivers are often difficult. Sediment load in the river varies largely from year to year. Major part of the sediment load is transported in the monsoon months. Reliable and consistent sediment rating equation is not found for the Himalayan Rivers. The change in the flow rate and suspended sediment concentrat

The purpose of this study is to show and discuss the work and the efforts that are made for children and young asylum seekers in the Swedish society, focusing on the rights of the child. My aim was also to discuss whether Sweden complies with the Convention on the rights of the child in asylum cases. My questions were: What rights do children and young asylum seekers have compared to adults? How a

The purpose of the present thesis is to investigate the foundations for statehood and self-determination—two seminal points of international law—through the concept of discourse and its notion of power. The starting point is that language and representations of reality are not merely ‘objective’ depictions, but in fact shaped by the practices that convey the representations. This constitutes the t

The public sector of today is often characterised by reduced finance and increased competition, which makes it harder to attract the highest skilled employees. This thesis attempts to generate new knowledge about employer branding within the public sector. We have carried out a case study on Universitetssjukhuset MAS (UMAS) and studied three different groups; employees in leading positions, doctor

Den här uppsatsen fokuserar på Malmö sjöfartsmuseum som är en del av den större organisationen Malmö museer. Studien uppmärksammar att privatpersoner i en förening bidragit att forma museets verksamhet sedan museets grundande 1978 och den konflikt som uppstått eftersom museets sjöfartssamlingar inte visats i museets bottenplan sedan 2003. Med hjälp av teorier om kulturarv och identitet visar studi

The complex professional role of the social worker implicates that one is confronted with a row of ethical dilemmas. Therefore it is important to seek knowledge about the strategies to be used in handling these dilemmas. The purpose of this essay has been to investigate the social worker’s thoughts about the professional role with the background of the ethical dilemmas that may arise in the practi

Abstract This assignment is an examinationpaper on behalf of School of social studies at the University of Lund. The essay is about penalty and treatment in the Swedish youth welfare. Present-day Swedish youth welfare has on behalf of the legal system to implement penalty to the adolescence but also give them treatment for the coming life. We think it can be a problem to use these to aspects in

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how young women in urban and rural areas of Jordan, a developing country, think about their role in the family, education and work. We also want to see which strategies they use to navigate in the family as a social system in a changing context. The study is based on 12 interviews with Jordanian women where six live in urban and six live in rural areas.

The Tam Giang-Cau Hai lagoon system, two inter-connected and naturally occurring coastal lagoons located in the Thua Thien-Hue province of Vietnam, comprises two inlets: Thuan An and Tu Hien. The Thuan An and Tu Hien inlets connect the lagoon system to the South China Sea and they are subjected to morphologic changes due to sediment transport effects. The magnitude of sediment transport is determi

Germany is the country in the EU with the biggest population of Turks, about 2, 8 million. Does this influence Germany’s thoughts about a Turkish EU membership? The paper will survey the German debate about a Turkish membership in the EU and also try to analyse if there are some hidden motives behind the arguments. It focuses on the debate between the political parties in the German parliament. Th

ABSTRACT Author: Aferdita Haxha, Anna-lena Hulander Title: ”Man måste brinna för att bli bränd” – en studie om en grupp kvinnors upplevelse av utbrändhet Supervisor: Anders Lundberg Assessor: Mats Hilte The aim with this essay was to examine seven women’s experiences regarding burn-out. Furthermore we looked at what emotions these women experienced during their burn-out period and how their rec

This paper gives an introduction to the pro and cons towards biofuel in the current international debate. The thesis is empirically based on fieldwork in Tanzania and presents a specific biofuel investment from the Swedish company SEKAB (Swedish Ethanol Chemistry AB). The location of fieldwork was in the Rufiji District where SEKAB plans to invest. The study’s focus is on the present quality of li

The purpose of the essay is to examine explanations offered by both police and social workers for street robbery committed by juveniles. Our conclusions are based on the findings from a series of semi structured qualative interwievs conducted with social workers and police from Landskrona and Malmö. These findings have been analyzed using hypotheses suggested by Merton´s anomie/strain theory and H

The aim with the study was to describe and analyze the profession “personlig assistant” in Lunds kommun. The study was based on interviews with five assistants and one employer/ chief working for Lunds kommun. Eight themes were identified and discussed: tasks, working hours, working environment, the relationship between the assistant and the client, the balance of power between the assistant and t