The objective of this thesis is to be used by rescue services in order to gain a deeper understanding regarding drowning and water rescue operations. By compiling research data from previous studies, statistics and opinions from rescue personal as well as experts in the field a basis is provided on which further queries within developing water rescue can be looked into for rescue services. Rescue

The following paper examines discussions of feminism online and how participants orientate themselves in these. The specific case consists of a swedish separatist Facebook group for women and non-binary people. The group has over 100000 members and has a constant flow of activity where members interact with each other in different ways. Among this activity there is discussions of feminism, often l

Abstract This was a qualitative study about former criminals’ path to criminality and the study consisted of semi structured interviews with six former criminals. The aim of the study was to gain knowledge on why people turn to criminality. We asked our interviewees about what they thought were important factors in their path to criminality, as well as which factors they thought lacked during thei

Sedan slutet av 2016 har svenska företag av viss storlek varit skyldiga att upprätta en hållbarhetsrapport med upplysningar som berör företagens arbete kring hållbarhet. Uppsatsen beskriver ÅRL:s krav på hållbarhetsrapportering för företag av en viss storlek som uppstått till följd av EU-direktiv 2014/95/EU. Reglernas syfte är att göra informationen kring företagens arbete kring hållbarhet öppen oSince the end of 2016, Swedish companies of a certain size are obliged to prepare a sustainability report with information relating to the companies' work on sustainability. This essay describes the regulations in the Annual Accounts Act (ÅRL) on sustainability reporting for companies of a certain size as a result of EU Directive 2014/95/EU. The purpose of the regulations is to increase the di

Studiens syfte var att undersöka unga kvinnors upplevelser av att genom dejtingappen Tinder försöka inleda kärleksrelationer. Urvalet bestod av åtta kvinnor i åldrarna 23–27 år, vilka alla hade använt Tinder i syfte att dejta romantiskt. Datainsamling skedde genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. I studien användes en tematisk analys med fenomenologisk ansats där fenomenet i fokus var romantisk tindeThe aim of the present study was to explore young women’s experiences of attempting to initiate romantic relationships through the dating app Tinder. The sample consisted of eight women between the ages of 23 and 27 years, who all had used Tinder for purposes of romantic dating. Data collection was achieved through semi-structured interviews. A thematic analysis grounded in a phenomenological appr

The aim of this study was to examine how adolescents reason about climate change and how they themselves perceive that climate change affects their emotions and social interactions. Climate change is one of the greatest issues of modern time and adolescents are the ones who to a higher extent will have to face the issue in the future. The present study is based on semi-structured interviews with s

The purpose of the study was to investigate school counselor’s reasoning’s about collaborations with social services regarding children who have been subjects to a report of concern from their schools. Children’s needs for support and help from the school is not limited to merely before a report of concern is made but also after. Therefore, it has been of interest to investigate what is done to en

Millimeter wave pulsed radar has found many applications, among them hand gesture sensing, which this work has as purpose. This application has already shown good potential, [1], and here in this work robustness aspects are taken into account. A classification task was defined, where distinction should be made between five different small hand gestures, recorded by 18 people in total. The classifi

The aim of this study was to understand how healthcare counselors think about their professional discretion.The method used in this study was qualitative and carried out by semi structured interviews. We conducted interviews with eight different counselors at the university hospital in Malmö and Lund on seven different occasions. The theories that was used to help analyze our empirical data was Mi

Infertility is a medical condition where a person either cannot become pregnant or make someone else pregnant. Infertility can be challenging and stressful to process for the individual or couple experiencing it. This study aimed to investigate infertility caused by medical circumstances through qualitative interviews with affected individuals as well as healthcare counsellors who has knowledge an

The Barents Sea has been a highly nuclearized region during the Cold War. Sunk submarines and other nuclear waste have lain down on the seafloor for decades. Since the 1990s, the Norwegian Nuclear Action Plan has developed very specific norwegian-russian cooperation in order to cleanup the Cold War “legacy waste”. The purpose of this master thesis is to analyse the long-range radioactive contamina

Ekonomiska verktyg för bevisning, exempelvis SSNIP-testet, kan utgöra problem inom konkurrensrätten då ekonomer har mindre förståelse för juridik och jurister har mindre förståelse för ekonomi. Konkurrensrätt är ett ämne som starkt präglas av ekonomisk bevisning på grund av ämnets ekonomiska natur. Det är därav av värde att beskriva och analysera förutsättningarna och gränserna för när SSNIP-testeEconomic evidence tools, such as the SSNIP-test, can pose practical problems in competition law since economists have little understanding of the law and lawyers have little understanding of economics. Competition law is characterized by economic evidence because of the economic nature of the subject. Therefore, it is of value to describe and analyse the conditions and limits for when the SSNIP-te

The rights of the children : a formality or a reality? Incorporating the Convention on the Rights of the Child into Swedish law This essay investigates the arguments for incorporating the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child into Swedish law through a discourse analysis. The empirical data for the analysis consists of the Swedish Government Official Report (SOU 2016:19) on the su

Emotional Strain - Social Workers Experience of their Psychosocial Working There has been a rise in work-related mental health issues that leave people sick and absent from work. This is especially true for people in social work and in municipal social services with exercise of public authority. The employer has the legal responsibility for a healthy work environment, yet the responsibility for t

Abstract The care for the environment in investment situations is rising among different groups of investors, due to social and psychological factors. Existing studies on nonpecuniary preferences for the environment are focused on measuring the proportion of individuals with green agendas, whereas we focus on measuring also magnitudes, i.e. how much future wealth are people actually prepared to gi

The focus of this bachelor’s essay is to investigate non-lexical interjections. In this study, imitative interjection proves to be an appropriate term for interjections such as mm-hmm and wow, with non-lexical properties distinguishing them from hey and yes. This essay aims to explore if this specific group can be extracted from a corpus, and further, if it is possible to detect any similarities a

Medarbetarupplevelse (employee satisfaction or employee experience) is an organizational phenomenon that has become an ascending work-process within the HR-profession. Through five interviews with various HR-practitioners, we managed to answer this essay’s three framing questions: 1) How can medarbetarupplevelse be defined? 2) Which essential and mutual factors can we identify in the interviews?

I den här studien undersöktes hur personlighetsdrag och sociala processer i grupp förhöll sig till kreativitet som en samarbetsprocess. I tidigare forskning har fokus ofta riktats mot psykologin om individers kreativitet. Idag behövs i stället ett fokus på hur användbara idéer kan utvecklas på arbetsplatser och i grupper. Gruppmedlemmars olika personligheter är en central aspekt av gruppers strukt

Då allt fler lärare upplever arbetsmiljömässiga hälsoproblem är det av stor vikt för framtida utveckling att utifrån förutsättningarna av läraryrket undersöka bidragande orsaker och kausalsammanhang till detta. Syftet med studien, som är baserad på åtta djupintervjuer med lärare från grundskolan, har varit att undersöka lärares emotioner utifrån de personliga och organisatoriska krav som finns på

The aim of this study was to create an understanding of how Aftonbladet, one of Sweden's biggest newspaper, describes unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the years of 2015 and 2018. Another aim was to analyze differences and similarities in the descriptions between these two years. The study was based on a qualitative content analysis of 91 articles published in Aftonbladet year 2015 and