Swedish School Results, Student Background, Competition and Efficiency
Вопросы образования, 2020 Sweden’s declining results in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for 15-year olds and other international tests between 2000 and 2012 have raised concern about the efficiency of the Swedish school system, even though results ...
Christophe André +2 more
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Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2012 On the basis of 13 in-depth interviews with Swedish women and one month of ethnographic work in the Swedish community in Singapore in 2009, this article examines how Swedish women, travelling from Sweden to Singapore as “expatriate wives” in the wake of ...
Catrin Lundström
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Refugees from Syria and Iraq in Sweden: resettlement during the migration crisis
Baltic Region, 2022 The vast increase in the number of forced migrants during the European migration crisis has compelled the receiving countries to concentrate on the issues of migrant reception and accommodation.
M. M. Agafoshin +2 more
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Sense-Making, Mutual Learning and Cognitive Shifts When Applying Systems Thinking in Public Health – Examples From Sweden; Comment on “What Can Policy-Makers Get Out of Systems Thinking? Policy Partners’ Experiences of a Systems-Focused Research Collaboration in Preventive Health” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2021 It is widely acknowledged that systems thinking (ST) should be implemented in the area of public health, but how this should be done is less clear. In this commentary we focus on sense-making and double-loop learning processes when using ST and soft ...
Monica E. Nyström +2 more
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The White Side of Migration: 'Reflections on race, citizenship and belonging in Sweden'
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2017 ‘The migrant’ tends to be imagined as a non-privileged, non-white, non-western subject in search of a better future in Europe or the United States and as such is a pre-constituted subject shaped by notions of marginalization and poverty.
Catrin Lundström
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2022 OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine the effects of various aspects of night and shift work on the risk of incident ischemic heart disease (IHD) and atrial fibrillation (AF) using detailed and registry-based exposure data.
Manzur Kader +7 more
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Intersecting Worlds: New Sweden’s Transatlantic Entanglements
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2016 The New Sweden Colony (1638-1655) is often regarded as an anomaly in the context of 17th century Swedish politics and in the context of other European colonies in America.
Gunlög Fur +2 more
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Education in the North, 2020 The Tornedalians are a national ethnic and linguistic minority group in northern Sweden who live along the Torne River Valley (Tornedalen) in municipalities that border the neighbouring country of Finland.
Pär Poromaa Isling
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European Journal of Spatial Development, 2008 Within the politics of sustainable development citizens are expected to play an active and direct role in the implementation process. The potential for citizens to actually assume this role remains, however, unclear. This paper explores the prerequisites
Madeleine Granvik +2 more
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Review on: Makarov I. V. Ocherki istorii reformatsii v Finlyandii (1520–1620 gg.): Formirovanie natsionalnoy tserkovnosti. Portretyi vyidayuschihsya deyateley finskoy Reformatsii [Notes on history of Reformation in Finland (1520s–1620s): Development of national churchism and portraits of leading churchmen], Saint-Petersburg, 2007 [PDF]
Религия, церковь, общество, 2014 The first Russian monograph dedicated to Reformation in Finland is reviewed in the text. The author appreciates the positives and negative sides of the book that gives to Russian public a detailed tableau of Church history of the neighbor country within ...
Krylov Pavel Valentinovich
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