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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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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...
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19 Oct 2024
Aurimas Pumputis "nailed" his dissertation
The 18th of October we conducted a traditional nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Aurimas Pumputis nailed his doctors thesis ”Trust and Control on P2P platforms: ...
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27 Sep 2024
Care as a strategy for marketing and circularity
Care and circular consumption, can they go hand in hand? For some, it’s what drives their consumption of items and clothes. Réka Tölg, a doctoral student at the Department of Servi...
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22 Aug 2024
Carin Rehncrona "nailed" her dissertation
The 21st of August we conducted a traditional nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Carin Rehncrona nailed her doctors thesis ”Payments: Understanding the use of ret...
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14 Jun 2024
AI, minorities and urban-to-rural migration in new episodes of the Crocus podcast
What are the current issues for cultural organisations and creative management? What research is being done on these issues? The CROCUS podcast delves into these questions and now ...
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13 Jun 2024
Beyond Site/Sight: International conference on cultural spaces and the conditions of creativity
On June 12, the three-day international conference Beyond Site/Sight, organised by the interdisciplinary network CROCUS at Lund University, in collaboration with the City of Helsin...
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12 Jun 2024
Education programme in Uganda has been completed
The one-year commissioned diploma programme has come to an end. The programme was a collaboration between the Department of Service Studies, Lund University Commissioned Education ...
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5 Jun 2024
Graduation ceremony for our Master's students
On the 4th 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 2024
Students exploring Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship in Helsingborg
During the course “Service Development and Entrepreneurship” the Master’s students of the Culture and Creativity management specialisation worked on a project together with the Cit...
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21 May 2024
Excursion to Pärnu
It is a tradition for the Tourism and Hotel specialisation of the Bachelors programme in Service Management to go to Helsingborgs's twin city Pärnu in Estonia every year. This year...
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13 Feb 2024
Why are meetings important? New book explains
A place to discuss issues, to make decisions and for brainstorming ideas. Meetings are necessary for the development of a workplace. Even so, claims of the opposite is often heard....
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26 Jan 2024
New project sets out to enable circular household consumption
Last week was the launch for a new European project with the goal to empower households to reduce food waste and extend fashion’s lifespan. Christian Fuentes, Emma Samsioe and Réka...
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22 Jan 2024
Experiences and practices from creative workers in new book
How do creative workers work? Insights and experiences from a range of relevant disciplines withing creative professions is presented in this Open Access book.
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8 Dec 2023
New book on why it is so important to listen
Why is listening important and how can we as employees and organisations become better at it? These and other questions are answered in a new book aimed at those who want to become...
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30 Nov 2023
Sustainability, technology and wellbeing in a new book about consumption
The retail industry is constantly changing and has been for the past decades. Technology, sustainability and consumer wellbeing have influenced and continue to influence retailing ...
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7 Nov 2023
Reduced number of parking spaces in favour of green meeting places in new EU project
In the middle of October, the first project partner meeting was held in Helsingborg. The project is about shared and sustainable mobility in new housing developments, and was hoste...
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24 Oct 2023
Conference on place branding brought visitors from all over the world
The image of Sweden, travel and place communication in times of crisis and uncertainty were some of the topics that guided the content of the international conference on place bran...