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  • Chung, Joey
    et al.
    Department of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    Knibbe, Wendy
    Department of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    Chattrattrai, Thiprawee
    Department of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Masticatory Science, Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
    de Jongh, Ad
    Research Department, PSYTREC, Bilthoven, the Netherlands; Department of Oral Public Health, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; School of Health Sciences, Salford University, Manchester, UK; Institute of Health and Society, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK; School of Psychology, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.
    Lobbezoo, Frank
    Malmö University, Faculty of Odontology (OD). Department of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction, Amsterdam, the Netherlands..
    Network Analysis of Temporomandibular Disorder Pain and Subject-Based Bruxism in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Patients2025In: Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, E-ISSN 1365-2842Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    BACKGROUND: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychosocial factor of interest in the multifactorial aetiology of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) pain, awake bruxism (AB) and sleep bruxism (SB).

    OBJECTIVE: To investigate direct and indirect associations between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), TMD pain, AB, SB and demographic and psychological variables using network analysis.

    METHODS: The study sample included 597 subjects recruited from a specialised centre for the treatment of PTSD. Network analysis was performed using a Mixed Graphical Model and included variables of self-reported TMD pain, self-reported AB, self-reported SB, age, sex, PTSD symptom severity, mood disorders, anxiety disorders and insomnia severity. These variables were visualised in the network model as nodes connected by edges, representing individual associations.

    RESULTS: The network model revealed a triangular positive association between TMD pain, AB and SB. AB also displayed a positive connection with anxiety disorders, while PTSD symptom severity was linked to insomnia, mood disorders and anxiety disorders. Age and sex did not significantly influence the network structure, although a negative association was observed between these variables, indicating younger ages among female subjects.

    CONCLUSION: TMD pain, AB and SB were strongly associated with each other in subjects with PTSD. The presence of anxiety disorders emerged as a bridge factor, connecting the triangular positive association between TMD pain, AB and SB with psychological conditions (PTSD severity, insomnia severity, mood disorders).

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  • Abdulrazaq, Dialla
    et al.
    Rockenson, Therese
    FÖRÄLDRARS UPPLEVELSER AVATT LEVA MED ETT BARN SOM HAR EN ADHD DIAGNOS2025Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master of Fine Arts (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
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  • Göransson, Katarina
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV).
    Wangel, Anne-Marie
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV).
    A three-round Delphi study to translate the scrub practitioners’ list of intraoperative non-technical skills (SPLINTS), for use in a Swedish perioperative context2025In: Nordic journal of nursing research, ISSN 2057-1585, E-ISSN 2057-1593, Vol. 45Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The operating theatre nurse is responsible for advanced perioperative care in complex environments requiring both technical and non-technical skills. Non-technical skills training can improve teamwork and reduce the risk of adverse events. The Scrub Practitioners’ List of Non-Technical Skills (SPLINTS) is a behavioural assessment tool for scrub practitioners not yet translated into Swedish. A Swedish version would provide a common conceptual base and strengthen non-technical skills for Swedish operating theatre nurses. The present study therefore aimed to translate the SPLINTS into Swedish, making it useable in a Swedish perioperative context. A three-round Delphi study was conducted to reach consensus for a Swedish translation. A mean rating of eight or higher on a 10-point scale, assessed as agreement among the experts, was reached in the third round. Although consensus level of agreement was not reached for all elements, three rounds resulted in agreement by a majority. Guidance on Conducting and Reporting Delphi Studies (CREDES) was used as reporting guideline. This Delphi study conducted an important first version of a Swedish translation of the SPLINTS, which, however, needs to be followed by validation and psychometrical testing.

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  • Alali, Rama
    Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).
    English Language Education and Multilingualism: A Case Study of Syrian Children in Sweden2025Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 14 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis examines the multifaceted challenges encountered by Syrian multilinguals in Sweden in acquiring English as a third language, focusing on the psychological, social, and phonological dimensions from childhood to adulthood. It investigates how Arabic, as the native language, and Swedish, as a second language, mediate English acquisition, particularly in navigating phonetic obstacles. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with Syrian adults who learned English in Swedish schools, the study reveals significant emotional and social hurdles in early language learning, including isolation, embarrassment, and frustration stemming from pronunciation difficulties and peer interactions. While Swedish proficiency facilitated phonetic development by providing a bridge to English sounds like /p/ and /v/, persistent struggles with phonemes such as /ð/ underscored the limits of linguistic flexibility, especially during language-switching. These findings challenge translanguaging theory’s premise of seamless transitions across linguistic systems, suggesting instead a need for structured separation of phonological systems, as supported by interference theory. The research further explores the enduring effects of phonetic interference, which impacted participants’ confidence, social integration, and professional opportunities into adulthood. The study advocates for further investigation into the psychological and social dimensions of multilingualism and the development of targeted strategies to enhance phonetic accuracy and support learners’ integration. 

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  • Sinclair, Samantha
    et al.
    Institutionen för psykologi, Linnéuniversitetet.
    Nilsson, Artur
    Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande, Linköping University, Linköping; Sweden Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
    Holm, Kristoffer
    Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Urban Studies (US). Malmö University, Centre for Work Life Studies (CTA).
    The worth of work: Socio-political and demographic correlates of anti-work orientation2025In: Social Sciences & Humanities Open, ISSN 2590-2911, Vol. 11, article id 101565Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Anti-work refers to a contentious rejection of work as a determinant of one's self-worth or worth to society. The most central principle is that work requires the submission of the individual's free will for the benefit of the organization and that this has negative consequences for workers' well-being. Even though the anti-work movement has grown rapidly in recent years, research on this phenomenon is scarce. This preregistered study (N = 2595) aimed to examine the relation between anti-work orientation and a range of socio-political attitudes, as well as its prevalence among different demographic groups in Sweden. The results revealed that anti-democratic attitudes and anti-hierarchical aggression were the strongest socio-political predictors of anti-work attitudes, followed by support for censorship and partisanship. Furthermore, voters of both the left party and the right-wing populist party were overrepresented among individuals scoring high on anti-work orientation, suggesting an “extremism” effect at both ends of the political spectrum. The strongest demographic predictors were young age and low income. Interestingly, latent class analysis revealed that men were strongly overrepresented in both the class of anti-work-supporters and the class with low anti-work orientation. These findings add new insights into the growing political discourse around the nature of work.

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  • Ghiasi, Peyman
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Odontology (OD). Malmö University, Sweden.
    Ahlgren, Camilla
    Public Dental Service Västra Götaland, Sweden.
    Arnebrant, Liselott
    Malmö University, Faculty of Odontology (OD).
    Tranæus, Sofia
    Malmö University, Faculty of Odontology (OD).
    Larsson, Christel
    Malmö University, Faculty of Odontology (OD).
    Cost-Effectiveness of Maxillary Implant-Supported Overdentures Compared to Complete Dentures and Implant-Supported Fixed Dental Prostheses: A Systematic Review2021In: International Journal of Dentistry and Oral Health, ISSN 2378-7090, Vol. 7, no 3Article, review/survey (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Purpose: Implant-supported restorations are well-documented treatments from a clinical perspective. Analysis of their cost-effectiveness is however limited, especially for implant-supported overdentures. The objective of this systematic review was to assess the literature on cost-effectiveness regarding maxillary implant-supported overdentures compared to complete dentures and fixed implant-supported restorations.

    Methods: Three electronic databases: PubMed, Cochrane Library and Web of Science, were searched for original studies including economic analysis of implant-supported overdenture treatment in the maxilla.

    Results: The literature search resulted in 190 articles. After elimination of duplicates and assessment of eligibility according to pre-establishedcriteria, two studies presenting the results from a single patient cohort were included and read in full text.

    Discussion: Cost-effectiveness analysis is important for society as well as the individual patient. This is true for any treatment, but perhaps particularly for extensive treatments such as treatment of edentulism.

    Conclusion: The level of evidence for the cost-effectiveness of maxillary implant-supported overdentures is very low due to a severe lack of studies. Further research is needed to provide guidance in the clinical decision on the best choice of treatment

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  • Lindsjö, Cecilia
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV).
    Developing health promotion through community-based participatory research with women having experience of migration2025Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis was conducted within a community-based participatory research (CBPR) program, initiated as a response to preceding health inequity commissions, and aiming to find innovative forms for health promotion. The overall aim of the thesis was to develop health promotion through CBPR, together with women with experience of migration in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood in Sweden. The CBPR approach guided the process, focusing on reflective dialogues and both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods were used. As a point of departure for the process, an identification of conditions for health and of actions to promote it, was made together with participants. The actions were developed in collaboration into various activities, and the participants pointed out contributors that made them engage in health-promoting activities: lay health promoters, having a place to meet, and social cohesion. The knowledge brought forward about health issues and health promotion within the community was used in the development of a CBPR intervention addressing type 2 diabetes. The intervention was a collaboration between the community and other actors and included reflective dialogues and workshops, conducted as group activities. In the mixed-method evaluation, it was found that stress and waist circumference were reduced, and that social support was crucial throughout the process, in providing motivation to engage in the activities and in promoting health. 

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    1. Health promotion focusing on migrant women through a community based participatory research approach
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    2021 (English)In: BMC Women's Health, E-ISSN 1472-6874, Vol. 21, article id 365Article in journal (Refereed) Published
    Abstract [en]

    Background Migrants are often more vulnerable to health issues compared to host populations, and particularly the women. Therefore, migrant women's health is important in promoting health equity in society. Participation and empowerment are central concepts in health promotion and in community-based participatory research aimed at enhancing health. The aim of this study was to identify conditions for health promotion together with women migrants through a community-based participatory research approach. Methods A community-based participatory research approach was applied in the programme Collaborative Innovations for Health Promotion in a socially disadvantaged area in Malmo, Sweden, where this study was conducted. Residents in the area were invited to participate in the research process on health promotion. Health promoters were recruited to the programme to encourage participation and a group of 21 migrant women participating in the programme were included in this study. A qualitative method was used for the data collection, namely, the story-dialogue method, where a process involving issue, reflections and actions guided the dialogues. The material was partly analysed together with the women, inspired by the second-level synthesis. Results Two main health issues, mental health and long-term pain, were reflected upon during the dialogues, and two main themes were elaborated in the process of analysis: Prioritising spare time to promote mental health and Collaboration to address healthcare dissatisfaction related to long-term pain. The women shared that they wanted to learn more about the healthcare system, and how to complain about it, and they also saw the togetherness as a strategy along the way. A decision was made to start a health circle in the community to continue collaboration on health promotion. Conclusions The community-based participatory research approach and the story dialogues constituted an essential foundation for the empowerment process. The health circle provides a forum for further work on conditions for health promotion, as a tool to support migrant women's health.

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    BioMed Central, 2021
    Keywords
    Story-dialogue method, Health promoter, Empowerment, Health literacy, Social determinants of health
    National Category
    Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-46709 (URN)10.1186/s12905-021-01506-y (DOI)000707701100001 ()34656089 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85117360112 (Scopus ID)
    Available from: 2021-11-08 Created: 2021-11-08 Last updated: 2025-05-07Bibliographically approved
    2. Migrant women's engagement in health-promotive activities through a women's health collaboration
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    2023 (English)In: Frontiers in Public Health, E-ISSN 2296-2565, Vol. 11, article id 1106972Article in journal (Refereed) Published
    Abstract [en]

    Introduction: Social determinants of health impact health, and migrants are exposed to an inequitable distribution of resources that may impact their health negatively, leading to health inequality and social injustice. Migrant women are difficult to engage in health-promotional activities because of language barriers, socioeconomic circumstances, and other social determinants. Based on the framework of Paulo Freire, a community health promotion program was established in a community-academic partnership with a community-based participatory research approach.

    Aim: The aim of this study was to describe how a collaborative women's health initiative contributed to migrant women's engagement in health promotion activities.

    Materials and methods: This study was part of a larger program, carried out in a disadvantaged city area in Sweden. It had a qualitative design with a participatory approach, following up on actions taken to promote health. Health-promotional activities were developed in collaboration with a women's health group, facilitated by a lay health promoter. The study population was formed by 17 mainly Middle Eastern migrant women. Data was collected using the story-dialog method and the material was analyzed using thematic analysis.

    Result: Three important contributors to engagement in health promotion were identified at an early stage of the analysis process, namely, the group forming a social network, the local facilitator from the community, and the use of social places close to home. Later in the analysis process, a connection was made between these contributors and the rationale behind their importance, that is, how they motivated and supported the women and how the dialog was conducted. This therefore became the designated themes and were connected to all contributors, forming three main themes and nine sub-themes.

    Conclusion: The key implication was that the women made use of their health knowledge and put it into practice. Thus, a progression from functional health literacy to a level of critical health literacy may be said to have occurred.

