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- Mellström, Ulf, et al.
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Introduction : Masculinities, gender equality, crisis management and the rescue services: Contested terrains and challenges
- 2016
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In: Masculinities, Gender Equality and Crisis Management. - London : Routledge. - 9781317099918 - 9781472477095 ; , s. 1-16
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this introduction we provide an overview of research on gender issues in the rescue services in combination with introducing the different contributions in this book. The overview is primarily concerned with three national contexts, the US, the UK and Sweden, and we focus on the most prevalent themes in the literature as well as pointing out under-researched areas. The empirical contributions in this volume draw on empirical work from Sweden, the UK and Denmark.
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- Neumann, Patrick, et al.
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Consumer demand as a driver of improved working conditions : the 'Ergo-Brand' proposition
- 2014
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In: Ergonomics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0014-0139 .- 1366-5847. ; 57:8, s. 1113-1126
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper develops and explores the “Ergo-Brand” proposition; which posits that consumersmay prefer to buy goods that are made under good working conditions (GWC). This preferencewould enhance a differentiation strategy for companies, thereby fostering the application ofergonomics in production. This proposition is developed in the context of a narrative review ofthe literature on ‘ethical consumerism’. This is supplemented with a small pilot survey study,conducted in both Canada and Sweden (n=141) to explore this proposition. Results indicate thatconsumers would prefer goods made under GWC, but not unconditionally as quality and priceconcerns were ranked higher. Access to information on the working conditions in productionwas seen as a barrier. Nevertheless, the Ergo-Brand concept may be a viable avenue topromoting attention to ergonomics in companies – particularly if consumer habits are subject tointervention by advertising. Further research on this strategy is warranted.
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Nordic girlhoods : new perspectives and outlooks
- 2017
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This edited collection is an interdisciplinary and dialogical endeavor focused on the field of Nordic Girlhood Studies. It investigates young femininity as well as the key themes and concepts of Girlhood Studies, including girl power, feminisms, femininity, gender equality, postfeminism and sexualities in the specific cultural, historical and political context of the Nordic region. The chapters of the book consist of thematic case studies, including memories of girl power in the Finnish context, gendered harassment experienced and explained by Finnish girls, troublesome girlhood within the Swedish context and girls’ subjectification projects in Nordic welfare state. Further, the case studies are accompanied by dialogical Outlook-essays, where researchers either outside Nordic region or from adjacent research fields reflect on Nordic Girlhood Studies through comparisons and reflections form their vantage point. The book will be of scholarly interest to researchers and students working especially on the fields of Girlhood Studies, Youth Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology and Cultural Studies both within the Nordic region and outside.
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The emotional politics of research collaboration
- 2013
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Research collaboration in the form of networks, projects and centers has become one of the dominant modes of engaging in research, especially funded research, across all academic domains. However, there has been little research on the processes of such collaborations, particularly their affective dimensions. These, as this volume demonstrates and as researchers know well, are highly important, yet mostly not directly engaged with when scientists work together, even though they are experienced by everybody involved.This volume is the first to consider questions such as how the naming of projects impacts on their accompanying “affect-scapes,” the policing or disciplining of emotions in research collaborations, their accompanying tensions and how these might be managed, and the challenges to trust between scientists that such collaborations present. Drawing on theories of affect and literature on collaboration, as well as on the contributors experiences of being involved in large-scale research projects, the volume also importantly deals directly with some of the key emotions that occur during research collaborations such as blame, elation, frustration, alienation and belonging, and suggests some ways in which one might engage productively with the affective dimensions of research collaboration.
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- von Thiele Schwarz, Ulrica, 1975-, et al.
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Leadership training as an occupational health intervention : improved safety and sustained productivity
- 2016
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In: Safety Science. - : Elsevier BV. - 0925-7535 .- 1879-1042. ; 81, s. 35-45
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The safety climate in an organization is determined by how managers balance the relative importance of safety and productivity. This gives leaders a central role in safety in an organization, and from this follows that leadership training may improve safety. Transformational leadership may be one important component but may need to be combined with positive control leadership behaviors. Leadership training that combines transformational leadership and applied behavior analysis may be a way to achieve this. Purpose: The study evaluates changes in safety climate and productivity among employees whose leaders (n = 76) took part in a leadership training program combining transformational leadership and applied behavior analysis. Changes in managers' ratings of transformational leadership, contingent rewards, Management-by-Exceptions Active (MBEA) and safety self-efficacy were evaluated. Moreover, we compare whether the training has differentiated effects on safety depending on managers' specific focus on improvements in: (1) safety, (2) productivity or (3) general leadership. Result: Safety climate improved over time, while self-rated productivity remained unchanged. As hypothesized, transformational leadership, contingent rewards and safety self-efficacy as proxies for positive control behaviors increased while MBEA, a negative control behavior, decreased. Managers focusing on general leadership skills showed greater improvement in safety climate expectations. Conclusions: Training leaders in both transformational leadership and applied behavior analysis is related to improvements in leadership and safety. There is no added benefit of focusing specifically on safety or productivity.
