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A Qualitative Study On Interprofessional Collaboration In Psychosis Clinics Within Outpatient Care
No full textSyftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur tvärprofessionella team på psykosmottagningar inom öppenvården skapar samarbete i praktiken, samt i vilken utsträckning yrkesroller påverkar kommunikationen inom teamet. Trots att samverkan är avgörande inom psykiatrisk vård, saknas fördjupade studier om hur detta konkret formas i öppenvårdens kontext. Studien adresserar denna kunskapslucka genom att belysa samverkansprocesser i vardagligt teamarbete. Datainsamlingen genomfördes via fem kvalitativa fokusgruppsintervjuer från olika yrkesgrupper. Analysen skedde genom tematisk analys med en induktiv ansats som senare kompletterades med teorin om Organizing Professionalism som tolkningsram. Studien har funnit att professionella i praktiken bidrar till tvärprofessionellt samarbete genom att överbrygga skillnader, förhandla ansvar och skapa utrymme för samverkan. Kommunikation visade sig vara mer personbunden än yrkesbunden, där tillit, humor och öppenhet utgjorde centrala faktorer. Studien visar även att numerär representation och formellt ansvar påverkar inflytandet i teamet. Slutsatsen är att fungerande samarbete i psykosmottagningar inte uppstår av sig självt utan aktivt skapas av teammedlemmarna. The aim of this study is to explore how interprofessional teams in outpatient psychosis clinics establish collaboration in practice, and to what extent professional roles influence communication within the team. Although collaboration is essential in psychiatric care, there is a lack of in-depth research on how it is concretely shaped in outpatient contexts. This study addresses this knowledge gap by examining everyday collaboration processes within clinical teams. Data were collected through five qualitative focus group interviews involving various professional groups. The analysis was conducted using thematic analysis with an inductive approach, later complemented by the theory of Organizing Professionalism as an interpretive framework. The study found that professionals contribute to interprofessional collaboration in practice by bridging differences, negotiating responsibilities, and creating spaces for joint work. Communication was shown to be more person-dependent than profession-dependent, with trust, humour, and openness emerging as key factors. The findings also indicate that numerical representation and formal responsibility affect influence within the team. The study concludes that effective collaboration in outpatient psychiatric care does not arise automatically but is actively constructed by team members
Heteronormative silences and queer resistance in queer people’s experiences of eldercare and home
No full textThe meaning of home for queer people has been widely empirically explored as well as theorized. Not least has the home been important for the older generations of queer people, who lived in times where their sexualities and gender identities have been criminalized and pathologized and where there have been few public meeting places historically. However, having care needs may blur the lines between private and public and complicate notions of integrity in one’s home. This article is based on qualitative interviews and aims to explore experiences of queer people in a Swedish context who have eldercare services—either people who have home-care-services or who are living in care homes. A queer theoretical framework and reflexive thematic analysis was used. The results illustrate how there is a silence around gender and sexuality in the everyday life within eldercare. This in turn is caused by material conditions where downsizing and effectivization of the eldercare have created pressed working conditions that leave little room for small talk between staff and recipients of care. Norms on age, gender, and sexuality with notions on older people as asexual (as well as cisgender and straight) may play into this silence as well. The boundaries between the private (home) and the public (eldercare) become blurred. This in turn conditions which intimacy practices that become im/possible. Simultaneously, there is a presence of queer resistance as well as of longings for other (queer) futures
Headhunting as Ritualised Violence in Prehistory and the Recent Past
No full textWhy does headhunting as a cultural phenomenon occur so often in both the ethnographic and archaeological records? There was certainly no direct transmission of this peculiar cultural trait between societies divided by thousands of years and separated across several continents. Yet, intriguing parallels exist between very diverse groups; between societies as remote from each other as the nineteenth and early twentieth century Nagas of northern India, and the Iron Age populations of southern France. In this paper, I consider some themes relating to headhunting that emerge from a study of ethnographic records in relation to beliefs and ideas about the body, and examine the role of headhunting in promoting, exacerbating and conceptualising inter-societal violence
We, the Expelled : Historical experiences among Polish Jews that came to Sweden 1967-1972
