Background: State self-control has been proposed to influence sport and exercise performance, but the literature varies considerably in participant populations, experimental manipulations, and performance outcomes.

Aim: This scoping review aimed to map how state self-control exertion has been investigated in healthy adults and summarize its reported effects on subsequent sport and exercise performance.

Methods: Systematic searches were conducted in PsycINFO, SPORTDiscus, PubMed, and Scopus. Studies were included if they experimentally manipulated state self-control within a sequential-task paradigm and assessed a subsequent sport or exercise performance outcome. Data were extracted on study characteristics, manipulations, regulatory processes, performance tasks, and findings.

Results: Twenty-six studies published between 2010 and 2024 were included. Most used modified Stroop or transcription tasks and primarily examined response inhibition. Prior self-control exertion was generally associated with impaired endurance, resistance, and sport-specific performance, although several studies reported mixed, context-dependent, or null effects. No single psychological mechanism consistently explained the observed impairments.

Conclusion: Prior state self-control exertion was generally associated with impaired subsequent sport and exercise performance, although the effects varied across studies and were not consistently explained by a single underlying mechanism.

This thesis examines digital gender disinformation as a phenomenon that is gaining increasing strength due to the use of social media and its affordances, as well as the growing use of artificial intelligence, which facilitates the alteration or creation of false content. The study is situated within the context of electoral campaigns in Sweden and Bolivia, with the aim of understanding how this phenomenon operates in different settings and contributing to the field of knowledge, given that most existing scholarship comes from the Global North. Research on digital gender disinformation is still developing, particularly in the Global South.

The motivation behind this study was the observation that women were stepping down from leadership roles during political campaigns in both Bolivia and Sweden in 2025. Consequently, this study adopts a comparative qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews with eight female politicians –four in each country– at both the local and national levels. The aim is to understand their perceptions of this phenomenon, compare their experiences and interpret them through the lens of existing gender disinformation theory.

A systematic thematic analysis with an inductive orientation is applied to develop themes and a conceptual model that emerges from the empirical material and explains digital gender disinformation through a dialogue between this material and the theoretical contributions of scholars working in this field. The study explores the mechanisms, gendered narratives and public-facing dynamics of disinformation in digital political contexts, as well as its broader democratic implications for political participation, representation and public debate.

The systematic thematic analysis results in four themes: The structural production and circulation of digital gender disinformation; gender disinformation narratives as instruments of political delegitimization; navigating gender disinformation in political practice; and the democratic consequences and limits of institutional responses. These themes are further developed in the theoretical discussion, which concludes with a conceptual model. The findings indicate that digital gender disinformation functions as a strategy aligned with broader structural mechanisms, enabling misleading content and false gender narratives to circulate online, cause harm, and contribute to democratic erosion. The results also underscore the need to prioritize and address gender disinformation both as a threat to democratic integrity and as a barrier to gender equality.

Background: Public sector management control is characterized by formal requirements for objectives, follow-up and results, while work must also be carried out in accordance with norms concerning legal certainty, quality and service. Previous research emphasizes that management control should be understood as a package of interacting forms of control, but the relationship between cultural and cybernetic control remains less developed.

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to deepen the understanding of the relational dynamics between cultural and cybernetic control within public sector management control by examining how these forms of control relate to each other in case handling processes within a government agency.

Method: The study is a qualitative single-case study of the Swedish Tax Agency. The method describes how the empirical material was collected through semistructured interviews, recurring observations and a document study, and how these were used together to examine the relationship between the forms of control in practice.

Conclusion: The study shows that cultural and cybernetic control are closely intertwined in everyday case handling work. Cybernetic control signals, such as objectives, follow-up and feedback, become practically meaningful through cultural norms concerning quality, responsibility and legal certainty. At the same time, cultural control is reinforced through meetings, documentation and local work practices. The relational dynamics are expressed through complementarity, substitution,imbalance and invisibility, where the forms of control may reinforce each other, compensate for each other’s limitations, create friction in daily work or operate without ever becoming visible to those who carry out the work.

Predictive maintenance is an important application area for data-driven systems, especially when unexpected machine failures can cause downtime, repair costs, and safety-related risks. A central task in this area is Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction, which estimates how long a system is expected to operate before failure. This task is challenging because degradation is usually observed through multivariate sensor signals, and complete run-to-failure data may be limited in practical settings.

This thesis studies RUL prediction for turbofan engines using the NASA C-MAPSS degradation dataset. The aim is to compare selected feature-engineered machine learning models with sequence-based deep learning models under a controlled experimental setup. Random Forest, XGBoost, and Support Vector Regression are evaluated using statistical features created from sensor windows. LSTM, GRU, and 1D-CNN are evaluated using ordered sensor sequences. The study also investigates how prediction performance changes when the available training data is reduced.

The results show that recurrent deep learning models provide the strongest overall performance in the tested setup. In the direct 30-cycle comparison, GRU achieved the lowest MAE, while LSTM achieved the highest R². In the deep learning window-size experiment, LSTM with a 50-cycle window achieved the lowest MAE. The reduced data results show that LSTM remained the strongest model across all tested training data sizes, although performance varied between different selected engine subsets.

The thesis contributes a controlled empirical comparison of RUL prediction approaches and shows how model type, sequence length, and training data availability influence prediction performance.

Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks are increasingly important for tactical and disaster-relief operations, but remain highly vulnerable to Electronic Warfare attacks on the shared electromagnetic spectrum. The proprietary protocols that defend against this (Beechat’s HopSync being the contemporary example) require specialised FPGA radios and are not available for independent study, leaving open the question of whether the same architectural pattern is implementable on commodity hardware at all.

This thesis presents and empirically evaluates an Adaptive Frequency Hopping protocol that combines three mechanisms: an HMAC-SHA256 Time-based One-Time Password for stateless channel rendezvous between nodes, kernel-evidence-driven blacklist learning to suppress repeat visits to compromised channels, and a dual-radio “ping-pong” handover that masks the radio re-tune cost. The implementation runs on two Raspberry Pi 5s with off-the-shelf AR9271 USB Wi-Fi adapters; jamming is simulated via the Linux tc/netem traffic-control facility.

Across a 30-run campaign (six experimental configurations × five simulated time windows, ~720,000 packets per direction), the full design delivers 92.17 ±0.32 % packet delivery ratio under continuous-wave jamming against 54.90 ±0.13 % for the worst-case static baseline while maintaining consistent improvement over all baselines. The +37.27 percentage-point improvement decomposes additively into a +22.84 pp contribution from time-based hopping and a further +14.43 pp from the adaptive blacklist, with the dual-radio architecture contributing to a ~1 s reduction in 95th-percentile latency. Per-event recovery medians sit at one bucket (2 s) on both algorithmic and end-to-end axes, approximately two orders of magnitude faster than the static baseline. The reference implementation and analysis pipeline are released as the principal open-source artefact of the project.

