In recent years outsourcing of public health care activities has increased in Sweden. Outsourcing of public health care activities involves possibilities of innovation and improvement according to many, but there are difficulties with how to maintain and control quality in the outsourced activities. The focus of this thesis is on how quality is ensured when public activities are subject to contrac

Author: Elisabeth Mårtensson & Marianne Vagnemark Title: “I know myself best” – A study of what people with drug- and alcohol problems believe that they need help with [translated title] Supervisor: Arne Kristiansen Assessor: Gunilla Lindén The purpose of this study was to examine what people with drug- and alcohol problems believe that they need for kind of help if a change would become poss

In a study it was found that only 16% of IT projects in UK were considered successful (Al-Tameem et al, 2008). Underestimating IT adoption problems when implementing a project has been recognized as one of the reasons for the failures (Fink, 1998). The current research aims to study adoption by students of a new portal implemented in Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). Qua

The Sami people have a long history of colonization, discrimination, marginalization and prosecution in their past. My thesis deals with how the Sami identity is created and reproduced today and how it has been shaped in the light of the history of the Sami people and the policies pursued by the Swedish government through times, and also why the search for identity, heritage and roots has had such

The current paper examines to what extent different factors influence our ability to remember. Data used in the analysis origins from a psychological memory experiment conducted at the University of Lund. During the study phase of the experiment, participants viewed different objects which could either appear as a word or a picture. The object type was randomly chosen which resulted in varying seq

Passenger transport services constitute public utilities, exactly like all the other similar public networks e.g. energy & water distribution, TV broadcasting or postal services. The Member States in the EU have a keen interest in the development of passenger transport and therefore the financing of public transport is such an important economic, political and social issue. In its ideal form,

Fotbollsvåldet debatteras friskt i medierna och debatten blossar upp med jämna mellanrum när det skett en våldshändelse i samband med fotbollsevenemang och röster hörs från den officiella supporterkulturen om att medias framställningar framställer kulturen som stereotyp och i negativ dager. Denna fallstudie syftar till att åskådliggöra hur mediala strategier styr och påverkar nyhetsjournalistikens

Title: Professional views on cannabis- The social problem, the question legalization and the history (translated title). Author: Kristina Jensen Supervisor: Anders Giertz Assesor: Staffan Blomberg During the year 2009 you were able to read in Swedish newspapers about the increasing use of cannabis in Sweden. This in combination with what I learned at my professional practice during the fall 2009 a

Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att ta reda på om facebooks popularitet grundar sig i den förenklade kommunikationen och interaktionen sidan erbjuder, alternativt om sidan är till för att projicera sin identitet eller om båda exemplen är orsakerna. Vi har även varit intresserade av att utreda hur användarna väljer att skildra sig själva utifrån publikens förväntningar, syftet är att avspegla hu

The study raises the question how (if at all) relations with university affect the innovativeness of new media firms in Skåne and to what extent it can be related to the type of knowledge base. The object of the analysis is 36 new media companies in the region. The data was selected using the methods of structured and semi-structured interviews. Open Innovation paradigm, knowledge base and knowled

The purpose of this study was to compare what trainee supervisors think of long time unemployed trainees. Two groups were compared, one group that had gone through a course in improving their psychosocial work environment and one control group that shares the same characteristic but hasn't had the same course. The study was based on seven semi structured interviews, where four of the interview

Authors: My Ejdelind and Anna Salomonsson Title: Victim of addiction? A discourse analyse of the daily press and the evening papers´ portrayal of sexual addicted men and women. Supervisor: Carina Tigervall Assessor: Anders Lundberg The purpose of this study was to analyse how media portray men and women that are addicted to sex. We also wanted to see if there were any obvious differences between

Abstract Author: Therese Hovland and Sofia Stenberg Title: Mötesplats 0413 – An analyze of youths thoughts and opinions about their meeting place [translated title] Supervisor: Anders Östnäs Assessor: Carina Tigerwall Mötesplats 0413 is a culture house for youths at the ages of 16 to 25 years. The purpose of this study was, on the basis of a youth perspective, to critically analyze how the youth

Denna uppsats är en kvalitativ undersökning om hur man arbetar för att bibehålla och utveckla kompetens i samband med pensionsavgångar vid klinikerna för kirurgi på Skånes Universitetssjukhus. Undersökningen har genomförts med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer av divisionschef, klinikchefer och teamchefer vid de två klinikerna. Intervjuerna resulterade i en stor mängd insamlat material som ana

This paper highlights, theoretically and empirically, how development and underdevelopment are closely linked by looking at the global food system, with a special emphasis on the meat-industrial complex. Conceptually, this thesis mobilizes Foster’s theory of metabolic rift, O’Connor’s theory of the second contradiction of capitalism, and Harvey’s “accumulation by dispossession” to account for the

The development of psychological health interventions for adolescent refugees is complicated by the cultural and linguistic diversity of individuals. Additionally, both post traumatic experiences with ongoing development during the process of acculturation make a problem of psychological assessment even more complex. Those aspects are the effects of violence and traumatic loss as well as migration

Abstract Facebook is a giant rising web-community, with millions of new users every year. The possibilities seem enormous, but what are the consequences? How can a function, like posting a picture on your site be problematic? We analyzed newspaper articles and how journalists write about Facebook. Some journalists write about a Facebook function as a possibility but that same function can be an ob

Theoretical frameworks of women in development (WID), gender and development (GAD) and Empowerment have influenced the discourses and practices of development projects on women’s participation since the 1970s. The main concern has been whether development projects’ inclusion of women can promote gender equality and women’s empowerment rather than participation of women in numbers. In this study, I

Abstract Author: Ingela Martinsson Title: "The last alternative”- the process around a decision about compulsory care (translated title) Supervisor: Claes Levin Assessor: Anders Östnäs The purpose of the study was to investigate the process when social worker makes a decision whether or not to treat a youth with compulsory care. Through my own empirical study of qualitative interviews with