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    • What Happened in Northern Norway? - A comparative and quantitative analysis of political and demographic development in Northern Norway from 1950 to 2015 

      Stein, Jonas (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2019-11-08)
      The thesis What Happened in Northern Norway? is a quantitative analysis of various aspects of the political and demographic development in Northern Norway from 1950 to today. The theories of Ottar Brox and in his seminal work Hva skjer i Nord-Norge? (What Is Happening in Northern Norway?), have influenced regional and national actors in their understanding of the region and their policy development. ...
    • What Makes us Act? On the Potentials of Exercises in Live Art Education and Performances 

      Valkoinen, Kristina Junttila (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-03-28)
      This thesis is focusing on the exercise as an event in live art, participatory art and live art education. The thesis looks at the potential of exercises to facilitate for an inclusive space and the unknown future. The thesis consists of four peer-reviewed published articles and a summary article (“kappe” in Norwegian). The studies are practice-led research, using a diffractive analysis, based on ...
    • When grammar can't be trusted - Valency and semantic categories in North Sámi syntactic analysis and error detection 

      Wiechetek, Linda (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2018-05-23)
      In this dissertation, I investigate valencies and syntactically relevant semantic categories in North Sámi. In addition, I develop three machine-readable grammars for the North Sámi grammar checker GoDivvun that have access to valencies and semantics. Like a human, a machine-readable grammar analyzes a sentence by putting together information from different linguistic levels and based on this, ...
    • Who merits admittance? The fairness of skills-based migration criteria 

      Egan, Magnus Skytterholm (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-10-20)
      The last few decades have seen an increasing use of merit-based immigration systems, whereby migrants are treated differently on the basis of their skills, education, and wealth. In this thesis I argue that there are justice-based reasons to be sceptical of such policies. While I agree that there are good grounds for states to control their own borders, related to self-determination and the welfare ...
    • Whose stories? Whose place? : place politics and the politics of place stories in Tromsø's Olympic debate 

      Kielland, Ingrid Marie (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2013-01-11)
      Abstract The dissertation explores the relevance and potential of approaching place politics through personal and collective stories about place. It is based on a case study of a local debate over a controversial project to bid for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Tromsø, Northern Norway. The dissertation contributes to developing Doreen Massey´s work on the politics of a relational sense of place ...
    • Why won't they take them on? A study on student teachers' first-time engagement with wiki technology 

      Brox, Hilde (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2019-11-15)
      The topic of the dissertation is the use of wikis in teacher education. The study is based on two classroom interventions involving first-time use of wiki technology. In the first, 18 students of Social studies created a Wikipedia article; in the second, 13 students of Norwegian co-edited a fiction-based, class-only wiki. The study is concerned with how the student teachers engage with, make sense ...
    • Wohlfahrtsstaat und Gesellschaft : eine systemtheoretische Analyse der sozialwissenschaftlichen Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung und die Theorie funktionaler Differenzierung 

      Hadamek, Claus (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2009-02-09)
      Diese Dissertation verfolgt zwei Ziele: Zum einen sollen zentrale Eigenschaften des Begriffsapparates der sozialwissenschaftlichen Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung analysiert werden. Die Analysemethode ist dabei eine systemtheoretische Methode. Zum anderen sollen die Analyseresultate mit Hilfe und im Lichte der Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmann’s reformuliert werden. In beiden Fällen steht die Frage nach der ...
    • Yrkesretting og praktisk anvendelse av fellesfagene 

      Rondestvedt, André (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2019-10-17)
      I studien undersøker jeg læreprosessens arbeidsmåter og integrering av faginnhold ved yrkesretting av fellesfag, som tar utgangspunkt i yrkenes praktiske arbeidsoppgaver. Begrepet yrkesretting av fellesfag er sentralt ved en slik tilnærming til yrkesopplæring. Det empiriske utvalget i studien er tre yrkesskoleklasser innen programfagene Elektrofag vg1, Teknikk og industriell produksjon vg1 og ...