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- Holmstedt, Janna, 1972-
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Are you ready for a wet live-in? : explorations into listening
- 2017
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Listen. If I ask you to listen, what is it that I ask of you—that you will understand, or perhaps obey? Or is it some sort of readiness that is requested? What occurs with a body in the act of listening? How do sound and voice structure audio-visual-spatial relations in concrete situations?This doctoral thesis in fine arts consists of six artworks and an essay that documents the research process, or rather, acts as a travelogue as it stages and narrates a series of journeys into a predominantly sonic ecology. One entry into this field is offered by the animal “voice” and attempts to teach animals to speak human language. The first journey concerns a specific case where humanoid sounds were found to emanate from an unlikely source—the blowhole of a dolphin. Another point of entry is offered by the acousmatic voice, a voice split from its body, and more specifically, my encounter with the disembodied voice of Steve Buscemi in a prison in Philadelphia. This listening experience triggered a fascination with, and an inquiry into, the voices that exist alongside us, the parasitic relation that audio technology makes possible, and the way an accompanying voice changes one’s perceptions and even one’s behavior. In the case of both the animal and the acousmatic, the seemingly trivial act of attending to a voice quickly opens up a complex space of embodied entanglements with the potential to challenge much of what we take for granted. At the heart of my inquiry is a series of artworks made between 2012 and 2016, which constitute a third journey: the performance Limit-Cruisers (#1 Sphere), the praxis session Limit-Cruisers (#2 Crowd), the installations Therapy in Junkspace, Fluorescent You, and “Then, ere the bark above their shoulders grew,” and the lecture performance Articulations from the Orifice (The Dry and the Wet).The relationship between what is seen and heard is being explored and renegotiated in the arts and beyond. We are increasingly addressed by prerecorded and synthetic voices in both public and private spaces. Simultaneously, our notions of human communication are challenged and complicated by recent research in animal communication. My work attempts to address the shifts and complexities embodied in these developments. The three journeys are deeply entwined with theoretical inquiries into human-animal relationships, technology, and the philosophy of sound. In the essay, I consider as well how other artistic practices are exploring this same complex space. What I put forward is a materialist and concrete approach to listening understood as a situated practice. Listening is both a form of co-habitation and an ecology. In and through listening, I claim, one could be said to perform in concert with the things heard while at the same time being changed by them.
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- Dahlern, Tanja von, 1978-
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Moving Images of Literature : Transformations of Literature in Contemporary Video and Film Installation Art
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the many engagements with literature beyond the literary field. More specifically, it studies different ways of staging and transforming literature in video and film installation since the 1990s. The dissertation presents a close reading of four artworks, each representing a key approach to transformation: Stan Douglas’ Der Sandmann (1995), based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1817 short story of the same title; Gerard Byrne’s 1984 and Beyond (2005–07), a staging of a conversation between science fiction writers, originally published in Playboy magazine in 1963; Fiona Tan’s Disorient (2009), which takes Marco Polo’s travelogue from the late thirteenth century as its point of departure; and Kutluğ Ataman’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (2009), derived from Shakespeare’s plays. Video and film installation occupies an important position in contemporary art, often using pre-existing cultural material from other media. Its specific temporal and spatial structure makes it a particularly rich art form for the study of how literary works are transformed, and what images of literature, in its broadest sense, are used and set in motion. The focus is on processes of transformation through selection and modification, interpretation, reframing, and shift in media. The study is informed by theories from the fields of intertextuality, intermediality, adaptation studies, and artistic appropriation.Each of the artists turn to widely-known works or authors. The approaches to literature range from the projection of alphanumeric text to the staging of a conversation between authors, which shifts the focus from the literary work to the discourses and conditions of literature. It becomes clear that the artists, in their installations, do not necessarily perform retellings of their sources. Literature is discussed in its role as a vehicle for cultural values, as a place where narrative conventions are negotiated, and where cultural space is mediated and constructed. All the studied artists employ a variety of devices of estrangement. The dissertation especially discusses the oscillation between source and derived work in relation to the installations’ self-reflexive form.
