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The Public Sphere in the Nordic Model
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The Shame of pverty - A Comparative Analysis Of The Shaming Experience In Welfare Programmes Provided By Public And Private Institutions Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Faculty of
(Master thesis, 2016)In recent years there has been an increase in the public expenditure for providing welfare assistance to the people. With the UN convention making the access to social welfare to maintain a decent standard of living as a ... -
The Superwomen of Modern Time - A case study about gender equality and work-life balance among highly educated mothers living and working in Buenos Aires, Argentina
(Master thesis, 2017)Gender equality and women’s rights are current topics worldwide. Women are getting new roles and positions in political life and the labor market, while men participate more in domestic work and childcare. Work-life ... -
The virtual future of professional service firms: Identifying emerging interpretive schemes caused by technology enactment
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The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index - A measurement tool striving to make women’s empowerment a tangible and measureable concept
(Master thesis, 2016)This thesis assesses the effectiveness and practicality of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) based on two pilots that were conducted in Bangladesh and Uganda. Currently, there is a major gap in gender ... -
Theories of Journalism in a Digital Age. An exploration and Introduction
(Journalism Practice;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07-10)This special issue introductory article investigates contemporary notions of theory in journalism studies. Many scholars have argued that we need better ways of conceptualising what journalism is and how it develops in a ... -
Theorizing Public Libraries as Public Spheres in Library and Information Science
(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence;Volume 12051, Conference object, 2020-03-19)During the 21st century, library and information scholars have set out to theorize the role of public libraries as public spheres. Most of this research is engaging with Habermas’ early work on the structural transformation ... -
Theorizing theory: Invitation to a broader conversation about ‘theory’ in sociology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)'Theory’ is a seminal term in sociology. Sociologists tend to ask that articles, chapters and monographs are ‘theoretical’, ‘develop theory’ or ‘make a theoretical contribution’. Yet, as demonstrated in Gabriel Abend’s ... -
Therapeutic abortion in Nicaragua and El Salvador : a comparative study of this policy and its influence on maternal mortality and the UN Millennium Development Goals
(Master thesis, 2012)The total prohibition on therapeutic abortion is an issue that prevents the delivery of quality medical care to women that are pregnant. Subsequent maternal mortality is one of the outcomes on this policy. The aim of this ... -
Therapeutic features of the Family Group Conference model when Applied for long-term social assistance recipients
(Journal of Family Social Work;Volume 23, 2020 - Issue 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-21)The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore long-term social assistance recipients´ experiences with family group conferences (FGC). Fifteen Norwegian long-term (> 6 months) social assistance recipients whom had ... -
'There was Modernism. Then there was Digital.' Kenneth Goldsmith and the Updating of Literature
(C21 Literature: Journal of 21st Century Writings;Issue: Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2021 • Autumn 2021, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08-30)The notion of literature as an obsolete form, out of sync with its own time, has been a familiar one ever since modern media displaced the literary from its previous centrality in culture. Expounding on poet Kenneth ... -
“They don’t want to integrate” - Field work with Roma Voices from Central and Eastern European Countries Living in the UK, about Belonging, Othering and Integration
(Master thesis, 2017)After the opening of the EU borders in 2004 and 2007, many Central-and Eastern European Roma have left their home countries permanently or for up to three months periods of the time, to search for better possibilities to ... -
‘They said I wasn’t sick enough’: pain as negotiation in workfare
(Nordic Social Work Research;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-29)Women with migration experience from non-European countries living in Norway question the degree to which workfare is beneficial to their participation in working life. Welfare-workers regard ‘immigrant women’ as a ... -
“They take the whole uterus out of you and put it on the table. They examine it from the table and after they put it back” A qualitative study of women’s and health care workers’ knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards cervical cancer and cervical cancer screening in Fort Portal, Uganda.
(Master thesis, 2020)Cervical cancer is a disease that is emphasised as one of the gravest threats to women’s life. In low and middle-income countries, it is the cancer type that kills most women and girls. The World Health Organisation situates ... -
"Think global, act local" : En studie av globaliseringens påvirkning på HRM-strategier
(Master thesis, 2014)I de siste tiårene har det vært et økende fokus på Human Resource Management (HRM), og hvordan en velfungerende HRM-funksjon kan bidra til at bedrifter oppnår betydelig konkurransefortrinn. Økende globalisering og tilvekst ... -
Three views of the Cuban education : a comparative study of policy deterioration
(Master thesis, 2013)Education in Cuba has been known as one of the major accomplishments of the revolution. Before it, education was unavailable to over half of Cuban children. Nowadays compulsory education through the ninth grade exists in ... -
Ticket to rate: antecedents to turnover intention among teachers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Since the millennium, marketization of upper secondary education involving control, accountability, and performance has changed the working life of many teachers in the Western world. The objective of this paper is to ... -
Tid og tillit — om bibliotekutvikling og forskningsstøtte
(Master thesis, 2018)Målet med denne masteroppgaven har vært å komme med et konstruktivt bidrag til hvordan UH-bibliotek kan styrke sin relevans for dagens forskere. Ut fra en kvalitativ tilgang, identifiserer denne oppgaven tre sentrale ... -
Tidlig gjenkjenning av selvmordsrisiko hos ungdom : En kvalitativ studie av profesjonelle hjelperes dilemmaer i arbeidet med å identifisere ungdom med selvmordsatferd
(Master thesis, 2008)Denne studiens formål er å tilby noen forklaringer på hvorfor bare en liten andel av ungdom med selvmordsatferd blir tilbudt hjelp fra det offentlige hjelpeapparatet, og å finne mulige løsninger på hva som kan gjøres for ... -
Tidligere rusmisbrukeres syn på en strukturert hverdag og meningsfulle aktiviteter. Sett i lys av et helhetlig perspektiv
(Master thesis, 2021)Masteroppgavens hensikt er å få kunnskap i hvilke faktorer som oppleves som de viktigste for tidligere rusmisbrukere for å holde seg rusfrie. Reinnleggelser av rusmisbrukere medfører store samfunnsmessige kostnader, og ved ...