This study examines how public librarians role health- promoting actors take shape through the reading promoting activity known as Silent book club. Based on qualitative,semi-structured interviews with public librarians and field observations, the study analyses how the activity is constructed, justifield and understood in relation to bothreading promotion and health promotion work. The results show that the silent book club is characterized by low thresholds for participation, with a non-demanding and flexible format in which participants themselves choose the litterature and the degree of social interaction. By applying social capital as a theoretical lense, the study suggests that thelibrary can function as an inclusive meeting place that can foster social community, reduce loneliness and offer respite in a performance-oriented society. Reading emerges both as an individual activity with potential well-being effects and as part of social contexts where meaning is created through human interaction. At the same time, it emerges that librarians often do not explicitly define their work as health-promoting, even though the activities may in practice have such effects.

Public sector organizations struggle to address today’s complex challenges through traditional institutional structures. Innovation labs have emerged as an organizational response, yet their potential depends on the organization cultural and the quality of the infrastructure connecting the stakeholders and processes. This thesis is situated at the intersection of systemic design, service ecosystem design, and public sector innovation, and examines how design practice can strengthen the process infrastructure of a newly established e-health innovation lab. 

The Innovation Environment (IE) is a collaborative innovation lab between Region Kalmar Län and Linnaeus University, set up to develop need-driven digital health solutions at the intersection of public healthcare, academia, and private technology partners. Despite its clear mission and committed actors, the IE lacks the shared structures that allow clinical needs to travel reliably from the healthcare floor to technical development. This thesis asks: what structural gaps exist in the IE's current process, and how can systemic design strengthen its infrastructure to support need-driven collaboration between clinical and technical actors? 

Research through Design guided the methodology for this project. Data was gathered through twelve semi-structured interviews, three field visits, desk research, visual system mapping, and benchmarking of comparable frameworks. Three facilitated workshops translated findings into a validated design direction. 

The result is the Kalmar Innovation Oak, a conceptual ecosystem framework that maps the IE's innovation process onto the architecture of a living oak tree. The framework provides a shared language across the IE's fragmented actor groups, formalizes existing regional practices and introduces three operational canvases to guide actors through need-finding, operationalization, and co-creation. The first and foundational Canvas was co-created and validated with IE actors in the final workshop. 

The study concludes that addressing the structural conditions and processes of innovation is a form of innovation in and of itself, as it impacts how actors view the system, understand their roles, and relate to one another, with long-term implications for the quality of health services in the Kalmar region. 

Automated terrain segmentation is an important component of autonomous rovernavigation, particularly in environments where computational resources and system robustness are limited. This thesis investigates how different architectural andtraining-related design choices influence rare-class terrain segmentation performanceon the AI4Mars dataset under constrained deployment conditions. The study focuseson lightweight semantic segmentation models suitable for deployment-constrainedenvironments, with particular attention to the detection of the rare Big Rock terrainclass.A three-stage controlled experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of input resolution, decoder family, encoder architecture, loss functions, augmentationstrategies, training duration, and deployment-related constraints. Several lightweightsegmentation architectures were compared using the AI4Mars Curiosity NAVCAMdataset. The final model was additionally evaluated under simulated deploymentrelevant constraints, including limits on parameter count, latency, memory usage,and survivability under simulated radiation-induced bit-flip faults.Input resolution and loss-function choice had the largest impact on rare-class performance. The strongest configuration combined DeepLabv3+ with a MobileNetV4-Conv-Small encoder at 512 × 512 input, trained with focal–Tversky loss and basicaugmentation, reaching a Big Rock IoU of 0.446 on the gold expert test set with3.00 M parameters. After adding safeguards against simulated radiation faults, thefinal model recovered its accuracy and stayed within the parameter and memory limits, with baseline CPU latency well under budget.The findings demonstrate that lightweight segmentation models can achieve competitive performance within strict resource and robustness limits when training configuration and architectural choices are carefully optimized. The study also highlights the importance of balancing segmentation accuracy with deployment feasibility in constrained autonomous navigation environments.

An existing multi-scale FE² finite element framework is extended to steady-state, coupled thermo-mechanical analysis of hyperelastic materials undergoing large deformations. Two formulations are considered: a standard first-order formulation and a thermo-mechanical framework combining second-order mechanical homogenization with a first-order thermal model. The latter is introduced to account for size effects arising from microstructural heterogeneities and thermal expansion. The framework is tested under plane strain conditions for composite microstructures containing either soft or stiff inclusions. The results show that, while the second-order formulation provides a more accurate representation of the RVE fields, the overall macroscale improvement over the classical first-order formulation is problem-dependent. The study demonstrates the practicality of the numerical framework for both approaches in multi-scale thermo-mechanical analysis. 

This study contributes to current discussions by highlighting the pedagogical potential of digital platforms within School-Age Educare Centre (SAEC) contexts and how multimodal, collaborative learning can be supported through digital–physical hybridity. However, debates persist in Sweden and internationally regarding children’s screen time and the role of digital technologies in education. As a result, digital tools are sometimes absent from SAEC activities. This study takes as its premise that SAEC can offer safe digital environments, such as Minecraft Education, where all participants are known to teachers and peers, and where diverse learning opportunities can unfold. Previous research shows that hybrid learning activities can extend children’s social, digital, and subject specific competences, with more knowledgeable peers supporting others in navigating both digital and physical spaces (Wernholm et al., 2025). Research further indicates that pupils’ participation increases when they engage in activities that allow multiple forms of expression (Patron et al., 2026). 

This study aims to explore how pupils express their learning experiences and demonstrate competencies during teacher‑designed building activities in MinecraftEdu within SAEC settings. The following research questions guide the study: 

-     How do pupils use different competencies when engaging with MinecraftEdu?

-     How do pupils express their learning experiences from engaging with MinecraftEdu? 

This study draws on Designs for Learning theory and a social semiotic perspective on multimodality, viewing teaching and learning as multimodal design (Selander & Kress, 2010). The field work was conducted at a Swedish SAEC center with 52 pupils aged 8–10. The pupils were video recorded while constructing buildings in MinecraftEdu, and focus group interviews were conducted with 24 of them. Preliminary results show that pupils draw on a range of competencies, including subject competence. For example, constructing a pyramid in MinecraftEdu requires mathematical understanding; some pupils recognized errors in their design and revised their structures by identifying that the base had to be square. Pupils also described solving problems either through trial and error or by consulting more knowledgeable peers. The most prominent finding is the central role of social competence: collaborating successfully in this hybrid activity required communication, negotiation, and coordinated action. A preliminary conclusion is that both experienced and inexperienced Minecraft players participate actively and remain highly engaged during the activity, which creates conditions for the further development of these competencies.

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Selander, S., & Kress, G. (2010) Design for Lärande: Ett Multimodalt Perspektiv. Norstedt

Patron, E., Wernholm, M., Ebbelind, A., Palmér, H., Danielsson, K., & Kjällander, S. (2026). ”Att få kött på benen” – att förbereda lärarstudenter både teoretiskt och praktiskt för att designa hybrida läraktiviteter i fritidshemmet. Nordic Studies in Education. 46 (1). 17-34.