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- Olsson, Jesper, 1975-
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Enhanced biogas production from municipal WWTPs : Co-digestion of microalgae with sewage sludge and thermophilic secondary digestion of mesophilic digested sludge
- 2015
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Biogas is produced when organic material is broken down in oxygen-free (anaerobic) conditions. This process is called anaerobic digestion and is used in most large and medium-sized municipal wastewater treatment plants in Sweden. In the wastewater treatment sewage sludge is obtained, from the mecanical-, biological and chemical treatment step, which contains decomposable organic material. The sludge is pumped into a digester, which is an airtight container. In the digester raw biogas, consisting of methane and carbon dioxide, is produced. The material that comes out of the digester is a nutrient rich residue (digestate) which can be used as a fertilizer or soil conditioner. The purpose of this study was to explore ways to increase the biogas production that takes place at the municipal wastewater treatment plants by either co-digestion of sewage sludge with microalgae from a possible future biological purification steps or to use two digestion stages in series with different operating temperatures, mesophilic (37ºC) followed by a thermophilic digestion (55ºC). The challenges with these methods, which are also taken into consideration in the studies, were changes in the dewaterability of the digestate, system efficiency regarding electricity and heat consumption, the ability to recycle nutrients, changes in the carbon footprint from the treatment plant, change of the pollution level in the digestate and the ability to create a sanitization method for the digestate.The results from the first part showed in both batch digestability tests and continuous anaerobic digestion experiment that microalgae cultivated on wastewater can be a feasible feedstock for anaerobic co-digestion with sewage sludge. Microalgae improved the biogas production in mesophilic conditions but not in thermophilic digestion. In the semi-continous experiment, with the addition of a natural mix of microalgae grown from wastewater to sewage sludge, the specific methane production was enhanced with 39 % for every gram organic matter reduced. The specific methane production for every gram added organic matter to the reactors were 9% lower in the digester where microalgae had been added. When microalgae were added the total digestibility was reduced compared to the reference digestion with only sewage sludge. Filterability tests indicated that the addition of microalgae enhanced the dewaterability of the digested sludge. Heavy metal levels in the microalgae substrate were much higher than in the sludge which could restrict the utilization of the digestate on arable land in a possible future full scale application.The results in the second part showed that the process solution could be a self-sufficient sanitation method. The highest organic loading rates tested in this study were in the range causing an unstable process due to high ammonia levels The thermophilic digestion gave the sludge worse dewaterability. However, a subsequent aeration step could improve the properties again.
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- Andersson, Ann-Christine
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Practice-based Improvements in Healthcare
- 2010
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A central problem for the healthcare sector today is how to manage change and improvements. In recent decades the county councils in Sweden have started various improvement initiatives and programs in order to improve their healthcare services. The improvement program of the Kalmar county council, which constitutes the empirical context for this thesis, is one of those initiatives.The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to a broader understanding of large-scale improvement program in a healthcare setting. This is done by analyzing practitioner’s improvement ideas, describing participants in the improvement projects, revising and testing a survey to measure the development of improvement ideas and describing the improvement program from a theoretical perspective. The theoretical change model used looks at change from two opposing directions in six dimensions; Goals, Leadership, Focus, Process, Reward system and Use of consultants.The aims of the county council improvement program are to become a learning organization, disseminate improvement methodologies and implement continuous quality improvements in the organization. All healthcare administrations and departments in the county council were invited to apply for funds to accomplish improvement projects. Another initiative invited staff teams to work with improvement ideas in a program with support from facilitators, using the breakthrough methodology. Now almost all ongoing developments, improvements, patient safety projects, manager and leader development initiatives are put together under the county council improvement program umbrella.In the appended papers both qualitative and quantitative research approach were used. The first study (paper I) analyzed which types of improvement projects practitioners are engaged in using qualitative content analysis. Five main categories were identified: Organizational Process; Evidence and Quality; Competence Development; Process Technology; and Proactive Patient Work. Most common was a focus on organizational changes and process, while least frequent was proactive patient work. Besides these areas of focus, almost all aimed to increase patient safety and increase effectiveness and availability.Paper II described the participants in two of the initiatives, the categorized improvement projects in paper I and the team members in the methodology guided improvement programs. Strong professions like physicians and nurses were well represented, but other staff groups were not as active. Managers were responsible for a majority of the projects. The gender perspective reflected the overall mix of employees in the county council.Paper III described a revision and test of a Minnesota Innovation Survey (MIS) that will be used to follow and measure how quality improvement ideas develop and improve over time. Descriptive statistics were presented. The respondents were satisfied with their work and what they had accomplished. The most common comment was about time, not having enough time to work with the improvement idea and the difficulty of finding time because of regular tasks. This was the first test of the revised survey and the high use of the answer alternative “Do not know” showed that the survey did not fit the context very well in its present version.Trying to connect the county council improvement program and the initiatives studied in papers I and II with the change model gave rise to some considerations. The county council improvement program has an effort to combine organizational changes and a culture that encourages continuous improvements. Top-down and bottom-up management approaches are used, through setting out strategies from above and at the same time encouraging practitioners to improve their day-to-day work. Whether this will be a successful way to implement and achieve a continuous improvement culture in the whole organization is one of the main issues remaining to find out in further studies.
