This essay is a qualitative case study about the Swedish university programme Music & Event Management (MEM). The programme is a part of the Linneaus University (LNU) and the education takes place at two different locations, the first half of the programme in the small town of Hultsfred and the remaining time in the city of Kalmar. The programme has existed since the year 2001. Since 2013 the number of applying students has decreased and this resulted in the decision that the programme will not accept any applications the year 2019. This study is of an abductive nature. Nine people from MEM and other similar programmes have been interviewed. Results have been made by analyzing and coding the empirical data collected in the interviews along with presented theories.   The purpose of this case study is to identify and analyze the possible causes behind the decreasing number of applying students and to find out which factors the programme and university can work with in order to turn this negative trend around. By doing so we hope to identify factors that other higher creative educational programmes, nished for a specific industry, can have in mind to avoid a decreasing number of applying students or when having this problem.   Our findings suggests that there are a number of different factors that can have an impact on the number of applications for this kind of education. Some of these factors are possible to avoid to some extent and some are not. We found that the world in which the education operates within can affect the attractivity of the programme, such as the economical situation and the ever changing industry that the programme is nished to. The educational content of the programme can also have great effect on whether or not students find the programme suitable for eventually working in the music industry, there is a choice of being a practical or academically focused programme. We also identified that the marketing is a crucial factor regarding the attractivity, how the programme presents itself for the students as a brand and how available the education is. We hope that our findings in this case study can help MEM and other programmes of this kind to prevent the problem of decreasing applications.

Diss. Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2004.

The aim of this study is to describe the experience of social support among female elite athletes who combine handball with higher education, with the underlying purpose to describe these persons’ experience of the functions of the support. These functions are materialistic, informative and emotional. There are ten women in the ages 22 to 24 (M=23.1, S=0,83) participating in the study. The study uses a semi-structured interview, based on two articles that studied social support (Knight et al., 2018; Schaefer et al., 1981). The result was sorted in three categories: emotional support, materialistic support and informative support. The result showed that women experienced emotional support, especially affinity, in the dual career (DC). Materialistic support was experienced in terms of support thru adjustment from coach and university. However, materialistic support was also identified lacking. Lastly, informative support, in shape of information and guidance in dual career, was experienced missing. / Syftet med studien är att beskriva upplevelsen av socialt stöd hos kvinnliga elithandbollsspelare som kombinerar elitidrott med högre utbildning, med det underliggande syftet att beskriva dessa personers upplevelser av stödets funktioner, så som materiellt, informativt och känslomässigt. I studien deltog tio kvinnor i åldrarna 22-24 år (M=23,1, S=0,83). Studien använde en semistrukturerad intervju, som var baserad på två artiklar där socialt stöd studerats (Knight et al., 2018; Schaefer et al., 1981). Resultatet sorterades i tre kategorier; känslomässigt stöd, materiellt stöd och informativt stöd. Resultatet påvisar att kvinnorna upplevde känslomässigt stöd i dubbla karriären (DK), där framför allt samhörighet med andra upplevde stötta kvinnorna. Kvinnorna upplevde också materiellt stöd, i form av anpassningar från både tränare och universitet/högskolepersonal. Resultatet visar även att flera kvinnor upplevde att de saknade denna typ av materiellt stöd i deras DK. Till sist identifierades kvinnorna uppleva att de saknade även informativt stöd i form av vägledning och information i DK.