Search for dissertations about: "Focused Ethnography"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 33 swedish dissertations containing the words Focused Ethnography.

  2. 21. Deep Roots and Tangled Branches : Bureaucracy and Collaboration in Natural Resource Governance in South India

    Author : Marcus Wangel; Hans Blomkvist; Nils Hertting; Daniel Nohrstedt; Victor Galaz; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; collaboration; networks; governance; development administration; bureaucracy; public officials; roles; institutional analysis; informal institutions; rules-in-use; political ethnography; natural resource governance; forest governance; common pool resources; India; Kerala; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : This is a study about collaboration within bureaucracies tasked with natural resource management in the contemporary Global South. It seeks to fill a considerable knowledge gap in the extant literature by exploring how individual public officials perceive the policy environment they work in. READ MORE

  4. 22. Places on Becoming : An Ethnographic Case Study of a Changing City and its Emerging Residential Environments

    Author : Alazar Ejigu; Tigran Haas; Roderick Lawrence; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; place; placemaking; large-scale housing; ethnography; modernity; condominiums; Addis Ababa; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis;

    Abstract : Some places which once were celebrated by many slowly become places of desolation and social problem while others built with similar intentions and forms continue to flourish. This is typically true of a number of large residential neighbourhoods of Post-World War II Europe and many cities of the global South. READ MORE

  5. 23. Teaching for learning and learning for teaching in care of elderly with dementia at Silviahemmet

    Author : Margareta Skog; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : dementia; palliative care; ethnography; didactic; education; teaching; learning; problem-based learning; participatory learning; practical training; supervision; licensed practical nurse; Silvia nurses; Silviahemmet;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to describe a specific non-governmental programme for training licensed practical nurses as caregivers and mentors in the care of elderly with dementia. The setting for the work was Silviahemmet in Stockholm, Sweden, and the approach was inspired by ethnography. READ MORE

  6. 24. Stakeholder Engagement for Service Design : How service designers identify and communicate insights

    Author : Fabian Segelström; Stefan Holmlid; Catriona Macaulay; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; service design; design; service; design research; tjänstedesign; design; tjänst; användarstudier;

    Abstract : Service design is a field emerging from the new-found interest in services as a design material by practitioners and academics of the human-centred design tradition. As such, the field can build on the knowledge from previous work in design as well as in service research. READ MORE

  7. 25. Measuring usability - balancing agility and formality : for stakeholders’ needs in software development

    Author : Jeff Winter; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The main focus of the research presented in this thesis is a usability evaluation framework for mass market mobile devices, allowing measurement, comparison and presentation of the usability of hand held devices. The research has been a cooperation between an academic and an industrial partner, based on an action research approach, following the processes of Cooperative Method Development (CMD). READ MORE