Wernholm, M., Patron, E., Danielsson, K., Ebbelind, A., & Palmér, H. (2025). Hybrida läraktiviteter för att främja sexåringars meningsskapande. Forskning om undervisning och lärande. 13(1), 22-45, https://doi.org/10.61998/forskul.v13i1.25870 

This thesis investigates how tacit knowledge is discussed in academic discourse with aspecial focus on recent years and the introduction of generative AI. Tacit knowledge isunderstood here as knowledge that is neither formally documented nor codified inorganizational procedures. Instead, it emerges organically through practice, experience,and social interaction. Utilizing a dual-methodological framework that pairs qualitativethematic analysis, with computational natural language processing (corpus analysis), thisstudy maps a foundational corpus of 10,983 unique publications harvested from Scopus and Web of Science from 1968 to 2025. The longitudinal topography reveals a distinct W-shaped historical lifecycle. The literature transitioned from an initial cognitive and behavioral science root focused on implicit human learning (1968–1993), into a heavilycommercialized, extraction-oriented Knowledge Management (KM) paradigm focused oncorporate codification (1994–2010), before stabilizing into an enablement modelprioritizing social capital, psychological safety, and pedagogy (2011–2021).

To isolate the structural impact of recent technological breakthroughs, a specializedPRISMA-compliant sub-corpus of 30 core works and an expanded algorithmic database of521 entries specifically detailing the intersection of artificial intelligence and tacitknowledge were thoroughly analyzed. Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) collocatemapping and transformer-based RoBERTa sentiment mining indicate a historic rebalancingof the field’s vocabulary. Rather than remaining an isolated peripheral node, AI hassolidified as a core thematic hub since late 2022. Contemporary scholarship exhibits astructural divergence, bypassing recent literature to link classic human-centric theoriesdirectly to modern automated pipelines. Sentiment profiling reveals a shift from defensiverejections of automation toward a cautiously optimistic, co-creative narrative. The findingsdemonstrate that while Large Language Models can instantly synthesize explicit data, theyremain fundamentally constrained by Polanyi’s paradox. Consequently, modern discoursereframes human intuition not as an automated target, but as an intractable, context-specificboundary and a mandatory check-and-balance required to ground black-box algorithmic recommendations.

This thesis investigates how joy can be intentionally integrated into design practice through the development of a practical design toolkit for designers. While existing approaches in emotional design, positive design, and well-being design often focus broadly on happiness, pleasure and user satisfaction. This remains a lack of structured methods specifically aimed at designing for “joy” as a distinct emotional experience. This research addresses that gap by exploring how joy can be defined meaningfully for design practice and how designers can be supported in intentionally creating joyful experiences for everyday life.

The study adopts the Double Diamond design framework as the primary methodological approach, combining literature review, brainstorming, mind mapping, rapid ideation, method mapping, prototyping, user testing and reflective practice throughout the project development process. The research draws from interdisciplinary perspectives including psychology, philosophy, emotional design, positive psychology and design for well-being. Particular attention is given to recent theories defining joy as the “elation of right relation,” emphasizing joy as a momentary and meaningful emotional experience emerging through alignment between identity, context and sensory engagement.

Based on these findings, the project develops a Joy Design Toolkit consisting of structured tools and guiding methods intended to help designers identify joy domains, moments, sensory experiences and emotional triggers within the design process. This toolkit reframes joy into a process that cultivate meaningful emotional experiences and preparing human for their own sustainability.

Although though that joy remains subjective, contextual and culturally dependent, design can still intentionally facilitate conditions that support joyful experiences through sensory stimulation, meaningful momentary interaction and emotional alignment of joy domains. The project contributes to the growing opportunities on both emotional and positive design by proposing a more focused and actionable approach to designing for joy. It also highlights the potential role of emotionally meaningful design in supporting sustainable and human-centered futures.

In today's society, we are witnessing the closure of youth meeting places as a result of economic cutbacks. Public libraries are no exception. The hardest hit are public libraries in smaller communities and areas with less favorable socioeconomic conditions. Previous research shows that young people primarily use libraries today as social gathering spaces. Against this background, this study focuses on public libraries in smaller communities, their youth programs, and the significance of these programs for young people. The aim of the study is to investigate how librarians at small public libraries work with youth programs and how these activities can be understood in relation to the library’s role as a democratic institution and community meeting place. The study focuses on examining young people’s opportunities for participation in society and how such participation can enhance their empowerment and influence, both as individuals and as a group. To achieve this, six public librarians were interviewed using semi-structured interviews conducted digitally via video calls. The interviews were transcribed and subsequently analyzed thematically. The material was interpreted through the lens of Jürgen Habermas’s theory of the public sphere and Nancy Fraser’s theory of counterpublics. The findings identify several recurring and relevant themes. The topics discussed include youth programs in relation to social interaction and group dynamics, as well as the relationship-building work of librarians, which plays a crucial role in the success of youth services. Young people’s intermediate position is highlighted and problematized in relation to their status as a prioritized target group under the Swedish Library Act. Throughout the study, the democratic role of small public libraries for both young people and society is emphasized. The study demonstrates that young people are structurally deprioritized in relation to other target groups, which affects the conditions for developing and maintaining youth programs. 

The global shift towards a Circular Economy is becoming increasingly critical as industries face growing pressures related to resource scarcity, waste generation, and climate change. While companies like IKEA are actively committing to circular goals, consumer engagement remains one of the key barriers to closing the circular loop. This project explores the barriers and drivers that shape consumer participation in circular initiatives within the furniture sector, with a focus on two contrasting contexts - Sweden (Global North) and India (Global South).

Using IKEA as a case company, the study employs an interdisciplinary research approach drawing on Circular Economy theory, Socio-technical theory, the concept of value-action gap, nudge theory, and service design. Methods include benchmarking, field study, comparative case study, semi-structured interviews, persona development, user journey mapping, and prototyping, structured within the Double Diamond framework.

The findings reveal that low awareness and inconvenience are the primary barriers preventing IKEA India consumers from engaging with circular services. In response, the project proposes a consumer-centric service design solution across three interrelated touchpoints - a social media awareness campaign, visual communication and spatial planning at the store, and a UX feature called the IKEA Furniture Bank, integrated into IKEA's existing app and website to provide easy post-purchase access to circular services. Designed to guide consumers into the circular loop through convenience and nudging. Together, these aim to bridge the gap between consumers and circular services, reduce the value-action gap, support behavioral change and guide consumers into the circular loop. Ultimately, through the agency of IKEA, the proposal aims to shift the mindset of Indian consumers by raising awareness towards circularity and encouraging more circular behaviours, making sustainability an effortless choice.

This project investigates the role of design in supporting emotional awareness among young people in school environments. It focuses on how a tangible tool can create space for reflection, helping students recognize and articulate their feelings in everyday situations. The outcome is a journal-based tool developed for 12–13-year-old students, combining visual elements, storytelling, and guided prompts. Rather than offering solutions, it invites users to engage with their own experiences and build a personal understanding of their emotions. The project highlights how small, consistent practices of reflection can influence behavior over time, and suggests that emotional awareness should be considered an essential part of learning and social sustainability.

Bakgrund: Samverkan mellan polis och akutsjuksköterskor blir allt vanligare på akutmottagningar. Akutsjuksköterskan ansvarar för patienten och dess vård och ska ha kunskaper i att skapa ett vårdande möte oavsett situation med fokus på patientens integritet. Vid samverkan med polis kan situationer problematiseras av att polis och hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal lyder under olika lagar. Dessutom kan polisens närvaro innebära en auktoritet som kan försvåra akutsjuksköterskans möjlighet till att skapa en vårdande relation till patienten.

Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva akutsjuksköterskors upplevelse av vårdandet av patienter i polisnärvaro.

Metod: Kvalitativ intervjustudie med semistrukturerade frågor och induktiv ansats. Tio akutsjuksköterskor intervjuades på akutmottagningar i södra Sverige. Data analyserades genom Graneheim och Lundmans kvalitativa innehållsanalys. 

Resultat: För att akutsjuksköterskan ska ha möjlighet att bedriva god och säker vård krävs det att vårdmiljön är säker, vilket polisen kan inbringa. Samverkan beskrivs som god men problematiseras av att personalen lyder under olika lagar. Anledningen till polisnärvaron påverkar situationen och med det även akutsjuksköterskans förmåga att skapa en vårdande relation. Upplevelsen är att patientens integritet och sekretess är i fokus. Akutsjuksköterskor har inställningen att ge lika vård till alla utan att döma. Erfarenhet ger trygghet som utöver vårdandet även påverkar samverkan med polis.

Slutsats: Akutsjuksköterskor upplever att polisnärvaron i vårdandet ger en trygghet men försvårar möjligheten att skapa en vårdande relation mellan akutsjuksköterska och patient. Det krävs att akutsjuksköterskan har möjlighet att se hela människan för att skapa ett vårdande möte. Forskning i ämnet utifrån svenska förhållanden är begränsade vilket ökar betydelsen för ytterligare studier.

Bakgrund:  Moralisk stress uppstår när sjuksköterskor vet vad som är moraliskt riktigt att göra men hindras från att agera i enlighet med sina professionella och etiska värderingar. Under Covid-19-pandemin präglades vården av hög arbetsbelastning, resursbrist och omfattande organisatoriska förändringar, vilket påverkade sjuksköterskors möjligheter att ge vård i enlighet med sitt professionella ansvar.Problemformulering: Moralisk stress har under Covid-19-pandemin identifierats som ett betydande problem inom hälso- och sjukvården och kan få negativa konsekvenser för både sjuksköterskor och vårdorganisationer. Trots tidigare forskning saknas en sammanställd bild av vilka faktorer sjuksköterskor upplevde bidrog till moralisk stress under pandemin. En sådan sammanställning kan bidra till ökad förståelse för de faktorer som påverkar sjuksköterskors möjligheter att ge vård i enlighet med professionella och etiska värderingar.Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att sammanställa sjuksköterskors upplevda faktorer som bidrog till moralisk stress under Covid-19-pandemin.Metod: Studien genomfördes som en kvalitativ litteraturöversikt med induktiv ansats. Datainsamlingen genomfördes i databaserna CINAHL och PubMed. Tio kvalitativa vetenskapliga artiklar inkluderades efter kvalitetsgranskning och analyserades enligt Fribergs analysmodell för integrerande sammanställning av kvalitativ forskning inspirerad av metasyntes.Resultat: Analysen resulterade i tre kategorier som beskrev faktorer som bidrog till moralisk stress hos sjuksköterskor under pandemin: att uppleva resursbrist, att uppleva bristande inflytande och kontroll samt att uppleva rädsla för att smitta andra och själv bli smittad. Resursbrist omfattade personalbrist, materialbrist och tidsbrist. Bristande inflytande och kontroll innefattade otillräcklig kunskap, att inte bli lyssnad på samt riktlinjer och restriktioner. Rädsla för smitta handlade om svårigheten att balansera patientansvar med den egna och närståendes säkerhet. Slutsats: Resultatet visar att resursbrist, bristande inflytande och kontroll samt rädsla för att smitta andra eller själv bli smittad var faktorer till moralisk stress hos sjuksköterskor under Covid-19-pandemin. Gemensamt för de identifierade faktorerna var att de begränsade sjuksköterskornas möjligheter att ge vård i enlighet med sina professionella och etiska värderingar, vilket låg till grund för den moraliska stressen. Studien belyser därmed betydelsen av organisatoriska förutsättningar som möjliggör delaktighet, stöd och tillräckliga resurser för att förebygga moralisk stress och stärka vårdens beredskap inför framtida kriser.

Syftet med denna studie är att skapa en fördjupad förståelse för de förutsättningar och utmaningar som präglar uppsökande socialt arbete, med särskilt fokus på kontakt- och relationsskapande samt legitimitetsskapande processer. Studien visar hur preventiva ambitioner omsätts i praktiken och hur plats och tid påverkar möjligheterna att skapa goda möten med unga.

Resultaten visar att uppsökande socialt arbete präglas av komplexa förhandlingsprocesser. Fältarbetarna behöver först identifiera och synliggöra sociala problem eller risker och därefter förhandla om sin legitimitet i ungdomarnas sfär. Acceptans, erkännande och makt är centrala dimensioner i denna process. När fältarbetarna, med hänsyn till plats och tid, lyckas etablera en accepterad aktörsposition uppstår det som i studien benämns situationell legitimitet. Denna legitimitet skapar förutsättningar för de goda möten som är grunden för kontakt och relationsskapande.

With the expansion of platform capitalism, the contemporary internet is increasingly dominated by centralized digital infrastructures. Mainstream platforms are gradually monopolizing knowledge production and modes of social collaboration through black-box systems and algorithmic governance. Against this background, this study uses Dynamicland (Dynamicland, n.d.) as a case study to explore how it constructs an alternative vision of collaborative knowledge production through multimodal media forms and to analyze how these media forms participate in constructing meaning around decentralization and collaboration.

The primary research question is how Dynamicland uses multimodal media forms to articulate an alternative vision of collaborative knowledge production. The study further examines which media forms are employed, how different media elements collectively construct meaning, and how decentralization and collaboration are expressed. This study integrates Actor-Network Theory (ANT), assemblage theory, media semiotics, and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA), employing a qualitative single-case study method to conduct a multimodal analysis of Dynamicland’s website, videos, project documents, and visual materials.

The study finds that Dynamicland actively counters the highly abstract and black-boxed technical logic of mainstream tech platforms through forms such as handwriting, paper based interaction, physical space, and hand-drawn diagrams. By emphasizing visible interfaces, material interaction, and embodied participation, it brings knowledge production back into a public space that is observable, understandable, and modifiable. At the same time, the decentralization emphasized by Dynamicland is a redistribution of epistemic authority. Within its system, participants are the co-producers of rules and infrastructure.

This study further argues that Dynamicland’s representations themselves constitute a political act. Through these multimodal representations, Dynamicland constructs an alternative imagination of technology, one in which technology can be open, embodied, and collaborative. By examining representation, this study expands our understanding of alternative media infrastructures and offers a new perspective in media studies on de-platformed infrastructures and collaborative knowledge production.

