As the Swedish public sector searches for alternatives to New Public Management, trust-basedgovernance and leadership (TSL) has emerged as a normative ideal. At the same time, publicorganizations have become increasingly multicultural, raising questions about how trust, inclusion, andleadership are enacted in everyday work. The purpose of this study is to examine how trust-basedgovernance and leadership are perceived and practiced in multicultural public-sector workplaces, with aparticular focus on the relationship between managers and employees with migrant backgrounds.The study is based on nine qualitative interviews conducted within two municipal organizations insouthern Sweden. The theoretical framework combines the organizational trust model by Mayer, Davisand Schoorman (1995) with Wuffli’s (2016) model of inclusive leadership. Using thematic analysis, fourcentral themes were identified: the conditions of trust, cultural recognition and power, the balancebetween control and autonomy, and the leadership practices that enable trust and inclusion.The findings show that trust-based governance often coexists with traditional control mechanisms,creating tensions in everyday work. Employees with migrant backgrounds emphasized the importance ofclear mandates, access to support, and recognition of competence for trust to develop. Managers, in turn,highlighted presence, consistency (integrity), and transparent communication as crucial for translatingTSL into practice. Overall, the study demonstrates that TSL is realized through relational practices shapedby organizational structures, cultural experiences, and power dynamics. The results also show thatcultural diversity influences the conditions under which trust—grounded in perceived ability,benevolence, and integrity—can take root.The study contributes empirical insights into trust-based governance in multicultural settings andunderscores the need for leadership that combines professional autonomy with active, inclusive practices. 

Purpose: The Theory of Planned Behavior is applied to examine how Swedish Generation Z forms intentions to engage in sustainable online purchasing and how these intentions may or may not translate into perceived behavior. The study focuses on the role of the theory’s constructs: attitudes, subjective norms (family and cultural background), perceived behavioral control, besides the influence of social media influencers. Additionally, it investigates how participants relate to sustainability’s three dimensions when making purchasing decisions in online contexts. Through a theory-driven lens, the study explains the psychological, economic, cultural, and social mechanisms that influence sustainable consumption choices among Swedish Zappers.

Problem: The motivations behind Swedish Zapper’s sustainable purchasing behaviors via e-commerce platforms have been largely overlooked in consumer behavior research. Particularly, the influence of family and cultural background, besides the role of social media influencers, lacks clarity in existing literature. This study addresses these gaps, applying the aforementioned theory, which has received limited attention in this context while incorporating sustainability’s three dimensions into the analysis of Generation Z’s online purchasing behavior in Sweden—a gap often present in prior studies.

Design: A qualitative research approach is employed, utilizing individual and focus group semi-structured interviews conducted in Sweden. Participants aged between 18–29 years.

Findings: They indicate that participants in this study held favorable attitudes toward sustainable online consumption, but practical barriers linked to perceived behavioral control—such as affordability and trust—appeared to limit the translation of these attitudes into actual behaviours. Subjective norms associated with cultural background emerged as an influential factor for participants, whereas family influence was generally minimal. Social media influencers seemed to have limited impact, mainly serving as sources of information rather than shopping behavior. Economic factors—particularly price—were frequently emphasized as more decisive than social or environmental considerations in shaping purchasing behaviors.

This study is about how preschool teachers view the collaboration between home and preschool. The aim is to investigate and understand how preschool teachers experience and describe collaboration with parents, what factors influence it and how parental involvement can contribute to children's development and learning. The study is a qualitative study and is based on interviews with preschool teachers and is analyzed with reflexive thematic analysis, using positioning theory. The results of the study show that collaboration works well when parents are committed, involved, and interested in their children's learning. Furthermore, collaboration makes the relationship between home and preschool smoother and strengthens it with access to time, resources, and clear communication channels, both through personal meetings and digital tools.

At the same time, there are challenges, such as language barriers, lack of time and different perspectives on children's upbringing and learning, which can sometimes make some parents less involved. Therefore, preschool teachers need to be flexible, responsive and adapt their way of communicating to meet all families in a respectful way. In addition, the study shows that strategies such as open houses, parent meetings, digital contact, and everyday conversations can increase parental involvement. When preschool teachers combine their professional skills with a supportive and inclusive approach, participation, trust and the child's security and learning are strengthened.

This thesis explores women’s experiences of non-motherhood and reproductive decision-making in a Swedish setting. Existing research often frames childlessness as either voluntary or involuntary, overlooking ambivalence and undecidedness. This study focuses on seven women aged 35–40 and their reflections and deliberations regarding reproductive options as well as their experiences of non-motherhood. Drawing on qualitative, unstructured interviews, the findings show that reproductive decision-making is complex, ongoing, and non-linear. Participants reflected on personal desires as well as broader social, ethical, relational, and practical factors. Several were simultaneously debating both whether and how to become mothers, showing that the question about whether or not to become a mother is not a binary choice. The study also highlights the role of social norms and access to reproductive technologies, such as solo motherhood through medically assisted reproduction. Overall, the findings illustrate the diversity and fluidity of non-motherhood experiences, showing that reproductive decisions are socially embedded and shaped by multiple, intersecting factors.

I dagens samhälle där fokus ligger på effektivitet, mätbarhet och resultat, även inom förskolan, finns en risk att omsorgens betydelse åsidosätts. Samtidigt betonas i forskning att omsorg är en grundläggande förutsättning för barns välbefinnande, trygghet och lärande. Detta väcker frågor om vilken plats omsorgen får i förskolans praktik när verksamheten alltmer beskrivs i termer av undervisning, måluppfyllelse och kvalitetssäkring. Studien utgår därför från frågan om vilken plats omsorgen ges i förskolans praktik och styrning, samt hur förskollärare beskriver sitt arbete med omsorg i relation till pedagogiska mål.

Studien utgår från en kvalitativ ansats och bygger på två metoder: dokumentanalys av två kommunala kvalitetsrapporter och semistrukturerade intervjuer med fyra förskollärare. Det teoretiska perspektivet utgår från Nel Noddings omsorgsetik, där begreppen omsorgsgivare och omsorgstagare, mottaglighet och naturlig och etisk omsorg står i fokus. 

Resultatet visar att omsorg uppfattas som en grundläggande del av förskolans uppdrag och något som genomsyrar hela verksamheten. Samtidigt finns en spänning mellan omsorgens relationella karaktär och förskolans ökade fokus på planering, mål och resultat. Förskollärarna beskriver i intervjuerna hur omsorg syns i vardagliga rutinsituationer och hur tid, närvaro och relationsskapande blir avgörande för att möta varje barns behov. Studien visar behovet av att ge omsorg ett större erkännande som en central och etisk dimension av utbildningen i förskolan.

Social media have become an important part of human’s life. Mainly because of the wide range of the information available on social media make them popular among all. Specifically, Mother’s use of social media and their effects on mother’s feeding culture around their kids is a topic that has been not researched enough and there are study gaps that need to be researched. 