No full textVi, de fördrivna är en studie av historiska erfarenheter som kommunicerats av de polska judar som kom till Sverige som flyktingar 1967–1972 på grund av den antisemitiska kampanjen i Polen som inleddes 1967. Kampanjen nådde sitt crescendo i och med de regimkritiska demonstrationerna i mars 1968 och ledde till den sista stora polskjudiska emigrationen. Utifrån en hermeneutiskt grundad oral history presenterar avhandlingen en analys av historiska erfarenheter så som dessa kommuniceras i levnadsberättelser och inspelade dialoger, vilka samlats in i samarbete med Nordiska museet och deras digitala plattform Minnen.se; samt publicerade biografier. Syftet med avhandlingen är att bidra med en fördjupad och mer nyanserad förståelse av den svenskpolskjudiska historien i relation till två centrala historiska händelser: Förintelsen och den antisemitiska kampanjen. Ur de analyserade erfarenheterna framträder en erfarenhetskronologi med dessa två händelser som organiserande och meningsskapande brytpunkter. Den första och mest betydelsefulla brytpunkten är Förintelsen. Den andra brytpunkten utgörs av den antisemitiska kampanjen, vars följd blev flykten till Sverige. De två brytpunkterna avgränsar en tid före, en tid emellan och en tid efter i erfarenhetskronologin. Analysen av erfarenhetskronologins olika delar utgår från de tongivande narrativ som dominerar i den historiekulturella situation som det historiska berättandet sker i. De svenskpolska judar som står i fokus för avhandlingen kommunicerar historiska erfarenheter inte bara av Förintelsen och den antisemitiska kampanjen, utan också av Sovjetunionen under Stalin, livet i Polen under kalla kriget, strukturell antisemitism och av Sverige under välfärdsstatens glansperiod. Dessa händelser är centrala i historiekulturen. Samtidigt avviker de mot de narrativ som dominerar. I skildringen av Förintelsen berättar de om överlevnad i Sovjetunionen i kontrast till det tongivande narrativ om Förintelsen som etablerats under det som kallats vittnets tidsålder. Om tiden emellan, i Folkrepubliken Polen, förmedlar de en mer mångfasetterad bild av tillvaron än de tongivande narrativen, förekomsten av strukturell antisemitism spelar en betydande roll. I den avslutande delen om livet i Sverige följer de historiska erfarenheterna däremot det tongivande narrativet om välfärdsstaten. Genom att synliggöra denna grupps förhållningssätt till det förflutna bidrar studien med ett svenskpolskjudiskt perspektiv på några av den europeiska modernitetens mest centrala historiska erfarenheter. We, the Expelled is a study of historical experiences communicated by the Polish Jews who came to Sweden as refugees in 1967–1972 due to the antisemitic campaign in Poland that began in 1967. The campaign reached its crescendo with the regime critical demonstrations in March 1968 and led to the last major Polish Jewish emigration. Grounded on a hermeneutically based oral history, the dissertation presents an analysis of historical experiences communicated in published biographies as well as in life stories and recorded dialogues, which have been collected in collaboration with the Nordic Museum and their digital collection platform Minnen.se. The dissertation aims to contribute with a deeper and more nuanced understanding of Swedish Polish Jewish history in relation to two central historical events: the Holocaust and the antisemitic campaign. From the analyzed experiences, a chronology of experiences emerges with these two events as organizing and meaning making breaking points. The first and most significant breaking point is the Holocaust. The second is the antisemitic campaign, which resulted in the flight to Sweden. The two breaking points demarcate a time before, a time in between and a time after in the chronology of experience. The analysis of the chronology of experience is based on the narratives that dominate the historical cultural situation in which the historical narration takes place. The Swedish Polish Jews who are the focus of the dissertation communicate historical experiences not only of the Holocaust and the antisemitic campaign, but also of the Soviet Union under Stalin, life in Poland during the Cold War, structural antisemitism and of Sweden during the heyday of the welfare state. These events are central in the historical culture. At the same time, their experiences deviate from the dominant narratives. In their depiction of the Holocaust, they tell of survival in the Soviet Union in contrast to the dominant narrative about the Holocaust that was established during what has been called the Era of the Witness. During the time in between, in the Polish People’s Republic, they communicate a more multifaceted picture than the dominant narratives, the presence of structural antisemitism plays a significant role. In the concluding part about life in Sweden, however, the historical experiences follow the dominant narrative of the welfare state. By displaying this group’s narration of the past, the study contributes with a Swedish-Polish-Jewish perspective on some of the most central historical experiences of European modernity
”Kan man kanske vara med på mötet utan att ha läst kallelsen?” : Att lista ut vad en lista kan göra
No full textArtikeln analyserar en lista i form av en möteskallelse och dagordning, i syfte att undersöka dess potential som medierande redskap i en för den akademiska världens vardagliga aktivitet handledarkollegium. Detta görs i jämförelse med Ledin (2014) där listan undersöks i termer av seminotisk resurs. Analysen visar att även den relativt generiska listan har sina särdrag som kräver kunskap och erfarenhet av den specifika verksamheten, dvs. erfarenhet av eget deltagande. Därmed har listan vissa drag av medierande redskap för att delta i just denna verksamhet.