 This thesis analyses Ethel Cain’s album Preacher’s Daughter (2022) through a queer theoretical framework, focusing on queer aesthetics and queer temporality. Drawing on Cáel M. Keegan’s concept of “sensing transgender” and Judith Halberstam’s theory of queer time, the study examines how identity and agency are constructed through aesthetic and temporal strategies rather than explicit representation. Through close reading of selected songs, the analysis demonstrates how fragmented perspectives, sensory disorientation, and non-linear narratives destabilize heteronormative understandings of identity and development. The findings show that identity within the album is presented as fluid and continually negotiated, while agency emerges as fragmented and situational. In addition, the thesis highlights the pedagogical potential of the album in the Swedish EFL classroom, arguing that music can serve as an accessible tool for engaging with complex topics such as identity, trauma, and perspective-taking. The study concludes that queer and trans* aesthetic frameworks not only provide new ways of interpreting cultural texts but also offer valuable opportunities for developing inclusive and critically engaged teaching practices.

Between Fresh Air and Isolation A Study of Broby Sanatorium and Tuberculosis Care in Kristianstad County between 1915 - 1956

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The study applies a quantitative and epidemiological approach in order to identify patterns in admissions, discharges, mortality, and treatment results over time. Particular attention is given to the relationship between tuberculosis and social conditions, especially occupational background and class affiliation. The theoretical framework draws on medical history and welfare state research concerning the professionalisation and institutionalisation of healthcare during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The results show that Broby Sanatorium formed an important part of the expanding Swedish tuberculosis care system and reflected broader developments within public health and welfare policy. The study demonstrates how tuberculosis was closely connected to social and economic conditions, particularly poverty, overcrowding, and limited living standards. The patient population largely consisted of individuals from working-class and lower socio-economic backgrounds. At the same time, the sanatorium represented a modern and increasingly institutionalised healthcare system shaped by medical science, hygiene ideals, and organised public responsibility. The study also shows how treatment methods gradually changed during the period, from an emphasis on rest, fresh air, nutrition, and isolation to more effective medical interventions following the introduction of vaccination and antibiotics in the 1940s. Broby Sanatorium thus illustrates both the social impact of tuberculosis and the transformation of Swedish healthcare during the emergence of the modern welfare state.

The aim of this research is to explore the democratic participation of Swedish pupils studying Spanish as a foreign language and the relationship between the democratic objectives set out in official documents of the Swedish National Curriculum and actual democratic participation within the classroom. It also analyses the extent to which pupils participate in their own learning, as well as the extent to which teachers encourage pupils’ active participation. Finally, the focus of this research is to analyse teachers’ reflections on what may facilitate or limit participation.  

The official documents of the Swedish National Curriculum (Skolverket, 2022), the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR, 2001) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF, 2006) are used as a starting point for the analysis. Added to this is the use of theories from the field of democratic participation and student influence. Given their relevance to the field of education, the analysis includes socio-economic factors, parents’ educational attainment, teaching style, and the characteristics or context of the schools studied. 

Methodologically, a mixed-methods approach was employed. Both quantitative methods, in the form of surveys, and qualitative methods, involving interviews and classroom observations, were used. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. The study was conducted in three schools in two small towns in southern Sweden. This context presents different socio-economic conditions compared to previous studies such as Elevinflytande i Lomma kommuns skolor (2005).

The results of this research show that democratic participation is generally limited. Although teachers attempt to promote pupil participation and influence using various methods, pupils rarely take an active role. Furthermore, it is evident that genuine democratic participation is complex to implement due to several factors that interact simultaneously. Additionally, there is a discrepancy between teachers’ intentions and pupils’ perceptions. In conclusion, this research also highlights that pupil need to take a more active and responsible role in their own learning in order to achieve genuine democratic participation.

A Hole in the Garden is an absurd and erotic tragicomedy about a couple who meet another couple before the end of the world. In the accompanying essay, Stagnation and Repetition: On Entropic Dramaturgy, I introduce the dramaturgical concept of “entropic dramaturgy,” inspired by metaphysics and the second law of thermodynamics. The play is an artistic exploration of how the concept can be applied and realized in dramatic form.

Kampen och sårbarheten samlar ny forskning om nordisk arbetarlitteratur – ett av regionens mest betydelsefulla bidrag till världslitteraturen. I denna antologi möts etablerade forskare och en ny generation i analyser som belyser hur arbetarlitteraturen gestaltar liv, arbete och klass. Med utgångspunkt i spänningsfältet mellan kamp och sårbarhet undersöker boken både tradition och förnyelse: från proletariatets berättelser till dagens prekariat, från kanoniserade författarskap till nya röster och genrer. Här visas hur arbetarlitteraturen inte bara ger röst åt erfarenheter som annars förblir osynliga, utan också utvecklar litterära former och öppnar för nya sätt att förstå samhället. Antologin erbjuder perspektiv på över hundra års litterär praktik – och visar varför arbetarlitteraturen fortsatt är central för att förstå samtidens sociala och demokratiska utmaningar. Det är den åttonde antologin i en serie volymer knutna till Nordiskt nätverk för arbetarlitteraturforskning (Nordarb).

 This thesis studies the occurrence of hostile design patterns in child-oriented streaming platforms and how these can be understood in relation to the services’ business models. The study analyses three different types of platforms, an ad-funded, a public service and a commercial one.

Qualitative methods combine expert evaluation of the platforms with usability tests based on predefined scenarios and interviews with parents of children under 13 years of age.The analysis is based on theoretical frameworks around hostile design patterns, such as deceptive design patterns and Hyper Engaging Dark Patterns (HEDP).

The results show that hostile design patterns occur on all platforms. The most patterns were identified on the commercial platform (36), followed by the public service platform (35), while the ad-funded platform showed the lowest number (24). The main categories were HEDP, with patterns such as autoplay and infinite scrolling, and sneaking design, with patterns such as information withholding. The study also identifies pattern clusters, where different hostile design patterns interact to create a cumulative effect that further impairs user autonomy.

Finally, the study highlights a dependency asymmetry, where children are particularly vulnerable to these structures. Despite parents identifying the majority of hostile design patterns on the public service platform, it was still perceived as the most trustworthy of the three platforms examined, suggesting that user trust is not necessarily affected by the presence of hostile design. The study contributes insights into how platforms are systematically designed to control children’s behavior and media use.

This thesis examines how language barriers can affect individuals’ political understanding and their opportunities to participate in democratic processes in multilingual societies. Through a qualitative literature review, previous research on the significance of language for political participation is analysed, with particular emphasis on Robert A. Dahl’s democratic criterion of enlightened understanding.

The study shows that limited proficiency in the majority language can affect individuals’ access to political information, their ability to interpret public debates, and their willingness to participate in political activities such as voting, contacting public authorities, and taking part in public discussions. Language barriers also interact with other factors, such as socioeconomic resources, political trust, and feelings of alienation.

The analysis shows that language barriers may undermine several of Dahl’s democratic criteria, including effective participation, equality, and inclusion. From a deliberative democratic perspective, language emerges as a central prerequisite for participation in public discourse. The study concludes by proposing hypotheses for future empirical research on the relationship between language barriers, political passivity, and democratic inequality.

We study how anonymity affects fake-news sharing on social media using a natural experiment on Flashback, a large Swedish online discussion forum. In 2014, journalists obtained information that allowed them to identify users registered before March 2007, sharply increasing these users’ risk of public exposure while leaving later registrants unaffected. Using a difference-in-differences design on 1.98 million posts, we find that exposed users reduce references to fake-news sites by about one-quarter of the mean. The effect is concentrated in immigration and domestic-politics discussions and does not extend to legitimate news sources, suggesting that accountability reduces misinformation without reducing news sharing more broadly.

