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Riskkommunikation vid samhälleliga cyberkriser
(Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMG), Göteborgs universitet, 2025-11-13) -
Changing the Game: Influencing Suspects to Disclose Information in Investigative Interviews with the Shift-of-Strategy Approach
(2025-11-12)The Shift-of-Strategy (SoS) approach is a recently conceptualized interviewing technique aimed at encouraging suspects to disclose information during investigative interviews. Prior to this thesis, the approach had ... -
Impact of Stroke on Cognition in Old Age: Comparison of Two Population-Based Cohorts, Born Up to 30 Years Apart and Followed from Age 70 to 85
(2024)Little is known about birth cohort differences in the impact of stroke on cognitive aging. Given improved poststroke rehabilitation and better treatments for vascular health risk, we may expect a reduction in the stroke ... -
Delayed onset of cognitive terminal decline in later born cohorts: Evidence from a longitudinal study of two cohorts born 29-years apart.
(2025)In this study, we evaluated birth cohort (i.e., generational) differences in the onset and rate of acceleration in cognitive decline prior to death (i.e., terminal decline [TD]). We obtained data from two cohorts, born in ... -
Alternative, Mainstream, and Everything In Between: Information-Seeking Repertoires in Prolonged Crises
(2025-10-23)Despite a rapidly changing media environment, research on information-seeking during crises has often departed from traditional assumptions, focusing either on organizational communication perspectives or on how individuals ... -
Between Fact and Fiction: Media Effects on Misperceptions Over Time
(2025-10-15)During the past decade, worries about a “post-truth” era have raised urgent questions about how media shape what people believe to be true. This dissertation investigates when, how, and for whom media use fosters ... -
Children of the Crisis: Political Subjectivity, Responsibility and Justice in the Swedish Climate Movement
(2025-10-15)The overall aim of this dissertation is to understand how climate activists construct and negotiate ideas of political subjectivity, justice, and responsibility, and what this means for climate action. Using ethnographic ... -
En äldreomsorg under tidspress En studie av statsbidrag som tidsstyrning
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2025)Hur påverkar statens tidsramar kommunernas möjligheter att planera för framtidens äldreomsorg? Vad händer när kortsiktiga statsbidrag möter långsiktiga behov? I denna uppsats undersöks hur staten utövar styrning med tid ... -
Att höra till. - Berättelser om familjetillhörighet bland barn med erfarenhet av familjehemsvård och familjehemsvårdens stöd genom handledning.
(2025)Belonging is a deeply rooted human need, especially vital for children in foster care whose lives are often marked by ruptures and instability. This licentiate thesis explores how children with foster care experience ... -
Kommundirektören – Rollens utveckling mellan 1995 och 2025
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2025) -
Din Vardag Vår Politik. Funktionsrätt - en social dokumentär om samtid och framtid
(DHR Göteborgsavdelningen, Unga rörelsehindrade, Institutionen för socialt arbete, Göteborgs universitet, 2025-09) -
Far-Right Populist Rhetoric: Gendered Enemy Construction and Performative Masculinity
(2025)How do far-right populist leaders use gendered political communication, specifically the construction of gendered enemies and the performance of masculinity, to reinforce their authority and shape political realities? By ... -
Climate Shocks, Gender, and Incumbency Punishment
(2025-09)Do voters punish women incumbents more harshly than men during environmental disasters? Crises can exacerbate gender biases that lead voters to prefer masculine leadership, and these biases may make voters evaluate ... -
Expectations in the commons: On the dynamics of state-citizen cooperation contracts
(2025-09-23)This thesis addresses the question of how citizens' expectations on state delivery matter for their willingness to cooperate with the state in delivering collective benefits. The argument made in the thesis is that citizens' ... -
I skärningspunkten mellan kropp och samhälle – Multipel skleros och funktionshinder
(2025-09-22)The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate and analyze disability as a social problem concerning lack of social inclusion, in relation to persons with multiple sclerosis (MS). Study I of the thesis is a scoping ... -
EXPLORING THE USE OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION Slutrapport
(2024)Denna rapport sammanfattar de viktigaste resultaten från ett pedagogiskt utvecklingsprojekt som undersökte studenters och lärares användning av generativa artificiella intelligens (genAI) applikationer vid Samhällsve ... -
The processes, practices, and consequences of international ceasefire monitoring
(2025-09-10)Third-party ceasefire monitoring is a common conflict response intervention generally correlated with ceasefire durability. However, how ceasefire monitoring’s routine practices contribute to ceasefire compliance and ... -
Legal Clarity and Impartiality: A Global Experimental Study of Consistency in Bureaucratic Decision Making
(2025-08)The language used in legal texts is often ambiguous, hindering bureaucrats’ ability to understand, interpret, and apply the law consistently, and thereby threatening impartiality. While the Quality of Government (QoG) ... -
Digital news as social production of knowledge(s)
(2025-08-25)This thesis investigates how journalists decide what is true and important enough to publish as news. News is approached as a particular form of public knowledge claiming to accurately provide audiences with what is relevant ... -
Veien ble til mens vi gikk. Om taus kunnskap, refleksjon og praksisfellesskap blant ansatte i et utlendingsfengsel
(2025-06-18)Denne studien undersøker utfordringene knyttet til fengselsansattes arbeid i Kongsvinger fengsel, en spesialisert enhet innen norsk kriminalomsorg der målgruppen omfatter kun utenlandske innsatte som skal utvises eller ...