Thanks to an internationalisation initiative at the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Department of Service Studies has been able to apply for funding to invite international visiting researchers to participate in the activities at the department. The plan is for each research group in the department to invite one senior and one junior researcher to be part of the research environment, hold seminars and meet students. The format can be different for the different guests.
– We thought about a project that benefits everyone and came up with this one that involves all research groups, but also allows everyone to have an exchange: the senior researchers, but also the doctoral students who have the opportunity to meet younger researchers at the beginning of their careers. It was also a conscious decision to invite researchers from Europe to give them the opportunity to travel here by train, says Malin Zillinger, associate professor and assistant head of the department.
First in line is the group for sustainability, resources and services, which has invited Ivanova and Baltruszewicz. Ivanova is a lecturer in Environmental and climate governance at the University of Leeds and Baltruszewicz is an environmental consultant at Asplan Viak AS in Trondheim, and holds a PhD in Ecological Economics from the University of Leeds.
They will hold a seminar on Wednesday 30 October at Campus Helsingborg, Lund University on the topic ‘Where health, environment and consumption research meet’, at 10:00 - 12:00. The seminar is open to all interested parties.