Depleted uranium (DU) sits at the intersection of radioactive-waste management, resource policy and environmental radioactivity. Its initial specific activity is low, and it may be retained as a potential resource or managed within low-level, low-activity or material-management categories. These categories are useful for regulation and storage, but they do not resolve the final-disposal problem for large concentrated inventories. DU is persistent on geological timescales, chemically toxic, potentially mobile under some groundwater conditions, and radiologically evolving through ingrowth of Th-230, Ra-226, Rn-222, Pb-210, Po-210 and other daughters. This review article examines DU disposal-route ambiguity and its environmental-radioactivity consequences. It synthesises institutional and technical evidence from the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, IAEA materials, European classification studies and near-biosphere uranium/DU stewardship examples. The record is fragmented but consistent on one point: DU disposal is not settled by classification alone. Some systems use LLW-type disposition, others preserve resource status, and others connect non-reused uranium to long-lived LLW, intermediate-depth or geological-disposal planning. The paper does not argue that nearsurface disposal is generically unacceptable, nor that every DU inventory requires a high-level-waste-type geological repository. Its claim is narrower: the adequacy of surface/shallow, intermediate-depth or geological disposal must be demonstrated for the specific inventory, waste form, site conditions and assessment timescale. For large DU inventories, a credible safety case should address uranium mobility, daughter-controlled pathways, radon, groundwater transport, intrusion, erosion, chemical toxicity and long-term uncertainty.

This research analyses online teaching methods for French as a foreign language at university level through the study of two courses for Swedish students. Based on questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with seven students, it has two objectives: firstly, to examine the self-regulation strategies used by the students to understand literary texts and achieve the objectives of the modules, and secondly, to question the reception and effectiveness of the autonomy-based teaching approach. The results indicate that students’ use of self-regulation strategies, including cognitive strategies such as the use of digital tools and multimodal literacy, metacognitive strategies such as planning and adjusting learning strategies, and volitional strategies such as managing emotions and personal obligations alongside studies, played a crucial role in their sense of accomplishment and success in both modules when confronted with complex texts and a demanding workload. The study highlights the importance of teachers explicitly supporting the development of self-regulated learning strategies, while encouraging a critical approach to the use of digital tools, in order to enhance students’ autonomy in distance learning in the age of AI.

Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (MIR) injury drives adverse remodeling and heart failure after ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), yet no therapy directly targets the fibrotic response. Here, we developed a good manufacturing practice-compatible extracellular vesicle (EV)-enriched secretome from bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells and identified a laminin-521-based production strategy suitable for clinical translation. The EV-enriched secretome exhibited in vitro immunomodulatory activity, and in murine MIR-injury models, treatment preserved left ventricular ejection fraction, reduced platelet-derived growth factor receptor beta (PDGFRβ)-associated myofibroblast activation quantified by positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, attenuated fibrosis, and promoted reparative macrophage polarization. In a clinically relevant porcine ischemia-reperfusion model, intracoronary administration was cardioprotective. We further developed a clinically approved PDGFRβ-targeted PET-imaging platform for longitudinal assessment of fibrotic activity in STEMI patients, where preliminary observations suggest that myofibroblast activation persists for up to 2 months after STEMI in selected patients. Together, these findings establish a translational therapeutic-diagnostic framework for individualized management of MIR injury.

Established determinants of health in the elderly help guide routines for indicated vaccine administration, while unmeasured frailty may limit vaccine access. We evaluate the performance of the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine adapted to the Omicron JN.1 lineage in a Swedish population aged >= 65 years (N = 245 696). Vaccine effectiveness (VE) on COVID-19-related hospitalization and a negative control outcome (NCO; all-cause mortality) are assessed in various cohorts between October 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025. The VE was 75% (95% CI 70%-79%) overall, and 84% (95% CI 80%-87%) and 65% (95% CI 34%-82%) in individuals with and without vaccination with the prior updatWhat aed COVID-19 vaccine in 2023-2024, respectively. The NCO in individuals exposed to the study vaccine in 2024-2025 was half of that seen in those not exposed to the vaccine (HR 0.43 [95% CI 0.40-0.45]). Removing individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 from this population did not change the difference in NCO (HR 0.43 [95% CI 0.41-0.46]). These findings suggest the presence of selection effects arising from under-provision of health services to elderly individuals with frailty. The healthy vaccinee effect should be considered in observational studies of the effectiveness of updated COVID-19 vaccines in elderly populations.

Background

Technical solutions are used today in many health-oriented activities and have become part of daily work. The intention has been to improve quality, efficiency, and coordination in the activities. The solutions have been used for documentation, planning and communication between professional groups, among other things. At the same time, the introduction does not always work as planned. Many activities face various challenges, including increased workload, own solutions that are not in line with the intention of the technology and sometimes a digital exclusion.

Purpose

The purpose of the study was to investigate how employees and managers in health-oriented activities experience and handle communication when introducing and using technical solutions and services.

Method

The study was conducted with a qualitative and exploratory approach. The data collection consisted of semi-structured interviews with employees and managers from various health-oriented activities in Skåne. The material was analyzed with reflexive thematic analysis.

Results

The results show that the introduction was often experienced as being controlled from above, with limited opportunities for participation. Several participants described that the communication was sometimes unclear and difficult to connect to their own work. Many felt that learning mainly took place through their own initiative and support from colleagues. How the solutions were used was also influenced by how useful they were perceived to be and what requirements existed in the business. When the systems did not work as expected, the participants created their own solutions to make the work into practice.

Conclusion

The study shows that communication is of great importance when introducing and using new working methods and technical solutions. Clear information, participation and support seem to be important for changes to work in the work and over time.

Keywords

Health informatics, communication, change management, implementation, participation, health-oriented activities, work environment, qualitative study.

Background and problem: Organizations use incentive systems as part of their management control to influence employees' motivation, behavior and priorities in line with organizational goals. Previous research has primarily focused either on management's design of incentives or on how such systems affect individuals' motivation and behavior, while the interaction between these perspectives has received less attention. As a result of this, differences may arise between management intentions and employees' perceptions of the system, which can lead to ineffective management control, incorrect priorities and work which is not in line with the organizational goals. In addition, research shows that the actual effects of incentives systems are rarely evaluated. Against this background there is a need for studies that analyze and evaluate incentive systems from both management and employee perspectives, as well as examine how such systems can be further developed to function more effectively.  

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to analyze and evaluate Derome's incentive system based on management´s intentions with the system and how it is perceived by employees in practice. The study also aims to identify strengths and areas for improvement through an evaluation model. 

Method: The study was conducted using an action research-inspired design with an abductive approach, combining qualitative and quantitative methods. Empirical data were collected through semi-structured interviews and a survey in order to capture both management's and employees' perspectives. A limited number of documents were also collected as complementary material. 