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    Frontiers Media S.A., 2023
    Keywords
    health equality, community-based participatory research, health literacy, health promotion, migrant women, social support, story-dialog method, lay health promoter
    National Category
    Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-61929 (URN)10.3389/fpubh.2023.1106972 (DOI)001016086800001 ()37397757 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85164209706 (Scopus ID)
    Available from: 2023-08-16 Created: 2023-08-16 Last updated: 2025-05-07Bibliographically approved
    3. The development process of a type 2 diabetes health-promoting CBPR intervention
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    2025 (English)In: Frontiers in Public Health, E-ISSN 2296-2565, Vol. 13, article id 1486996Article in journal (Refereed) Published
    Abstract [en]

    Introduction: Participation is one of the core elements of health promotion, which means that approaches and methods should focus on involvement. The process of involving women with a migration background in health promotion needs to be further explored. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore the development process of a type 2 diabetes health-promotive community-based participatory research intervention among Middle Eastern women with a migration background, living in Sweden. Materials and methods: This study was performed within the context of a community-based participatory research program in Sweden. The design of this study followed the development process of a community-based participatory research conceptual model, including three of the original four dimensions, that is, the context, the partnership process, and the intervention and research dimension. Appropriate methods for data collection were used in the various dimensions. Participants from the community, active in the program, conducted dialogue cafés, together with the core partners of the program, to inventory existing needs as well as what actions were needed for promoting health and thereby prevent type 2 diabetes. Results: The two dialogue cafes resulted in one long term and three short term goals. The third short-term goal—create health circles around food and nutrition was decided to be in focus for this study together with cooperation with the local health care center. The partnership process made it possible to involve relevant collaborators, which resulted in a jointly developed nurse-led educational intervention. Participants and stakeholders were also involved in the process of modifying and elaborating evaluation tools appropriate for the intervention. Discussion/conclusions: The community-based participatory research approach enables the acknowledgement and use of the various kinds of knowledge of all stakeholders, including the community members. In this study, the community members’ knowledge was obtained through participation and dialogue, aimed at balancing power between stakeholders. This approach, that is, developing a community-based participatory research intervention, offers a possibility for the primary health care to engage with the community members and for other stakeholders to work in a health-promotive way.

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    Frontiers Media S.A., 2025
    Keywords
    community-based participatory research, health literacy, health promotion, migration, peer support, type 2 diabetes, women
    National Category
    Nursing
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-74319 (URN)10.3389/fpubh.2025.1486996 (DOI)001420296400001 ()39957984 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85217860699 (Scopus ID)
    Available from: 2025-02-24 Created: 2025-02-24 Last updated: 2025-05-07Bibliographically approved
    4. Evaluation of a CBPR intervention focusing on health promotion and type 2 diabetes, developed together with women in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood: A mixed method study
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    Health Sciences
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    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75771 (URN)
    Available from: 2025-05-07 Created: 2025-05-07 Last updated: 2025-05-07Bibliographically approved
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  • Burke, Stephen
    et al.
    NCC.
    Caure, Charles
    Skanska.
    Hassanie, Samer
    EQUA.
    Holgersson, Martin
    NCC.
    Svensson Tengberg, Charlotte
    Skanska.
    Tillberg, Max
    EQUA.
    Winqvist, Emma
    NCC.
    Persson, Mats
    Malmö University, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Materials Science and Applied Mathematics (MTM).
    Förstudie – Termisk komfort, projekteringsguide2025Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Denna förstudie om förutsättningar för och möjligheterna med en projekteringsguideför termisk komfort med fokus på övertemperaturer har genomförts på kort tid för attkunna vara underlag för framtida projekt. Åtminstone tre olika problemområden kanurskiljas:

    • Det är svårt att definiera scenariodata för framtida väder och klimat samt påverkanav lokala förhållanden.

    • Mängden variabler som har betydelse vid beräkning av termisk komfort är stortoch det krävs fler simuleringar för att bättre kunna bestämma vilka variabler somhuvudsakligen ska beaktas för att säkerställa beräkningsresultat

    .• Hur stora variationer finns och hur ska riskvärdering göras för de klimatfiler somtas fram för framtida klimat.

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  • Friman, Manne
    et al.
    Sonica Akustik.
    Stålne, Kristian
    Malmö University, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Materials Science and Applied Mathematics (MTM).
    Persson, Mats
    Malmö University, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Materials Science and Applied Mathematics (MTM).
    Buller i samhället: en kunskapssammanställning2025Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Detta är en kunskapssammanställning om buller i samhället som syftar till att ökakunskap om bullerexponering och dess effekter. Här beskrivs gällande regler,tillämpning och effekter av dessa. Jämförelser beskrivs med hur andra nordiska länderhanterar buller och en reflektion av hur buller hanteras i Sveriges.Sammanställningen har särskilt fokus på trafikbuller då det är den dominerande källantill bullerexponering. Här granskas bullerproblematikens historiska utveckling,nuvarande lagstiftning och riktlinjer, källor till buller, dess effekter, samt framtidautmaningar och möjligheter inom bullerhantering. Lagar och förordningar som reglerarbuller i Sverige beskrivs, inklusive miljöbalken, plan- och bygglagen ochtrafikbullerförordningen samt kort hur tekniska lösningar får användas. Även EU:sdirektiv om omgivningsbuller och dess implementering i Sverige belyses.E

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  • Andersson, Niclas
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Materials Science and Applied Mathematics (MTM). Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Centre for Teaching and Learning (CAKL).
    Bloom, Erica
    RISE.
    Elam, Johanna
    RISE.
    Persson Vinnersten, Thomas
    Persson, Mats
    Malmö University, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Materials Science and Applied Mathematics (MTM).
    Skadedjur i byggnader: en kunskapssammanställning2025Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Skadedjuren är många och finns i ett brett spektrum. Från stora djur som grävlingar tillden minsta insekten. I denna kunskapssammanställning läggs tyngdpunkten påbeskrivning av insekter. Skadedjur finns i och påverkar de flesta byggmaterial, frånorganiska material som trä och cellulosa till hårdare material som metall, puts och bruk.Skadedjur kan leva av och med mikroorganismer, svampar och mögel, ibland i synergi.Statistik från förvaltare och skadesanerare visar att i flerbostadshus är vägglöss detproblem som hanteras oftast. Generellt i hela byggnadsbeståndet är gnagare detskadedjur som ger upphov till de flesta saneringarna. Myror är vanligare under apriljuni medan problem med vägglöss är störst augusti-mars.Lagstiftning samt föreskrifter och vägledningar från myndigheter ger tillsammans medbranschens aktörer, miljöcertifieringssystem och internationella standarderförutsättningar för byggande/förvaltning och hantering av skadedjur. En utblick till våragrannländer och i Europa visar att mycket är lika och att traditioner, kultur och historikkan förklara olikheter som finns. Mycket finns att lära av varandra.Det finns en oro att skadedjursproblem kan öka i framtiden med tanke på ökad handelöver gränserna och ett varmare klimat.

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  • Wendt, Sara
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS).
    Andjelic, Ivana
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS).
    Hur upplever lärare att konkret material påverkar elevers taluppfattning i åk F-3?: En intervjustudie av lärares erfarenheter och uppfattningar2025Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
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  • Dychawy Rosner, Irena
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Social Work (SA).
    Embodying Reflective Learning in Social Work Education2021In: Kultura i Edukacja, ISSN 1230-266X, Vol. 134, no 4, p. 25-39Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    There is a growing academic tradition of employing strategies of reflective skills in social work education. Social professions are often dealing with the problems of vulnerability and complexity that exist when encountering clients’ needs. This article arises from the experiences of the author in providing reflective learning to health and social work students in Sweden. This study opens with evoking the concept of knowing and learning. It explores and discusses the epistemological basis of reflective learning to facilitate students’ knowledge creation, clinical reasoning and reflective learning in front-on planning interventions. Further, the study present an example of a reflection scheme matrix applied in the social work and social pedagogy bachelor educational programs at Malmö University to support student’s reflective learning and information gathering while planning social interventions for service receivers. During their reflective reasoning, students are supported in their process of reflection to gain control of the unsorted information and shape a base for their own internal experience while analysing the client’s situation. This article concludes with commentary about reflective learning potential including making sense of real professional situations, meaningful engagements and how to prepare students for professional operationalisation in complex, unpredictable situations.

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  • Nobile, Maria Luna
    et al.
    Umeå University, Sweden.
    Kraft, Marie
    Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Urban Studies (US).
    Commons. An ATLAS of possibilities2021In: UOU Scientific Journal, ISSN 2697-1518, Vol. 1, p. 158-189Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This contribution includes a reflection on reactivation of abandoned places and focusing primarily on a new understanding of the role of architects in a future society, dealing more and more with participatory design tools and with the reuse of existing buildings and interpreting the notion of social and environmental sustainability. A window was opened towards the future where the imaginary landscapes developed by our students - and by the students who have answered the call - with unexpected results of reflections shared in this short Workshop lead by Marie Kraft and myself and accompanied by our UOU colleagues. In this section, the projects of the students are to be considered as a test bed for our work and reflections as researchers, practitioners and educators. An ATLAS of possibilities, both here and now.

    This Section includes the constribution of the students:

    Anastasia Milonas; Andreea Diana Roman, Anna Van Amersfoort; Ario Racho; Cecilia Elisabeth Eleanora Gustafsson; Enric Alonso, María Ponce; Larisa Daniela Gabor; Laura Adina Stupariu, Alina Ioana Constantin; Marta Selles; Raluca Ioana Negoescu, Iulia Ciungan;Thomas Bromley; Vendela Serrreli.

    And of:

    María Ponce The Celebration of Places and Instants of moments

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  • Ennerberg, Elin
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Society, Culture and Identity (SKI).
    Trajectories of Newly Arrived Migrants in the Swedish Introduction Program2021In: Nordic Journal of Transitions Careers and Guidance, ISSN 2003-8046, Vol. 2, no 1, p. 14-26Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In a 2010 policy reform, the centre-right Swedish government attempted to bring the area of integration policy into closer alignment with labour market policy for newly arrived migrants. In this paper, empirical data gathered from 181 individual case files from the Public Employment Service (PES) is used to analyse the different trajectories of migrants. I construct a typology of five different sub-groups to explore how migrants manage the different challenges of the policy program. The main contribution of the article is to highlight the individual differences among the group and how various strategies are formed within the same policy framework.

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  • Turmo, Are
    et al.
    University of Oslo, Norway.
    Olander, Clas
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society (NMS).
    Nyberg, Eva
    University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
    Stolpe, Karin
    Linköping University, Sweden.
    Editorial 2/20222022In: NorDiNa: Nordic Studies in Science Education, ISSN 1504-4556, E-ISSN 1894-1257, Vol. 18, no 2, p. 143-146Article in journal (Other academic)
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  • Turmo, Are
    et al.
    University of Oslo, Norway.
    Olander, Clas
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society (NMS).
    Nielsen, Birgitte Lund
    VIA University College, Denmark.
    Daugbjerg, Peer
    VIA University College, Denmark.
    Editorial Nordina 3/20222022In: NorDiNa: Nordic Studies in Science Education, ISSN 1504-4556, E-ISSN 1894-1257, Vol. 18, no 3, p. 271-274Article in journal (Other academic)
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  • Kristensen, Kasper Dahl
    et al.
    Institut for Odontologi og Oral Sundhed, Sektion for Ortodonti, Aarhus universitet, Danmark.
    Henrikson, Thor
    Malmö University, Faculty of Odontology (OD).
    Tannregulering med alignere2022In: Den norske tannlegeforenings tidende, ISSN 0029-2303, E-ISSN 1894-180X, Vol. 132, no 10Article, review/survey (Refereed)
    Abstract [no]

    Tannregulering med gjennomsiktige skinner har hatt en eksponentiell vekst de siste årene. Skinnene kalles «alignere»og har revolusjonert især voksen-kjeveortopedien de seneste 10-20 år. Tidligere var kjeveortopedi et vanskelig spesiale å kaste seg ut i uten offisiell videreutdannelse innen kjeveortopedi, men med denne nye teknikken på markedet er muligheten for allmenntannleger blitt større. De fleste pasienter har lettere for å akseptere å bli behandlet med gjennomsiktige plastikkskinner fremfor fast apparatur på forsiden av tennene. Økt tilgjengelighet av teknikken og kraftige reklamefremstøt kombinert med en økt etterspørsel, samt forskning og utvikling i feltet, har gjort alignere til en kommersiell suksess, og markedet utvikler seg markant for tiden. Vi vil i denne artikkelen diskutere fordeler og ulemper av teknikken, belyse problemområder, informere om effektiviteten av alignere til spesifikke tannforflytninger samt illustrere effekten med to pasienttilfeller. Artikkelen er tenkt som en overordnet introduksjon av nåværende evidens omkring behandling med alignere, hvoretter den interesserte kliniker kan fordype seg ytterligere.

