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The Financial Crisis in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Latvia and Cyprus
(Master thesis, 2014)The financial crisis in Latvia and Cyprus shared many important characteristics and they both underwent similar crisis with significant help from international partners. Latvia underwent internal devaluation while Cyprus ... -
The First Pan-European Sociological Health Inequalities Survey of the General Population: The European Social Survey Rotating Module on the Social Determinants of Health
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The European Social Survey (ESS) is a biennial, academically driven, cross-sectional, pan-European social survey that charts and explains the interactions between Europe’s changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs, ... -
The Future can only be Imagined” – Innovation in Farm Tourism from a Phenomenological Perspective
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The geography of armed civil conflict
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2005:190, Doctoral thesis, 2005)This dissertation seeks to increase our general knowledge of the origins and dynamics of civil war by exploring the many possible functions of geography. Each of the five chapters that follow the introduction has its own ... -
The Growth and Harvesting of Russian Climate Science - A qualitative study of Russian climate scientists’ practices and experiences with implementation of Arctic research.
(Master thesis, 2022)I denne kvalitative studien undersøker jeg hvordan Arktisk klimaforskning beveger seg fra den akademiske sfæren inn i politikken. I tillegg til å undersøke kunnskapens reiser så utforsker jeg den selvopplevde rollen til ... -
The GSDF's Quest for Public Acceptance and the "Allergy" Myth
(Chapter, 2017)Based on extensive Japanese-language materials, this book is the first to examine the development of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force. It addresses: how the GSDF was able to emerge as the post-war successor of the Imperial ... -
The haystack fallacy, or why Big Data provides little security
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The Health Gradient in Europe: An empirical analysis of health inequalities in Europe and within thirteen European countries from 2002 to 2012
(Master thesis, 2014)During the last three decades there has been a growing research interest on socioeconomic health inequalities, but where most of the studies have been on individual health determinants. The aim of this paper will be to ... -
The health of European populations: introduction to the special supplement on the 2014 European Social Survey (ESS) rotating module on the social determinants of health
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This introduction summarizes the main findings of the Supplement ‘Social inequalities in health and their determinants’ to the European Journal of Public Health. The 16 articles that constitute this supplement use the new ... -
The Impact of Competency-Based Curriculum on Teaching Resources and Cultural Heritage Content in Social Studies: Fostering Diversity, Empowerment, and Citizenship Education A qualitative case study of how the Kenyan Competency-Based Curriculum has influenced cultural heritage content and teaching resources in social studies.
(Master thesis, 2024)Den kompetansebaserte læreplanen (CBC) viderefører Kenyas historie av å vektlegge kulturelt mangfold og kulturarv i læreplanene. Den nye læreplanen innfører en elev-sentrert pedagogikk og er forankret i teorier som ... -
The Impact of Welfare Regime on Social Trust in Europe : A Multilevel Investigation
(Master thesis, 2014)Achieving a high level of social trust is a desirable goal for most countries, since social trust has been considered a key driver of progress, and often goes hand in hand with cooperation and successful political ... -
The imperishable controversy over aquaculture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Fish farming has been a recurring topic of debate, not the least in the news media. The media is an important source of information about the aquaculture industry and its products to the public. However, the media is also ... -
The Importance of Adolescents’ Participation in Organized Sport According to VO2peak: A Longitudinal Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Research from several countries has documented a decline in physical activity (PA) levels and in participation in organized sport with increasing age, indicating that organized sport may be of importance to adolescents’ ... -
The International Monetary Fund, Violence and the Prospects for Democratization
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2016:305, Doctoral thesis, 2016)ABSTRACT: What are the domestic political costs of accepting a program from the International Monetary Fund? IMF programs are surrounded by controversy and innumerable claims of their negative political and social effects ... -
The Isolated Community - a qualitative inquiry into motivation and playstyle amongst Pokémon GO players in Trondheim during the Covid-19 pandemic
(Master thesis, 2022)Denne undersøkelsen utforsker motivasjonsendringer blant spillere av Pokémon GO - et augmented reality (AR) lokasjonsbasert spill (LBG) - under covid-19 pandemien i Trondheim. Hovedproblemstillingen er: “Hvilke faktorer ... -
The Lootable Resource on Africa's Horn:: Why are there no pirates in Northwest Somalia? And why are they everywhere else?
(Master thesis, 2011)In this thesis I wish to examine the underlying mechanisms that caused the onset of piracy in Somalia. Since the 1990s piracy has spread like wildfire from the Northeast of Somalia and Southwards. Yet it has failed to take ... -
The Media's Conditional Agenda-Setting Power: How Baselines and Spikes of Issue Salience Affect Likelihood and Strength of Agenda-Setting
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Whether agenda-setting effects occur and how strong they are appear to be strongly context-dependent. The baseline public and media salience of an issue and the extent of abrupt changes in salience have been mentioned as ... -
The Need to Focus on Digital Pedagogy for Online Learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)As pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning continue to evolve to meet the needs of students in a rapidly changing, globalized world that is heavily influenced and reliant on digital technologies, it is anticipated ... -
The New Practices and Infrastructures of Participation: How the popularity of Twitch.tv challenges old and new ideas about television viewing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)A central theme in media research has been the transition from traditional broadcast media, like television and radio, to social media and streaming services. For both researchers and practitioners in the field, a crucial ...