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- Femenias, Paula, 1966, et al.
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The voices of vulnerable tenants in renovation
- 2022
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Ingår i: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. - : IOP Publishing. - 1755-1307 .- 1755-1315. ; 1078:1
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper focuses on the intersection between agendas for housing renovation and social politics for ageing-in-place and social integration of people with psycologial disabilities. The aim is to understand how elderly tenants and people on a longer sick leave are affected by a renovation. In a sample of 79 interviews, 34 tenants decided to permanently relocate as a results of a renovation. When the renovation is a driver for permanent relocation, tenants do so to avoid disturbances and temporal evacuation. If the home is subjet to a comprehensive or deep renovation, rent increases is another reinforcing factor to relocate. While tenants that move prior to a renovation worry about how the renovation will affect their daily life and their economy, tenants that move after the renovation do so because they are dissatisfied with the results of the renovation. The findings calls for awareness for how housing renovation will affect vulnerable tenants and highlights the need for the design or appropriate communication strategies.
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- Roos, Magnus, et al.
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Traits and Transports : The Effects of Personality on the Choice of Urban Transport Modes
- 2022
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Ingår i: Applied Sciences. - : MDPI AG. - 2076-3417. ; 12:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We examine the influence of personality on car driving, usage of public transport and cycling. Personality is measured through the Big Five personality traits (i.e., Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism) and Environmental personality. Data were collected through a Web-based panel of adult citizen in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden (N = 1068). Age, gender, income, children at home and residential area were used as control variables. Car driving is influenced by low degree of Openness, high degree of Conscientiousness, and low degree of Environmental personality. Usage of public transport is influenced by low degree of Conscientiousness, high degree of Agreeableness, and high degree of Environmental personality. Cycling is foremost influenced by a high degree of Environmental personality.
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- Carlsson, Anna K, 1966, et al.
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Rollator related pedestrian single accidents and collision events in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Traffic Safety Research (TSR). - : Lund University. - 2004-3082. ; 2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Rollators (four-wheel walkers in USA; zimmer frames in UK) are commonly used as mobility aids for the elderly and people with a variety of disabilities. Pedestrian rollator users are a sub-group of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), although this group is rarely recognised in traffic safety contexts. The aim of this study is to extract and analyse rollator related pedestrian accident and injury data in Sweden. The results will provide valuable insight into the risks and obstacles rollator users are exposed to in the traffic environment and may in the long term contribute to improving the mobility of this group. The current study is based on data from 2,020 accidents involving 2,305 persons extracted from the Swedish Traffic Accident Data Acquisition (STRADA) database. For consistency reasons, a subset of data (N = 745) was analysed in order to investigate the development of accidents over a period of 10 years. Thereafter, each accident in the whole data set was registered as either single or collision. The results show that the number of rollator accidents in Sweden increased by approximately 80% during 2007–2016. Females dominate the injury statistics of single accidents, collisions, as well as fatal outcome, which may be due to exposure and/or differences in physical characteristics. Single accidents are much more common than collisions (n=1,668 and n=352, respectively) and the injury consequences are at least as serious. Data from the present study have revealed that the frequency of minor injuries (ISS 1–3) is 4.3 times, moderate (ISS 4–8) 6.0 times and serious injuries (ISS 9–15) 8.9 times higher in single accidents than in collisions. Fatal injuries are, however, more common in collision events (33 in comparison to 8). The vast majority of single accidents (99%) was due to falls. Many of the single accidents (29%) were caused by ground level differences (typically a curb) or due to surface conditions (19%). Collisions involved cars, trucks or buses in 91% of cases, occurring predominantly in car parks (31%) and on (zebra) crossings (30%). In 54% of cases the vehicles reversed into the rollator. Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 3+ injuries were dominated by head (36%) and torso (33%) injuries in collision events, and hip fractures (71%) in single accidents. The present study shows that further research into rollator user related accidents, both single accidents and collision events, is required. In order to introduce appropriate measures, future work should follow up on accident and injury developments and further improve the quality of mobility aid related accident data in general. Improved stability and design, proper training programmes, effective maintenance services, development of a supporting infrastructure would contribute to increased safety for rollator users.
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- Cedersund, Elisabet, et al.