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  • Johannessen, Anne Christine
    et al.
    Det medisinske fakultet, Universitetet i Bergen, Norge.
    Warfvinge, Gunnar
    Malmö University, Faculty of Odontology (OD).
    Reibel, Jesper
    Odontologisk Institut, Københavns Universitet, Danmark.
    Virtuell mikroskopi i oral patologi på tannlegestudiet2022In: Den norske tannlegeforenings tidende, ISSN 0029-2303, Vol. 132, no 12Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Teaching in oral pathology at the dental schools aims to give students insight into the histopathology of the most common diseases and conditions that they will meet later in their career. Such knowledge is important for their understanding of the clinical manifestation of the diseases and their development. Previously, courses in oral pathology have been arranged in special halls, equipped with microscopes, which has been resource-intensive and has given the students limited time to study the tissue sections. New technology has been developed where tissue sections are scanned and uploaded to digital platforms that can be made available to students, who may study the tissue sections as in a virtual microscope, leading to increased flexibility both for students and teachers. Students can prepare for the lectures and can later study the tissue sections on their own computer. The integration with clinical subjects is made easier, and teaching material can be shared between institutions. The scanned tissue sections have a quality compatible with a high quality light microscope.

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  • Moeller, Kim
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Criminology (KR).
    Forbuddet mod Loyal to Familia: Foreningsfrihedens materielle grænser2022In: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab, ISSN 0029-1528, Vol. 109, no 3, p. 399-413Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The ban on Loyal to Familia - The material limits of the freedom of association

    On 1 September 2021, the Danish Supreme Court banned the gang Loyal to Familia (LTF) because it had an illegal aim and was therefore classified as an illegal association. This sentence marks a new understanding of the material limits to the constitutional freedom of association. It was the third ban of a Danish association, and the first ban of an association that did not have the aim of overthrowing democracy. Using court transcripts, this article describes the contents and major themes in the evidence presented by the prosecutor. The gang’s organisation was structured and hierarchical as based on recovered documents described as containing membership lists, titles, fees and collective economic resources. Members committed a broad range of serious violent and drug-related offenses. Incarrcerated members of the gang violently attacked prison guards. In two instances, these attacks occurred outside of prisons on the behest of the gang. The courts agreed that the gang itself facilitated some of the violence and drug offending. While their motivations differed, all three courts agreed that Danish society had a constitutional right. The courts also agreed that the administratively issued temporary ban on the gang from 2018 was legal.

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  • Hall, Patrik
    Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Global Political Studies (GPS).
    Book review: Modernizing the Public Sector: Scandinavian Perspectives, edited by Irvine Lapsley & Hans Knutsson2018In: Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, ISSN 2001-7405, E-ISSN 2001-7413, Vol. 22, no 4, p. 71-74Article, book review (Refereed)
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  • Coromina, Òscar
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Computer Science and Media Technology (DVMT).
    Padilla, Adrián
    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
    “Hands On”: incorporación de data sprints y digital methods en la docencia de marketing digital2022In: Revista Dígitos, ISSN 2444-0132, no 8, p. 51-51Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article compiles the experience accumulated over 9 years in the design and execution of data sprints within the framework of the Master’s Degree in Digital Communication and Marketing at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. With more than 90 different projects behind them, these conferences have been a meeting point for professionals, academics and students, enabling the exchange of knowledge and the transfer of techniques between academic research methods and research applied to digital marketing. At the same time, the data sprint format facilitates practical knowledge and the acquisition of communication, organisational and problem-solving skills. The article presents three examples of projects to illustrate the activity carried out and discusses its impact based on a focus group with several participants, to point out the benefits of the experience as well as the difficulty of applying the format in the professional environment.

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  • Engström, Linnéa
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS).
    Fransson, Alicia
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS).
    Framtidens klassrum: Lärare om AI i skrivundervisningen2025Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [sv]

    Studien utforskar lärares uppfattningar av AI samt dess möjligheter och utmaningar i undervisningen. Syftet är att undersöka lärares uppfattningar om användningen av AI i skrivundervisningen inom svenskämnet, samt att identifiera de möjligheter och utmaningar som framträder utifrån deras erfarenheter och perspektiv. Med utgångspunkt i critical literacy, lärarens fem roller, elevens fem roller och den didaktiska triangeln analyseras lärares perspektiv kopplat till AI i klassrummet. Studien tar avstamp i en kvalitativ metod och genomförs med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer med åtta lärare i svenska som undervisar på mellanstadiet.

    Resultatet visar en komplex bild av AI i skrivundervisningen. Lärarna ger upphov till en tudelad inställning av AI där både nyfikenhet och osäkerhet präglar deras uppfattning. En gemensam uppfattning är att AI hittills inte gjort stora avtryck i undervisningen men att det är något som de behöver förbereda sig för och förhålla sig till framöver. I nuläget har de en observerande hållning till verktyget vilket främst beror på okunskap. Den tudelade upplevelsen visar sig även i möjligheter och utmaningar, där AI å ena sidan kan ses som en möjlighet i att stödja elevernas lärande uppgifter inom skrivundervisningen och avlasta läraren i sin yrkesroll. Å andra sidan framträder utmaningar i form av fusk, källkritik och skrivmotstånd. Det framkommer även en upplevd brist på kunskap om AI, vilket gör att vissa lärare tvekar att använda det i klassrummet. Samtidigt är de överens om att AI är här för att stanna, vilket skapar ett behov av att lära sig att hantera det. 

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  • Nilsson, Linnea
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Culture, Languages and Media (KSM).
    El-Ali, Nadine
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Culture, Languages and Media (KSM).
    Att Möta Elevers Olika Behov: En Studie Om Individanpassning I Läsundervisningen2025Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [sv]

    Under våra VFU perioder har vi förstått vikten av individanpassning och hur det kan vara avgörande för elevers vidareutveckling i tidiga skolår. Syftet med vår studie är att beskriva och analysera individanpassad läsundervisning. Vi vill få en inblick i vilka strategier och metoder som är framträdande i lärarnas arbete inom individanpassning vad gäller läsinlärning och läsundervisning. The simple view of reading och phonics är två teorier som ligger till grund för vår studie. För att besvara frågeställningarna har vi genomfört semistrukturerade intervjuer med sex lärare från två olika skolor. Resultatet visar många likheter i lärarnas definition av individanpassning och vikten av att individanpassa i läsundervisningen. Resultatet visar också att det finns skillnader i lärarnas metoder och arbetssätt samt skillnad i hur de arbetar i de två olika skolorna. De intervjuade lärarna hanterar även utmaningar som medföljer med individanpassning på olika sätt. Lärarna i studien anpassar sin undervisning genom en kombination av phonics-baserad undervisning för avkodning och språkstärkande insatser.

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  • Martin, Benjamin G.
    et al.
    Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, UppsalaSweden.
    Mohammedi Norén, Fredrik
    Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).
    Mähler, Roger
    Humlab, Umeå University, UmeåSweden.
    Marklund, Andreas
    Humlab, Umeå University, UmeåSweden.
    Martin, Oriane
    Department of Linguistics, University of Lausanne, LausanneSwitzerland.
    UNESCO’s Proceedings, 1945–2017: A Bilingual Digital Text Corpus2025In: Journal of Open Humanities Data, ISSN 2059-481X, Vol. 11, p. 1-5Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The record of the meetings of UNESCO’s General Conference offers a valuable resource for research in the global humanities. We present a digital text corpus, including metadata and supplementary material, that makes the complete record of these meetings from 1946 to 2017 in English and/or French accessible in a machine-readable form that is suitable for digital text analysis. The corpus is stored on Zenodo; relevant code is available on GitHub. The corpus offers reuse potential for scholars interested in any of the countless issues that have been discussed and debated in UNESCO’s General Conference over more than seventy years, as well as to Natural Language Processing (NLP) developers interested in the challenges of language recognition and automated segmentation. 

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  • Henningsson, Ida
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society (NMS).
    Landstedt, Ida
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society (NMS).
    Flickor och teknik: perspektiv från behöriga tekniklärare kring flickors intresse2025Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
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  • Tegstam, Victor
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society (NMS).
    Palm, Theodor
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society (NMS).
    Hur bygger NO-lärare relationell förståelse för naturen ur ett hållbarhetsperspektiv– en kvalitativ studie2025Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
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  • Abid, Nosheen
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Unsupervised Curriculum Learning Case Study: Earth Observation UCL4EO2024Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Earth Observation (EO) data is crucial for understanding, managing, and conserving our planet's ecosystem and its natural resources. This data enables humanity to monitor environmental changes, such as natural disasters, urban growth, and climate shifts, assisting informed decisions and proactive measures. Early EO heavily relied on statistical methods and expert domain knowledge, but the advent of machine learning has revolutionized EO data processing, enhancing efficiency and accuracy. Conventional ML models require expensive and labor-intensive data labeling. In contrast, unsupervised ML techniques can learn features from data without the need for manual labeling, making the process more efficient and cost-effective.

     

    This thesis presents a UCL approach utilizing advanced DL models to classify EO data, referred to as UCL4EO. This approach eliminates the need for manual data labeling in training the DL model. The UCL framework comprises i) a DL model tailored for feature extraction from image data, ii) a clustering method to group deep features, and iii) a selection operation to capture representative samples from these clusters. The CNN extracts meaningful features from images, subjected to a clustering algorithm to create pseudo-labels. After identifying the initial clusters, representative samples from each cluster are chosen using the UCL selection operation to fine-tune the feature extractor. The stated process is repeated iteratively until convergence. The proposed UCL approach progressively learns and incorporates salient data features in an unsupervised manner by utilizing pseudo-labels.

     

    UCL started as a proof of concept to show the viability of the method for binary classification on RS and aerial imagery. Specifically, the UCL framework is employed to identify water bodies using three RGB datasets, encompassing both low and high-resolution RS and aerial imagery. While UCL has been extensively examined with RGB imagery, it has been adapted to benefit from the enhanced capabilities of multi-spectral satellite imagery. This adaptation enables UCL to generalize to multi-spectral imagery from Sentinel-2 to detect forest fires in Australia. UCL undergoes subsequent improvements and is further investigated to identify utility poles in high-resolution UAV images. These gray-scale images of utility poles pose computer vision challenges, including issues like occlusion and cropping, where a significant portion of the image contains the background and only a slight appearance of the utility pole. Extensive experimentation on the mentioned tasks effectively showcases UCL's adaptive learning capabilities, producing promising results. The achieved accuracy surpassed those of supervised methods in cross-domain adaptation on similar tasks, underscoring the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

     

    The scope of UCL has been extended to encompass multi-class classification tasks in the domain of RS data, referred to as Multi-class UCL. Multi-class UCL progressively acquires knowledge about various categories on multi-scale resolution. To investigate Multi-class UCL, we have used four publicly available datasets of Sentinel-2 and aerial imagery: EuroSAT, SAT-6, UCMerced, and RSSCN7. Comprehensive experiments conducted on the above-mentioned datasets revealed better cross-domain adaptation capabilities compared to supervised methods, thereby demonstrating the effectiveness of Multi-class UCL.

     

    In these investigations, two datasets are generated using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery: one for water bodies - PakSAT and the other for Australian forest fires. However, cloud cover poses a significant challenge by obstructing the satellite's ability to capture clear images of the Earth's surface. To address this issue, available cloud masking techniques are employed to filter out images affected by cloud cover, ensuring the datasets contain only clear and usable data. Later, this thesis examines cloud detection and Cloud Optical Thickness (COT) estimation from Sentinel-2 imagery. We employed machine-learning techniques, achieving better performance than SCL designed by ESA for cloud cover tasks.

     

    In addition to the application in RS data, UCL has been investigated in other domains of EO, such as undersea imagery. Furthermore, UCL has also been used for tasks like natural scene classification, medical imaging, and document analysis, demonstrating its versatility and broad applicability. Further exploration of UCL could involve improving the process of generating pseudo-labels through deep learning techniques.