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- Wiklund, Maria, et al.
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En ribba att nå : Unga kvinnors förkroppsligade stress i en neoliberal och könad kontext
- 2013
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In: Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap. - Linköping : Tema Genus, Linköpings universitet. - 1654-5443 .- 2001-1377. ; :2-3, s. 57-85
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- I föreliggande artikel är vårt syfte att synliggöra och problematisera tonårsflickors och unga kvinnors upplevda och förkroppsligade stress och psykiska ohälsa i förhållande till en könad samhällelig kontext – vilket vi menar har relevans för såväl folkhälsovetenskaplig forskning som för genusvetenskaplig flickforskning. Genom sammanförandet av historiska, sociokulturella, politiska och hälsorelaterade infallsvinklar från olika forskningsfält belyser vi komplexiteten och motstridigheterna i fenomenet/problemet ”unga tjejers stress” med utgångspunkt i vår empiriskt baserade forskning om unga kvinnor, kroppslighet och psykisk ohälsa. Några av våra frågeställningar lyder: Vad och hur berättar unga kvinnor själva om sin upplevda stress och livssituation, och vilka centrala teman kan vi skönja i deras berättelser? Hur kan unga kvinnors stress och psykiska ohälsa kontextualiseras, förstås och begripliggöras utifrån historiska, politiska, sociokulturella och genusrelaterade perspektiv? Hur förkroppsligas den sociala kontexten i unga kvinnors berättade upplevelser och uttryck av stress?
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- Wiklund, Maria, et al.
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Working Hard to Create a Visible Self : Social Constructions of (In)Visibility in Relation to Girls' Stress
- 2012
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In: Invisible Girl. - Umeå : Umeå University. - 9789174597271 ; , s. 21-31
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article we problematise the stress girls experience in the light of invisibility and visibility, including the gendered tensions around the social constructions of girls as (in)visible. Our analysis is based on a rereading of narrative interviews with Swedish girls experiencing stress-related problems. Issues of girl's health and illness are found to be undeveloped in the wider sociocultural context of both health research and cultural youth studies. Our analysis suggests that stress as an illness among girls seems invisible and diminished, and also that girls themselves feel invisible and not good enough. We emphasise that girls' efforts and the external demands on them need to be acknowledged and addressed instead of individualised. Furthermore, we relate the tension between visibility and invisibility, which seems central to the girl's distress, to limiting norms of femininity and gender orders. According to our analysis the girls' efforts to create a visible self seem to come at a price.
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- Alers, Margret, et al.
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Speciality preferences in Dutch medical students influenced by their anticipation on family responsibilities
- 2014
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In: Perspectives on Medical Eduction. - : Springer. - 2212-277X. ; 3:6, s. 443-454
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Physician gender is associated with differences in the male-to-female ratio between specialities and with preferred working hours. We explored how graduating students’ sex or full-time or part-time preference influences their speciality choice, taking work-life issues into account. Graduating medical students at Radboud University Medical Centre, the Netherlands participated in a survey (2008–2012) on career considerations. Logistic regression tested the influence of sex or working hour preference on speciality choice and whether work-life issues mediate. Of the responding students (N = 1,050, response rate 83, 73.3 % women), men preferred full-time work, whereas women equally opted for part time. More men chose surgery, more women family medicine. A full-time preference was associated with a preference for surgery, internal medicine and neurology, a part-time preference with psychiatry and family medicine. Both male and female students anticipated that foremost the career of women will be negatively influenced by family life. A full-time preference was associated with an expectation of equality in career opportunities or with a less ambitious partner whose career would affect family life. This increased the likelihood of a choice for surgery and reduced the preference for family medicine among female students. Gender specifically plays an important role in female graduates’ speciality choice making, through considerations on career prospects and family responsibilities.
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