Personlighet och Artificiell Intelligens : Sambandet mellan Agreeableness respektive Conscientiousness och attityder till Artificiell Intelligens
No full text De attityder och perspektiv som individer har gentemot artificiell intelligens och orsakerna som ligger till grund för dem är av stor relevans idag. I takt med den teknologiska utvecklingen ökar behovet av att förstå hur människor förhåller sig till dessa samhällsförändringar och varför. Tidigare forskning som har undersökt personlighetsdragen Agreeableness och Conscientiousness i samband med attityder till artificiell intelligens har visat motstridiga resultat som kräver vidare forskning. Denna studie syftar därför till att undersöka sambandet mellan Agreeableness respektive Conscientiousness och attityder till artificiell intelligens. Studien har undersökt 106 personer genom en webbaserad enkät som bestod av två skalor, The Big Five Inventory och General Attitudes towards Artificiell Intelligence Scale. Samtliga frågor var utformade utifrån en fyrgradig likertskala. Resultaten visade inte något signifikant samband mellan Agreeableness respektive Conscientiousness och positiva attityder till artificiell intelligens. Agreeableness hade ett signifikant negativt samband med negativa attityder till artificiell intelligens. Även Conscientiousness hade ett signifikant negativt samband med negativa attityder till artificiell intelligens. Den multipla linjära regressionsanalysen visade att Agreeableness är en prediktor för negativa attityder till artificiell intelligens. Denna forskning kan bidra till en smidigare och mer behovsanpassad implementering och användning av artificiell intelligens inom organisationer samt samhället i stort
Art in Transit : Temporary Exhibitions with Foreign Contemporary Art in Sweden 1945–1969
No full textAvhandlingen undersöker 410 utställningar med utländsk nutida konst vid offentliga konstinstitutioner i Stockholm och Göteborg 1945–1969. Genom en kartläggning av konstnärernas tillskrivna nationella hemvist, de konstnärliga medier som visades och de aktörer som organiserade utställningarna framträder en bred bild av utställningar med utländsk nutida konst i Sverige under denna period. Tillfälliga utställningar blev ett centralt inslag i de offentliga konstinstitutionernas verksamhet i Stockholm och Göteborg efter andra världskriget, och andelen utställningar med utländsk nutida konst ökade. De utländska utställningarna under perioden visade konst från Norden. Därefter kom konsten från västeuropeiska länder som Frankrike, Storbritannien och Italien. Även utställningar från Latinamerika visades under hela perioden, och över tid syntes allt fler utställningar från USA. Främst visades måleri och grafik i nationellt organiserade grupputställningar, medan separatutställningar var ovanliga fram till Moderna museets öppnande. En majoritet av utställningarna var resultatet av samarbeten där exempelvis företag, statliga kulturinstitut och handelskammare stod för finansiering och logistik, medan konstnärs- och konstbildningsorganisationer, gallerier och samlare stod för urvalet av verk. Därigenom kunde konstinstitutionerna erbjuda ett brett utställningsutbud, men samarbetena påverkade i hög utsträckning utställningarnas utformning. Konstbildningsorganisationer och statliga kulturinstitut visade ett brett urval, medan gallerier och samlare fokuserade på snävare konstnärliga presentationer, ofta ackompanjerade av exklusiva kataloger. Försäljning förekom i alla typer av utställningar, med verk i olika prisklasser. Konst och kommersiellt producerade bruksföremål kunde också presenteras i samma utställning för att gynna handelsfrämjande syften. Detta visar att konstutställningar spelade en roll i tidens återupprättande av internationell handel och att de fungerade som en förlängning av konstmarknaden, men också att tidens konstbildningsideal om tillgängliggörande av konst innefattade konsumtion. Nationella grupputställningar utgjorde en stor andel av utställningarna fram till slutet av 1960-talet. Formatet syftade till att visa en representativ bild av ett lands konstliv och kan härledas tillbaka till 1800-talets världsutställningar. Under efterkrigstiden började nya utställningsformer introduceras. På Venedigbiennalen 1948 visades separatutställningar med mellankrigstidens avantgardekonstnärer. Denna betoning på enskilda, banbrytande konstnärskap märktes även på Moderna museet, som från öppnandet 1958 övergav de nationella grupputställningarna till förmån för separatutställningar och stilmässigt profilerade presentationer. Även de nationella grupputställningarna anpassades till dessa förändringar under 1960-talet, då det internationella avantgardets betydelse började lyftas fram även där.This thesis examines 410 exhibitions of foreign contemporary art at public art institutions in Stockholm and Gothenburg between 1945 and 1969. By mapping the artists’ attributed nationality, the artistic media displayed and the organisers of the exhibitions, a broad picture emerges of exhibitions of foreign contemporary art in Sweden during this period. After the Second World War, temporary exhibitions became a central part of public art institutions in Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the proportion of exhibitions displaying foreign contemporary art increased. Most of these exhibitions presented works from the Nordic countries. After that, the exhibitions featured works mainly from Western European countries, such as France, Great Britain and Italy. Exhibitions showing Latin American works were also displayed throughout this period, and over time, an increasing number of exhibitions from the United States began appearing. The most frequently used artistic media were painting and graphic prints, and the dominant exhibition format was nationally organised group exhibitions, with solo exhibitions remaining rare until the opening of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1958. The majority of exhibitions were organised by actors outside the art institutions, such as galleries, art