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“Honest to God, we had a painting of a cockatoo in the library” Autentiseringsstrategier i Alison Bechdels Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
(Master thesis, 2017)I denne oppgaven foretar jeg en analyse av Alison Bechdels tegneseriememoar Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006), med fokus på hvordan verkets autentisitet formidles til leseren gjennom ulike strategier. Jeg ser også Fun ... -
Hospital Social Workers’ Boundary Work in Paediatric Acute Wards—Competitive or Collaborative?
(The British Journal of Social Work;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10-30)Recent research suggests that the notion of boundary work can improve our understanding of interprofessional tension and collaboration in health care, yet hospital social workers (HSWs) have not received sufficient attention ... -
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children
(European Journal of Social Work;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-28)Hospital social workers often engage in health literacy activities to support patients’ and families’ functioning and adjustment to illness, but social work literature has seldom used health literacy terminology. This paper ... -
Hostile emotions: An exploratory study of far-right online commenters and their emotional connection to traditional and alternative news media
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In this article, we explore media use through the perspective of emotions. We specifically focus on a contested group of media users, namely those who engage in uncivil online behaviour and have had one or several comments ... -
House of Belonging-Integration in Social Housing A comparative study of ethnic minorities’ position in the social housing market in Oslo and Copenhagen
(Master thesis, 2019)Aims and objectives: In what follows, my aim is to shed light on the social housing sector in Oslo, and how it impacts the ethnic minorities living there. Based on the Norwegian government’s goal for everyone to live well ... -
How (not to) Run an AI Project in Investigative Journalism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Data journalists are increasingly reliant on automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to process and analyse massive datasets. AI can contribute to journalism by creating visualizations, verifying accuracy of ... -
How a COVID-19 Live Tracker Led to Innovation in Investigative Journalism
(Chapter, 2023)The practice of investigative journalism is constantly pushing the boundaries of what journalism can do and should be. While certain core values remain intact, professionals readily experiment with new methods, forms of ... -
How are Financial Markets affected by the Election of Donald Trump? An Event Study on the U.S Stock Market’s Response to Changes in Political Leadership
(Master thesis, 2018)Changes in political leadership influence the economic policy of government, which directly impacts on firms. Accordingly, the risk-adjusted market return alters, as investors reallocate their investments. We apply common ... -
How Can We Learn from Evaluations? A Qualitative Study on Learning from Evaluations in Norwegian Development Cooperation
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis seeks a fundamental understanding of the connection between evaluations and learning in Norwegian development cooperation through four objectives shaped by a literature review. The objectives are to identify ... -
How children and young people understand and experience individual participation in social services for children and young people: a synthesis of qualitative studies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Although there is a growing knowledge base on children and young people’s (CYP) participation in child welfare and social work, it is necessary to systematically describe and summarise the knowledge from their subjective ... -
How children find their way: access, adaptability and aesthetics in the organisation and design of a new children's library.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article; Journal article, 2016)The organization and presentation of books and media is a central part of accessibility in libraries, and a central part of the libraries’ presentation of itself. Traditionally, this is based ... -
How congruent is person-centred practice with labour activation policy? Person-centred approach to vocational interventions on immigrant jobseekers in Norway
(European Journal of Social Work;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-16)Increased migration to OECD countries has made unemployed foreignborn immigrants a new target population for ‘activation’ policies to reintroduce people into the labour market. As populations receiving employment activation ... -
How credible is lay health information on the World Wide Web? - A study of information about the effects of interventions
(Master thesis, 2009)Background: The World Wide Web is a source to a wealth of health information that was previously unavailable to lay people. Formal studies have raised concerns about the credibility of online materials on the Web; most of ... -
How Do Droughts Impact Household Food Consumption and Nutritional Intake? A Study of Rural India
(World Development;Volume 122, October 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-06)This paper investigates the impacts of droughts on food expenditure and macronutrient consumption among rural Indian households. To isolate causal effects, I exploit random year-to-year variation in a dry shock, defined ... -
How do oil prices and investments impact the dynamics of firm value?
(System Dynamics Review;Volume 36, Issue 1, January/March 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-16)The purpose of this study is twofold: (i) to analyze the impact of investment policy decision on the firm value given the uncertain oil and gas prices and (ii) to propose policies that enhance firm value. The study develops ... -
How do public libraries function as meeting places?
(Library & Information Science Research;32, (1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-01)How are libraries used as meeting places, and by whom? Through survey data, six categories of places are identified: the library as a "square," as a place for meeting diverse people, as a public sphere, as a place for joint ... -
How Do Social Workers' Make Sense Of The Encounter And Action Towards Families?
(Master thesis, 2023)Traditionally, research has focused on financial constraints as a risk factor for neglect within a family, thereby explaining the overrepresentation of low-class families in child welfare service. This thesis aims to ... -
How Does Access to the Unsecured Debt Market Affect Investment?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)analyze the relevance of debt composition (secured versus unsecured) for the association between col- lateral and investment. I study a negative shock to the cost and availability of unsecured debt. A decrease in the ... -
How does COVID-19 Affect the Stock Market in Norway? An Event Study Comparing the Norwegian Stock Market to the Stock Markets in Sweden and Denmark
(Master thesis, 2021)The outbreak of COVID-19 weakened the world economy and the overall stock market crashed. The purpose of this thesis was to examine how the stock market reacted to key events during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first event ...