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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden vetenskapsteori samhällsvetenskap.
1. Exploring Evidence-based Practice Through New Forms of Engagement
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with how to connect Science and Technology Studies (STS) with Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) through new forms of engagements. EBP is commonly associated with efforts to improve quality of welfare services. The principles and methods associated with EBP have been criticized for being reductionist. LÄS MER
2. Pluripotent Circulations: Analyzing Articulations of Stem Cells in the USA, prior to 2001
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, stem cell research and politics in the USA are analyzed by using actor-network theory (ANT). Here ANT is put to work on largely textual materials, often directly from US political settings, such as Congressional debates and national panels. LÄS MER
3. Reconnecting with nature through concepts : On the construction of values in the ecosystem services paradigm
Sammanfattning : The alarming rates of extinction and degrading ecosystems call for new means of understanding and accounting for how people depend on nature. Ecosystem services (ES) is a contested but widely applied concept aiming to connect ecosystem functions to human wellbeing and to assess and account for how nature matters in decision-making. LÄS MER
4. Från utvald till utbildad - Persona i utredningar om svensk forskarutbildning 1945-2004 : From Chosen to Educated: Persona in Swedish Government Official Reports Concerning Research Training 1945-2004
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how the doctoral student has been portrayed in government official reports concerning Swedish research training from 1945 to 2004. In this dissertation, the concept of scientific persona, mostly utilized for the analysis of successful individual figures in science, is applied to capture the opinions on the preconditions and organizational aspects of Swedish research training at the governmental policy level, which provides for a generalized figure to take shape – the persona(e) of the research student. LÄS MER
5. Citeringens praktiker: Det vetenskapliga publicerandet som teori, metod och forskningspolitik : The practices of the citation: Scientific publication as theory, method and research policy
Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates the scientific citation and its various functions in the scientific community and develops it as a tool for research in theory of science, scientometrics and science studies. Based on empirical and theoretical studies that utilize both qualitative and quantitative methods the citation’s history, method, as well as its use in research policy is examined. LÄS MER