The aim of the current research work is to provide new empirical data on how social media affects mother’s culinary traditions around their school going children feeding. For this purpose, a qualitative research approach has been employed by using qualitative methods of in-depth interviews, observation, focus group discussion and auto-ethnography, the purpose of the research is to understand how social media can affects mother’s cooking behaviors. The research is employed in the city of Malmo and the participant mothers are the resident of Malmo city. Theories related to social media usage and cultural identity is used to discuss the result. 

The results suggest that social media are useful tools to gain knowledge of multiple cooking and healthy feeding on social media platforms. However, the results show dual (positive and negative) nature of social media’s effects on mothers. Facebook, Instagram and YouTube are preferred platforms for seeking food related content online. Better management of content display by health organizations can reduce the negative effects. The results further indicate that individuals are more likely to modify their behavior after viewing social media content that elicits a strong emotional reaction, whether positive or negative. Moreover, the cultural traditions of feeding also navigate mother’s feeding content selection.

To achieve a transition to a more amenable economy and a greenerfuture, gentler and smarter materials are needed. Materials that notonly fulfill their function during use, but that can also be reused orrecycled after use and depletion. Currently many materials are madefrom non-renewable sources of raw materials, this needs to change.Therefore this project explores the possibility of using eelgrass(Zostera Marina) in the production of a sustainable and completelybiologically decomposable material from the perspective of productdevelopment and product design.

In this project, material-driven design and prototyping as well asmultisensory design were used to develop, explore and use a strongbiomaterial based on eelgrass and animal based binding agents.This resulted in a rigid, strong, and firesafe biocomposite capable ofcompletely dissolving in water, giving it a wide range of applicationsand abundant possibilities in the product design space.

The resulting material can be cast, moulded, or pressed into differentforms and can be manipulated until it has dried. The material alsohas both structural and decorative applications.

The main aim of this study is to analyse the presence of thinking skills and historical awareness in the Swedish (Gymnasieskola) and Finnish (Lukio) university entrance examinations. In addition, the cognitive levels developed by the statements of the questions in these tests will also be analysed. In terms of methodology, a mixed analysis will be carried out, both with quantitative, statistical-descriptive, correlational and qualitative studies of the question statements. A total of 66 statements, divided into two tests, were analysed. The results show that all the statements are related to historical thinking skills in both countries, although there are differences between them, as well as in the cognitive level they develop.

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Denna uppsats handlar om att vi utifrån tidigare erfarenheter sett hur inkludering kan se olika ut i praktiken på grund av skillnader i pedagogernas bemötande och utformning av lärmiljöer. Syftet med undersökningen är att förstå hur barn som är i behov av särskilt stöd inkluderas i verksamheten. Detta sker genom att studera pedagogernas pedagogiska handlingar och utformningen av lärmiljön. Vår teoretiska grund är den sociokulturella teorin med tillhörande begrepp: proximala utvecklingszonen, scaffolding och mediering. Vårt metodval är en kvalitativ observation som utfördes på två förskolor utifrån ett strukturerat observationsschema. Resultatet visar att förskolorna arbetar på ett medvetet sätt genom sina pedagogiska handlingar och skapandet av lärmiljöer för att möjliggöra inkludering för barn i behov av särskilt stöd. Detta sker genom att vara en närvarande pedagog, kommunicera i arbetslaget och utforma en struktur samt rutiner inne på avdelningen. Slutsatserna visar att det är betydande att forma lärmiljön utifrån barnet istället för att barnet ska passa in i verksamheten. Dessutom att förutsättningarna i förskolan kan se olika ut utifrån pedagogernas kompetens och arbetsresurser, men att det alltid synliggörs ett behov av att samtala med sina kollegor för att arbeta mot inkludering för barn i behov av särskilt stöd. 

This qualitative study explores how Group Violence Intervention (GVI), a strategy aimed at reducing serious violence linked to criminal groups, is perceived and experienced by individuals identified as members of a such groups. Based on interviews with both recipients of the strategy and practitioners, the study examines experiences of identification, communication, enforcement, and offers of social support. Findings reveal varied perceptions of the strategy’s components, with legitimacy and trust emerging as central themes. The study discusses how procedural justice, clear and respectful communication, and individually tailored support influence how GVI is received and interpreted. Furthermore, it highlights challenges in communicating the rationale behind identification and enforcement actions, emphasizes the importance of timing, relevance, and continuity in support efforts, and underlines the need to balance incentives to abstain from violence with deterrent measures against violent behavior. Overall, the study contributes nuanced insights into how GVI functions in practice and offers reflections on how the strategy can be further developed and embedded in both Swedish and international contexts.

Den här studien handlar om att undersöka hur barns inflytande och delaktighet i förskolan blir verkligt eller om det bara blir formellt. Syftet är att se hur barns delaktighet och inflytande uttrycks i förskolans planerade undervisningar och barninitierade aktiviteter, samt hur uttrycket bemöts i de olika undervisningssituationerna av pedagoger. FN:s barnkonvention (2009) och läroplanen för förskola (Skolverket 2025) lyfter barns rätt att få sina röster hörda och deras möjlighet att kunna påverka sin vardag. Således vill vi se hur detta speglar sig i praktiken. Studien har genomförts via kvalitativa observationer där vi samlat in vår empiri när vi följt barn och pedagoger i olika undervisningssituationer, detta med avsikt att få en fördjupad förståelse för hur barns delaktighet och inflytande uttrycks och hur det bemöts inom förskolans planerade undervisningssituationer och barninitierade aktiviteter. Observationerna genomfördes under en period på två veckor där vi besökte fyra olika förskolor för att samla in vår empiri med dokumenterande fältanteckningar, vilket har möjliggjort en analys av både barns agerande samt pedagogers respons. Vår studies resultat har analyserats med hjälp av Foucaults maktanalys utifrån begreppen makt, disciplinering och motstånd. Det kommer att föras en diskussion kring vilken grad barns delaktighet och inflytande uttryckts i förskolan och hur det bemötts av pedagoger utifrån Shiers (2001) delaktighetmodell. Studiens resultat visar att barns uttryckta inflytande och delaktighet finns överallt och hela tiden i förskolans verksamhet, både i de planerade undervisningssituationerna och barnens egeninitierade aktiviteter. Studien lägger tonvikten på hur pedagogerna bemöter dessa uttryck hos barnen och vilken betydelse det har för barns inflytande och delaktighet.