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- Forsberg, Magnus, et al.
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RAPPORT GEODATARÅDETS HANDLINGSPLAN 2020 : Aktivitet – 4i, Långsiktig kompetensförsörjning inom geodataområdet
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I den nationella geodatastrategin som gäller för åren 2016–2020 återfinns målet ”Samverkan är välutvecklad” (mål nummer 4). Inom ramen för detta mål ingår en aktivitet (4i) som syftar till att säkerställa den långsiktiga kompetensförsörjningen inom geodataområdet. För att arbeta med frågan tillsattes en arbetsgrupp med representanter från Lantmäteriet och ett antal lärosäten. I denna rapport redovisas resultatet av den tillsatta arbetsgruppens undersökningar. Arbetet är i första hand inriktat på att hitta en väg framåt som kan leda till att kompetensen inom geodataområdet långsiktigt kan säkerställas och utvecklas. I uppdraget ingår även en internationell utblick. Denna har avgränsats till att avse våra nordiska grannländer, dvs. Norge, Finland, Danmark samt Nederländerna och Österrike. Geodataområdet har avgränsats till att omfatta följande områden:Geodesi Tekniska aspekter av geografiska informationssystem (GIS) och geografisk informationsteknologi (GIT)FjärranalysFotogrammetri inklusive laserskanningTekniskt lantmäteriMånga av slutsatserna från äldre rapporter och utredningar gäller fortfarande. Flera initiativ har genomförts för att komma till rätta med de identifierade problemen: samarbeten i olika forum, kostnadsfri tillgång till geodata för universitet och högskolor (via FUK-avtal), en förbättrad infrastruktur för geodata (genom forskning och regeringsuppdrag) samt utbildningssatsningar i tidig ålder (Geoskolan). Geodatarådets tidigare initiativ för att driva kompetensfrågorna i enlighet med 2012 års geodatastrategi har inte följts upp med motsvarande nya satsningar mellan åren 2016 till 2019.Det finns ett stort utbud av utbildningar inom geodataområdet utspridda på olika platser i Sverige. Kompetensförsörjningen inom geodataområdet är beroende av tillgången på välfungerande forskningsmiljöer. Goda forskningsmiljöer knyter till sig värdefulla resurser, exempelvis professorer, forskare, postdocs och doktorander. Förutom att bidra med kunskap och allokera ekonomiska resurser till forskning, förbättras lärosätenas möjligheter att kunna bedriva en attraktiv utbildning. Många gånger är en professur en nödvändighet för att åstadkomma den önskvärda forsknings- och utbildningsmiljön. Trots att flertalet utbildningsvarianter finns valbara vid ett antal lärosäten tycks tillgången på kompetens inte motsvara marknadens behov. Särskilt kritiskt tycks situationen vara för kompetenstillgången inom ämnesområdet fotogrammetri, där det idag inte finns någon profe-ssur i Sverige.Vid de tekniska högskolorna i Stockholm och Lund är söktrycket för de granskade utbildningarna gott, men få studenter väljer en inriktning mot geodata längre fram. Ämnesområdet geodata är relativt litet i förhållande till andra teknikområden och det finns en konkurrens mellan lärosätena. Detta har gjort ämnesområdet fragmentiserat med följden att inget lärosäte för närvarande tillhandahåller en komplett utbildnings- och forskningsmiljö. Det finns ett nationellt behov av en högkvalitativ masterutbildning som omfattar kärnämnena geodesi, fotogrammetri och geoinformatik. Om Sverige lyckas med att skapa en komplett masterutbildning som stöds av vitala forskargrupper bör det locka fler studenter till fortsätt utbildning, både på master- och forskarnivå. Forskningsverksamheten har flera viktiga funktioner i samhället. God forskning bidrar till att värna om Sveriges ställning som kunskapsnation och ger förutsättningar för vilken industri som etableras och stannar i landet. Aktiva forskargrupper bidrar till att skapa kompetensnätverk och får en särskild betydelse vid utbildningen av doktorander, lärare och studenter som sedan kan förse samhället med nödvändig expertkompetens. De ansträngningar som har gjorts för att försöka påverka forskningsfinansiärerna att prioritera geodataområdet har hittills varit fruktlösa. Medel får sökas inom ramen för andra forskningsprojekt. En långsiktig finansiell försörjning är en förutsättning för att forskning ska kunna bedrivas uthålligt och hålla en hög kvalitet. I Sverige finns det ingen utsedd huvudfinansiär för forskning inom geodataområdet, något som uppmärksammades redan i Geodatarådets utredning från 