Conclusions: The study shows that the management' s intentions and employees' perceptions are largely aligned, although the degree of alignment varies across different components of the incentive system. The greatest discrepancies were identified regarding the function of monetary incentives and the relationship between performance and rewards. The criteria-based evaluation resulted in improvement proposals related to goal alignment, communication, and the design of monetary incentives. 

Digital dashboards have become increasingly common in the daily management of industrial companies, but how these tools actually work in practice and what they mean for the employees who encounter them every day is a question research has so far not answered sufficiently. That is precisely the question this study sets out to address. The study is a qualitative multiple-case study involving three organizations: a company that develops digital dashboards and the two industrial companies Elitfönster and ATEA Logistics, both of which use the dashboards. The empirical material is based on 18 interviews and observations of daily management meetings at the respective companies. The findings show that dashboards in both companies function as a hub for operational follow-up through real-time data, color-coded visualization, and short pulse meetings. However, how management is practiced differs between the organizations. At Elitfönster, meetings are characterized by more discussion and complementary communicative practices, while at ATEA, meetings lean more toward receiving and relating to the figures rather than discussing them .Employee interpretations are far from uniform. The dashboards are generally perceived as clear but lack contextual information explaining why the numbers look the way they do. Whether the tool feels motivating or stressful can depend on the situation and the individual. Several respondents also describe a kind of background presence from the dashboards, a constant reminder that everything is being measured, which is not tied to what the manager actively does but simply to the screens always being there. It is precisely that dimension which constitutes the study's theoretical contribution. We introduce the concept of the passive control dimension as a complement to Adler and Borys' (1996) framework, arguing that digital dashboards exert a controlling pressure through their physical and continuous presence in the production environment alone. Overall, the study shows that what a dashboard becomes in practice is not determined by the technology itself, but by the organizational context in which it operates.

The biotic component of the marine silica cycle strongly influences global biogeochemical cycling. Active uptake of dissolved silicic acid (dSi) occurs via silicon transporters (SITs), first characterized in diatoms but widely distributed in eukaryotes. Studying SITs and SIT-like (SIT-L) gene transcripts provides insights into the dynamics and evolutionary history of diverse biosilicifiers. Using a 2-yr metatranscriptomics dataset of Baltic Sea surface microbial communities, we identified SIT/SIT-L genes associated with 11 eukaryotic classes. Although diatoms were previously assumed to drive the Baltic Sea silica cycle, silicoflagellates dominated SIT/SIT-L expression over the sampling period. SIT/SIT-L expression and phylogenetic analyses revealed class-specific patterns, suggesting a complex evolutionary history in dinoflagellates and pronounced clade dynamics in diatoms. Overall, these unexpectedly complex and dynamic shifts in transcriptional investment in silicon transport revealed underappreciated microbial groups driving the Baltic Sea silica cycle.

High-end MMORPG raiding is a form of digital serious leisure that functions as an information-dense environment. These sites have inherited a history of patriarchal and gender asymmetric power structures. This study aims to understand how female players navigate this space, and how the gendered power dynamics shape their everyday information-related activities. To understand these dynamics, the study applies Critical Discourse Analysis and gender performativity to the established LIS concepts of information practices, analysing the empirical data generated by six semi-structured interviews. The key findings of this study are that the community’s ideal of “neutral expertise” is a myth that masks a male-dominated power structure that alienates female authority. This power structure in turn shapes female players’ information activities to internalized silence and careful visibility management. In response to these pressures by the male-dominated power structure, women actively subvert these structures through the construction of sanctuary spaces, shifting their learning to frontloading as to not allow exposure to gender regulation, and selectively incorporating aspects of the culture as natural. Ultimately, information practices within this digital space are not neutral; rather they act as sites for gender-based marginalization, and, for female players, tactical tools of resistance and survival to secure their participation in serious leisure.

Uppsatsen undersöker hur Guillermo del Toro utvecklar Frankensteinmyten i Frankenstein (2025) för att placera adaptionen i en samtida kontext som ställer frågor om maskulinitet, ansvar, identitet och generationstrauma. Uppsatsen undersöker även berättelsens fortsatta relevans och hur del Toro väljer att lyfta fram några av berättelsens grundläggande spänningar. Detta genomförs genom en kvalitativ närläsning av utvalda sekvenser från filmen, som bedömts synliggöra dess tematik och relationer. Den teoretiska grunden utgörs av adaptionsteori, maskulinitetsteori, monsterteori och begreppet det abjekta. Analysen visar att del Toro använder Frankenstein som en kulturell spegel för samtida frågor om maskulinitet, identitet och generationstrauma där relationen mellan skapare och skapad står i centrum. Genom detta förskjuts fokus från vetenskapskritik och kroppslig monstrositet till mänskliga relationer, ansvar och destruktiva maskulinitetsideal. Monstrositet kopplas därmed inte främst till varelsens kropp utan till mänskliga handlingar och sociala strukturer. Uppsatsen visar även berättelsens tidlöshet och anpassningsförmåga genom dess möjlighet att omformuleras i nya historiska kontexter utan att förlora sin centrala tematik. Slutsatsen är att del Toro presenterar en modern Frankenstein där toxisk och hegemonisk maskulinitet återskapas genom relationer och generationer, samtidigt som dessa strukturer även kan utmanas och därmed brytas.

Uppsatsen är en studie kring biografen Sudersandsbiografen på Fårös historia och nuvarande verksamhet. Studien innefattar en redogörelse för biografens historia från att den invigdes 1953 till nutid, intervjuer med tidigare och nutida biografägare utförda inom ramarna av forskningsmetoden Oral History och en granskning av biografens filmvisningar under åren 2020–2025. Intervjuerna och närläsningen av programmet visar att Sudersandsbiografens geografiska läge på ön Fårö och dess storlek historiskt sett har haft en tydlig påverkan på vilka filmer som visats och även att biografen varit beroende av samarbete med andra gotländska biografägare. Biografens geografiska läge på Fårö, vars åretruntboende befolkning uppgår till strax över 500 personer har inneburit att den i modern tid blivit en renodlad sommarbiograf, detta då Fårös befolkning under högsäsongen växer till upp mot 10 000 personer. Det har även medfört att biografen blivit en etablerad del av de båda årligt återkommande Fåröevenemangen Bergmanveckan och Fårönatta. Under perioden som undersöks har bruket av biografen under Bergmanveckan stadigt minskat. Övergången från analog till digital film har medfört stora förändringar för förutsättningarna att driva biografen utifrån vilka filmer som kan visas. Från att det historiskt sett varit svårt att visa nya filmer visades det under åren 2020–2025 huvudsakligen aktuella premiärer, även om äldre filmer så som folkkära klassiker är ett stående inslag i biografens program.

A sharing space as defined within this document is a space, place, or temporary event that facilitates peer-to-peer sharing of second-hand items. Sharing spaces like second-hand stores and flea markets seem to have their design worked out. But little has been written about the category of small grassroots self-service sharing spaces. Yet within these spaces, the design can play a very large role in how the sharing processes function. Institutional retail shelf design exists within a fundamentally divergent operational environment and with different goals and challenges. The free-use nature of a sharing space leads to the arrangement of goods being decided by end users. Using techniques gleaned from firsthand participatory and observational knowledge of sharing spaces, alongside traditional design practises gleaned from academia, this thesis project aims to create guidelines and principles to help gather items into easily manageable, accessible arrangements. The aim is to decrease clutter and reduce cleaning and maintenance time.  This will make it easier to create and maintain this type of common sharing space and thereby help create a more circular economy, focused on reuse. This Design + Change project answers the research question: “How can the development of an organizing and storage system help create easily manageable self-service sharing spaces for a more circular economy?” as well as the sub-question: “How can sharing spaces become more efficient and user-friendly through their design, combatting the tragedy of the commons within the context of Linnaeus University?”