    List of papers
    1. UCL: Unsupervised Curriculum Learning for Water Body Classification from Remote Sensing Imagery
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>UCL: Unsupervised Curriculum Learning for Water Body Classification from Remote Sensing Imagery
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    2021 (English)In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, ISSN 1569-8432, E-ISSN 1872-826X, Vol. 105, article id 102568Article in journal (Refereed) Published
    Abstract [en]

    This paper presents a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based Unsupervised Curriculum Learning approach for the recognition of water bodies to overcome the stated challenges for remote sensing based RGB imagery. The unsupervised nature of the presented algorithm eliminates the need for labelled training data. The problem is cast as a two class clustering problem (water and non-water), while clustering is done on deep features obtained by a pre-trained CNN. After initial clusters have been identified, representative samples from each cluster are chosen by the unsupervised curriculum learning algorithm for fine-tuning the feature extractor. The stated process is repeated iteratively until convergence. Three datasets have been used to evaluate the approach and show its effectiveness on varying scales: (i) SAT-6 dataset comprising high resolution aircraft images, (ii) Sentinel-2 of EuroSAT, comprising remote sensing images with low resolution, and (iii) PakSAT, a new dataset we created for this study. PakSAT is the first Pakistani Sentinel-2 dataset designed to classify water bodies of Pakistan. Extensive experiments on these datasets demonstrate the progressive learning behaviour of UCL and reported promising results of water classification on all three datasets. The obtained accuracies outperform the supervised methods in domain adaptation, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    Elsevier, 2021
    Keywords
    Sentinel-2, Aircraft Imagery, Remote Sensing, Water classification, Deep Learning, Unsupervised Curriculum Learning, Multi-scale Classification
    National Category
    Computer Sciences
    Research subject
    Machine Learning
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75688 (URN)10.1016/j.jag.2021.102568 (DOI)000716818200002 ()2-s2.0-85121593506 (Scopus ID)
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    Validerad;2021;Nivå 2;2021-11-08 (johcin);

    Full text license: CC BY-NC-ND

    Available from: 2025-04-30 Created: 2025-04-30 Last updated: 2025-05-07Bibliographically approved
    2. Burnt Forest Estimation from Sentinel-2 Imagery of Australia using Unsupervised Deep Learning
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>Burnt Forest Estimation from Sentinel-2 Imagery of Australia using Unsupervised Deep Learning
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    2021 (English)In: Proceedings of the Digital Image Computing: Technqiues and Applications (DICTA), IEEE , 2021, p. 74-81Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Massive wildfires not only in Australia, but also worldwide are burning millions of hectares of forests and green land affecting the social, ecological, and economical situation. Widely used indices-based threshold methods like Normalized Burned Ratio (NBR) require a huge amount of data preprocessing and are specific to the data capturing source. State-of-the-art deep learning models, on the other hand, are supervised and require domain experts knowledge for labeling the data in huge quantity. These limitations make the existing models difficult to be adaptable to new variations in the data and capturing sources. In this work, we have proposed an unsupervised deep learning based architecture to map the burnt regions of forests by learning features progressively. The model considers small patches of satellite imagery and classifies them into burnt and not burnt. These small patches are concatenated into binary masks to segment out the burnt region of the forests. The proposed system is composed of two modules: 1) a state-of-the-art deep learning architecture for feature extraction and 2) a clustering algorithm for the generation of pseudo labels to train the deep learning architecture. The proposed method is capable of learning the features progressively in an unsupervised fashion from the data with pseudo labels, reducing the exhausting efforts of data labeling that requires expert knowledge. We have used the realtime data of Sentinel-2 for training the model and mapping the burnt regions. The obtained F1-Score of 0.87 demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed model.

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    IEEE, 2021
    Keywords
    Unsupervised, Deep Learning, Australia, Forest Fire, Wildfire, Sentinel-2, Aerial Imagery
    National Category
    Computer Sciences
    Research subject
    Machine Learning
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75686 (URN)10.1109/DICTA52665.2021.9647174 (DOI)000824642300010 ()2-s2.0-85124317916 (Scopus ID)978-1-6654-1709-9 (ISBN)
    Conference
    International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Gold Coast, Australia, Novermber 29 - December 1, 2021
    Note

    ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-1-6654-1709-9 (elektronisk)

    Available from: 2025-04-30 Created: 2025-04-30 Last updated: 2025-05-06Bibliographically approved
    3. UCL: Unsupervised Curriculum Learning for Utility Pole Detection from Aerial Imagery
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>UCL: Unsupervised Curriculum Learning for Utility Pole Detection from Aerial Imagery
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    2022 (English)In: Proceedings of the Digital Image Computing: Technqiues and Applications (DICTA), IEEE , 2022Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper introduces a machine learning-based approach for detecting electric poles, an essential part of power grid maintenance. With the increasing popularity of deep learning, several such approaches have been proposed for electric pole detection. However, most of these approaches are supervised, requiring a large amount of labeled data, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Unsupervised deep learning approaches have the potential to overcome the need for huge amounts of training data. This paper presents an unsupervised deep learning framework for utility pole detection. The framework combines Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and clustering algorithms with a selection operation. The CNN architecture for extracting meaningful features from aerial imagery, a clustering algorithm for generating pseudo labels for the resulting features, and a selection operation to filter out reliable samples to fine-tune the CNN architecture further. The fine-tuned version then replaces the initial CNN model, thus improving the framework, and we iteratively repeat this process so that the model learns the prominent patterns in the data progressively. The presented framework is trained and tested on a small dataset of utility poles provided by “Mention Fuvex” (a Spanish company utilizing long-range drones for power line inspection). Our extensive experimentation demonstrates the progressive learning behavior of the proposed method and results in promising classification scores with significance test having p−value<0.00005 on the utility pole dataset.

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    IEEE, 2022
    Keywords
    Aerial Imagery, Electric Poles, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Unsupervised Learning
    National Category
    Computer Sciences
    Research subject
    Machine Learning
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75685 (URN)10.1109/DICTA56598.2022.10034610 (DOI)2-s2.0-85148606239 (Scopus ID)978-1-6654-5642-5 (ISBN)
    Conference
    2022 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), November 30 - December 2, 2022, Sydney, Australia
    Available from: 2025-04-30 Created: 2025-04-30 Last updated: 2025-05-06Bibliographically approved
    4. Seagrass classification using unsupervised curriculum learning (UCL)
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>Seagrass classification using unsupervised curriculum learning (UCL)
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    2024 (English)In: Ecological Informatics, ISSN 1574-9541, E-ISSN 1878-0512, Vol. 83, article id 102804Article in journal (Refereed) Published
    Abstract [en]

    Seagrass ecosystems are pivotal in marine environments, serving as crucial habitats for diverse marine species and contributing significantly to carbon sequestration. Accurate classification of seagrass species from underwater images is imperative for monitoring and preserving these ecosystems. This paper introduces Unsupervised Curriculum Learning (UCL) to seagrass classification using the DeepSeagrass dataset. UCL progressively learns from simpler to more complex examples, enhancing the model's ability to discern seagrass features in a curriculum-driven manner. Experiments employing state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), show that UCL achieved overall 90.12 % precision and 89 % recall, which significantly improves classification accuracy and robustness, outperforming some traditional supervised learning approaches like SimCLR, and unsupervised approaches like Zero-shot CLIP. The methodology of UCL involves four main steps: high-dimensional feature extraction, pseudo-label generation through clustering, reliable sample selection, and fine-tuning the model. The iterative UCL framework refines CNN's learning of underwater images, demonstrating superior accuracy, generalization, and adaptability to unseen seagrass and background samples of undersea images. The findings presented in this paper contribute to the advancement of seagrass classification techniques, providing valuable insights into the conservation and management of marine ecosystems. The code and dataset are made publicly available and can be assessed here: https://github.com/nabid69/Unsupervised-Curriculum-Learning—UCL.

     

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    Elsevier, 2024
    Keywords
    Seagrass, Deep learning, Unsupervised classification, Curriculum learning, Unsupervised curriculum learning, Underwater digital imaging
    National Category
    Computer Sciences Computer graphics and computer vision
    Research subject
    Machine Learning
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75687 (URN)10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102804 (DOI)001307982900001 ()2-s2.0-85202895926 (Scopus ID)
    Note

    Validerad;2024;Nivå 2;2024-09-09 (hanlid);

    Full text license: CC BY

    Available from: 2025-04-30 Created: 2025-04-30 Last updated: 2025-05-07Bibliographically approved
    5. Multi-UCL: Multi-class Unsupervised Curriculum Learning for Image Scene Classification: Case Study: Earth Observation
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>Multi-UCL: Multi-class Unsupervised Curriculum Learning for Image Scene Classification: Case Study: Earth Observation
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    (English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The effective training of supervised deep learning models requires the labeling of extensive datasets, a process that is often costly and labor-intensive. Such models also face significant challenges with overfitting on the training data with true labels, leading to suboptimal performance on new datasets with slight variations in capturing sources or regions. This paper introduces Multi-class Unsupervised Curriculum Learning (Multi-class UCL), a novel deep learning framework. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this framework on the  case study of land use and cover classification that bypasses the need for labeled data, thereby improving adaptability across different datasets. Multi-class UCL leverages pseudo-labels generated from a clustering technique to train the model and incorporates a selection process that ensures an equal representation of samples from each cluster, addressing the issue of class imbalance. The study evaluates the effectiveness of Multi-class UCL through comprehensive experiments on four diverse publicly available datasets: EuroSAT, SAT-6, RSSCN7, and UCMerced. These datasets have varying resolutions, come from different capturing sources, and encompass different geographical areas.The results demonstrate that the framework effectively learns and generalizes important features from the data, showing superior adaptability and performance across various datasets compared to traditional supervised models.

    National Category
    Computer Sciences
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75683 (URN)
    Available from: 2025-04-30 Created: 2025-04-30 Last updated: 2025-05-06Bibliographically approved
    6. UCL: Unsupervised Curriculum Learning for Image Classification
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    (English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [en]

    In many real-world applications of computer vision complex domains, such as medical diagnostics and document analysis, the lack of labeled data often limits the effectiveness of traditional deep learning models. This study addresses these challenges by enhancing Unsupervised Curriculum Learning (UCL), a deep learning framework that automatically discovers meaningful patterns without the need for labeled data. Originally designed for remote sensing imagery, UCL has been expanded in this work to improve classification performance in a variety of domain-specific applications. UCL integrates a convolutional neural network, clustering algorithms, and selection techniques to classify images unsupervised. We introduce key improvements, such as spectral clustering, outlier detection, and dimensionality reduction, to boost the framework’s accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate significant performance gains, with F1-scores increasing from 68% to 94% on a three-class subset of the CIFAR-10 dataset and from 68% to 75% on a five-class subset. The updated UCL also achieved F1-scores of 85% in medical diagnosis, 82% in scene recognition, and 62% in historical document classification. These findings underscore the potential of UCL in complex real-world applications and point to areas where further advancements are needed to maximize its utility across diverse fields.

    Keywords
    Unsupervised Learning, Deep Learning, Classification, Computer Vision, Document Analysis, Natural Scene Images, Medical Imaging, UCL
    National Category
    Computer Sciences
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75684 (URN)
    Available from: 2025-04-30 Created: 2025-04-30 Last updated: 2025-05-06Bibliographically approved
    7. Creating and Leveraging a Synthetic Dataset of Cloud Optical Thickness Measures for Cloud Detection in MSI
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>Creating and Leveraging a Synthetic Dataset of Cloud Optical Thickness Measures for Cloud Detection in MSI
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    2024 (English)In: Remote Sensing, E-ISSN 2072-4292, Vol. 16, no 4, article id 694Article in journal (Refereed) Published
    Abstract [en]

    Cloud formations often obscure optical satellite-based monitoring of the Earth’s surface, thus limiting Earth observation (EO) activities such as land cover mapping, ocean color analysis, and cropland monitoring. The integration of machine learning (ML) methods within the remote sensing domain has significantly improved performance for a wide range of EO tasks, including cloud detection and filtering, but there is still much room for improvement. A key bottleneck is that ML methods typically depend on large amounts of annotated data for training, which are often difficult to come by in EO contexts. This is especially true when it comes to cloud optical thickness (COT) estimation. A reliable estimation of COT enables more fine-grained and application-dependent control compared to using pre-specified cloud categories, as is common practice. To alleviate the COT data scarcity problem, in this work, we propose a novel synthetic dataset for COT estimation, which we subsequently leverage for obtaining reliable and versatile cloud masks on real data. In our dataset, top-of-atmosphere radiances have been simulated for 12 of the spectral bands of the Multispectral Imagery (MSI) sensor onboard Sentinel-2 platforms. These data points have been simulated under consideration of different cloud types, COTs, and ground surface and atmospheric profiles. Extensive experimentation of training several ML models to predict COT from the measured reflectivity of the spectral bands demonstrates the usefulness of our proposed dataset. In particular, by thresholding COT estimates from our ML models, we show on two satellite image datasets (one that is publicly available, and one which we have collected and annotated) that reliable cloud masks can be obtained. The synthetic data, the newly collected real dataset, code and models have been made publicly available.

