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Can we show you the skeletons in our closet? : Museum exhibitions with human remains in different European settings

Mänskliga kvarlevor förstås inte längre bara som föremål utan också som avlidna individer. Utställda mänskliga kvarlevor kan ha en suggestiv kraft som ger dem liv genom mötet med besökare, tillspetsat skulle man kunna säga att de befinner sig i ett slags limbo mellan liv och död. Denna studie jämför museiutställningar som innehåller mänskliga kvarlevor mellan tre europeiska länder. Syftet med uppHuman remains are nowadays understood not solely as objects but also as deceased individuals. Exhibited human remains may possess a suggestive power that gives them life through the encounter with visitors, to the point that one could say that they are in a kind of limbo between life and death. This study seeks to compare the museal exhibitions containing human remains in three countries within Eu

Socionomers attityd till att arbeta med myndighetsutövning - en kvantitativ studie

In Sweden, it is reported that a lot of Social Services are having difficulties recruiting staff, especially experienced staff. With a high turnover rate and a great need for social workers in these areas of work, this study aimed to investigate social work students’ attitudes towards work with the exercise of public authority and try to detect which factors could be affecting these attitudes. The

Öppna din dörr? En kvalitativ intervjustudie av museipersonals attityder, erfarenheter och tankar kring publikt tillgängliga magasin

This thesis has the title Open your door? The purpose of this study is to learn about museum professionals’ opinions and thoughts surrounding publicly accessible storage solutions. The research questions for this study are: • How do the museum professionals reflect over their attitudes and thoughts to publicly accessible storage in the interviews? • What are the underlying factors for regional

Främjandet av mångfald och inkludering i anläggningsprojekt

Byggbranschen är sedan länge känd för att vara en mansdominerad bransch som kännetecknas av macho-beteenden. Trots ökad medvetenhet om behovet av mångfald och inkludering, där det alltmer arbetas med dessa frågor i dagens byggbransch, är representationen bland kvinnor och andra minoriteter fortfarande låg. Stereotyper och fördomar kvarstår än idag, vilket hotar branschens framtid att vara mångfald

Sömnkvalitet knackar på källminnets dörr: en studie om sambandet mellan självrapporterad sömnkvalitet och källminnets prestation - A study on how self-reported sleep quality relates to source memory performance

Syftet med studien var att undersöka sambandet mellan självrapporterad sömn och källminne. Detta undersöktes med hjälp av en modifierad version av Johansson och Stenbergs (2002) svenska Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) test. Frågeställningarna som undersöktes var (1) Orsakar DRM testet semantiska sammanblandningar (att deltagarna tenderar att svara "gammalt" på lurord)? (2) Finns det ett s

Concept of “Beneficial Ownership” in OECD and Chinese Tax Law - similarity and difference

The term of Beneficial Ownership is a widely recognized term in international double tax treaties for the purpose of preventing tax evasion and avoidance regarding the cross-border payments of dividends, interests and royalties. OECD model is the most commonly used tax model for countries negotiating and conclusion the tax treaties. However, over the past half decades of OECD model’s progress, the

A study on industrial heritage and building reuse in redevelopment processes - A case study on the industrial heritage and redevelopment of Västerbro

There is a trend in urban planning to redevelop industrial areas within cities into new modern residential districts. Considering sustainability goals and heritage conservation, many of these areas are often redeveloped through partial material reuse or full adaptive reuse of buildings. The thesis aims to uncover the actors, networks and processes in the redevelopment and planning processes to und

With Their Tanks and Their Bombs, and Their Lies: Disinformation, Propaganda, and Freedom of Expression Online in Armed Conflicts

This thesis examines the impact of online disinformation and propaganda in armed conflicts, particularly within the legal frameworks of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law. It focuses on how these practices function as tools of hybrid warfare and assesses the adequacy of current legal norms in addressing these challenges, with specific case studies from the Russo-Ukra

Vem vill arbeta med våldsutövare? En kvantitativ studie om socionomstudenters intresse för att arbeta med våldsutövare

Since August 2021 Swedish social services have had a special responsibility to work for perpetrators of violence to change their behavior, but little research has examined aspiring social workers’ interest in working with the target group. This quantitative study has aimed to understand social work students’ interests, knowledge about, and how comfortable they are in working with perpetrators of v

The Impact of ESG performance on Idiosyncratic Volatility

Environment, social and governance (ESG) ratings are of interest for both investors and researchers for its effect on stock performance. Previous literature has found mixed results with regard to this relationship and few papers are concerned with the volatility of ESG stocks. This paper explores the relationship between ESG scores and idiosyncratic risk. Using monthly news-based, AI generated ESG