Today's children experience a lot of popular culture in their daily life. The children bring these experiences to preschool where they process them playing with other children. Therefore this study aims to examine preschool teachers' approach to children's popular culture, and what opportunities and challenges they see in including popular culture in their teaching. Using a qualitative method by interviewing preschool teachers, their different approaches became clear. The results were then analysed with a sociocultural theory. The study showed that the preschool teachers all have different approaches to the children's popular culture. The approaches are affected by the teachers' cultural values and knowledge of the common popular culture. Popular culture is a meaningful mediating tool for children's language development and relationship building, thanks to the common cultural interest. At the same time children's experience of violence and stereotypes through popular culture can lead to challenges, which places demands on the teachers' conscious and reflective approaches.

This paper focuses on the rules and regulations relating to au pair work in Sweden, and how these rules correlate with au pairing practices. The precarious position of au pairs has been highlighted before, but in addition, au pairs coming to Sweden also find themselves in an unclear work situation due to contradictory rules and regulations. While au pairs from outside the EU must apply for a work permit that defines their work as cultural exchange, this regulation does not apply to EU au pairs. As a consequence, we currently see the emergence of an almost completely unregulated- and growing-market for au pairing in Sweden. Drawing on a qualitative study of the private child care market in Sweden, this paper analyzes rules and regulations for au pairing, as well as how au pair working conditions are understood, negotiated, and realized by employing parents, and au pairs themselves. This is analyzed in relation to theoretical elaborations of paid and unpaid work, as well as discussions of care as a practice where 'work' and 'emotion' is inherently intertwined.

Sverige är ett få länder i världen som reglerar forskningsetik i lag. Men vad händer när en enhetlig lagstiftning inte har hänsyn till olika forskningsdiscipliners särart, och forskningsetiken formaliseras i ämnesövergripande förordningar? Den formella process som etikprövning av forskning har utvecklats till kan innebära en utmaning för möjligheten att bedriva sociologisk forskning, både vad gäller anpassning till en byråkratisk diskurs och i kontakten med respondenter.   Det här samtalet baseras på ett seminariesamtal som organiserades av sociologiämnet på Södertörns högskola den 17 november 2021, där Jonas Edlund, professor i sociologi vid Umeå universitet, Sara Eldén docent och lektor i sociologi vid Lunds universitet och David Wästerfors, professor i sociologi vid Lunds universitet deltog. En av tidskriftens redaktörer, Lena Sohl, var moderator. 

The International Classification of Orofacial Pain(ICOP) er et omfattende klassifikationssystem, derbeskriver definitioner og strukturerede diagno-stiske kriterier for smertevoldende tilstande i detorofaciale område. Meningen er at give klinikerenet nyttigt værktøj til identifikation af årsagerne tilorofacial smerte. Smerte fra det dentoalveolæreområde forekommer ofte i almen praksis, og kli-nikeren kan som regel ved passende behandlinglette patientens smerter. Undertiden kan det dogvære vanskeligt at finde årsagen til en patientssmerte, og man må overveje muligheden af alter-native smertevoldende tilstande. I sådanne mereudfordrende tilfælde kan ICOP hjælpe tandlægenmed at identificere mulige årsager til smerterne.Hvis man ikke kan finde en klar diagnose, bør manafstå fra invasive behandlinger og i stedet strakshenvise patienten til nærmere udredning hos enrelevant specialist. Denne artikel giver en oversigtover det afsnit i ICOP, der omhandler smerte i for-bindelse med sygdomstilstande i dentoalveolæreog tilgrænsende strukturer.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur omsorg uttrycks i samband med övergångar i förskolans vardagliga verksamhet. Fokus låg på hur pedagoger agerar och organiserar omsorgspraktiker i situationer som präglas av tidspress, förändrade krav och rutiner, samt hur dessa handlingar samspelar med barns behov av trygghet, lyhördhet och relationsskapande. Studien utgick från ett relationellt perspektiv och omsorgsetik, där mötet mellan barn och pedagog kan förstås som grund för lärande och utveckling. Datainsamling gjordes genom observationer och semistrukturerade intervjuer med pedagoger i förskolan. Resultaten visar att övergångar inte enbart är praktiska moment, utan även viktiga pedagogiska möten där omsorg, relationer och lärande samverkar. Pedagogerna använder planering, struktur och bildstöd för att skapa förutsägbarhet, men anpassar också sitt agerande efter barnens behov i stunden. Samtidigt framkommer utmaningar som tidspress, stora barngrupper och låg personaltäthet, vilket skapar ett glapp mellan ideal och verklighet. Studien tydliggör behovet av organisatoriska förutsättningar som möjliggör närvaro, lyhördhet och relationell kvalitet i förskolans vardagliga övergångar.

Vår studie undersöker hur barns aktörskap tar form i förskolans vardag och hur pedagogers bemötande samt institutionella regler påverkar barns delaktighet och inflytande. Utgångspunkten är ett barndomssociologiskt perspektiv där barn förstås som kompetenta och handlande subjekt (Corsaro, 2020). Studien har kvalitativ inriktning och bygger på ickedeltagande observationer vid två förskolor med barn i åldrarna 1–4 år samt pedagoger. Materialet analyserades tematiskt med inspiration från Alvehus (2019, s. 115) vilket ledde till tre huvudteman: bemötande på barnets nivå, bemötande ur ett vuxenperspektiv och regler som styr bemötandet. Resultaten visar att barnens aktörskap stärks när pedagoger lyssnar in, bekräftar och ger utrymme för barns initiativ. När barnet ses som being, kompetent här och nu ökar också barns delaktighet och inflytande. Samtidigt begränsas handlingsutrymmet ofta av rutiner och krav på ordning. Med hjälp av begreppen disciplinär makt (Foucault, 1995) och sekundär anpassning (Corsaro, 2020) synliggörs hur regler, tidsstrukturer och den vardagliga praktiken formar barns agerande. Slutsatsen är att barns aktörskap inte enbart ges av vuxna utan skapas i relationen mellan barn och pedagog. Studien betonar vikten av att pedagoger reflekterar över sitt bemötande, den osynliga makt som utövas i vardagen och hur rutiner ibland behöver omförhandlas för att ge barn verkligt inflytande i förskolans praktik.

The last decade, Nordic families have started to employ nannies and au pairs to an extent previously never experienced. Political initiatives such as tax deductions for household services, together with global trends of ‘care chains’, have created a private market for care services, which have made it possible for families to hire cheap female, and often migrant, care labour. In the case of Sweden, this is an indication of a re-familializing trend in politics of care and family; a move away from a social democratic welfare regime, towards the privatized and marketized care/family solutions of other Western countries. This qualitative study of Swedish families who hire nannies/au pairs shows how the dual earner/dual carer ideal is being replaced by a dual earner/privately outsourced care ideal, a shift that requires particular forms of accounting for their practices on the part of the parents, related to the discourse of gender equality as well as narratives of what is ‘best for children’. This, we argue, indicates that gender equality and ‘good care’ for children is increasingly becoming a class privilege.