2008. Situationen ser likadan ut i dag, tillgången på forskningsmedel är bristfällig och det saknas en långsiktig forskningsförsörjning. I denna rapport presenteras en handlingsplan för att säkerställa den fram-tida kompetensuppbyggnaden inom geodataområdet. Arbetet bör initieras och följas upp av Geodatarådet samt utgöra en grund för inspel till kommande forskningsproposition (närmast år 2025) och dialog med berörda departement. Tre av de föreslagna aktiviteterna återges nedan:Arbeta för att skapa minst en komplett utbildnings- och forskningsmiljö som kan fungera som kompetenscentrum, och som inkluderar ämnesområdena geodesi, fotogrammetri (inklusive laserskanning) samt geoinformatik.Bilda en marknadsföringsgrupp med representanter från Geodatarådets medlemmar samt lärosäten och branschföretag som tillsammans arbetar fram en gemensam handlingsplan med aktivi-teter och kampanjer för att öka söktrycket till utbildningar med inriktning mot geodata.Ge Lantmäteriet ett forskningsfinansierande uppdrag. Formerna för ett sådant uppdrag behöver utredas närmare med andra forsknings-finansierande myndigheter som förebild. Denna lösning kräver ändringar i Lantmäteriets instruktion samt ett höjt ramanslag vilket måste tas med i beräkning vid ärendets beredning.
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- Johansson, Jesper, 1979-
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"Så gör vi inte här i Sverige. Vi brukar göra så här" : Retorik och praktik i LO:s invandrarpolitik 1945-1981
- 2008
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The primary purpose of this thesis is to analyse the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, the LO’s, mediated rhetoric, arguments and social and institutional practices in the process of forming the LO’s policy regarding the introduction, incorporation and participation of immigrants in Swedish society in general, the workplace and the trade union movement in the period 1945–1981. The theoretical purpose is to explore how power relations of superiority and subordination based primarily on the categories of class, ethnicity and nation, but also on gender and to some extent generation, have been formed through ideological processes of inclusion and boundary drawing in rhetorical speeches, texts and institutional practices within the framework of an explicit class-based community as the LO constituted. The results demonstrate that the LO had an ambivalent attitude towards labour immigration in an expanding post-war Swedish economy. On the one hand the trade unions accepted that industrial growth and general welfare reforms were dependent on the labour supply. On the other hand, the LO feared that uncontrolled labour immigration would be a disadvantage for indigenous workers, since wages could be kept low and obsolete industrial sectors could be maintained and the “solidarity wage policy” could be endangered because of the influx of migrant labour. Organising the immigrants was a central part of the union movement’s strategy, and the LO also insisted from the very beginning on equal wages and employment conditions between indigenous and immigrant workers to avoid wage pressures. During the second half of the 1960s and the 1970s, the LO repeatedly argued that the scale of immigration should be weighted against factors such as access to work, housing, social services, education and language teahcing. One major argument in the thesis is that within the LO, immigration policy measures were perceived to be a functional “adaptation” of immigrants to the already defined institutions, norms and national culture of the Swedish majority society. Accordingly, the immigrants were expected to adapt themselves to the “normal” Swedish and social democratic way of doing things in a rational and organised manner. During the 1970s, Swedish language training and company introduction with union attendance, translated information bulletins about the Swedish labour market and society, union courses and study circles could be seen as central means in a process of socialisation and “normalisation”. These policy measures were dimensions of a social democratic ideological identity project within the trade union movement, which was constructed as a symbol of the given national order and “the Swedish way of doing things”. The results also demonstrate how class, ethnicity, nation and gender have worked as structuring principles of power and status within the LO.
