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"I am a butterfly who wants to fly" Narratives of prostitution in Managua.

Gonzalez, Beatriz Ortiz (Master thesis, 2009-06-03)

The present Master Thesis is the outcome of two years study of "Gender and Development" program in Bergen (Norway) and my 3-months fieldwork in Managua (Nicaragua). My aim in this thesis is to explore the experiences and ...

"I am a woman, I am Christian, and I am Palestinian." - En studie av identitet og roller blant kristne palestinske landsbykvinner på den okkuperte Vestbredden.

Palerud, Elisabet (Master thesis, 2009-04-02)

Det overordnede fokuset mitt i denne avhandlingen ligger på identitet og samhandling blant de kristne innbyggerne i en liten landsby på Vestbredden, og det er spesielt kvinnenes situasjon i forhold til dette jeg ønsker å ...

‘I am not only beneficial to the community but to the entire country, I am trained as a researcher now’: Developing health research skills in low-income countries

Hatløy, Anne; Luthuli, Silondile; John, Vaughn; Haskins, Lyn; Mapumulo, Sphindile; Mutombo, Paulin Beya; Tylleskär, Thorkild; Engebretsen, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv; Horwood, Christiane; Mapatano, Mala Ali (Journal article, 2021)

Partnerships between Higher Education Institutions in the global South and North have potential for building capacity in public health research in low-resource countries. We present experiences of partners involved in a ...

I am not that interesting. Social media, privacy literacy, and the interplay between knowledge and experience

Rundhovde, Heidi Molvik (Master thesis, 2013-06-01)

Sharing of personal information on the Internet has become increasingly popular. In social media interactions users face a trade-off between the pleasure and usefulness of sharing and the need to protect their privacy. ...

«I avdødes ånd». En kulturvitenskapelig analyse av livssynsåpen seremoni ved gravferd

Utby, Vilde Ørsje (Master thesis, 2019-10-01)

In Norway there are two kinds of funeral ceremonies: Religious funeral ceremonies and nondenominational funeral ceremonies. The first group includes funerals that are arranged through a religion or a philosophy, where the ...

“I came to escort someone”: Men’s experiences of antenatal care services in urban Ghana—a qualitative study

Ampim, Gloria Abena; Blystad, Astrid; Kpoor, Albert; Haukanes, Haldis (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

Background Male involvement in maternal healthcare has been widely recognized as essential for positive health outcomes for expectant mothers and their unborn babies. However, few studies have explored men’s experiences ...

I den allersidste del af ildens æra

Nielsen, Thorbjørn Aksel (Master thesis, 2021-11-22)

Denne opgave analyserer Liv Sejrbo Lidegaard og Theis ørntofts respektive poesi med et mørkt økologisk blik. Som udgangspunkt præsenteres derfor noget af den litteratur der allerede eksisterer om dansk økopoesi og økokritik, ...

"I do not altogether know who I am" Androgynitet og kreativitet i Virginia Woolfs The waves

Pedersen, Camilla Ønvik (Master thesis, 2000)

"I Do Not Write a Life": Hamsun, Psychiatry and Life Narrative

Skålevåg, Svein Atle (Chapter, 2021)

Life narratives are written in many different forms. This chapter discusses two such life narratives, constituting two textual explorations of the same ageing self, that of the Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun. As part of a ...

"I don't understand computer programming, because I'm a woman!" Negotiating gendered positions in a Norwegian discourse of computing

Corneliussen, Hilde G. (Chapter, 2004)

In this article I will discuss how young men and women in Norway perceive the existence of gendered expectations in relation to computers. The male and female students of computing that I have studied, share an understanding ...

«I et komplisert forhold». USA og Sovjetunionen i perioden 1945-1991

Tesdal, Lill Therese (Master thesis, 2019-07-06)

Den kalde krigen var en ideologisk maktkamp mellom USA, med sitt liberale demokrati og kommunistiske Sovjetunionen. Hvem av stormaktene som startet den kalde krigen, er en diskusjon den dag i dag, og at krigen varte så ...

“I feel good when I drink”—detecting childhood-onset alcohol abuse and dependence in a Ugandan community trial cohort

Engebretsen, Ingunn Marie S.; Nalugya, Joyce; Skylstad, Vilde; Ndeezi, Grace; Akol, Angela; Babirye, Juliet Ndimwibo; Nankabirwa, Victoria; Tumwine, James K (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

Background Alcohol, substance use, and mental health disorders constitute major public health issues worldwide, including in low income and lower middle-income countries, and early initiation of use is an important predictor ...

“I feel like it’s giving me a lot as a language teacher to be a learner myself”: Factors affecting the implementation of a multilingual pedagogy as reported by teachers of diverse languages

Calafato, Raees (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

To boost the foreign language learning process, language teachers need to know how to implement a multilingual pedagogy, that is, they should be able to draw on their and their students’ knowledge of other languages during ...

‘I FEEL PROUD, HONORED AND VALUED’ - CHANGING TRENDS, EMPOWERING AND DISEMPOWERING ASPECTS OF BRIDE PRICE AMONG URBAN BASED BAGANDA OF CENTRAL UGANDA

Sarah, Musubika (Master thesis, 2019-06-19)

ABSTRACT Payment of bride price in Buganda has persisted through the waves of modernization despite predictions that such traditional practices tend to phase out in the face of modernity. Though it is a traditional practice ...