Syftet med studien är att bidra med kunskap om det tysta barnet genom kvalitativa intervjuer med sex förskollärare. Med bakgrund i de förväntningar förskolan ställer på barnens sociala förmågor ville vi, undersöka och närma oss en förståelse för hur förskollärarna talar om det tysta barnet och om sitt förhållningssätt till detta barn. Med inspiration av det poststrukturella och relationella perspektivet som ramverk analyserade vi den insamlade empirin. Förskollärarna beskrev det tysta barnet som ett barn som är verbalt kunnigt, blygt och försiktigt. Genom intervjuerna framkom även att förskollärarnas förhållningssätt till det tysta barnet präglades av att skapa trygga förutsättningar, bygga förtroende och tillit, samt låta relationsskapandet ta tid. I resultatet framkom det att förskollärarna beskrev barnets tystnad som situationsbunden och att förskollärarnas tal ofta syftade till att stödja det tysta barnet till att anpassa sig till normen om det kommunikativa barnet.

Objective: This paper analyses intergenerational relationships in Sweden during the corona pandemic, with a special focus on practices of care. The research question is: How is care between generations - between grandparents, adult children and grandchildren - done during pandemic conditions? Background: In Sweden, where an extensive welfare state provides affordable child- and eldercare, the corona strategy of generational separation has still affected family practices of care between generations. In this article we analyse narratives of intergenerational care, taking our point of departure in theories of personal life (Smart 2007), relationality (Mason 2004), and care as sentient activity (Mason 1996). Method: The paper draws on a qualitative interview study with grandparents (n=30), adult children (n=12) and grandchildren (n=12), with data collection taking place shortly before and during the coronavirus pandemic. Results: The study detects the reciprocal and complex ways in which care between generations takes place. When people relate their experiences, strategies for new ways of doing care are at the centre, involving creative ways of negotiating distance and risk, all marked by both worry and relief. Conclusion: The pandemic condition becomes a 'filter' affecting and leading to a reformulation of practices of care, from taken-for-granted co-presence narratives, into narratives of relational participation resulting in an overall heightened awareness of the importance and difficulties of intergenerational care practices. The study concludes that a strong welfare state does not translate into complete autonomy or independence; rather, people continue to live 'linked lives'.

This article discuss the consequences of the ambiguous view of children in the ethical guidelines – the ambitions to “give voice” while also “protect” – with a point of departure taken in the Swedish context, and in an actual research process of a project on children and care. It shows how the regulation of informed consent through the parent compromises the ideals of child-centred research; firstly, by limiting the child’s possibility to opt in to research; secondly, by affecting the relationship between researcher, child and parent in the research encounter; and thirdly, by jeopardizing the child’s right to confidentiality. The author argues that we should view not only the child’s but also the adult’s consent as a “continuous negotiation” and discusses strategies for strengthening the child’s right to opt in and participate in research on equal terms.

Research on children and care often take its point of departure in assumptions about the nuclear family as the hub of care.  In contrast, this study, by taking its point of departure in the actual practices and relations of care that children experience and engage in – accessed through children’s own narratives of everyday care – suggests new ways of understanding children and care. There is an ‘ordinary complexity of care’ it is argued, apparent in the presence of ‘others’ than parents – e.g., grandparents, siblings, friends, neighbours – doing care in children’s lives. The study also shows how the doing of care still is a gendered activity that seems to extend to female carers outside the nuclear family. Also, children’s own doing of care emerges, a doing that poses critical questions regarding children as ‘competent actors’.

Vaccines are a critical public health intervention responsible for saving millions of lives each year. However, vaccine hesitancy driven by anti-vaccine movements, has affected vaccine uptake globally. The vaccine that protects against human papillomavirus (HPV) has been particularly affected by hesitancy and uptake remains low across the world. Much of the hesitancy about this vaccine can be attributed to stigma, misinformation and a lack of knowledge about what it is for.

The Girl Effect and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance forged a partnership in 2016 to address the barriers preventing girls from accessing the HPV vaccine in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania. As part of their partnership, they implemented social and behaviour change communications interventions in these countries. One of their most successful and compelling interventions was the integration of HPV messaging and storylines in Yegna – Girl Effect’s edutainment TV show in Ethiopia. 

This research sought to understand how Girl Effect and Gavi used edutainment and participatory communications to encourage HPV vaccine uptake in Ethiopia. To answer this question, this research applied a case study approach and used a combination of interviews and content analysis to understand how Yegna Season Two integrated HPV messaging. 

The research found that Girl Effect and Gavi placed a significant emphasis on meaningful and authentic participation in the development of this edutainment intervention. They employed robust safeguarding principles and thoughtfully engaged their Youth Advisory Panel throughout the production process. To further amplify their impact, Girl Effect and Gavi partnered with UNICEF, the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education to inform their edutainment programming, increase the reach of the show in remote, rural areas and align with government-led vaccination campaigns. This contributed to an increased intent to receive the vaccine amongst their target audience and girls who viewed this season were 1.6 times more likely to intend to receive the HPV vaccine compared to those who had not (Effect 2022: 12).

This research suggests that it is critical that edutainment interventions like this are set up for success by investing both time and money in understanding their audience – what their lives are like, what motivates them, the structural barriers they face in receiving health services and how they consume their entertainment, including the growing popularity of user-generated content platforms. Going beyond a transactional audience insight relationship, this case study suggests that organizations embarking on edutainment interventions should employ meaningful, robust participatory methods that bring their audiences into the production process, invest in strategic government partnerships to overcome structural barriers to behaviour change, and ensure that edutainment interventions feel both authentic and respectful. 

The artide "Missing female subjects. An analysis of medical texts about menopause" focuses on medical discourses about women and middle age. More concretely, it presents an analysis of artides in Läkartidningen from 1990 through 2001. Läkartidningen is the official journal of the Swedish Medical Association and has a distribution of nearly 30 000 copies. The analysis is based upon three qualitative methods. We begin with a combination of content analysis and narrative analysis - focusing on what is being said and how it is being said - and continue with discourse analysis - focusing on what is being constructed. What we discovered is that the commonly used term 'middle age' is here re-defined as menopause, and menopause is represented through a particular narrative where loss of fertility is followed by descriptions of problems and symptoms and where the medical profession offers solutions - foremost amongst these is the use of hormone treatment. At a discursive level, women are represented not as women but as "woman" - a body. This body is seen as a fixed, biological category which can be studied independently of how any woman would define herself and independently of how women may experience and reflect on their lives and their bodies. Women as active subjects embedded in complex social relations are made invisible in these texts, as are differences between women. This article is part of a larger research project "Middle-aged bodies and gendered identities", financed by the Swedish Science Council. Theoretically, the project aims at contributing to a further understanding about the interlinkage of biological, social and cultural aspects in (discourses on) middle age, identity and the body. Empirically, it makes use of different sources: medical and literary texts, populär scientific texts, as well as interviews with middle aged women and men and with medical doctors.