The Rise of a Green Scare? Analysing the French Government's Discourse on the Soulèvements de la Terre and Ecoterrorism

In October 2022, the Soulèvements de la Terre and other environmental movements demonstrated against the project of the megabasins in Sainte Soline, France. Following violent clashes between activists and security forces, the Minister of the Interior declared the activists' actions as ecoterrorism. As a consequence, terrorism rhetoric in relation to environmental activists entered French publi

Förtroende i fritt fall

Förtroende i fritt fall En kvalitativ innehållsanalys om kriskommunikation inom nöjesparksbranschen Studien har som syfte att undersöka hur nöjesparker kommunicerar i kriser som uppstår på grund av allvarliga olyckor. Forskningsfrågorna är centrerade kring en specifik nöjespark för att omfånget av studien ska vara hanterbart. Genom forskningsfrågorna undersöks nöjesparkens arbetet med riskkkommuniTrust in free fall A qualitative content analysis on crisis communication in the amusement park industry The study aims to investigate how amusement parks communicate during crises arising from serious accidents. The research questions are centered around a specific amusement park to keep the scope of the study manageable. Through the research questions, the study examines the amusement park's

Ett nytt verktyg för nya tider - en analys av dubbel markanvisning på Gotland

This bachelor thesis uses the case of a double land allocation agreement on the Swedish island of Gotland and asks to what degree neoliberal planning is present when using the policy instrument. The main theoretical framework used was that of David Harvey(2005), on the manifestation of neoliberal policies. His framework puts forth four main ways in which neoliberal policies are manifested. In orde

Boardroom Brawls and Stock Surges: The Comedy of Shareholder Activism

This thesis examines the impact of shareholder activism on the annual stock returns of targeted companies. Utilizing a dataset of activist campaigns from the FactSet SharkWatch 50 database, covering the period from 2005 to 2021, we investigate whether the presence of activist investors leads to enhanced stock performance. Our empirical analysis, employing an event study design, reveals a significa

Risky Business: An Empirical Study of Leverage and High-Yield Credit Spreads

With the growing importance of high-yield bonds, understanding the factors that predominantly drive credit risk in this asset class is essential. This thesis investigates the relationship between credit spreads and leverage for high-yield bonds. Using two fixed effects models on quarterly data between 2021 and 2024, this study analyses whether there exists a non-linear relationship between changes

Written exposure vid PTSD - en litteraturöversikt

Written exposure therapy är en skriftlig terapiform avsedd att behandla posttraumatiskt stressyndrom. I denna litteraturöversikt granskades kvaliteten på RCT-studier som gjorts på WET, samt de kliniska implikationerna av det som framkommit i studierna. Litteratursökning resulterade i sex artiklar och en avhandling. Kvaliteten på studierna granskades genom skattning med hjälp av Cochrane Risk Written exposure therapy is a written form of therapy intended to treat post- traumatic stress disorder. In this literature review, the quality of RCT studies conducted on WET was examined, as well as the clinical implications of what emerged in the studies. Literature search resulted in six articles and one dissertation. The quality of the studies was reviewed by using the Cochrane Risk of Bias T

Trygghetsfrågor i trafiken utifrån barn och vårdnadshavares perspektiv - En fallstudie av Sallerupskolan i Eslöv

Abstract: This master's thesis has a focus on children’s and guardians perceived safety in regard to children traveling to and from school. By gaining an understanding of peoples perceived safety one can make improvements to infrastructure and take other measures to make people feel more secure on their travel routes, an increased perceived safety would in turn encourage active traveling to a

Motivation to Lead Among University Students: Influence of Perceived Self-efficacy, Leadership Experience, and Career Anchors

The aim of this research study was to examine the connection between motivation to lead and its antecedents – general and leadership self-efficacy, career anchors, and leadership experience. We also wanted to examine how the antecedent variables will make a significant contribution to the explanation of motivation to lead and its dimensions of affective identity, social normative, and noncalculati

Läsfrämjande lärosätesbibliotek - En kvalitativ studie om studenters deltagande i en bokcirkel på ett lärosätesbibliotek

Promoting reading through book clubs in academic libraries is a relatively new phenomenon in Sweden, despite the Swedish Library Act mandating that all pub-licly funded libraries should "promote the position of literature" (SFS 2013:801). In the Swedish context, there is limited research on reading promotion in aca-demic libraries. Internationally, some studies exist, but few employ a ca