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- Pennlert, Julia, 1985-
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Poesi pågår : en studie av Poeter.se 2003-2016
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation presents a study of Poeter.se, a Swedish web community for reading and writing poetry. The aim is to examine and analyze how a literary community online works, how the writers present themselves as authors and how conventions connected to poetry migrate into or are negotiated in the digital environment. The vast amount of material published on the website during the time-period 2003-2016 (2 million comments and about 860 000 poems) makes it imperative to raise questions about methodology and the dissertation highlights how a researcher dealing with digital material can combine methods. The study is divided into six chapters in which I use different theoretical frameworks, such as the concept of digital paratexts, theories and discussions about the function of the author in a digital media landscape, and media-specific theories about how reading and writing can be approached when they occur online. The central research questions are: What characterizes the connection between genre-specific traits in poetry and the digital platform on which they are published? What kind of relations can be seen between the participants and their publication patterns, and the website? How do the members present their writing and their participation at the site?
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- Rynell Åhlén, David, 1984-
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Samtida konst på bästa sändningstid : Konst i svensk television 1956–1969
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation investigates the mediation of art on Swedish television during the 1950s and 1960s. The aim is to examine how the new medium of television was put to use in the dissemination and promotion of contemporary and modernist art during this time. The primary research question concerns the significance and consequences of television as a media form for the practices of art popularization and art education. The introduction of the new medium coincided with the post-war emergence of the welfare state and ambitions of governmental and non-governmental organizations and initiatives to make modern art an integral part of modern society. This dissertation investigates the role and significance of television in these endeavours from the point of view of Sveriges Radio/TV, by focusing on the actors involved as well as the form and content of arts programming at the time. The study makes use of mediatization theory and the concept of remediation, in order to capture and analyse the dynamics as well as the conflicts between television and art at the time. The study uses the method of media-specific genre analysis, inspired by cultural theory, asserting that arts programming is a cultural category made up of practices and processes and interwoven with ideological structures and power relationships. The dissertation is divided into three chapters investigating different aspects of the phenomenon of art on TV during the specific historical period. The dissertation shows how the 1950s and 1960s witnessed great hopes for television as a way of disseminating art and educating the public on matters of art, aspirations closely connected to notions of art distribution as a way to achieve cultural democratization. First and foremost, however, the close study of the practices of arts programming shows how the relationship between television and art at the time was also characterized by problems and conflict. Using the terminology of mediatization theory, it is possible to speak of conflicts between distinct logics. These conflicts can further be understood on several levels, adhering to the twin logics of remediation: transparent immediacy and hypermediacy. The actors involved all shared a view of television as the great medium of the future when it came to disseminating and promoting art to the wider public. However, they also shared notions of television’s limitations when it came to the matter of ”doing justice” to a work of art when broadcast. This was first and foremost considered to be purely a matter of technical limitations, such as the lack of colour and the small screen size. It is however also evident that the actors’ view of their task and that of the medium with regard to arts programming, to represent works of art to the viewers as honestly as possible, delimited the form and content of shows and programming. On another level, the conflict between art and television was a matter of art’s supposedly critical and societal value. According to the actors, art was considered something other than regular programming, in the sense that art constituted different ways of seeing and perceiving the world. The function and importance of arts programming, then, was considered to be in the ways it differed from regular programming, making possible to educate the TV-viewing public in critical thinking towards the manipulation of media as well as providing ways of developing the form and aesthetics of the television medium.
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