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Att studera välfärd på nytt sätt
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Ingår i: Välfärdspolitik i praktiken. - Uppsala : NSU Press. - 9788787564083 ; , s. 7-19
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Schimmer, Robyn, PhD, 1979-, et al.
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Automated economic support: implementation challenges in social work : a case study
- 2024
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Ingår i: Social work as emancipatory practice: creating pathways towards social justice. ; , s. 48-48
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Social work faces challenges from demographic shifts, economic limitations, and a shortage of trained professionals. A solution that has emerged is the integration of digitalization, including the implementation of automated social assistance. It facilitates the automation of repetitive and administrative tasks, minimizing reliance on manual human labor. This shift can cut costs, redistribute workload, as well as enabling social workers to focus more on “real social work”. While there are strong arguments supporting the proposed change, there are also concerns voiced. These revolve around the potential transformation of social work and social workers’ roles, and its implications for beneficiaries of social assistance, specifically in terms of ensuring equality and upholding legal justice.In this single case study, we delve into the preparations for implementing automated social assistance in a Swedish municipality. Our objective was to scrutinize the national and local policies influencing the implementation process, as well as to identify the barriers and facilitators crucial for achieving a successful implementation. Key actors within the organization, directly involved in the implementation preparations, were interviewed. The focus was particularly on policies, decisions, and preparations leading up to the implementation phase. The data underwent analysis using a directed qualitative content analysis, employing Matland’s ambiguity-conflict model and the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. The results reveal that, despite a clear goal for implementation, the organization grapples with unclear decisions, ambiguous policies, and a pervasive sense of uncertainty. We explore these findings and discuss how challenges arise from the inherent ambiguity in the process.
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- Bäckstrand, Jenny, 1979-, et al.
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Middle-range theorising supporting and supported by action research: focusing on practitioner preparedness
- 2024
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Ingår i: Production Planning and Control. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0953-7287 .- 1366-5871. ; In Press
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Increased demand for actionable knowledge in operations- and supply chain management has fuelled the interest in collaborative, action-oriented research design as well as modes of theorising that generate adaptable and actionable frameworks. Whilst action research (AR) design as well as middle-range theories (MRT) offer guiding principles herein, they are researcher centric in nature. It is taken for granted that practitioners that enter such an endeavour have a certain level of knowledge or experience prior to the initial stages of formalising the research problem. Practitioners in non-academic, operations management-intensive industries or craftsmanship-based industries, such as construction or carpeting (often in the SME range) are often neither prepared nor equipped with the principles necessary to convey their managerial challenges into collaborative research design. This risk limiting or even hindering altogether such participation. This paper elaborates on combining the logic of AR and MRT. By conceptualising a preparatory phase for initiating practitioner engagement, complementing the conventional AR cycle, a four-step approach is presented: (1) Identifying a joint interest; (2) Teaching – Awakening interest in the topic through MRT frameworks; (3) Accepting buy-in to the AR cycle and determining the problem; and (4) Proposing MRT frameworks for analysis and entering the traditional AR cycle.
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- Troje, Daniella, 1991, et al.
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Social procurement in the real world: How employment requirements unfold in construction projects
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 35th Annual ARCOM Conference. - 9780995546349 ; , s. 24-33
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In hopes of mitigating issues with segregation, unemployment and a lack of workers in the construction sector, social procurement and employment requirements are becoming increasingly popular. Albeit high on the policy and industry agenda, little is known of its effects for practitioners and the newly employed themselves, when they face these in practice. With an aim to understand how social procurement and employment requirements unfold in practice, what effects this has for construction practitioners, for the interns themselves, and for individual projects and organizations, 23 semi-structured interviews were conducted with practitioners and interns in three cases where employment requirements have been applied. The findings show that for practitioners, employment requirements place new demands on themselves as “receivers” of interns, which require personal engagement. For the interns, demands are set on how they should engage in their internship and to seize the opportunity, while same-time facing a risk to become overexposed for advertisement purposes if they perform well. For the construction projects a concern is raised regarding safety, due to the interns’ poor language proficiency. However, also positive effects are seen, such as improved team spirit among the project members and added value to the working life of the intern supervisors.
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