Climate denial and refusal remain central to the ontologies of far-right political projects in many of the countries most responsible for rising temperatures. This article demonstrates how misogyny facilitates the proliferation of obstructionist rhetoric. Specifically, the People's Party of Canada's (PPC) climate discourse is analyzed through a feminist lens anchored in Gramscian theorisations of hegemony and masculinity. I find that the PPC articulates a heavily masculinized and topically diverse form of obstruction, simultaneously enacting attributes and ideals of industrial/breadwinner, frontier, petro and (to a lesser extent) ecomodern masculinities. The broadness of the party's appeals and their affirmation of particularly fragile masculine archetypes are assessed to be deliberate discursive moves constituent of a broader strategy to secure power within the Canadian political landscape via dominant fossil fuel and patriarchal regimes. Ultimately, several strategies for subverting such a tenacious discourse are discussed, including a steadfast commitment to feminist ecological alternatives and an unwavering endorsement of multiculturalist ethics.

The striped p x root 3 reconstruction of Au(111) is a textbook example of how electrode surfaces reorganise in response to an applied potential. Using in situ high-energy surface X-ray diffraction, we track the surface reconstruction in 0.1 M HClO4 electrolyte while the potential is cycled at both 5 mV s-1 and 2 mV s-1 between 0.06 V and 0.86 V versus RHE. Reciprocal-space maps, collected every similar to 10 s, show that the unit cell of the well-known herringbone reconstruction increases in length progressively as the potential is swept positively; the diffraction spots coalesce with the spot from the (111) surface and the reconstruction lifts completely above approximate to 0.7 V. The lifting and reformation dynamics of the surface reconstruction are seen to be relatively slow and continuous, when the potential is swept at 5 mV s-1 we observe the reconstruction lifting at more positive potentials than when swept at 2 mV s-1. Conversely the reforming of the reconstruction is also slow and is present at more positive potentials when the sweep rate is slower.

This thesis investigates how hybrid communication – defined as the deliberate integration of digital media (social networks, messaging apps, websites) with traditional channels (community radio, assemblies, printed materials) – is applied and perceived by five Bolivian civil society organizations (CSOs) engaged in socio-environmental activism. The central methodological contribution is the development and application of five original indicators that translate theory into an operational analytic: diversity of communication tools, integration of hybrid communication, participation, mobilization, and perceived effectiveness. These indicators, structure both data collection and analysis and constitute a reusable instrument for future research.

Empirically, the study employs a mixed-methods design comprising an online content analysis, an anonymous online survey of practitioners, and semi-structured online video interviews. Interpreting the evidence through Emiliano Treré’s triad of media ecologies, imaginaries, and algorithms, José Candón-Mena and David Montero-Sánchez’s technopolitics of coexistence, and Jun Liu’s theory of relational affordances, the analysis relates observable practices to the political-communicative conditions of Bolivia.

Findings show consistently high, if uneven, repertoire diversity. Environmental non-governmental organization sustain broader toolsets; grassroots collectives and Indigenous federations deploy more selective mixes anchored in assemblies, radio, and messaging apps. Integration is intentional and sequenced: offline deliberation authorizes and legitimizes action; digital channels circulate, memory-keep, and coordinate. Participation is strengthened not only by the speed and reach of digital tools but by their anchoring in culturally resonant offline spaces that afford trust and inclusion across multilingual publics. Mobilization is more contingent. While hybrid strategies accelerate coordination and preserve narrative traces, the conversion of online visibility into physical presence depends on trust networks, political opportunity, and risk calculations; sensitive calls frequently move through encrypted or face-to-face channels – an instance of strategic non-integration and selective opacity.

Perceived effectiveness is defined relationally rather than metrically. Practitioners value inclusion, legitimacy, identity continuity, adaptability, and influence on decision-making alongside visibility. Cross-cutting constraints include connectivity disparities, limited staff capacity, platform dependency and algorithmic volatility, and the broader dynamics of data colonialism. The results confirm core elements of Treré’s framework while extending it in three ways: they foreground multilingual, place-based publics as ecological drivers; they identify strategic non-integration as a protective tactic under risk; and they highlight culturally resonant scarcity—fewer, more authoritative posts—as a participation strategy in trusted networks.

For Communication for Development and Social Change, the thesis demonstrates that hybrid communication is a relational, political practice rather than a technological fix. Practical implications include diversifying channels to reduce dependency, sequencing offline trust-building with online amplification, designing redundancy across tools, and evaluating success beyond platform metrics. The indicator set offers a portable methodology for comparative and longitudinal research, including studies of transitions toward open-source or community-controlled infrastructures in similar socio-environmental contexts.

This article engages with sustainability storytelling from the perspective of freedom. Freedom is discussed in relation to a politics of storytelling that can counter power. Freedom, it is argued, is enacted in genuine storytelling and is experienced between people. The conditions of the possibility of ethics in organisations are thus conditioned on the political framing of the spaces between people in terms of how they condition how people may appear in storytelling and how people together transform these spaces for future appearances. Arendt's ethics of freedom is contrasted with the concept of freedom embedded in neoliberal capitalism and related to sustainability. Genuine storytelling is to bring something new into existence from the condition of plurality and responsibility for the world. Storytelling presumes a space for plural political participation. Freedom therefore also forwards attention towards the material possibilities that allow people to participate and appear as unique subjects. The article ends by positioning Arendt's storytelling in relation to a storytelling model for transitioning to sustainability, which positions Latour's notion of Gaia as the centre of four storytelling cycles.

The project analyzes how ideas of development are constructed in Mexico’s National Development Plan 2025–2030 (PND) under President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government, framed as the “Second Floor” of the Fourth Transformation (4T). Using frame and critical discourse analysis, it identifies the main frames, and myths shaping the Mexican government’s post-neoliberal development narrative. A textual and visual research diary supports the analysis by documenting the researcher’s positionality and the iterative nature of the research process.

Existing studies of the Fourth Transformation largely centre on the López Obrador period; this project fills a gap by analysing Sheinbaum’s discourse during her first year to trace continuities and changes in the 4T’s development narrative. Drawing on dependency theory, the study explores whether neo-developmentalism offers an alternative to neoliberalism or reproduces its premises. It argues that the PND’s vision operates through the myths of progress, interclass alliance, sovereignty, and green extractivism, articulated through a populist rhetoric.

The analysis shows that neo-developmentalism reformulates rather than replaces neoliberalism, building legitimacy by aligning popular demands for welfare and sustainability with the interests of capital. This understanding of development rests on beliefs in unlimited growth, technological determinism, and consumerism. It promotes a new social pact based on the partnership between the state and capital, with the state performing a mediating role through welfare policies. It promises to achieve economic sovereignty through a mix of export-oriented growth and import-substitution industrialization as a path to global integration, while promoting the idea of sustainable development as a response to climate change.

