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29 Oct 2025
Marthe Nehl "nailed" her dissertation
The 24th of October we conducted a traditional nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Marthe Nehl nailed her doctors thesis ”Infrastructuring independent cultural pro...
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19 Jun 2025
Graduation ceremony for our Master's students
On the 12th of June, the graduation ceremony for our Master's students was arranged by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the AF-Borgen’s Stora Salen. During the ceremony, below the...
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13 Jun 2025
Idleness: Vice or Virtue? - Tullia Jack receives Formas Explore funding for IDLE Project
On 27 May 2025, Formas announced the results for Explore— a highly competitive open call that supports ground-breaking sustainability research. This year, a mere 83 out of 1,117 su...
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9 Jun 2025
Closing the International Student Career Programme semester with an event on internships
The Campus Helsingborg International Student Career Programme, launched in the spring of 2025, consists of a series of events specifically designed to equip international students ...
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27 May 2025
Festive and solemn at the university's doctoral conferment
On Friday 23 May, the university's major ceremony, the doctoral conferment, took place. During the ceremony in Lund Cathedral, the 239 doctors who have completed their doctoral stu...
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26 May 2025
Sun, studies and student community on a field trip to Estonia
This year's excursion for the students at the department specialising in tourism offered both sunshine and memorable experiences. For the second year in a row, both bachelor and ma...
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9 May 2025
Panel discussion on the textile industry during Sustainability Week
During Sustainability Week at Lund University, students from the Service Management and Strategic Communication master programmes organized a panel discussion during Sustainability...
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14 Apr 2025
How does consumption become circular in a linear world? A new doctoral thesis shows opportunities and obstacles.
On 11 April, Réka Tölg defended her doctoral thesis ‘The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household s...
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21 Mar 2025
Réka Tölg "nailed" her dissertation
The 21st of March we conducted a traditional nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Réka Tölg nailed her doctors thesis ”The (im)possibilities of circular consumption...
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21 Feb 2025
Trust and control in guest-host relationships
A new doctoral thesis by Aurimas Pumputis explores how trust and control function between guests and hosts on peer-to-peer platforms like Airbnb. The study focuses on how these rel...
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20 Feb 2025
New EU project in the search for sustainable tourism
Tourism’s impact on local communities and their ecosystems is a continuous challenge. This applies when we travel, but also when we eat, stay overnight and the activities we take p...
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13 Feb 2025
Waste as a Critique - New anthology with Hervé Corvellec
A new anthology explores how waste – in all its forms – can be an unexpected but powerful starting point for understanding and questioning contemporary society. Professor Hervé Cor...
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19 Dec 2024
Paying with cash hurts less for the younger generations
Cash in an envelope is a traditional, appreciated Christmas gift to grand children and young relatives. But does it still feel like paying with real money?
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18 Dec 2024
Guest doctoral student share his thoughts from the fall
In connection with our efforts towards internationalization, we have had the opportunity to welcome a guest doctoral student within the tourism field to share his research and lear...
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13 Dec 2024
Social support important for stressed managers
More managers are suffering from poor mental health linked to work-related stress. In a survey of Swedish managers, three researchers at Lund University have examined the question ...
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25 Nov 2024
The future of retail in focus at international research conference
Retail and logistics researchers gathered in Helsingborg in early November to present and discuss the latest research at the ninth edition of the Nordic Retail and Wholesale Confer...
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22 Nov 2024
Impact from the New Welfare Services-programme in Uganda
A half-year after the diploma programme New Welfare Services – Sustainable Service Design as a driver for regional development came to an end some of the participants share how it ...
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4 Nov 2024
Doctoral students from Service Studies on annual writing retreat by the sea
Every year, doctoral students at the Department of Service Studies go on a writing retreat to focus on their theses and strengthen the community. This year, the trip went to Smygeh...
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29 Oct 2024
The Department invites international guest researchers
The Department of Service Studies welcomes Marta Baltruszewicz and Diana Ivanova, two visiting researchers who will be part of our research environment for a couple of weeks. They ...
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25 Oct 2024
New doctoral thesis about retail payment services
The 13th of September Carin Rehncrona defended her doctoral dissertation “Payments: Understanding the use of retail payment service platforms in the era of digitalisation”. The the...