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    MDPI, 2024
    Keywords
    cloud detection, cloud optical thickness, datasets, machine learning
    National Category
    Earth Observation
    Research subject
    Machine Learning
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75693 (URN)10.3390/rs16040694 (DOI)001177031000001 ()2-s2.0-85185890836 (Scopus ID)
    Funder
    Vinnova, 2021-03643; 2023-02787
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  • Abid, Nosheen
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Deep Learning for Geo-referenced Data: Case Study: Earth Observation2021Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The thesis focuses on machine learning methods for Earth Observation (EO) data, more specifically, remote sensing data acquired by satellites and drones. EO plays a vital role in monitoring the Earth’s surface and modelling climate change to take necessary precautionary measures. Initially, these efforts were dominated by methods relying on handcrafted features and expert knowledge. The recent advances of machine learning methods, however, have also led to successful applications in EO. This thesis explores supervised and unsupervised approaches of Deep Learning (DL) to monitor natural resources of water bodies and forests. 

    The first study of this thesis introduces an Unsupervised Curriculum Learning (UCL) method based on widely-used DL models to classify water resources from RGB remote sensing imagery. In traditional settings, human experts labeled images to train the deep models which is costly and time-consuming. UCL, instead, can learn the features progressively in an unsupervised fashion from the data, reducing the exhausting efforts of labeling. Three datasets of varying resolution are used to evaluate UCL and show its effectiveness: SAT-6, EuroSAT, and PakSAT. UCL outperforms the supervised methods in domain adaptation, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. 

    The subsequent study is an extension of UCL for the multispectral imagery of Australian wildfires. This study has used multispectral Sentinel-2 imagery to create the dataset for the forest fires ravaging Australia in late 2019 and early 2020. 12 out of the 13 spectral bands of Sentinel-2 are concatenated in a way to make them suitable as a three-channel input to the unsupervised architecture. The unsupervised model then classified the patches as either burnt or not burnt. This work attains 87% F1-Score mapping the burnt regions of Australia, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method. 

    The main contributions of this work are (i) the creation of two datasets using Sentinel-2 Imagery, PakSAT dataset and Australian Forest Fire dataset; (ii) the introduction of UCL that learns the features progressively without the need of labelled data; and (iii) experimentation on relevant datasets for water body and forest fire classification. 

    This work focuses on patch-level classification which could in future be expanded to pixel-based classification. Moreover, the methods proposed in this study can be extended to the multi-class classification of aerial imagery. Further possible future directions include the combination of geo-referenced meteorological and remotely sensed image data to explore proposed methods. Lastly, the proposed method can also be adapted to other domains involving multi-spectral and multi-modal input, such as, historical documents analysis, forgery detection in documents, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) classification tasks.

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    1. UCL: Unsupervised Curriculum Learning for Water Body Classification from Remote Sensing Imagery
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>UCL: Unsupervised Curriculum Learning for Water Body Classification from Remote Sensing Imagery
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    2021 (English)In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, ISSN 1569-8432, E-ISSN 1872-826X, Vol. 105, article id 102568Article in journal (Refereed) Published
    Abstract [en]

    This paper presents a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based Unsupervised Curriculum Learning approach for the recognition of water bodies to overcome the stated challenges for remote sensing based RGB imagery. The unsupervised nature of the presented algorithm eliminates the need for labelled training data. The problem is cast as a two class clustering problem (water and non-water), while clustering is done on deep features obtained by a pre-trained CNN. After initial clusters have been identified, representative samples from each cluster are chosen by the unsupervised curriculum learning algorithm for fine-tuning the feature extractor. The stated process is repeated iteratively until convergence. Three datasets have been used to evaluate the approach and show its effectiveness on varying scales: (i) SAT-6 dataset comprising high resolution aircraft images, (ii) Sentinel-2 of EuroSAT, comprising remote sensing images with low resolution, and (iii) PakSAT, a new dataset we created for this study. PakSAT is the first Pakistani Sentinel-2 dataset designed to classify water bodies of Pakistan. Extensive experiments on these datasets demonstrate the progressive learning behaviour of UCL and reported promising results of water classification on all three datasets. The obtained accuracies outperform the supervised methods in domain adaptation, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    Elsevier, 2021
    Keywords
    Sentinel-2, Aircraft Imagery, Remote Sensing, Water classification, Deep Learning, Unsupervised Curriculum Learning, Multi-scale Classification
    National Category
    Computer Sciences
    Research subject
    Machine Learning
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75688 (URN)10.1016/j.jag.2021.102568 (DOI)000716818200002 ()2-s2.0-85121593506 (Scopus ID)
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    2. Burnt Forest Estimation from Sentinel-2 Imagery of Australia using Unsupervised Deep Learning
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    2021 (English)In: Proceedings of the Digital Image Computing: Technqiues and Applications (DICTA), IEEE , 2021, p. 74-81Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Massive wildfires not only in Australia, but also worldwide are burning millions of hectares of forests and green land affecting the social, ecological, and economical situation. Widely used indices-based threshold methods like Normalized Burned Ratio (NBR) require a huge amount of data preprocessing and are specific to the data capturing source. State-of-the-art deep learning models, on the other hand, are supervised and require domain experts knowledge for labeling the data in huge quantity. These limitations make the existing models difficult to be adaptable to new variations in the data and capturing sources. In this work, we have proposed an unsupervised deep learning based architecture to map the burnt regions of forests by learning features progressively. The model considers small patches of satellite imagery and classifies them into burnt and not burnt. These small patches are concatenated into binary masks to segment out the burnt region of the forests. The proposed system is composed of two modules: 1) a state-of-the-art deep learning architecture for feature extraction and 2) a clustering algorithm for the generation of pseudo labels to train the deep learning architecture. The proposed method is capable of learning the features progressively in an unsupervised fashion from the data with pseudo labels, reducing the exhausting efforts of data labeling that requires expert knowledge. We have used the realtime data of Sentinel-2 for training the model and mapping the burnt regions. The obtained F1-Score of 0.87 demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed model.

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    IEEE, 2021
    Keywords
    Unsupervised, Deep Learning, Australia, Forest Fire, Wildfire, Sentinel-2, Aerial Imagery
    National Category
    Computer Sciences
    Research subject
    Machine Learning
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75686 (URN)10.1109/DICTA52665.2021.9647174 (DOI)000824642300010 ()2-s2.0-85124317916 (Scopus ID)978-1-6654-1709-9 (ISBN)
    Conference
    International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Gold Coast, Australia, Novermber 29 - December 1, 2021
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    ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-1-6654-1709-9 (elektronisk)

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  • Alawadi, Neda
    Malmö University, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Computer Science and Media Technology (DVMT).
    A study on the digital inclusion of older adults and their independent use of e-health: Drawing Inspiration from Support Networks2025Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    This study aims to support older adults in using e-health more independently by looking at the case of 1177.se. 1177.se is Sweden’s main national website for accessing healthcare information and services online. The purpose is to understand older adults’ experiences and any potential challenges they face using 1177.se, as well as whether there are support networks that facilitate its use and how they do so, thereby identifying opportunities to support older adults in using 1177.se independently. To gain insights, interviews were conducted with 11 older adults and 5 individuals with firsthand experience in supporting older adults in using the website. These revealed challenges, including difficulties navigating the website and using its services. Other challenges included insufficient digital skills, age-related physical and cognitive decline, and negative emotions associated with its use. The study also found that effective assistance strategies for many older adults included step-by-step instructions for tasks on the website, allowing them to handle interactions independently while highlighting key elements on the screen for them, as well as providing continuous encouragement. A design thinking approach was utilized to turn these insights into a solution, resulting in the creation of a prototype in the form of a feature on 1177.se. This prototype provides instruction lists and visual guidance for tasks on the website, along with encouraging messaging as users interact with it.

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  • Nilsson, Malin
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV).
    Telin, Jessica
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV).
    Barnsjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att möta familjer som migrerat: En systematisk litteraturöversikt2025Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
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  • Engström, Alexander
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Criminology (KR).
    Svalin, KlaraMalmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Criminology (KR).Åberg, CharlotteMalmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Criminology (KR).
    Samverkan mellan Polisen, BID Malmö & Malmö universitet: Studentarbeten från kursen Kriminologi: Tillämpning2025Collection (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Studenterna på kriminologiprogrammet vid Malmö universitet läser under termin fem kursen Kriminologi: Tillämpning. Under kursen får studenterna undersöka aktuella ämnen med fokus på samverkan inom brottsförebyggande och trygghetsskapande arbete. Genom den samverkansöverenskommelse som finns mellan Institutionen för kriminologi och Polisområde Malmö tilldelas studenterna på kursen olika ämnen med utgångspunkt i den lokala problembilden i kommunen. Hösten 2024 har BID Malmö dessutom samverkat med studenterna på kursen.

    Kursen löper över tio veckor och arbetet genomförs i grupp där studenterna tillämpar kunskaper som de har förvärvat under tidigare kurser på kriminologiprogrammet. Genom att använda kriminologisk kunskap för att belysa och undersöka ämnen som tar sin utgångspunkt i reella problem ges studenterna under kursen möjlighet att testa och omsätta teoretiska kunskaper i ett praktiskt sammanhang. Varje grupp sammanställer en rapport som även presenteras muntligt för representanter för Polisområde Malmö, lärare, studenter samt andra aktörer som på olika sätt bidragit till studenternas rapporter.

    Under höstterminen 2024 har studenterna undersökt följande ämnesområden: Länsstyrelsernas och polisens informationsmaterial ”Gängsnacket”, polisens arbetssätt under Eurovision 2024, trafikproblematiken i centrala Malmö, ungas involvering i våldsbejakande fotbollssupportergrupper, tryggheten i Södra Sofielund samt klotter, olaga affischering och nedskräpning på Möllevången.

    Ämnena är unika och varje grupp har fått använda de metoder som de ansett vara mest lämpliga för att samla in relevant information. Varje grupp har också identifierat och kontaktat relevanta organisationer och individer som har kunnat bidra med kunskap om ämnet. Den insamlade informationen har analyserats för att besvara frågeställningarna som ligger till grund för studenternas arbeten. Med utgångspunkt i analysen och tidigare forskning har studenterna sedan arbetat fram åtgärdsförslag som främst riktats till Polisområde Malmö men även till andra aktörer av relevans för det aktuella problemområdet.

    Varje grupp har under arbetet haft en kontaktperson i form av en kommunpolis verksam i något av Malmös lokalpolisområden eller en person verksam vid BID Malmö. Under kursen har studenterna också haft regelbunden handledning med kursens lärare. Studenternas arbeten har dock bedrivits självständigt där metodval, analys och åtgärdsförslag är studenternas egna. Dessutom har studenterna fortlöpande löst olika problem och uppvisat flexibilitet för att säkerställa rapporternas färdigställande.

    Rapporterna redogör för sex vitt skilda ämnen vilket visar på den mångfald av ämnen och problem som är relevanta för Polisområde Malmö samt BID Malmö. Därutöver visar den ämnesmässiga bredden på kriminologins vidsträckta tillämpningsområde. Som läsare får du således en inblick i hur olika ämnen kan belysas och undersökas med hjälp av kriminologisk kunskap.

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  • Blanco Cardozo, Rebeca
    et al.
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
    Garrett, Rachael
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
    Samuelsson-Gamboa, Mafalda
    Chalmers Institute of Technology, University of Gothenburg.
    Haresamudram, Kashyap
    Lund University.
    Lisy, Dominika
    Linköping University.
    Rogg, Maria
    Uppsala University.
    Núñez-Pacheco, Claudia
    Malmö University, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Computer Science and Media Technology (DVMT).
    Identifying Critical Points of Departure for the Design of Self-Fashioning Technologies2025In: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems / [ed] Naomi Yamashita, Vanessa Evers, Koji Yatani, Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, Bongshin Lee, Marshini Chetty, Phoebe Toups-Dugas, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Designing technologies that clothe, adorn, or are otherwise placed on the body raises questions concerning the role they will play in dressing ourselves. We situate self-fashioning – or the process through which we stylise and present our bodies – as a complex practice where a series of social, material, and contextual factors shape how we present ourselves. Informed by reflective discussions and projective design tools, we contribute three critical points of departure for self-fashioning technologies: (i) Purposeful examining discomfort as an ongoing phenomenon, (ii) Supporting mimesis and visibility as qualities to be negotiated, and (iii) Envisioning the multiplicity of the body. We call for the design community to help devise fashionable technologies that are sensitive, caring, and responsive to the complexities of fashioning our bodies.