Public libraries are open and accessible institutions where librarians interact with people of diverse needs and life circumstances. At the same time, issues related to safety, insecurity, and the work environment have received increased attention within the library sector. The purpose of this study is to investigate how librarians at Swedish public libraries experience safety and insecurity in their daily professional practice, as well as the professional challenges they face when interacting with library visitors.

The study was conducted using a qualitative research approach, involving nine semi-structured interviews with practicing librarians from Swedish public libraries. The empirical data was analyzed using thematic analysis. The theoretical framework consisted of theories on emotional labor, safety-promoting work in public settings, as well as the psychosocial work environment and psychosocial safety climate.

The results show that librarians’ experiences of safety and insecurity are complex and situation-dependent. This experience is influenced by individual factors, the physical design of the library space, organizational conditions, and broader societal changes. The study also shows that social interactions with visitors involve extensive emotional labor, in which librarians are expected to regulate and adapt their emotions to maintain a professional demeanor. Colleague support, hands-on leadership, training initiatives, and clear procedures emerge as key factors in fostering a sense of security.

The study shows that the picture of security and insecurity in public libraries is more nuanced than what often emerges in public debate. Although librarians describe experiences of challenging and sometimes threatening situations, many simultaneously feel a fundamental sense of safety in their work. The conclusion is that safety in public libraries should be understood as a dynamic and multidimensional phenomenon shaped by the interplay between the individual, the organization, the physical environment, and societal conditions.

Young adults encounter news primarily on social media which is a passive experience, reduced to headlines among lifestyle content. Through personal reflections and conversations with the target audience, it became clear that many crave a medium that makes in-depth journalism more approachable and engaging. 

For this project, the cover story of Die Zeit, one of Germany’s most respected weekly newspapers, was redesigned into a printed, single-topic news magazine. Building on the origins of journalism, the project reconnects to the ritual of the Sunday newspaper and reimagines it for a younger generation.

It proposes an alternative to the dark design patterns of digital news interfaces and existing printed newspapers, which are not designed with young adults in mind. 

The outcome is both a news magazine and a repeatable visual system: a grid, a typographic framework, and visual elements that can be applied to future issues as a weekly template. 

Background

Age is a critical driver of the worldwide increasing cancer incidence rates, and with the growing number of older adults diagnosed with cancer, there is a rising need for specialized care. However, geriatric oncology (GO) education remains underrepresented in medical curricula. The gap between demand and adequately trained providers requires the development of more robust GO training programs. This study examined the current state of GO education, and the areas of interest within GO and the expected teaching methods for this specialized content.

Methods

A multi-center international online survey aimed at assessing the awareness and perceived significance of GO among early-career medical students and nursing trainees was conducted.

Results

Among 158 participants, only 36.5% had oncology training and 19.6% geriatrics training. Despite this, GO was consistently rated as highly important, with no difference by prior GO training (p = 0.853). Participants expressed strongest interest in mental health, palliative care, and quality-of-care topics, while satisfaction with current training was moderate. Teaching was predominantly lecture-based, although more interactive approaches such as seminars and bedside teaching were preferred. Over half of participants were willing to contribute to improving GO education through feedback or volunteering.

Conclusion

GO remains underrepresented in current training despite its high perceived importance among trainees. Participants preferred interactive teaching formats, particularly seminars and bedside teaching, and showed strong interest in mental health and palliative care topics. These findings support integrating geriatric oncology into curricula using more practice-oriented teaching strategies.

This paper explores the co-creation process between industry and academia in the development of courses within Interaction Design and Artificial Intelligence. Through a collaborative workshop with industry representatives and a survey targeting current students and alumni, we gathered insights into their needs, expectations, and priorities for future educational offerings in these fields. The co-creation process resulted in the development of several new course proposals, which were assessed by students and alumni coming from two bachelor programs. The findings present six courses with descriptions alongside their ratings. We also present qualitative feedback from students and alumni regarding their perceptions and anticipated value of these courses. The study highlights the importance of engaging industry stakeholders, students and researchers in curriculum development to ensure academic relevance and industry alignment. This work contributes to ongoing discussions on collaborative curriculum design in higher education, particularly in fields undergoing rapid change.

Invasive species are a growing global problem and are considered one of the main threats to biodiversity, while also imposing considerable economic costs on society. One invasive species that is causing major problems in Europe and was recently recorded in the river Alsterån in Sweden is the aquatic plant Myriophyllum heterophyllum (variable-leaf watermilfoil). The species’ dispersal potential to Kalmarsund and other parts of the Baltic Sea remains unknown, as knowledge of its salinity tolerance is limited.

The aim of this study was to investigate the species’ salinity tolerance through experimental cultivation under three salinity treatments (control without added salt, 3 PSU and 7 PSU). After 25 days, shoot growth, dry weight, number of healthy roots, maximum root spread and greenness index (GLI) were recorded and analyzed.

The results showed that increasing salinity had a significant negative effect on all examined variables. The largest differences were observed between the control and 7 PSU treatment, where shoots exposed to 7 PSU lacked healthy roots and showed severe deterioration by the end of the experiment. Differences between the control and 3 PSU treatment were only significant for the greenness index. Overall, the results indicate that the salinity in Kalmarsund is likely to constitute a limiting factor for the establishment of the species, while survival in slightly brackish estuarine environments may still be possible. In conclusion, this study suggests that low-salinity transition zones may be relevant for risk assessments of the species’ potential spread.

Ambitious mathematics instruction has emerged as a response to persistent inequities in mathematics classrooms, where students who struggle are often excluded from meaningful engagement. This paper is methodological in nature and situated in the critical preparatory phase of an intervention within an Educational Design Research (EDR) project. Rather than presenting empirical results, the paper explores how two theoretical frameworks -teachers’ instructional visions (Munter, 2014) and teachers’ self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997) -can be operationalized as meta-design principles to inform the planning of an intervention in co-teaching settings. Teachers’ instructional visions offer a normative orientation towards high-quality and inclusive instruction, while teachers’ self-efficacy provides a pragmatic focus on teachers’ perceived capabilitiesfor action. Together, these frameworks suggest how interventions can begin from where teachers currently are and at the same time create opportunities for sustainable shiftsin practice. Design principles such as talk moves and proactive support are discussed as concrete entry points that both align with teachers’ existing instructional visions and support a reimagining of inclusion. That is moving from participation as presence towards participation as valuing diverse student thinking. By positioning these frameworks as complementary lenses in the design phase, this paper contributes a methodological proposal for how theory can be operationalized to bridge equity-oriented aspirations with the realities of teacher learning in professional development for ambitious mathematics instruction.