Sökning: "Encounters"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 551 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Encounters.
1. Encouraging Encounters : Experiences of People on Sick Leave in Their Meetings with Professionals
Sammanfattning : Background: The recent increase in long-term sickness absence both in Sweden and many other countries has been met with various attempts to intensify the use of rehabilitation measures in order to prevent people from remaining long-term sickness absent. Several actors, among them professionals in healthcare, occupational health services, and social insurance are involved in handling issues related to the sick leave of an individual, and in providing measures to promote return to work (RTW). LÄS MER
2. Encounters in nursing homes : Experiences from nurses, residents and relatives
Sammanfattning : The care of residents in nursing homes (special housing) is a major challenge for the nursing profession, especially as the population of older people has increased in recent decades. One important aim of this care is to promote the wellbeing and security of the residents. LÄS MER
3. Technology Encounters : Exploring the essence of ordinary computing
Sammanfattning : As computing technology has become a vital part of everyday life, studies have increasingly scrutinized the underlying meaning of computational things. As different devices become interwoven with daily practices and routines, there is a growing interest in understanding not only their functional meaning in computational terms but also their meaning in relation to other non-computation artefacts. LÄS MER
4. Flyktiga möten : Fågelskådning, epistemisk gemenskap och icke-mänsklig karisma
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates birdwatching and focuses on the knowledges, skills and ideas that are obtained and acknowledged among birdwatchers. The aim is to explore how these ways of relating to birds are constituted. Birdwatching is considered as an epistemic practice, which produce and maintain knowledge. LÄS MER
5. Ethical Encounters : The Value of Care and Emotion in the Production of Mediated Narratives
Sammanfattning : Factual storytelling that relies on the participation of real-life people must navigate between obligations towards the participant and the story. By placing the relationship between storyteller and subject at the centre, this thesis offers an interdisciplinary examination of ethical and moral issues in the context of turning other people’s experiences into mediated narrative. LÄS MER