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  • Strandberg, Ellen
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS).
    Povoa Berggren, Emma
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS).
    Digitala verktyg i matematikundervisningen: En kvalitativ undersökning av möjligheter och utmaningar med digitala verktyg i matematikundervisningen på lågstadiet2025Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    The study examines the role of digital tools in mathematics education, focusing on the impact on students' learning experiences. The problem identified is the increasing use of digital tools in classrooms and the need to assess whether they enhance understanding or create new challenges​. The purpose of the study is to gain insights from teachers about the benefits and difficulties of using digital tools in mathematics for the younger children in primary school. The pedagogical triangle, which illustrates the interaction between the teacher, student, and content, serves as a key theoretical framework in our study. This model highlights how effective teaching depends on the relationship between these three components. The pedagogical triangle helps analyze how digital tools influence mathematics education by teachers' choice of presenting content, how students engage with learning materials and how knowledge is created in the classroom. 

     

    Another key theory we chose to apply in our study is based on Skemp’s (2006) distinction between instrumental and relational understanding. Instrumental understanding involves learning procedures without comprehension, whilst relational understanding creates a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts​. The study employs a qualitative method using semi-structured interviews with teachers. A thematic content analysis was used to identify patterns in the collected data​. Results show that digital tools can enhance visualization, individualization, and student motivation, but they also pose challenges such as distractions, limited adaptability, and technical difficulties​. The conclusion highlights the need for well-integrated digital tools and teacher training to maximize their effectiveness in fostering deeper mathematical understanding​. 

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  • Svärd, Jennifer
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Society, Culture and Identity (SKI).
    Tjebbes, Rita
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Society, Culture and Identity (SKI).
    Möten med historien genom film: sex lågstadielärares tankar och upplevelser2025Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [sv]

    Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur lärare i lågstadiet undervisar om historia genom film. Vi har utgått från tre frågeställningar: Vad motiverar lågstadielärare att använda film i historieundervisningen?, Hur arbetar lågstadielärare med film i historieundervisningen? och Vilka utmaningar uttrycker lågstadielärare att det kan finnas med att använda film i historieundervisningen? 

    Med avstamp i en fenomenologisk ansats har vi genomfört en kvalitativ intervjustudie där vi har undersökt sex lågstadielärares upplevelser av att undervisa historia med hjälp av film. Genom detta har vi samlat in empiri för att således kunna besvara våra frågeställningar. Empirin som samlats in har bearbetats utifrån Braun och Clarkes (2006) modell för tematisk analys. 

    Resultatet har analyserats utifrån de två teoretiska perspektiven didaktik och historiedidaktik. Inom dessa perspektiv har vi valt att fokusera på den didaktiska triangeln, de didaktiska frågorna samt historiemedvetande. Resultatet visar att lärarna främst hade tre motiveringar med att använda film i historieundervisningen. Motiveringarna var att stötta eleverna språkligt, att synliggöra och visualisera historien samt att skapa engagemang. Resultatet visar även att lärarna betonade vikten av att arbeta med eleverna innan filmen för att aktivera förförståelse, under filmen för att förtydliga innehållet samt efter filmen för att bearbeta innehållet. Slutligen visar resultatet att lärarna belyser olika utmaningar med att arbeta med film. Utmaningarna var elevernas förståelse, lärarnas förberedelse, brist på tid samt brist på tillgängligt material. Undersökningens allomfattande slutsats visar på att lärare i lågstadiet har stora möjligheter att använda film som ett pedagogiskt verktyg i undervisningen för att utveckla elevers kunskaper i historia. Undersökningen visar att lärarens roll och didaktiska reflektioner är viktiga för att film som aktivitet ska bli ett givande lärtillfälle. Det visade sig emellertid att det även finns utmaningar med att använda film i historieundervisningen i lågstadiet som kan hindra lärare från att nå det pedagogiska verktygets fulla potential. 

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  • Osein Lanthén, Michelle Sevil
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV).
    The nurse specialist's collaborative experience with the police in a prehospital emergency psychiatric unit: A qualitative interview study2025Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
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  • Ekstubbe, Annica
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV).
    Bytyqi, Dafina
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV).
    Föräldrars upplevelser av livsstilsrelaterade samtal på BVC vid övervikt hos barn: En systematisk litteratusöversikt2025Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    Aim: The aim was to shed light on how parents or guardians experience the counselling session regarding lifestyle changes for their child with overweight, aged 2–6 years, in primary care context equivalent to the Swedish child health centre. Method: This systematic literature review was conducted using a qualitative approach based on the methodological support provided by the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU 2024). A thematic synthesis in three stages was carried out according to Thomas and Harden (2008). Literature searches were performed in the PubMed and CINAHL databases. Five qualitative primary studies were included following appraisal using SBU’s quality assessment tool. The results were thematically analyzed and assessed for confidence using GRADE-CERQual. Results: Two overarching themes were identified: The advisory conversation evokes strong emotions and reflections and The child health nurse’s approach is of great importance. Under these themes, parents commonly described a complex sense of responsibility, and practical difficulties in implementing family lifestyle changes. At the same time, the importance of a trusting care relationship, continuity in contact with the child health nurse, and a conversation tailored to the family’s individual needs were emphasized. Parents expressed a desire for evidence-based information and concrete strategies. The child’s presence during the conversation was a sensitive issue, with parents perceiving a risk of negative consequences. Conclusion: Parents expressed a need for respectful counselling, with an emphasis on involvement and evidence-based information. Concerns about the child’s psychological well-being, such as the risk of stigma and low self-esteem, were prominent and should be met with sensitivity. A family centred and empowerment based approach appeared particularly beneficial in supporting sustainable lifestyle changes.

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  • Simistira Liwicki, Foteini
    et al.
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Gupta, Vibha
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Saini, Rajkumar
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    De, Kanjar
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Abid, Nosheen
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Rakesh, Sumit
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Wellington, Scott
    University of Bath, Department of Computer Science, Bath, UK.
    Wilson, Holly
    University of Bath, Department of Computer Science, Bath, UK.
    Liwicki, Marcus
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Eriksson, Johan
    Umeå University, Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB) and Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå, Sweden.
    Bimodal electroencephalography-functional magnetic resonance imaging dataset for inner-speech recognition2023In: Scientific Data, E-ISSN 2052-4463, Vol. 10, no 1, article id 378Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The recognition of inner speech, which could give a ‘voice’ to patients that have no ability to speak or move, is a challenge for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). A shortcoming of the available datasets is that they do not combine modalities to increase the performance of inner speech recognition. Multimodal datasets of brain data enable the fusion of neuroimaging modalities with complimentary properties, such as the high spatial resolution of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and the temporal resolution of electroencephalography (EEG), and therefore are promising for decoding inner speech. This paper presents the first publicly available bimodal dataset containing EEG and fMRI data acquired nonsimultaneously during inner-speech production. Data were obtained from four healthy, right-handed participants during an inner-speech task with words in either a social or numerical category. Each of the 8-word stimuli were assessed with 40 trials, resulting in 320 trials in each modality for each participant. The aim of this work is to provide a publicly available bimodal dataset on inner speech, contributing towards speech prostheses.

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  • Pirinen, Aleksis
    et al.
    Department of Computer Science, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Borås, 501 15, Sweden.
    Abid, Nosheen
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Paszkowsky, Nuria Agues
    Department of Computer Science, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Borås, 501 15, Sweden.
    Ohlson Timoudas, Thomas
    Department of Computer Science, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Borås, 501 15, Sweden.
    Scheirer, Ronald
    Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, 601 76, Sweden.
    Ceccobello, Chiara
    AI Sweden, Gothenburg, 417 56, Sweden.
    Kovács, György
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Persson, Anders
    The Swedish Forest Agency, Jönköping, 551 83, Sweden.
    Creating and Leveraging a Synthetic Dataset of Cloud Optical Thickness Measures for Cloud Detection in MSI2024In: Remote Sensing, E-ISSN 2072-4292, Vol. 16, no 4, article id 694Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Cloud formations often obscure optical satellite-based monitoring of the Earth’s surface, thus limiting Earth observation (EO) activities such as land cover mapping, ocean color analysis, and cropland monitoring. The integration of machine learning (ML) methods within the remote sensing domain has significantly improved performance for a wide range of EO tasks, including cloud detection and filtering, but there is still much room for improvement. A key bottleneck is that ML methods typically depend on large amounts of annotated data for training, which are often difficult to come by in EO contexts. This is especially true when it comes to cloud optical thickness (COT) estimation. A reliable estimation of COT enables more fine-grained and application-dependent control compared to using pre-specified cloud categories, as is common practice. To alleviate the COT data scarcity problem, in this work, we propose a novel synthetic dataset for COT estimation, which we subsequently leverage for obtaining reliable and versatile cloud masks on real data. In our dataset, top-of-atmosphere radiances have been simulated for 12 of the spectral bands of the Multispectral Imagery (MSI) sensor onboard Sentinel-2 platforms. These data points have been simulated under consideration of different cloud types, COTs, and ground surface and atmospheric profiles. Extensive experimentation of training several ML models to predict COT from the measured reflectivity of the spectral bands demonstrates the usefulness of our proposed dataset. In particular, by thresholding COT estimates from our ML models, we show on two satellite image datasets (one that is publicly available, and one which we have collected and annotated) that reliable cloud masks can be obtained. The synthetic data, the newly collected real dataset, code and models have been made publicly available.

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  • Adewumi, Oluwatosin
    et al.
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Sabry, Sana Sabah
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Abid, Nosheen
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Liwicki, Foteini
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Liwicki, Marcus
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    T5 for Hate Speech, Augmented Data, and Ensemble2023In: Sci, E-ISSN 2413-4155, Vol. 5, no 4, article id 37Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    We conduct relatively extensive investigations of automatic hate speech (HS) detection using different State-of-The-Art (SoTA) baselines across 11 subtasks spanning six different datasets. Our motivation is to determine which of the recent SoTA models is best for automatic hate speech detection and what advantage methods, such as data augmentation and ensemble, may have on the best model, if any. We carry out six cross-task investigations. We achieve new SoTA results on two subtasks—macro F1 scores of 91.73% and 53.21% for subtasks A and B of the HASOC 2020 dataset, surpassing previous SoTA scores of 51.52% and 26.52%, respectively. We achieve near-SoTA results on two others—macro F1 scores of 81.66% for subtask A of the OLID 2019 and 82.54% for subtask A of the HASOC 2021, in comparison to SoTA results of 82.9% and 83.05%, respectively. We perform error analysis and use two eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) algorithms (Integrated Gradient (IG) and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP)) to reveal how two of the models (Bi-Directional Long Short-Term Memory Network (Bi-LSTM) and Text-to-Text-Transfer Transformer (T5)) make the predictions they do by using examples. Other contributions of this work are: (1) the introduction of a simple, novel mechanism for correcting Out-of-Class (OoC) predictions in T5, (2) a detailed description of the data augmentation methods, and (3) the revelation of the poor data annotations in the HASOC 2021 dataset by using several examples and XAI (buttressing the need for better quality control). We publicly release our model checkpoints and codes to foster transparency.

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  • Simistira Liwicki, Foteini
    et al.
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Gupta, Vibha
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Saini, Rajkumar
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    De, Kanjar
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Abid, Nosheen
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Rakesh, Sumit
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Wellington, Scott
    Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, United Kingdom.
    Wilson, Holly
    Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, United Kingdom.
    Liwicki, Marcus
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Eriksson, Johan
    Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB), Umeå University, Sweden.
    Bimodal pilot study on inner speech decoding reveals the potential of combining EEG and fMRIManuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper presents the first publicly available bimodal electroencephalography (EEG) / functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) dataset and an open source benchmark for inner speech decoding. Decoding inner speech or thought (expressed through a voice without actual speaking); is a challenge with typical results close to chance level. The dataset comprises 1280 trials (4 subjects, 8 stimuli = 2 categories * 4 words, and 40 trials per stimuli) in each modality. The pilot study reports for the binary classification, a mean accuracy of 71.72\% when combining the two modalities (EEG and fMRI), compared to 62.81% and 56.17% when using EEG, resp. fMRI alone. The same improvement in performance for word classification (8 classes) can be observed (30.29% with combination, 22.19%, and 17.50% without). As such, this paper demonstrates that combining EEG with fMRI is a promising direction for inner speech decoding.

