Halmstad University

Limited global awareness of invasive alien species and little support for their management

Invasive alien species (IAS) are one of the main drivers of global change and can cause a wide range of negative ecological and social impacts. Addressing these impacts requires management actions, which can fail to be effective when not supported by the public. Here, we conducte...

“More than medicine — but when?” A qualitative study of how general practitioners assess, negotiate, and apply social prescribing in clinical practice

Social prescribing (SP) addresses social determinants of health by linking patients in general practice to community-based, non-clinical services. Despite positive attitudes among general practitioners (GPs), uptake remains limited, and little is known about how SP is interpreted...

Associations between work experiences, health, well-being, and intention to remain in the profession among healthcare and social work professionals – a multicentre cross-sectional study

Abstract Background The relationship between work experiences, health, well-being, and job satisfaction is important, especially in high-stress professions like healthcare and social work. While work stress effects are well studied, less is known about how work experiences in ear...

Vision-language sample scoring with dynamic coverage-centric strategies

Data pruning reduces image-classifier training cost by replacing a full training set with a coreset. Existing methods often require training a target or proxy model to estimate sample importance, which ties data selection to a particular architecture. In addition, common allocati...

Evidence-Based Insights for the Development and Talent Promotion of Young Athletes in a National Sports Context

Abstract The development of young athletes continues to be a key concern for sports organizations, coaches and policy makers. In Sweden, the public debate on the balance between early talent promotion programs and more inclusive, long-term athlete development models has recently...

What makes soccer fun? Investigating fun priorities among Swedish adolescents by gender, age, perceived competence, and sports program type

Lack of fun has been described as a prominent reason for dropping out of soccer. Hence, understanding what makes soccer fun is critical to promoting continued participation. Efforts to facilitate fun experiences require insight into adolescents’ priorities regarding what constitu...

Exploring science teacher adaptive expertise through the framework of pedagogical content knowledge

Contemporary societal challenges require teachers to possess not only a strong foundation in science content but also the ability to adapt their instruction to address diverse student needs. This capacity, known as adaptive expertise (AE), requires teachers to apply knowledge fle...

AI and Democracy: Mapping Notions, Debates and Challenges

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely discussed as either a threat to democracy or a means of strengthening it. But democracy, an essentially contested concept, invokes many different levels at which AI may assist and obstruct the legitimacy of democratic government. Th...