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20 Sep 2023
Place Branding in times of crisis and uncertainty
From climate change disasters to the war in Ukraine and the shaky global economy, there is a growing and palpable sense of living in a time of perpetual crisis and uncertainty. How...
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15 Sep 2023
Razors vs lazers – hair removals environmental footprint
How much environmental impact does your hair removal have? With the method LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) it’s possible to find out. Sustainability researchers from Lund, United Kingd...
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15 Sep 2023
The fashion market in focus on the latest additions to our course portfolio
Are you interested in fashion, trends, communication, and sustainability? This spring we offer two new courses about the fashion market.
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7 Jul 2023
Fashion, textile care, cryptocurrency and seaweed at the CCT Conference
Over 300 participated at the international conference organized by CCT, Consumer Culture Theory. This year, Lund University was hosting.
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22 Jun 2023
Two master theses received honorary award
On the 8th of June, the graduation ceremony for our Master's students was arranged by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Lund University Main Building. During the ceremony, two ...
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24 May 2023
Guest lecturers gives valuable industry insights and a connection to business life
The students at the masters' programme in Service Management with the specialization in Supply Chain Management is currently taking the course Service Logistics where several inter...
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17 May 2023
Guest lecturers gives valuable industry insights and a connection to business life
The students at the master programme in Service Management with the specialization in Supply Chain Management is currently taking the course Service Logistics where several interes...
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15 May 2023
Hervé Corvellec: Plastic is embedded in consumption
Reducing plastic waste and plastic pollution in our oceans is on the agenda for UN’s member states since March 2022. In a hearing between the French Sénat and Assemblée Nationale r...
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28 Apr 2023
New doctoral thesis about grey zones in medical care
The 24th of March Rui Liu defended her doctoral dissertation “Tinkered Care: Assembling Medicine Consumption in Grey Zones”. The thesis looks into two related domains: care seekers...
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31 Mar 2023
World leading conference on place branding comes to Sweden and Campus Helsingborg
This fall, world leading researchers and practicians will gather att Lund university, Campus Helsingborg to exchange ideas and discuss the latest research at the seventh internatio...
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16 Mar 2023
Service studies starts education programme in The Great Lakes Region
In collaboration with Lund University Commissioned Education (LUCE) the department of Service studies offers a new international education programme with start later this spring. F...
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10 Mar 2023
New doctors granted funds to develop trade in Helsingborg
For the fourth year in a row, new doctors active at Campus Helsingborg have had the possibility to receive fundings from the Helsingborg trade association. Besides being a research...
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8 Mar 2023
Rui Liu nailed her dissertation
This years first nailing ceremony took place at the department when Rui Liu nailed her thesis "Tinkered care: Assembling Medicine Consumption in Grey Zones". The topic is medical a...
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7 Mar 2023
Funding for research on digitalization and sustainable consumption
What role can digitalization play in the pursuit of a more sustainable consumption? A new research project with the title “Digital infrastructures for sustainable consumption: Redi...
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28 Feb 2023
"Circular Economy Practices Will Not Automatically Phase Out the Linear Economy"
Developing cleverly designed circular solutions must outcompete, supersede, and phase out current linear solutions. Professor Hervé Corvellec at the department of service studies w...
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15 Feb 2023
Blue economy, marine markets and marine spatial planning
What is the sea in marine spatial planning and how does it affect our future? In a one-day conference the results and work of two finished Formas projects was presented with the th...
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17 Jan 2023
New name for the department – ISM becomes SES
From January 2023 we are called The department of service studies. With the name change we want to increase the comprehensibility of our department name while expressing profession...
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11 Jan 2023
AI forces teachers to change the way courses are examined
Academic misconduct has increased with about 200% during the past covid years. As a precaution Lund University has started a project to prevent deception and misleading in examinat...
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4 Jan 2023
Recreational hunting in Sweden – a question of moral and balance
Hunting in Sweden has a long history and could be considered a cultural heritage. Wildlife management and a sense of local community and stewardship are important keywords to descr...
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13 Dec 2022
New doctoral thesis about social media shopping
The 9th of December Anna Spitzkat defended her doctorate dissertation “Understanding Social Media Shopping – Instagram and the Reconfiguration of the Practice of Shopping”. The the...