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  • Abid, Nosheen
    et al.
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Noman, Md Kislu
    Centre for AI and ML, School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia.
    Kovács, György
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Islam, Syed Mohammed Shamsul
    Centre for AI and ML, School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia.
    Adewumi, Tosin
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Lavery, Paul
    Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research, School of Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia; Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Blanes, Spain.
    Shafait, Faisal
    Deep Learning Lab, National Center of Artificial Intelligence, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    Liwicki, Marcus
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Seagrass classification using unsupervised curriculum learning (UCL)2024In: Ecological Informatics, ISSN 1574-9541, E-ISSN 1878-0512, Vol. 83, article id 102804Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Seagrass ecosystems are pivotal in marine environments, serving as crucial habitats for diverse marine species and contributing significantly to carbon sequestration. Accurate classification of seagrass species from underwater images is imperative for monitoring and preserving these ecosystems. This paper introduces Unsupervised Curriculum Learning (UCL) to seagrass classification using the DeepSeagrass dataset. UCL progressively learns from simpler to more complex examples, enhancing the model's ability to discern seagrass features in a curriculum-driven manner. Experiments employing state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), show that UCL achieved overall 90.12 % precision and 89 % recall, which significantly improves classification accuracy and robustness, outperforming some traditional supervised learning approaches like SimCLR, and unsupervised approaches like Zero-shot CLIP. The methodology of UCL involves four main steps: high-dimensional feature extraction, pseudo-label generation through clustering, reliable sample selection, and fine-tuning the model. The iterative UCL framework refines CNN's learning of underwater images, demonstrating superior accuracy, generalization, and adaptability to unseen seagrass and background samples of undersea images. The findings presented in this paper contribute to the advancement of seagrass classification techniques, providing valuable insights into the conservation and management of marine ecosystems. The code and dataset are made publicly available and can be assessed here: https://github.com/nabid69/Unsupervised-Curriculum-Learning—UCL.

     

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  • Abid, Nosheen
    et al.
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Shahzad, Muhammad
    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan; Deep Learning Lab, National Center of Artificial Intelligence, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan; Data Science in Earth Observation, Department of Aerospace and Geodesy, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany.
    Malik, Muhammad Imran
    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan; Deep Learning Lab, National Center of Artificial Intelligence, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan.
    Schwanecke, Ulrich
    RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
    Ulges, Adrian
    RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
    Kovács, György
    Luleå tekniska universitet, EISLAB.
    Shafait, Faisal
    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan; Deep Learning Lab, National Center of Artificial Intelligence, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan.
    UCL: Unsupervised Curriculum Learning for Water Body Classification from Remote Sensing Imagery2021In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, ISSN 1569-8432, E-ISSN 1872-826X, Vol. 105, article id 102568Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper presents a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based Unsupervised Curriculum Learning approach for the recognition of water bodies to overcome the stated challenges for remote sensing based RGB imagery. The unsupervised nature of the presented algorithm eliminates the need for labelled training data. The problem is cast as a two class clustering problem (water and non-water), while clustering is done on deep features obtained by a pre-trained CNN. After initial clusters have been identified, representative samples from each cluster are chosen by the unsupervised curriculum learning algorithm for fine-tuning the feature extractor. The stated process is repeated iteratively until convergence. Three datasets have been used to evaluate the approach and show its effectiveness on varying scales: (i) SAT-6 dataset comprising high resolution aircraft images, (ii) Sentinel-2 of EuroSAT, comprising remote sensing images with low resolution, and (iii) PakSAT, a new dataset we created for this study. PakSAT is the first Pakistani Sentinel-2 dataset designed to classify water bodies of Pakistan. Extensive experiments on these datasets demonstrate the progressive learning behaviour of UCL and reported promising results of water classification on all three datasets. The obtained accuracies outperform the supervised methods in domain adaptation, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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  • Hansson, Kristofer
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Social Work (SA). Malmö University, Centre for Sexology and Sexuality Studies (CSS).
    Wiszmeg, Andréa
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Social Work (SA).
    Prevention i den moderna genteknikens tidevarv: Att lära av funktionshinderrörelsen2025In: Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, ISSN 0037-833X, E-ISSN 2000-4192, Vol. 102, no 1, p. 49-58Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article analyses the report “A Disability Rights Analysis of Genetic Technologies: Report on a National Convening of Disability Rights Leaders” (Generations Ahead 2009) to examine perspectives on prevention of gene-tic disabilities. The text is considered an alternative conversation compared to public conversations on preventive use of genetic technologies, such as those taking place in Sweden. Within disability research, the social conse-quences of prevention is an ongoing discussion, with arguments suggesting that a new form of eugenics has emerged. Today, eugenics is an individual project where new genetic technologies, such as prenatal screening, are of-fered to prospective families who must then decide whether to terminate the pregnancy or not. This article argues that it is central to find other ways to reason about the social phenomena that prevention creates.  

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  • Xu, Hongxuan
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV). Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
    Stjernswärd, Sigrid
    Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
    Glasdam, Stinne
    Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
    Gulestø, Ragnhild Julante Andersen
    Faculty of Health Science, VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway.
    Fu, Cong
    Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
    Ageing as older Chinese immigrants in Europe-a qualitative systematic literature review considering perspectives from older immigrants, relatives, and professionals2025In: Frontiers in Public Health, E-ISSN 2296-2565, Vol. 13, article id 1492356Article, review/survey (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    INTRODUCTION: As the Chinese immigrant population in European countries ages, it is important to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese immigrants' ageing processes from a life course perspective by recognising the complex interactions between social, cultural, and institutional constructs and dynamics. This article aimed at exploring how older Chinese immigrants in Europe handle everyday lives in respect to ageing from the perspectives of older Chinese immigrants, their relatives, and health/social care professionals.

    METHODS: The study is registered in PROSPERO (CRD42023455411), and the PRISMA 2020 checklist guided the study. A qualitative systematic review was conducted through searches in the databases CINAHL, Embase, PsycINFO, Medline/PubMed, SocINDEX, Web of Science, and pearl search in Scopus (last search 3 September, 2023). Inclusion criteria were: (1) Studies about Chinese immigrants' everyday lives, living, and ageing, or studies focusing on their use of health/social care services, (2) Perspectives of Chinese immigrants in Europe, their relatives, and related health/social care professionals, (3) Qualitative peer- reviewed studies published in English, and (4) publications from 2000-2023. The initial search retrieved 842 publications. Seventeen publications were included and analysed through a thematic analysis.

    RESULTS: The results presented the included studies' characteristics and four themes: Everyday life as an older adult mirrored the life lived, Work and working conditions as significant for ageing, Cultural complexes that shape social identities, Immigrants' social position as significant for encounters with health and social care professionals.

    DISCUSSION: Older Chinese immigrants' everyday lives related to ageing were not only dynamically influenced by social, interpersonal, and institutional factors accumulated in their life trajectories, but reflected the process of constructing social and cultural identity in their new homeland. Future policies should promote culturally responsive healthcare, social services, and employment support to address the unique ageing experiences of older Chinese immigrants.

    SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATIONS: The systematic review has been registered on PROSPERO and the registration number is CRD42023455411.

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  • Hommel, Ami
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV).
    Hummerdal, Nina
    Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Health Sciences, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden.
    Strålöga, Lovisa
    Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Health Sciences, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden.
    Ostaszkiewicz, Joan
    Social Gerontology, National Ageing Research Institute, PO Box 2127, Parkville, VIC, 3050, Australia; The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Health and Innovation Transformation Centre, Federation University, Ballarat, VIC, Australia.
    Hälleberg-Nyman, Maria
    Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Health Sciences And, University Health Care Research Center, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden.
    Healthcare professional's management of the risk for postoperative urinary retention in hip surgery patients – a qualitative interview study2025In: International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing, ISSN 1878-1241, E-ISSN 1878-1292, Vol. 57, article id 101180Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Background: Postoperative urine retention can lead to permanent bladder dysfunction. This occurs even though healthcare personnel can access evidence-based guidelines on avoiding urine bladder injuries related to care.

    Aim: This study aimed to describe healthcare professionals' experiences with, and strategies to avoid post-operative urinary retention among hip surgery patients.

    Method: A descriptive qualitative study using telephone interviews, were conducted in April to June 2021, with 22 healthcare professionals (13 nurses, 7 nursing assistants and 2 occupational therapists) in 17 orthopaedic wards in Sweden. Qualitative content analysis of interview data was performed.

    Results: Five categories were identified: "Knowledge about guidelines regarding bladder monitoring", "Understanding of patients' prehospital bladder function influences healthcare professionals' reasoning and actions", "Strategies are applied to make it easier for the patients to empty their bladder", "Indwelling catheter is used routinely" and "Short length of stay creates stress".

    Conclusion: To optimise safe patient bladder monitoring after hip surgery, health care professionals need to be more aware of the availability of guidelines about bladder monitoring to adopt consistent monitoring practices, and to have enough time to care for patients.

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  • Monsees, Leah
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Sports Sciences (IDV).
    A Multiverse of Talent: Contemporary Understandings of Talent in Swedish and German Elite Youth Football2025Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Drawing on four sub-studies, the thesis adopts a predominantly qualitative approach to examine how football talent is understood and communicated in both media representations and high-performance youth environments. Empirical material includes German and Swedish media coverage, as well as ethnographic data from elite youth academies in one German Bundesliga club and one Swedish Allsvenskan club. The first two studies engage with both national contexts, analyzing how talent discourses are shaped within and across Germany and Sweden. The latter two studies focus solely on the German case, offering a more in-depth investigation of the organizational and technological dimensions of talent development. Theoretically, the first two papers presented in this dissertation are informed by Laclau and Mouffe’s approach to discourse theory, offering an underutilized yet powerful lens for examining the contingent and political nature of meaning-making in sport. In addition, the third paper draws on Karl Weick’s sensemaking framework to explore how football organizations construct and negotiate definitions of talent in interaction with one another. The final article takes an inductive approach to investigate how emerging technologies are reshaping current understandings and practices of identifying and managing talent. The findings emphasize that talent is an empty signifier that is mobilized to serve different strategic aims, often in ways that obscure the contingencies behind its construction. As such, the dissertation underscores the need for a critical engagement with how talent is defined and operationalized in football. It highlights the socio-cultural, technological, and institutional forces that shape talent discourses and calls for greater reflexivity in both academic and applied discussions of talent in sport.

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    1. Same, same but different?: A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>Same, same but different?: A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers
    2024 (English)In: Sport in Society: Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce, ISSN 1743-0437, E-ISSN 1743-0445, Vol. 27, no 7, p. 1139-1161Article in journal (Refereed) Published
    Abstract [en]

    Although people may make sense of concepts like ‘talent’ and get influenced through discourses reinforced in the media, not much research has investigated the construction of ‘talent’ in the media or in relation to football, yet. By applying Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse-theoretical analysis and aspects of quantitative content analysis to forty-four news articles, this study compares how German and Swedish media construct and reinforce discourses of ‘talent’ in football. The findings suggest that cross-cultural media share common reference points in shaping discourses on ‘football talent’. However, these nodal points are allocated and formed in distinct ways within each country, thus constituting floating signifiers. The study unveils that ‘talent’ constitutes an empty concept within and across specific cultural settings. Nonetheless, the conceptual notions surrounding talent seems more uniform in Swedish media compared to Germany. Moreover, gender disparities in the context of ‘football talent’ discourses predominantly link talent with male football players.

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    Taylor & Francis, 2024
    Keywords
    Laclau Mouffe, discourse analysis, talent, media, football
    National Category
    Sport and Fitness Sciences
    Research subject
    Health and society
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-63996 (URN)10.1080/17430437.2023.2288150 (DOI)001110808400001 ()2-s2.0-85178172181 (Scopus ID)
    Available from: 2023-11-30 Created: 2023-11-30 Last updated: 2025-04-28Bibliographically approved
    2. Talent Constructions in German and Swedish Academy Football: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>Talent Constructions in German and Swedish Academy Football: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach
    (English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
    National Category
    Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75619 (URN)
    Available from: 2025-04-28 Created: 2025-04-28 Last updated: 2025-04-28Bibliographically approved
    3. ‘I don’t know if we should call it a system failure…’: Exploring Organisational Sensemaking of Talent in EliteYouth Football
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>‘I don’t know if we should call it a system failure…’: Exploring Organisational Sensemaking of Talent in EliteYouth Football
    (English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
    National Category
    Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75621 (URN)
    Available from: 2025-04-28 Created: 2025-04-28 Last updated: 2025-04-28Bibliographically approved
    4. "There is a lot more potential” - practitioner perspectives on technology and data-driven talent identification, selection, and development in a German Bundesliga academy
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>"There is a lot more potential” - practitioner perspectives on technology and data-driven talent identification, selection, and development in a German Bundesliga academy
    2025 (English)In: International journal of sports science & coaching, ISSN 1747-9541, E-ISSN 2048-397X, Vol. 20, no 2, p. 628-638Article in journal (Refereed) Published
    Abstract [en]

    This case study explored the perceptions and utilisation of data-driven methods of coaches, scouts, and a sporting manager overseeing the U8-U14 unit of a German Bundesliga academy. It comprised seven semi-structured interviews and employed thematic analysis to unravel the complexities of talent identification, selection and development (TISD). The findings provide highly contextual insights into practices and perceptions of key stakeholders within the context of academy football. Technology and data-driven methods were restricted to anthropometric measurements and automated video evaluations. Nonetheless, informants recognised the potential of data-driven methods, such as AI, to enhance TISD practices and decision-making. Financial constraints did not pose a barrier, however, challenges, such as limited expertise and insufficient time for data interpretation, hindered the wider adoption of data-driven strategies and technologies. It is suggested that training staff in data interpretation and investing in skilled personnel could improve the effective use of new technologies and enhance player development. Legal regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulations, were perceived as potential hurdles to adopt innovative methods. Moreover, demographic dynamics, particularly younger staff, are believed to positively influence technological adoption. The need for further research to explore how organisational dynamics and data protection laws impact the adoption and effectiveness of data-driven methods in football academies was suggested.

