Education is seen as a human right and a crucial aspect for enabling movements through the societal hierarchy, making it an important issue to study. The purpose of this thesis is to further examine how much the educational gap by parental education and social class has changed in the United Kingdom between 1970 and now. The analysis also explores heterogeneity by gender and region. The analysis i

The Swedish power system is changing due to the growing installations of non-dispatchable generation as well as the expected growth of variation of consumption levels. Mathematically, the power flows in the grid can to a larger extent be described by stochastic measures rather than deterministic. This suggests a need to introduce probabilistic methods for making load flow calculations as opposed t

Den nya arbetsformen gig-arbete har tagit fart på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Idag föreligger det en gråzon kring vilken kategorisering plattformsarbetare och plattformsföretag kan sägas ha. Problemet har sin grund i att gig-företagens affärstruktur bygger på en trepartsmodell där plattformen fungerar som en mellanhand som sammankopplar arbetsgivare och arbetstagare. Detta skiljer sig från det trThe new gig-economy has established on the Swedish labour market. The labour law on the area is limited and the development has led the platform's workers to a position where it is unclear whether they belong to the category of employees or self-employed. The problem is that the business idea of a connecting platform between self-employed contractors and customers through an app is based on a

Den här studien ämnar åt att undersöka i vilken utsträckning digital transformation sker i av- fallssektorn, med fokus riktat på verksamheter som ansvarar för avfallshantering i fyra olika kommuner i Sverige. Studien undersöker i vilken mån verksamheterna själva anser att an- vändning av data och smart teknik kan användas för att effektivisera och optimera sin verk- samhet på ett hållbart sätt. Vi

Användandet av big data bland näringsidkare fortsätter öka exponentiellt vilket medför möjligheter men även flera risker. Datainsamling har infunnit sig centralt i gemene affärsmodell och data har beskrivits som den nya oljan. Andra sidan av myntet är att konsumenter har svårt att närvara online utan att lämna efter sig ett spår av data. Data som näringsidkare kan an- vända till att profilera anvä

When an industry has reached maturity, firms operating within the industry can face major changes affecting their operations, on occasion even a holistic change of the entire industry structure. Considering such changes, innovation is identified as a powerful tool to take these changes as chances to stay competitive. As a mature industry in the fast-moving-consumer- goods (FMCG) category, the dair

This thesis examines how and for what purposes Swedish regional museums are using social media, how they are representing themselves and how they are adapting to the norms and informal standards on social media platforms. The study also examines how the materiality and authenticity of museum collections are portrayed by the museums through social media. By using thematic analysis to examine the s

COVID-19 mitigation strategies have previously been argued to affect the mental health of people differently depending on sociodemographic factors. Denmark and Sweden have long used mandatory restrictions and guidelines, respectively, to curb the spread of COVID-19. This study compares generalised anxiety under Danish and Swedish mitigation strategies and the influence of suspected, vulnerable soc

The aim of this study has been to analyze how children to elderly parents (70+) perceive their role under the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. We were interested in how the children's relationships to their elderly parents were affected by the pandemic. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with thirteen persons. We have come to the conclusion that Covid-19 changed the norms in bot

In this master thesis, I analyse a wide array of texts on children’s and youths reading and reading promotion in Sweden during 1980–2020, in order to assess how the concept of imagination is depicted and valued. The source material consists of official documents on reading promotion, such as commission reports, strategy plans, and surveys; a variety of texts dealing with children’s and youths read

Abstract Title: An exploratory study of sourcing options for alternative materials to leather. Authors: Akashdeep Maheshwari and David Marriaga Diaz – Master Students in Logistics & Supply Chain Management. Division of Engineering Logistics. Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH), Lund University. Thesis supervisors: Caroline McGarvey – Sustainability Manager / Material and Innovation Deployment Lead

Foster placements are the most common form of placement for children and every year about 20,000 girls and boys are placed. Although we expect that society treats women and men equally, they are often treated differently based on stereotypical gender norms. The aim of this study was to examine how gender is constructed in women's and men's stories about their time in foster care, in matter

Studien syftar till att undersöka vilka svårigheter och utmaningar altruister och icke-altruister har i musikskapande för att kunna fånga upp elever med olika personlighetsdrag och kunna handleda dem i sitt musikskapande i skolan. Studien baseras på tidigare forskning på området samt kvalitativa intervjuer med tio musiker med varierad ålder och könstillhörighet som skriver egen musik. Av dessa tioThe study aims to investigate what differences and challenges altruists and non altruists face when they write music, and to be able to catch students with different personality traits to help them with their songwriting in school. This study is previous studies in this area and qualitative interviews with ten musicians who all write their own music. Six of these ten are altruists and four are non

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur personer som leder startup-team rapporterar att teamet påverkats av personalförändringar, och hur de hanterat dessa inom företaget. Eftersom startup tenderar att präglas av mycket personalförändringar och förväntas leverera snabba resultat, finns där ett särskilt intresse att kunna hantera personalförändringar så effektivt som möjligt. Framförallt ämnaThe purpose of this study is to investigate how people who manage startup teams report that the team is affected by team member change and how such change is handled within a company. Even though frequent team member changes are common in startups, fast results and efficient working are still expected, therefore there is big interest in handling team member changes as efficiently as possible. The

Efforts of conservation create a conflict between the archaeological community and tourism industry. The following paper will discuss the tourism industry and the conflict between tourism goals and the conservation of archaeological material. The focus will be on open air museums and exploring the proposal that these open air museums are a valuable resource for archaeology to pursue alternative, i

This study investigates the linkage between different democratic dimensions and economic growth. This field of study has been examined numerous times. However, the prior studies apply democracy as a united concept, as opposed to this study where the concept is categorized into four different variables. These variables are Representative Government, Impartial Administration, Civil Liberties and Jud

För att svensk järnvägsinfrastruktur skall kunna vara konkurrenskraftig i jämförelse med mindre miljövänliga alternativ krävs kapacitetsutbyggnad och hastighetsökning av det svenska järnvägsnätet. Vid hastigheter över 200 km/h finns krav på att dynamiska analyser behöver utföras. För vissa brotyper, exempelvis samverkansbroar med ändskärmar, är det svårt att påvisa acceptabel vertikal accelerationFor Swedish railway infrastructure to be competitive compared to less environmentally friendly alternatives, capacity expansion and speed increase of the Swedish rail network are required. At speeds above 200 km/h, dynamic analyses are required by code. For some bridge types, such as composite bridges with end screens, there are difficulties in meeting the requirements for vertical acceleration in

Bakgrund Detta arbete genomfördes i Malmö stads grund- och gymnasieskola och undersökte kunskapsnivån inom livsmedelshygien hos kockar och restaurangbiträden i Malmö Stads grund- och gymnasieskolor. Serviceförvaltningen i Malmö önskade att hygienkunskaperna hos restaurangbiträden inom Malmö skolrestauranger också skulle undersökas, men på grund av att svarsfrekvensen hos restaurangbiträden var för

Det här examensarbetet är inspirerat av den samhällsutvecklingen som sker framför våra ögon, där alltfler samkönade relationer tillkommer men lämnas fortfarande utanför på grund av deras begränsade rättigheter i den fria rörligheten. Den fria rörligheten för personer och deras familjemedlemmar är en av EU:s grundläggande principer, rättigheten måste därmed vara omfattande genom att ge alla unionsmThis thesis is inspired by the societal development that is taking place before our eyes where, more and more same-sex relationships are added but are still left out due to their limited rights in free movement. The free movement of persons and their family members is one of the fundamental principles of the EU, and the right must therefore be comprehensive by giving all Union citizens and their f