Ultimately, the project concludes that the 4T’s post-neoliberal agenda constitutes neither a genuine alternative to neoliberalism nor its straightforward continuation, but instead a rearticulated form of capitalist development. These findings lay the groundwork for future studies on Sheinbaum’s government and its evolving development discourse, as well as adding to literature on post-neoliberalism in Latin America.

This thesis examines the role of photography, power, and participation in ‘Ten Minute Town’—a performance-arts research project in Makhanda, South Africa. Through ethnographic fieldwork and photographic practice, it explores how photography operates as a technology of power, control, and (de)coloniality in a post-colonial and post-apartheid context. Guided by four research questions, the study investigates: the extent to which photography can function as a decolonial practice, how meaning shifts when cameras change hands, how images are shaped by the gaze of those who view them, and how the positionality of the photographer influences participation as well as representation.

Drawing from a youth workshop as a case study, in combination with ongoing collaborations with performers, the research demonstrates how the act of photographing can redistribute—but not fully equalize—power, particularly when access to images and technology remains uneven between the Global North and South. Participants displayed a sophisticated awareness of photographic practices, challenging outdated assumptions of passive subjects and revealing the camera’s potential as a collaborative tool and performer in its own right. At the same time, tensions arose around representation, with some images reproducing familiar narratives of poverty and harmful colonial stereotypes of Africa, while others, created more collaboratively, contributed to the collective meaning-making within the performances and larger research project at hand.

The thesis argues that photography in participatory arts-based research is never neutral: it is deeply entangled within the histories of research and colonialism, the positionality of the photographer, and the situated gaze of those who look at images. It tentatively concludes that while photography can open spaces for dialogue, co-creation, and social change, it also carries risks of re-colonisation if issues of access, authorship, and representation are not critically addressed. These findings contribute to debates in Communication for Development as well as Artistic Research, highlighting the importance of reflexivity, horizontal-collaboration, and critical engagement when using photography as both a research method and a medium for storytelling.

This master thesis aims to explore how mechanisms of collective care andneighbourliness help to sustain viability of a community based cultural centre. The work is rooted in the theoretical background of commons and social infrastructure, precarity, care and care ethics. The research includes a case study based on Wolny Jazdów cultural centre in Warsaw, Poland. Challenges, their navigation, interconnections between care, collectivity, commitment, responsibility and long-term survivability and community sustaining were discovered and analysed.

The aim of this thesis is to discuss the ways in which mass-market historical romantic fiction (more specifically romantic fiction which takes place during the English Regency period) may contribute to the broader cultural markers for a given period of history. This conversation is situated within a broader context of historical fiction’s role in the assembly of popular historicity through mass-market appeal, popular culture. 

The thesis establishes modern Regency romance novels as descendants of the works of contemporary Regency author Jane Austen and are therefore understood as being relevant to Edward Said’s 1993 discussion of Austen’s work and cultural representations of empire in Culture and Imperialism. It also utilizes Bakhtin’s concept of the literary chronotope to describe the manifestation of a purely fictional sense of space and time which takes on the appearance of historical setting, thus influencing popular conception of a simplified, distilled and sanitized version of history.

The thesis traces the development of the modern historical romance novel (and historical romance erotica) throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. It follows the trends and changes of historical representations and political ideology through the genre’s most significant influences from the early works of Georgette Heyer through the 1970s Bodice Ripper phenomenon and into the modern state of “BookTok” romance novels.

This chapter offers an analysis of the key features characterizing the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America, situating it within China’s broader infrastructure strategy in the region. To do so, the discussion explores the evolution of China’s engagement in Latin America over the past two decades, which has been delineated by a dramatic escalation of commercial and financial activities, transforming trade dynamics, investment flows and impacting geopolitical alliances. Conceptually, building on recent scholarship on the topic, the chapter re-activates core insights from dependency theory, arguing that Latin America remains embedded in a substantial ‘postcolonial’ condition of dependency on a global scale. By bridging historical and contemporary perspectives, the chapter sheds light on how structures of dependencies have endured despite shifting geo-economic and geopolitical configurations.

       Sammanfattning/AbstractKramer, Charlotte (2025). Extra anpassningar kopplat till relationskompetens. Specialpedagogprogrammet, Institutionen för skolutveckling och ledarskap, Lärande och samhälle, Malmö universitet, 90 hp. Förväntat kunskapsbidragDet finns oklarheter i hur en specialpedagog förväntas verka. Man kan också undra om paradigmskiftet från kategoriskt till relationellt perspektiv någonsin genomförts. Specialpedagogen tillsammans med elevhälsoteamet har en viktig uppgift att fylla för alla elever som aldrig når målen i grundskolan och får gymnasiebehörighet. Studien vill belysa samarbeten och kompetenser som är viktiga för specialpedagogen. Den pekar på vikten av att utreda just interaktionerna i mellanrummet mellan pedagog och elev. Med relationskompetens kan de extra anpassningarna bli mer vässade för en mer generell måluppfyllelse. Syfte och frågeställningarSyftet med studien är att fånga lärares uppfattningar om extra anpassningar och vilket specialpedagogiskt stöd som lärarna behöver i planering, genomförande och bedömning av dessa.  ●      Vilka uppfattningar har lärare om extra anpassningar och vad upplever lärarna som hinder och möjligheter i arbetet med dessa i sin undervisning? 

●      Vilka uppfattningar finns om det viktigaste stödet till läraren från specialpedagogen och hur ska det enligt lärarna helst vara utformat? TeoriDen teoretiska förankringen i studien är relationskompetens såsom den formulerats, beskrivits och förankrats i teori och praktik av professor Jonas Aspelin. Denne döper inte sin teori till någonting, men för studien är just begreppet relationskompetens intressant. Hans teori är utvecklad ur Thomas J Scheffs socialpsykologi och Martin Bubers relationistiska filosofi och kan sägas tillhöra de relationella teorierna.   MetodStudiens metodval utgår från en kvalitativ ansats där data samlats in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Det gör det möjligt att söka efter olika egenskaper och typiska drag. En kvalitativ ansats gör det möjligt att fånga informanternas tankar, förhållningssätt och föreställningar. Den kvalitativa forskningen betonar informanternas perspektiv.  ResultatStudiens informanter har svarat på frågor angående vilket stöd de behöver för att genomföra extra anpassningar samt vad de ser som hinder och möjligheter i detta arbete. De är entydiga i sin önskan om en synlig, närvarande specialpedagog i klassrummet. De vill att just specialpedagogen utifrån sin kompetens lär känna eleverna, hjälper till med kartläggningar, utifrån denna föreslår och tar fram extra anpassningar samt säkerställer att läraren utifrån kompetens och utrymme i undervisningen också kan genomföra dessa. De vill ha feedback på hur de undervisar via observationer och handledning samt förslag till förbättringar och organisation. Specialpedagogiska implikationerSkollagen föreskriver att extra anpassningar genomförs inom ordinarie undervisning. Studiens resultat beror i viss mån troligen på att elevhälsoteamen tolkar skollag och anvisningar som att läraren ensam ansvarar för dem. Lärarna i studien känner sig därmed utelämnade utan kompetens för uppgiften. Det får följden att de antingen inte genomför extra anpassningar alls eller tror sig göra det. Här ligger troligen svaret på varför nästan 30 % av våra elever inte får gymnasiekompetens. Specialpedagoger har kunskap att åstadkomma bättre anpassningar i fråga om tydlighet än lärare. Specialpedagogens uppgift är att utreda hela lärmiljön på tre olika nivåer; organisations-, grupp- och individnivån. Stödet ska skräddarsys och miljön justeras, vilket borde göras tillsammans med läraren för bästa resultat. Informanterna är tydligt nöjda med möten som resulterar i beslut och handlingsplaner. Dessa bidrar till att pedagogerna kan genomföra extra anpassningar, särskilt om de bygger på kontinuerlig analys av elevernas resultat, vilket i sin tur motverkar bristen på samarbete och transparens.  

