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1. 6. User involvement in housing recovery : Cases from Haiyan affected areas in the Philippines

   Författare :Ivette Arroyo; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; User involvement; housing recovery; Capability Approach; Capability space; evolutionary housing; Critical Realism; vulnerability; resilience; causal mechanisms; opportunities; choices; capacities; agency; typhoon Haiyan; social structures; National Housing Authority; Gawad Kalinga; We Effect; types of involvement; levels of involvement;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to develop a better understanding of the relation between housing recovery and user involvement from a capability perspective. The thesis studies housing recovery in areas affected by typhoon Haiyan, which struck the Philippines on 8th November 2013. LÄS MER

3. 7. Afasi och narrativt aktörskap – mediebilder, självberättelser och multimodala litteracitetspraktiker

   Författare :Helena Taubner; Åsa Wengelin; Malin Hallén; Per-Olof Hedvall; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; aphasia; disability; narrative agency; media representations; stories of self; social media; multimodality; literacy practices; Bourdieu; afasi; funktionshinder; narrativt aktörskap; mediebilder; självberättelser; sociala medier; multimodalitet; litteracitetspraktiker; Bourdieu;

   Sammanfattning : Afasi är en förvärvad språklig funktionsnedsättning som oftast orsakas av stroke. En person med afasi kan ha svårigheter med både talat och skriftligt språk, och både med produktion och förståelse. Därför medför afasi att individens förmåga och förutsättningar att skapa sin egen självberättelse, d.v. LÄS MER

4. 8. Att navigera svåra barndomar : Barns perspektiv och narrativa praktiker när vardagen påverkas av vuxnas psykosociala problem

   Författare :Stina Michelson; Joakim Isaksson; Maria Andersson Vogel; Elisabet Näsman; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Children; childhood; children as next of kin; family-related adversity; personal narratives; cultural narratives; narrative agency; suffering; well-being; socialt arbete; Social Work;

   Sammanfattning : Children experiencing family-related adversity have their own stories to tell about themselves and the challenges they face. Qualitative inquiry into children’s personal narratives is important for social work practice and for the pursuit of matching support to children’s needs. LÄS MER

5. 9. Demonstration Projects for Sustainable Building: Towards a Strategy for Sustainable Development in the Building Sector based on Swedish and Dutch Experience

   Författare :Paula Femenias; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; sustainable development; demonstration projects; sustainable building; case studies; change agency; architecture; housing; discourse in trade press; building sector; learning from experience; information dissemination;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores demonstration projects as a potential strategy for supporting processes towards sustainable development in the building sector through making mainstream building more sustainable. The research question has been approached in four empirical studies carried out in Sweden and the Netherlands, which study demonstration projects for sustainable housing from different perspectives. LÄS MER

7. 10. Methods for improving covariate balance in observational studies

   Författare :Philip Fowler; Xavier de Luna; Ingeborg Waernbaum; Martin Huber; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; causal effect; coarsening; discretisation; proxy variables; register study; swedish social insurance agency; unobserved variables;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis contributes to the field of causal inference, where the main interest is to estimate the effect of a treatment on some outcome. At its core, causal inference is an exercise in controlling for imbalance (differences) in covariate distributions between the treated and the controls, as such imbalances otherwise can bias estimates of causal effects. LÄS MER