Essays about: "Social work as a science"
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1. Risk & Policy: The relevance and influence of Aaron Wildavsky’s book Searching for Safety in the safety discourse.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : The main finding of this thesis is that the relevance and influence of Aaron Wildavsky’s book Searching for Safety in today’s safety discourse is limited although Wildavsky may be considered to be the linking pin between RE, HRO and NAT. The safety discourse may benefit from Wildavsky’s work in political science: I.e. READ MORE
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2. The Public, The Police, and The Puzzle of Information
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : When humans are involved, things can go wrong. This is a statement as factually true and yet dramatically undefined and dangerously ambiguous as any. No matter the industry or domain, where humans interact with other humans, perfect predictability is impossible and a focus on negative outcomes can seem natural. READ MORE
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3. SCAFFOLDING MATHEMATICAL CONVERSATIONS:
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärandeAbstract : Purpose: This study aims to address the current research gap on interactive mathematics exhibits by investigating parents’ role in supporting their children’s mathematics learning using such displays. In addition to this, the study examines the design of an interactive exhibit and explores whether it can facilitate mathematics learning among parents and children. READ MORE
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4. The Convention on the Rights of the Child in practice: Social workers’ experience and acting space when implementing the Convention within the City of Gothenburg
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : The aim with this thesis is to examine how social workers, who work in short-term and long term residential housing activities within the City of Gothenburg and meet children in their work with adults, experience the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in practice, and their perceived circumstances related to opportunities and obstacles regarding the implementation of CRC. As such, the research question that guided the aim are: How do social worker experience that CRC works in practice? What are the social workers own experience regarding interacting and caring communicating with the children they meet? How do social workers as street-level bureaucrats experience their own acting space when working with CRC in practice? The thesis gives new insight into how children´s rights are met at different levels within the City of Gothenburg, as most previous research has focussed on social secretaires experience of the implementation of the convention, looking at social workers experience can help to get an insight into how the convention are established at different levels. READ MORE
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5. Using Social Media and Personality Predictions to Anticipate Startup Success
University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistikAbstract : This thesis explores the potential of integrating predicted founder personalities, based on the Big 5 Personality Framework, into Machine Learning (ML) models to enhance the accuracy of early-stage startup success predictions. Leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, we extracted personality insights from founders' tweets, focusing on US startups funded between 2013 and 2015. READ MORE