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    Sage Publications, 2025
    National Category
    Other Social Sciences
    Research subject
    Health and society studies
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-72999 (URN)10.1177/17479541241308519 (DOI)001395385700001 ()2-s2.0-105001551154 (Scopus ID)
    Available from: 2025-01-13 Created: 2025-01-13 Last updated: 2025-04-28Bibliographically approved
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  • Johansson, Jessica
    et al.
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV).
    Li, Victoria
    Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Care Science (VV).
    SJUKSKÖTERSKANS ERFARENHET AV ATT IDENTIFIERA SEPSIS I TIDIGT SKEDE INOM SLUTENVÅRDEN2025Independent thesis Basic level (university diploma), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    Background: Sepsis is defined as a life-threatening condition characterized by

    organ failure caused by a disruption in the systemic response to an infection. Each

    year, nearly 49 million people worldwide are affected by sepsis, with

    approximately 40,000 of them being from Sweden. Nearly one-fifth of those

    affected do not survive and die from complications. The nurse is responsible for

    the care of patients with sepsis, including the administration of fluid therapy and

    prescribed medications. Nurses play a central role in identifying early symptoms

    of sepsis and initiating treatment. Aim: The aim of this literature review was to

    compile nurses' experiences and perceptions of identifying patients with sepsis at

    an early stage in inpatient care. Method: The study was conducted as a literature

    review with a qualitative approach and was based on ten scientific articles. Data

    collection was performed through the databases Cinahl and PubMed. The analysis

    was carried out using qualitative content analysis. Results: Nurses' experiences of

    identifying sepsis at an early stage in inpatient care were compiled into four main

    themes: Conditions for early identification of sepsis, Structural conditions:

    Guidelines, workload, work environment, Evidence-based knowledge: Theory and

    instruments, Interprofessional collaboration and communication. Conclusion: The

    results show that the identification of sepsis is influenced by experience,

    education, and working conditions. Experienced nurses rely on their intuition,

    while less experienced ones focus on measurement data. Regular education

    improves the ability to detect sepsis, but high workload can delay treatment.

    Assessment tools can create anxiety, and good collaboration between nurses and

    doctors is crucial. Improved working conditions and effective collaboration are

    needed to achieve better care outcomes.

    Keywords: Experiences, Identification, Nurses, Sepsis

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  • Djokic, Ismar
    Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).
    Netflix, Reklam & Publiken: Att vara eller inte vara en vara – en kvalitativ intervjustudie om Netflixanvändares attityd till reklam2025Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 14 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [sv]

    Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka Netflix-användares inställning till reklam samt deras förväntningar på reklamsatsningen. Till denna studie användes den politisk-ekonomiska teorin för att fördjupa förståelsen av ämnet, inklusive begreppet publikvara och hur svenska Netflix-användare uppfattar den kommande reklamsatsningen. Studien genomfördes genom en intervjustudie där ett antal personer intervjuades om reklamsatsningen och reklam generellt. Resultaten, analyserades med politisk-ekonomisk teori, antyder att människor är medvetna om händelser omkring dem, såsom anpassningen av reklam. Dock är majoriteten av intervjupersonerna omedvetna om den bredare kontexten. Detta beror på att de flesta upplever reklam som nödvändig, även om den kan vara störande. Dessutom anser de flesta att reklamsatsningen är positiv eftersom priset är överkomligt. På grund av detta reflekterar de flesta intervjupersoner inte mycket över reklamsatsningen i ett större perspektiv, vilket innebär att de överlag inte är medvetna om vad som sker runt omkring dem.

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  • Fingalsson, Rebecka
    Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society (NMS).
    Orientations in swedish sexuality education2025Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis contemplates the complexity of sexuality education in schooling by focusing on how Swedishsexuality education has come to be organised, stabilised, and able to reproduce positions of privilege andmarginalisation while it, at the same time has been seeking to disrupt and emancipate. By utilizing SaraAhmed’s concept of orientation, this thesis discusses the contribution of four stand-alone articles to explorehow the body, gender, race, and sexuality are (re)produced in Swedish sexuality education, how sexualityeducation is conditioned, and how educators can navigate sexuality education to “do right”.

    Article I analyses biology education textbooks and interviews with teachers. It shows that a particularform of Swedish exceptionalism prevails within contemporary Swedish sexuality education in the shape ofhappy stories, which, on the one hand, emphasise important progression in legislation concerning sexualand reproductive rights and, on the other, reproduces exclusion by marginalising or othering anything butthe happiness of the open, inclusive, and progressive Swedishness. Article II presents a hermeneuticreading of a Linnaean lecture from the 1700s called Om sättet att tillhopa gå [About the way to becometogether]. By discussing this lecture through other scholarly work on Linnaeus and conceptualisation of thebody, gender, race and sexuality, the article discusses the body was envisioned to be a holistic vessel. Through Article I and Article II, the thesis discusses how conceptions of the body have radically changedand how this has affected both sexuality education and actions in society.

    Article III discusses the tradition and pedagogic culture of talking within Swedish sexuality education byanalysing interviews and observations of municipality actors working with in-service teachers’ professionaldevelopment. It suggests that talking in sexuality education is neither natural nor neutral, for it is a culturalperformance of pedagogic tradition and ideals in which teachers can embody ideals of professionalism. Toget more insight into the embodiment of ideals, Article IV focuses on teachers’ experiences of how gender,age and sexuality has conditioned their practices in sexuality education. The article highlights how,especially older women, “tanter”, become successful as they embody a heterosexual, yet desexualised, lifecourse. In contrast, men, both young and old, are conditioned to perform safe forms of masculinity.

    Together, Article III and Article IV show how teachers’ efforts to disrupt and emancipate normativenotions of gender and sexuality simultaneously can reproduce positions of privilege.

    To conclude, this thesis shows sexuality education to be not only complex but unfulfilling as it reproducespositions of privilege and marginalisation, even if it is seeking to disrupt and emancipate. However, byshowing this, the thesis delivers a compelling argument for why it is necessary to continue providing anddeveloping sexuality education in school, as it is an important instrument for understanding who we are,what we know and how we are going to be uniquely diverse in a shared reproductive future.

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    1. 'Happy Stories' of Swedish Exceptionalism Reproducing Whiteness in Teaching and Biology Textbooks in Sexuality Education
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>'Happy Stories' of Swedish Exceptionalism Reproducing Whiteness in Teaching and Biology Textbooks in Sexuality Education
    2025 (English)In: Science & Education, ISSN 0926-7220, E-ISSN 1573-1901, Vol. 34, no 1, p. 129-151Article in journal (Refereed) Published
    Abstract [en]

    Sexuality education (SE) takes place in fields of tension where biology, legislation, norms, and values intersect. Drawing on Ahmed's phenomenological account of whiteness, this article examines how Swedish whiteness is constructed and reproduced within SE. In Sweden, SE is formalised as an overarching, subject-integrated knowledge area where the biology subject plays a crucial role in its delivery. To include a wide spectrum of SE, where both planned and unplanned aspects of teaching are considered, as well as tensions in the content, we have analysed eight semi-structured teacher interviews and five biology textbooks. Our analysis shows how Swedish whiteness is reproduced as a form of institutionalised orientation constructed by norms, social values, people, subject knowledge, policies, and legislation, all intertwined in a complex web. This web places SE, teachers, and pupils in a racial landscape that constructs and reproduces specific forms of Swedish whiteness by assigning each a position in relation to familiarity. This familiarity provides a taken-for-granted starting point in SE, where 'here' is constructed as a place of progression, openness, and possibilities for happy future sexual lives, while other places come to stand out as hyper-visible examples of the less familiar, less happy, and 'far away'. From this outpost, teachers and biology textbooks construct and reproduce Swedish whiteness through 'happy stories' of Swedish exceptionalism. Although these positive messages in SE may stem from good intentions, our findings show that a colourblind view of racial hierarchies in the rendering of 'happy stories, about, for example, gay rights, free abortion, and equality also contributes to reproducing whiteness and reinforcing ideas about race and Swedish exceptionalism in SE.

    Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
    Springer, 2025
    Keywords
    Sexuality education, Race, Whiteness, Teacher interviews, Biology textbooks, Swedish exceptionalism, Phenomenology
    National Category
    Educational Sciences
    Identifiers
    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-62642 (URN)10.1007/s11191-023-00454-3 (DOI)001041269600001 ()2-s2.0-85166334234 (Scopus ID)
    Available from: 2023-09-18 Created: 2023-09-18 Last updated: 2025-04-25Bibliographically approved
    2. Beauty, Pleasure and Vital Fluids in the Linnaeanlecture About the way to become together: race, gender and sexualityeducation in the 1700s
    Open this publication in new window or tab >>Beauty, Pleasure and Vital Fluids in the Linnaeanlecture About the way to become together: race, gender and sexualityeducation in the 1700s
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    Educational Sciences
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    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75587 (URN)
    Available from: 2025-04-28 Created: 2025-04-28 Last updated: 2025-04-28Bibliographically approved
    3. Talking “the talk” in sexuality education
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    Educational Sciences
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    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-75588 (URN)
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    4. The teaching body in sexuality education – intersections of age, gender, and sexuality
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    2024 (English)In: Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, ISSN 1468-1811, E-ISSN 1472-0825, Vol. 24, no 5, p. 737-750Article in journal (Refereed) Published
    Abstract [en]

    This paper illuminates how teachers are influenced by age, gender and sexuality in teaching about sex and relationships. In this analysis grounded in feminist theory, age, gender and sexuality are considered to be enacted as doings. Six interviews with teachers working with sexuality education in K-12 schools in Sweden were chosen from of a larger body of material consisting of 21 interviews with professionals engaged in school-based sexuality education. The six interviewees were selected because they explicitly addressed how teachers’ age, gender and/or sexuality come to matter in the classroom. Findings show how male and female teachers organise their teaching in relation to normative expectations of age, gender and sexuality. In sexuality education, the diverse life-courses of (hetero)sexual women offer a wide range of pedagogic possibilities for female teachers to address issues of sexuality, consent and relationships whereas male teachers are constrained to doing safe(r) forms of masculinity by directing attention away from their bodies and experiences. In understanding these results, I argue that the figure of the tant has been key in forming the pedagogic backdrop to Swedish sexuality education, hence embedding a normative ‘who’ in the ‘how’ to teach sexuality education.

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    Routledge, 2024
    Keywords
    Gendered work, norm-critical pedagogy, organisational culture, tant, stereotypes
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    Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology) Gender Studies Pedagogy
    Research subject
    Science education; Organisational studies
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    urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-62806 (URN)10.1080/14681811.2023.2254710 (DOI)001070550300001 ()2-s2.0-85171998732 (Scopus ID)
    Available from: 2023-09-25 Created: 2023-09-25 Last updated: 2025-04-25Bibliographically approved
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  • Kozel, Susan
    Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).
    Re-presencing telematic dreaming: awakening a critical feminist phenomenology2024In: International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, ISSN 1479-4713, E-ISSN 2040-0934, Vol. 20, no 2, p. 218-235Article in journal (Refereed)
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    This article enacts a re-presencing of Telematic Dreaming, theinfluential telepresence art installation by Paul Sermon from the1990s. Revisiting an often-cited text I wrote in 1994 called‘Spacemaking’, which spoke from the experience of being aperformer in the installation, I fill in what was missing, downplayedor unwelcome in the discourses of the time: that nobody isanybody (i.e. in technological environments bodies are never neutralor universal); and that artistic works are deeply contextual andintersectional. Taking a strongly political and contextual approach toTelematic Dreaming, I first reflect on the dual states of wonder &entitlement characterising digital experimentation of the 1990s thenI consider the cultural structures and material infrastructures of theinstallation, assessing the scope for ontological expansiveness andgender crique they afforded. Beyond a particular instance of timetravel,this article proposes a new methodological framework forexamining past performances. By turning to critical phenomenology,with contributions from feminist archaeology, media archaeology,and an unexpected appearance of Sara Ahmed’s feminist killjoy, Ioffer an approach that paves the way for future researchersinterested in engaging reflexively and critically with historicalphenomenological

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