The diploma work is partly a collaboration with the Swedisch furniture company IKEA. The task has been to develop a childrens bed with the aim to fulfil the need for compact solutions in childrens rooms, encourage childrens development and incorporate play. The result has become two parallel concepts, where one has taken guidelines from IKEA´s way of working with product development, its restrict

Kvinnas roll i samhället har historiskt genomgått en stor förändring, från att ansvara över hushållet till att etablera sig på arbetsmarknaden. Föräldraförsäkringen infördes år 1974 med syfte att möjliggöra för främst kvinnor att kombinera arbetsliv med familjebildning. Mäns uttag av föräldraförsäkringen har sedan införandet ökat, men fördelningen är fortfarande långt ifrån jämn. Kvinnor tar ut maWoman's role in society has historically undergone a great change, from the responsibility of the household to establishment in the labor market. Parental insurance was introduced in 1974 with the aim of enabling all women to combine work with family formation. Men's use of parental insurance has increased since the introduction, but the distribution is still far from consistent. Women tak

This thesis investigates the importance of scale for power dynamics in the negotiation of risks connect-ed to Urban Rivers in Nairobi, Kenya. In addition to unequal distribution of wealth, global inequalities in the distribution of risk become increasingly important. Scale as a significant dimension of inequality is discussed in the context of Nairobi’s urban, as water scarcity and flooding events

This thesis aims to test and evaluate the use of image-based 3D modelling techniques on rune stones. To test the method a well-documented rune stone was chosen, Hyby stone 1. The stone has been dated to the Viking Age and contains 37 runes, whereof 29 are still visible, two crosses and a stag. These carvings have been detected by other scholars with the use of non-digital methods. In order to eval

Self-compassion has not yet been studied in younger children. The aim of this study was to explore self-compassion in children between 10-13 years of age and examine how self-compassion is related to well-being and social perspective-taking. In addition we wanted to explore possible age or sex differences in self-compassion. The participants consisted of 228 children from two elementary schools in

Under de senaste 20 åren har alltfler människor vänt sig till Internet för att leta efter en kärlekspartner. Syftet med denna uppsats är att analysera nätdejtingens inverkan på individen och på dennes förhållande. Mina huvudfrågor är: Vad innebär ett konsumistiskt förhållningssätt för intima relationer? Vilken inverkan har fenomenet online-dejting på den traditionella uppfattningen om partnerskap?

Talented employees are important for companies, and graduate programs are designed to internal educate talented students to make them a strong resource for the company. A problem is that trainees tend to leave the company after the program. This master thesis investigates how trainees become motivated, during and after the program, to retain within the company and where the perceived expectation g

In order for Non-Governmental Organizations to maintain visibility, credibility and accountability, attracting voluntary members to support the organization’s Mission and Vision is essential. Much of the work NGOs carry out depends on the voluntary support of strong and supportive networks. The sustainability of a NGO, its long-term-success, depends on the recruitment and relationship-management o

Uppsatsens syfte är skapa förståelse hur specifika händelser blir meningsskapande och ömsesidigt påverkar enskilda och organisationer i ett postmodernt samhälle Diskursanalys av informanters reception av händelse, genomgång av nyhetsmaterial samt en kommuns strategiska kommunikation. Analysen har som grund kvalitativa intervjuer, nyhetsmaterial, kommunala handlingar samt en enkätstudie för valider

Existing theories of how spouses divide the household labour have conflicting implications. Standard models of comparative advantages and bargaining models both predict that when a woman earns more money than her husband she will do less household work. However, identity theory predicts that deviating from prescribed gender behaviour causes discomfort, and therefore a woman could compensate for vi

Climate scientists argue that the world’s increasing CO2 emissions are damaging for humans and the planet. If this is true, then how come governments are not rushing to provide sufficient incentives for a fast transition into renewable energy? The thesis proposes an explanation by focusing on included and excluded discourses in the EU climate and energy debate. The research is based on a case stud

Denna uppsats tar sin utgångspunkt i vad retoriken och pedagogiken kan ha för nytta av varandra. Jag argumenterar för att båda ämnena bör ses som systerämnen som har mycket mer gemensamt än vad som kommer till uttryck, åtminstone inom pedagogiken. I gränssnittet mellan de båda ämnena finner vi vad de har gemensamt och vad de borde ha gemensamt. Uppsatsen utforskar två områden. För det första komme

Det talas mycket om vikten av kreativitet idag och det anses eftersträvansvärt inom både skola och arbetsliv. Det kan vara avgörande för ett företag att kunna främja personalens kreativa potential för att kunna vara en innovativ och konkurrenskraftig organisation. Open Space är en mötesform som sägs skapa inspirerade organisationer, där människor arbetar tvärvetenskapligt tillsammans och skapar in

Purpose: To investigate if there is a connection between strategic management accounting and inter-organizational management accounting, and hence to identify if traces of strategic inter-organizational management accounting exist in practice. Thus, this thesis aims to add knowledge to the relatively unexplored stream of strategic inter-organizational management accounting research and therefore c

Lukas van der Heiden Hotet från havet Klimatförändringarna förväntas i framtiden ge upphov till allt fler klimatrelaterade risker i kustnära områden i Sverige, bland annat i form av havsnivåhöjningar, stormar, översvämningar och erosion. Ett antal personer boende i kustnära områden i Helsingborg samt Helsingborgs kommun har via intervjuer delat med sig av sina uppfattningar, upplevelser och åsikAbstract Helsingborg is one of the coastal municipalities in Sweden that have experienced coastal flooding. This is a risk that may occur more frequently due to the current climate change. The purpose of this study is to examine how residents living near the coast in Helsingborg perceive the risks of climate change, if they have used any measures to protect themselves and their homes from this, a

Caroline Arvaker Utan naturen kan vi inte leva I naturen finns alla våra resurser vilket gör den viktig att skydda. Detta är en gemensam värdering hos ett antal unga utomeuropéer boende i Malmö. Dock leder inte pro naturella värderingar alltid till ett miljöengagemang i handling, det finns andra faktorer som spelar in. I mitt masterarbete har jag genom intervjuer undersökt hur tio utomeuropéer ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine how young adults with non-European background and with an upbringing in a city associate to nature and what may have influenced these associations. Given that a majority of people live in cities, there is a risk that many young people do not spend time in natural environments, which may affect their associations to nature and also their environment

In today's society human identity is largely based on social and cultural processes where consumption has an increasingly important role as an influential element. In the process of an individual's personal brand-building, which can be seen as an approach in order to highlight a person's main features, consumption has become an important instrument. Individuals are using consumption as

This thesis investigates whether the stock market in the Baltic countries exhibit herd behavior during the period 2006-2014. A quantitative approach is used to see if investors show group oriented mentality in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and in the Baltics as whole. This is further complemented with a qualitative approach. The quantitative part is based on a market wide approach. The models pr

The thesis investigates the overlap between trademark and patent law and the extent thereof and whether the overlap poses a threat to competition. The first part of the thesis concentrates on the legislation on the matter and the relevant case-law, the second part investigates the possibility of registering patented subject-matter as trademarks constituting a competition infringement. Both the reg