Educators today face unprecedented changes in bodily norms and values. Teachers and coaches are increasingly cautious about navigating intimacy, particularly physical contact. These shifts are felt through the immediacy of teaching and learning, raising questions about personal risk. The long-standing view that physical touch can be essential for instruction now contends with contemporary discourse favoring minimal contact. This book synthesizes vital research on physical contact between adults and children in educational settings, highlighting tensions and exploring both teachers’ and students’ perspectives. Whether to touch or not to touch has become a pedagogical dilemma—not necessarily because the teaching content or learning outcomes are flawed, but because some instructional methods prompt concerns about caring for students and ourselves. As a result, educators must critically rethink their practices. The chapters presented here address significant societal, pedagogical, and moral implications, leading to a firm conclusion: to act responsibly, today’s teachers and coaches must engage in value-building work, embodiment work, and relational work.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur förskollärare beskriver arbetet med att skapa inkluderande miljöer i förskolan för barn i behov av särskilt stöd. Studien utgick från ett sociokulturellt perspektiv samt Nilholms tre specialpedagogiska perspektiv: det kompensatoriska, det kritiska och dilemmaperspektivet. Studien genomfördes som en kvalitativ undersökning baserad på intervjuer med förskollärare. Resultatet analyserades tematiskt och relaterade till studiens teoretiska ramverk. Resultatet visar att inkludering förstås som ett förhållningssätt som genomsyrar hela verksamheten. Förskollärarna beskrev att de använder sig av olika strategier för att möta barns individuella behov som bildstöd, TAKK och mindre barngrupper. Arbetet beskrevs som komplext, där förskollärarna ständigt måste balansera mellan individens behov och gruppens gemenskap. Studien visar att organisatoriska faktorer som brist på resurser och otillräckligt samarbete med externa aktörer även försvårar inkluderande arbete. Inkludering av framstår därmed som en pågående process som kräver flexibilitet, reflektion och samverkan. 

Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur pedagoger i förskolan arbetar med delar av läroplansmålet “förmåga att skapa samt förmåga att uttrycka och kommunicera upplevelser, tankar och erfarenheter i olika uttrycksformer som bild, form, drama, rörelse, sång, musik och dans” (Skolverket 2025a, s. 14). Det vi vill fokusera på är att undersöka hur pedagoger i förskolan uppfattar och använder drama i förskolans vardag. Studien utgår från ett sociokulturellt perspektiv med fokus på begreppen “stöttning”, “utvecklingszon”, “imitation” och “appropriering”, samt teorin om multipla intelligenser med fokus på begreppen “kroppslig-kinestetisk intelligens”, “interpersonell intelligens” och “intrapersonell intelligens”. Tidigare forskning om pedagogers erfarenheter, utbildning och arbetssätt kopplat till drama har använts för att bidra till en ökad förståelse av forskningsfältet samt för att möjliggöra en diskussion kring våra resultat. Materialet till studien har samlats in med enskilda intervjuer gjorda med sex pedagoger på två olika förskolor. Resultatet av studien visade att drama används i förskolans vardag både som planerad undervisning och spontan aktivitet. Det planerade dramat visade sig ha ett tydligt pedagogiskt syfte där drama främst används som metod, exempelvis för att konkretisera och synliggöra värdegrundsarbetet. Det spontana dramat associeras i vårt resultat med lek och verkar ge barnen en större möjlighet att uttrycka sig genom drama än vad det planerade dramat ger. En central iakttagelse är att barnen i det planerade dramat ofta får rollen som åskådare eller återberättare snarare än aktiva gestaltande deltagare. Genom att synliggöra pedagogers erfarenheter och arbetssätt ger studien en bredare förståelse för dramats funktion i förskolans vardag och hur läroplansmålet främst relateras i det spontana dramat där barnen ges möjlighet att uttrycka sig aktivt.

För närvarande studier tog avstamp i syfte att undersöka vilka erfarenheter pedagoger och rektorer i svensk förskolekontext har av att rapportera orosanmälan till socialtjänsten, samt att belysa hur de resonerar kring detta ansvar. Studien avsåg även att undersöka vilka organisatoriska rutiner som finns för hantering av orosanmälningar samt att bidra till en fördjupad förståelse för förskoleproffesionens komplexa uppdrag i samband med hantering av orosanmälningar. Datainsamlingen utfördes genom en kvantitativ enkätundersökning riktad till personal inom olika förskolor i Sverige. Enkäten inkluderade både slutna och öppna frågor. 

Resultat och analys presenteras med stöd av statistik och etisk teori. Resultaten visar att flera faktorer påverkar beslutsfattandet vid hantering av orosanmälningar som ofta som ofta präglas av komplexa, moraliska och etiska dilemma. Med hjälp av begrepp som värde, moral och försök vi skapa en fördjupad förståelse för processen som påverkar överväganden. Det framkommer att både yrkesspråk och rutiner för hur en anmälan hanteras kan variera mellan olika förskolor och därmed skapa otydlighet i beslutsprocessen. 

Emellertid kan vi inte påvisa skillnader mellan de olika yrkeskategorierna som deltagit i vår undersökning. Däremot förekommer det att pedagoger med längre yrkeserfarenhet upplever färre hindra och i högre grad agerar i enlighet med gällande lagstiftning och yrkesetik. Sammantaget pekar ut på ett behov av tydligare rutiner och gemensamma moraliska reflektioner. Empirin belyser även att en rad faktorer som påverkar verksamma inom förskola i olika stor utsträckning, inför beslutsfattande om att rapportera orosanmälan. 

