Search for dissertations about: "Academic as Topic"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 swedish dissertations containing the words Academic as Topic.
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1. Mapping Gender in Academic Workplaces : Ways of reproducing gender inequality within the discourse of equality
Abstract : Sweden is often described as one of the best countries in the world for women to live in. Despite this and despite a number of equal opportunity interventions within the area of higher education from the mid 1990s and on, Sweden follows the international pattern of the "leaking pipeline" when it comes to gender distribution in academia. READ MORE
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2. The Lived Experience of Academic Entrepreneurship: The interplay between practice, identity, and context
Abstract : This thesis explores how academic entrepreneurs experience and practically manage the combination of research and business, with special emphasis on the interplay between practice and identity and the effects of institutional context. Empirical focus is on university researchers who co-found companies while remaining in academia. READ MORE
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3. Research communication in the climate crisis : Open letters and the mobilization of information
Abstract : What happens to researchers when the topic they study poses an existential threat to the world as we know it? When communication on the topic is politically polarized, but at the same time institutionally encouraged and existentially needed? By what means do researchers come to navigate this complex communication environment? The climate crisis and changing social, political, and academic conditions bring such questions to the forefront in researchers’ public communication on climate issues. This thesis engages with open letters as a form of research communication to explore the practices climate scholars engage in to convey information and inspire urgent action in climate matters. READ MORE
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4. Language and interaction in online asynchronous communication in university level English courses
Abstract : Interaction involves people communicating and reacting to each other. This process is key to the study of discourse, but it is not easy to study systematically how interaction takes place in a specific communicative event, or how it is typically performed over a series of repeated communicative events. READ MORE
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5. A framework for the understanding, optimization and design of structured peer-to-peer systems
Abstract : Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing is a recent hot topic in theareas of networking and distributed systems. Work on P2Pcomputing was triggered by a number of ad-hoc systems that madethe concept popular. Later, academic research e orts started toinvestigate P2P computing issues based on scientificprinciples. READ MORE