education organisations, collectors, cultural institutes and chambers of commerce. As a result, art institutions were able to offer a wide range of exhibitions despite having limited resources for organising them. These various external actors had a significant influence on the design of the exhibitions. Art education organisations and foreign cultural institutes showed a wide range of artistic styles. Galleries and collectors focused on more narrow artistic presentations, often accompanied by more exclusive catalogues. Sales were common in all types of exhibitions, with works in different price ranges. Art and commercially produced utility objects could also be presented in the same exhibition where, without direct sales, trade promotion could still be encouraged. These commercial and profit-driven elements show that art exhibitions played a role in the restoration of international trade at the time and that they could function as an extension of the art market, but also that the art education ideals of the time regarding the accessibility of art often included consumption. National group exhibitions accounted for a large proportion of exhibitions until the end of the 1960s. This format aimed to present a representative picture of a country’s art scene and can be traced back to the World’s Fair exhibitions of the 19th century. In the post-war period, new forms of exhibition began to be introduced. At the Venice Biennale in 1948, solo exhibitions were held featuring avant-garde artists from the interwar period, and this emphasis on pioneering artists was also evident at the Moderna Museet, which, from its opening in 1958, completely abandoned national group exhibitions in favour of solo exhibitions and stylistically profiled exhibitions. Even in the national group exhibitions, an adaptation to this change was noticeable during the 1960s. The exhibition format was retained, but the national representatives in the international avant-garde began to be highlighted
PFAS-förorening i kustnära ekosystem : En studie av sediment, vatten och bentiska organismer i Östersjön
No full textPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been produced and used since the 1950s. The chemical structure of PFAS makes the substances both lipophilic and hydrophilic. These properties have contributed to the use of PFAS in a number of industrial and commercial applications. Wastewater treatment plants are a collection point for contaminated water, and currently, there are no methods to completely purify the water from PFAS. Therefore, wastewater treatment plants constitute a direct source of PFAS emissions into the environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence and concentration of perfluorosulfonates (PFSA), perfluorocarboxylates (PFCA), and their precursors. This was done by sampling sediment, water, and the organisms Monoporeia affinis, Macoma balthica, and Mytilus edulis in close proximity to the wastewater treatment plants Himmerfjärdsverket and Przedsiębiorstwo Wodociągów, both of which have their outlets in the Baltic Sea. The results of the study showed significant correlations between the concentrations of PFCA in sediment and PFSA in M. balthica with the distance to the wastewater treatment plant Himmerfjärden. No further significant correlations were found, indicating that the persistence, spread potential, and presence of diffuse sources of PFAS affect the concentrations in environmental matrices and organisms. The results also showed a very high concentration of PFAS in M. affinis, which differed from the other organisms. To put the results in a larger context, the study discussed how PFAS can spread from primary consumers to the remaining parts of the food web
"Dirty local, green global" : A qualitative study on professional local journalism in a transitioning Swedish north
No full textThe aim of this study has been to investigate how the so-called green transition in the Swedish north shapes professional norms of local journalism in Norrbotten and Västerbotten. The study departs from theories on professional journalism, local journalism and journalistic roles. Particular attention is dedicated to the proximity dilemma and how the journalists maintain a professional distance to their audiences. The research is conducted through qualitative semistructured interviews with nine journalists working in Norrbotten and Västerbotten. The findings indicate that traditional professional values such as objectivity and neutrality, enacted through the watchdog and disseminator journalistic roles, are challenged by the so-called green transition due to the scope and complexity of it. The journalists’ professional roles serve as an armour against outside impact, and even if the journalists have personal opinions on the so-called green transition, they mostly do not consider themselves affected by them in their reporting. Furthermore, the local-global dimension of the transition indicates a re-negotiation of local community borders, which creates a dilemma of distance rather than proximity. This challenges professional local journalism, as it becomes more difficult to define the audience that local journalism is supposed to serve. The result of this study demonstrates that inherent aspects of professional journalism, such as autonomy and an ethics of public service, are worth examining in relation to societal changes. Moreover, it indicates a possible renegotiation of professional journalism, considering the challenges brought by the so-called green transition
CBEES Centre for Baltic and East European Studies 20th Anniversary 2025
No full textThe Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025. In this publication we have invited several former and current CBEES colleagues to share their recollections and reflections on their time at the Centre, its development, and the challenge of conducting area studies in a changing world order. Together they provide a broad depiction of CBEES development and achievements as a research centre over the past 20 years