Nyckelord: barn, barnskötare, barnmisshandel, etik, etisk teori, faktorer, far illa, förskola, förskolepedagog, förskollärare, misshandel, moral, oro, orosanmälan, rapportera, rektorer, socialtjänst, svensk kontext, Sverige 

Skateboarding in Nairobi, Kenya, offers young people ways of asserting subjectivity, reimagining the city through movement, care, and shared presence. Based on semi-structured interviews, field observations, and sensory ethnography, this study traces how skateboarders transform overlooked sites-plazas, rooftops, and improvised parks-into spaces of community building, ecological care, and affective belonging. Grounded in decolonial thought, Indigenous teachings, and feminist ethics of care, the analysis frames skateboarding as a collective practice through which personhood is shaped, care for community and environment is sustained, and otherwise ways of being in the city are made possible. The findings show how Nairobi's skateboarders negotiate colonial and patriarchal histories and structures, generate affective ecologies of belonging through sound and movement, and practice feminist placemaking through accountability and solidarity. Clean-ups, DIY ramp-building, and the reclaiming of wastelands illustrate how skaters convert abandonment into commons and environmental responsibility. Such practices are not without tension, as skateboarders navigate precarity, layered marginalization, policing, stigmatization, the absence of formal facilities, complicity and conflicts within their own collectives. Ultimately this paper demonstrates that Nairobi's skateboarding practices are not only leisure, but also affective and relational world-making that point toward alternative decolonial urban futures.

The multiracial population has grown substantially across the Global North, with Sweden having one of the largest per capita mixed populations worldwide. Despite this demographic shift, mental healthcare practitioners are often unprepared to address the complex experiences of mixed individuals, who navigate ambiguous racial and ethnic spaces that challenge traditional monolithic categories. We here include transracial adoptees as part of the mixed population, recognizing their unique experiences of racialized in-betweenness. Historical narratives have long pathologized mixed individuals through harmful stereotypes such as the "tragic mulatto" and "marginal man", portraying them as inherently maladjusted. Contemporary research presents mixed findings regarding mental health outcomes in multiracial populations, with some studies reporting higher rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation, while others find no substantial differences compared to monoracial groups. This article argues for a more nuanced, person-centered approach to understanding mixed identity in healthcare and foregrounds the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) as a valuable clinical instrument. The ethnographic framework of the CFI enables exploration of complex identity negotiations, experiences of racism and discrimination, and available resources without reinforcing deficit perspectives. By fostering culturally attuned practices, mental healthcare can better serve an increasingly diverse society and address the multilayered experiences of multiracial individuals.

High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is the most prevalent and aggressive subtype of ovarian cancer. The combination of late-stage diagnosis and the tendency to exhibit resistance to existing treatments highlights a critical gap in effective therapeutic options. There is thus a need for novel strategies for targeting HGSOC, particularly in its advanced stages. To address this gap, we developed a comprehensive atlas profiling both the proteome and phosphoproteome levels across a panel of nine ovarian cancer cell lines from different subtypes. Subsequent differential expression analysis between the KURAMOCHI and the other cell lines, followed by phosphosite analyses, proposed the MTDH protein as a potential target. Further functional analyses of MTDH and the interacting protein SND1 with RNA silencing, as well as targeting their interaction, revealed that disrupting this interaction leads to the dysregulation of several pathways associated with cancer progression and invasion. In particular, interference with the MTDH-SND1 complex was associated with enrichment of ferroptosis-related pathways. Moreover, combining C26A6 treatment with ferroptosis inducers produced enhanced inhibitory effects in ovarian cancer cells, suggesting a possible strategy for targeting cancer cell vulnerabilities in HGSOC, which warrants further investigation beyond in vitro models.

Why does people’s crime involvement vary and change? Developmental and Life-Course criminology has brought individual change to the forefront of criminological study and has done an impressive job of mapping out peoples age-graded patterns of crime involvement and demonstrated an abundance of individual and social factors correlated with various aspects of people’s criminal careers and their characteristics. However, DLC criminology has been less successful in comprehensively explaining the identified patterns and their correlates. In this paper I shall discuss some of DLC criminology’s theoretical shortcomings, specifically the limitations of the commonplace risk factor approach to explanation and the related idea of cumulative risk. I shall argue that criminal careers are best understood and analysed as a series of situationally caused crime events, putting the explanatory focus on the socially and age-graded stability and change in crime relevant situational factors, and, crucially, the developmental processes that drive continuity and change in these factors (the causes of the causes). All this is discussed based on Situational Action Theory (SAT) and its Developmental-Ecological-Action model (DEA model).

Challenges in global water use draw attention to narratives that raise awareness and influence policy but often fail to address specific local issues effectively. The idea of glocalization integrates global and local perspectives and recognizes the unique ecological knowledge of local and indigenous communities, which may differ from Western modern scientific views. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the literature in education, specifically focusing on science education and its relationship to glocalization in the context of water education. It explores the relevance of glocalization in advancing education for sustainability in the case of teaching and learning about water use. It proposes a framework to operationalize education for sustainability by incorporating local water issues and their connection to global challenges. By repositioning the boundaries of global and local in the context of water education, the study aims to present a glocal perspective. The paper suggests a glocalization framework related to strategies for science education to promote a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness between global and local issues, as well as a Social-Ecological Systems (SES) conceptual framework that leads to water education for sustainability. Additionally, the study presents a framework for developing water educators through glocalization and sustainable professional development, incorporating components such as communities of practice, professional learning communities, action research, and external experts.

The application of Vision Language Models (VLMs) to industrial automation, specifically engineering blueprint analysis, is severely hampered by the absence of domain-specific evaluation tools. Existing benchmarks fail to replicate the critical visual challenges of this domain, such as high symbol density, occlusion, and visual similarity. Furthermore, they assume reliable pre-trained knowledge or standardized symbology, which rarely hold in real-world industrial settings. To address these critical gaps, we introduce BlueprintSymVL, the first benchmark explicitly designed to evaluate VLM symbol recognition in engineering blueprints. BlueprintSymVL is engineered as a strong discriminator, with test cases that systematically introduce challenges to differentiate model capabilities. A key innovation is our robust evaluation method, centered on a one-shot visual in-context querying strategy. At query time, the model is provided with a visual exemplar of a symbol. This approach eliminates reliance on unreliable pre-existing knowledge and is paired with a strict evaluation criterion demanding correctness on both symbol counts and their labels, setting a rigorous standard for quality assurance in high-stakes applications. We conducted a comprehensive benchmark of four leading VLMs (GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, InternVL 2.5 78B, and Qwen 2.5 VL 72B). Our analysis provides the first baseline on their readiness, revealing that BlueprintSymVL is highly discriminative. We pinpoint specific failure modes, including a notable degradation in cluttered environments, confusion when faced with visually similar distractors, and a concerning propensity to hallucinate symbols. These insights demonstrate that current VLMs are not yet suitable for autonomous deployment in blueprint analysis and are best integrated into human-in-the-loop workflows.