• Att översätta idéer om hållbarhet till praktik 

  Ärleskog, Caroline (2024-08-12)

  This thesis is about sustainability work, which is a highly topical issue in social and political arenas. It is associated with many challenges and contradictions, partly because the vagueness of the concept opens up to a ...

• Tid för tillit? Om styrning, kontroll och inflytande i äldreomsorgen 

  Håkansson, Helena (2024-04-25)

  Avhandlingens utgångspunkt är den övergripande styrningen av välfärdssektorn och den kritik mot New Public Management (NPM) som ökat intresset för en mer tillitsbaserad styrning i Sverige. Kontexten för avhandlingen är ...

• Temporal Dispossession: The Politics of Asylum and the Remaking of Racial Capitalism in and Beyond the Borders of the Swedish Welfare State 

  Philipson Isaac, Sarah (2024-04-10)

  This thesis sets out from the post-2015 Swedish asylum legislation, which made Sweden’s asylum policy among the most restrictive in the EU. The most decisive changes were the shift from permanent to temporary residence ...

• Conditional Progress: Technical Rationality and Wicked Problems in Nuclear Waste Management 

  Lagerlöf, Hannes (2023-05-09)

  While various states and enterprises have produced nuclear power for decades, that is, demonstrated the functionality of the nuclear fuel cycle from uranium mining to power production, the waste that is simultaneously ...

• Un-learning to labour? Activating the unemployed in a former industrial community 

  Sunnerfjell, Jon (2023-02-20)

  In the aftermath of automation and globalisation of production, the Western welfare states have come to leave industrial society behind in favour of an increasingly competitive and service-oriented economy. Nevertheless, ...

• Menstrual dirt - An exploration of contemporary menstrual hygiene practices in Sweden 

  Persdotter, Josefin (2022-05-30)

  Menstrual Dirt is a sociological study of how some aspects of menstruation come into being as dirty phenomenon, both in material and symbolic terms. Through engaging with a variety of empirical material Persdotter explores ...

• Interpreting the Haitian Revolution: From the Rights of Man to Human Rights 

  Wilén, Carl (2022-05-19)

  In recent decades, a ‘Haitian Turn’ has emerged as both academic and public readerships in the anglophone sphere have been flooded by a wave of essays, articles, and monographs on the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). At the ...

• The Governance of Global Climate Finance – The Management of Contradictions, Ambiguities and Conflicts in the Green Climate Fund 

  Bertilsson, Jonas (2021-12-16)

• Governing citizens in the age of financialization: A study of Swedish financial education 

  Pettersson, Jane (2021-12-06)

  In contemporary Western capitalist societies, the state has increasingly withdrawn from its role as welfare provider, while financial institutions, actors, products, and narratives play an increasingly important part not ...

• Retaining the Aging Workforce: Studies of the interplay between individual and organizational capability in the context of prolonged working lives 

  Jonsson, Robin (2021-11-23)

  Amidst the realities of workforce aging and policies to prolong the working life across Europe, policymakers and researchers have emphasized the employer’s role in providing suitable working conditions for older workers ...

• Temporary safety. Contextual factors behind job quality in using temporary agency work. 

  Strauss-Raats, Pille (2021-08-19)

  The aim of this thesis is to explore and explain how job quality in organizations using temporary agency work (TAW) is shaped by national regulatory regimes and how organizational practices and employee experiences in ...

• Att stanna kvar: arbete, plats och mobilitet i småstaden 

  Uddbäck, Hanna (2021-03-04)

  The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to a deeper understanding of how young adults in an industrial small town in Sweden perceive and negotiate their work opportunities and their position in the local labour market. ...

• Alienation och Arbete. Unga behovsanställdas villkor i den flexibla kapitalismen 

  Alfonsson, Johan (2020-03-04)

  The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how flexible capitalism, drawing from the case of on-call employees, influences the ability to control life and work and affects relationships with other people, both inside ...

• Standardiseringsarbetets kollektiva praktik. En studie om att kvalitetssäkra integrationssatsningen Samhällsorientering för nyanlända. 

  Åberg, Linnéa (2020-02-27)

  Societal efforts to support the integration of newly arrived immigrants have been repeatedly highlighted in the political debate in Sweden and they are described as inadequate and ineffective. Demands have been made for ...

• Moral i rätten. Utredningar av hedersrelaterat våld i Sverige 1997-2017 

  Rosquist, Johan (2020-01-07)

  This doctoral thesis investigates assumptions about honour that emerge in the Swedish justice system’s investigations of honour related violence and oppression during the period 1997 – 2017, and with what implications. The ...

• Inequity in Mind. On the Social and Genetic Risk Factors of Dementia and Their Interactions 

  Hasselgren, Caroline (2019-09-20)

  The present thesis seeks to further explain the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias by studying the long-term impact of class- and gender-based inequities as well as the extent to which they potentially ...

• Mother Tongue Education - The Interest of a Nation. A policy study in Sweden 1957-2017. 

  Bajqinca, Nuhi (2019-01-16)

  This doctoral thesis is a policy study about mother tongue education policies as they have developed historically in Sweden.The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate the policies of mother tongue education from ...

• Making Room for Complexity in Group Collaborations: The Roles of Scaffolding and Facilitation 

  Andersson, Pia (2018-11-09)

  This thesis has a dual objective: the theoretical aim is to analyse how developmental scaffolding influences the way that group participants’ conceptions about societal issues of concern, appropriate goals and courses of ...

• Imagined Independence. Institutional Conditions and Individual Opportunities in European Labour Markets 

  Wallinder, Ylva (2018-11-06)

  The studies presented in this thesis examine perceived labour market opportunities and conditions for labour market mobility for European employees. The European labour market strategy has created an opportunity-oriented ...

• Same and Different? Perspectives on the Introduction of person-Centred Care as Standard Healthcare 

  Lydahl, Doris (2017-05-17)

  This thesis examines a collection of cases and situations where efforts are being made to combine and unify the concerns of person-centred care, standardization and evidence-based medicine. Person-centred care is commonly ...

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