Published 5 May 2023 Elton Chan defended his doctoral thesis "The Last Urban Frontier: Commodification of Public Space and the Right to the City in Insurgent Hong Kong" in the Eden Auditorium in Lund. Photo: Emma Lord. Friday 5 May Elton Chan defended his thesis which explores the production and transformation of public spaces in Hong Kong, a city that is steeped in neoliberal ideals and has seen

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/elton-chan-our-new-doctor-sociology-has-defended-his-thesis-public-space-hong-kong - 2025-07-05

Published 11 May 2023 On 11 May, Lars Crusefalk finished his PhD studies with a successful defence of his thesis "Financial journeys: Reasoning about debt and money among young adults in Sweden". He is the 132nd doctoral candidate to complete PhD studies at the Department of Sociology. Swedish households are among the most indebted in the EU. Home loans make up most of the debt, but other credit u

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lars-crusefalk-ends-phd-student-journey-and-transitions-doctor-sociology - 2025-07-05

Published 26 June 2023 Professor Anders Kjellberg has worked at the Department of Sociology at Lund University since 1978. His research focuses on trade unions, employers' associations and industrial relations. Foto Kennet Ruona. The neoliberal agenda dominating the EU for the past 40 years has been a severe challenge for the trade unions, which have lost organisational strength. Even in Sweden, u

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-kjellberg-co-authors-comprehensive-book-trade-unions-eu-countries - 2025-07-05

Published 3 July 2023 The proportion of unionised blue-collar and white-collar workers fell in 2022 after an increase in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. Despite this, Sweden has the world's second highest level of unionisation. This is shown in the report 'The Swedish model from a Nordic perspective: unionisation and the new basic agreement' by Professor Anders Kjellberg for the think tank Ar

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sweden-world-leading-union-membership-despite-declining-union-density - 2025-07-05

Published 28 March 2024 The Inverse Modelling group at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), Lund University, seeks to appoint a post-doctoral fellows to work on the quantification of biogenic and anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions based on assimilating relevant observational data. The main duties involved in a post-doctoral posistion is to conduct research.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/pdf_ccmodelling - 2025-07-05

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 30 July 2024 Postdoctoral fellow in Earth Observation of land cover and vegetation dynamics in the Middle East. The Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) announce one vacant position as a 2-year postdoctoral fellow with an orientation towards

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/open-position-postdoctoral-fellow-earth-observation - 2025-07-05

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 7 August 2024 Photo by Jan Huber on Unsplash. Researcher Patrik Vestin writes in a " news and views " article in Nature that the woody surfaces of trees may take up methane on a scale of global importance. This is a missing piece in the estimation of global methane budgets, and hence in climate models. Future resear

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/bigger-role-trees-global-carbon-cycling - 2025-07-05

Published 16 October 2024 Photo by E. Diop, Unsplash. Africa, despite its large area and thus large impact on the global carbon cycle, is relatively unexplored with respect to ecosystem functions and impact on climate change. Now one of few in situ studies over a long period of time, 2010-2022, shows that the Sahel area has lost a lot of its power as a carbon sink during the time period examined.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/reduced-carbon-sink-power-sahel - 2025-07-05

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 10 April 2025 The study shows that rewilding-inspired forest management has several benefits, including for biodiversity. Photo by Scott Walsh on Unsplash Allowing nature to cover up after human activities, known as rewilding, has several benefits. It improves the resilience of ecosystems, increases biodiversity and

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/rewilding-good-planet-and-people - 2025-07-05

Published 30 January 2018 Erika Andersson Cederholm was the key note speaker on the conference. On January the 11th the tourism students on the Masters' programme of 2016, arranged a conference on the theme of tourism practices. As a part of the course "Value creation and innovation in tourism", the students of the Master programme with the specialisation Tourism, organized this conference that th

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/tourism-practices-today-and-tomorrow - 2025-07-05

By sara [dot] norberg [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Norberg) - published 15 February 2018 The students in the Bachelor programme Service Management, second semester, visited Ikea's origins in Älmhult to learn more about the company as well as make their own observations in the store. Within the scope of the course "The store", the visit aimed to give students an understanding of the mechanisms

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/students-specializing-retail-visited-ikea-almhult - 2025-07-05

Published 15 March 2018 Filippa Elestam, Linn Forsander, Sophia Lindberg, Maike Steigemann and Jonathan Lundberg from Service Management, and Louise Johansson from Strategic Communication, was part of the project group for Agoradagen. Some students work harder than others, arranging this year's work fair, Agoradagen, while studying full-time. But when you are an engaged student you also benefit. T

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/campus-engagement-prepares-students-work-life - 2025-07-05

By sara [dot] norberg [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Norberg) - published 27 March 2018 Dianne Dredge's latest publication is "Cruise tourism shore excursions: Value for destinations?" Tourism researcher Dianne Dredge comes to Campus Helsingborg as part of gender equality initiative. Senior lecturer Erika Andersson Cederholm applied for funding of a visiting professor in Hedda Andersson's name.–

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/dianne-dredge-service-management-visiting-professor - 2025-07-05

Published 11 April 2018 Visitors from relevant businesses and organisations are an important teaching element of our programmes. Meet some of the speakers from this year's spring term. H&M H&M talked about the buyer role, trends and business intelligence, and brought some cases for the students to work with.  Gina Tricot and Nilson Group Gina Tricot and Nilson Group talked about the establishment

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/guest-lecturers-bring-bit-reality-class - 2025-07-05

Published 26 April 2018 Kristina Bäckström at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies leads the project, which aims to dive into the challenges met by employees in service encounters of today. The Role of the Employee in the Service Encounter: Challenges and Change Management for Retail Employees The future physical store is much debated in the area of retail. In recent years, dig

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/research-service-encounters-receives-funding - 2025-07-05

Published 2 May 2018 How can the process of creating a touristic offer be described? Manuela Kronen reconstructed a rural development project that had led to the creation of ten biking trails. Tourism researcher Manuela Kronen found reference to ”uniqueness” in the marketing of completely diverse Swedish destinations. She wanted to investigate how the concept could be used to develop a touristic o

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/looking-uniqueness-skane-countryside - 2025-07-05

Published 22 May 2018 Germans who go on holiday in Sweden are somewhat older than average, they are more educated and often returning visitors. The personal encounter is important to them, and they trust recommendations, especially from other Germans. These are some of the findings from the report presented by project manager Malin Zillinger and fellow researchers Maria Månsson, Jan Henrik Nilsson

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/tourism-researchers-and-industry-met-during-breakfast - 2025-07-05

Published 18 June 2018 Andres Rios Lam (right) has been awarded a grant from Sparbanksstiftelsen Skåne. Andres Rios Lam has been awarded a grant of 25,000 SEK from Sparbanksstiftelsen Skåne for his Master's thesis for Service Management, ”Exploring the Use of Freight Exchange E-marketplaces in Sweden: The Perspective of the Transport Service Provider”. The nomination reads as follows:The topic add

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/master-thesis-electronic-market-places-was-awarded - 2025-07-05

Published 10 September 2018 Public interest in degrowth is on the rise in these times of global warming awareness, but the idea is hardly new. We talked to professor Hervé Corvellec after the 6th International Degrowth Conference took place in Malmoe. "Degrowth is the idea of turning economic development from growth-based into its opposite. A key aspect of today’s economic life is that we consume

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/circular-economy-just-another-growth-model - 2025-07-05

Published 30 October 2018 Two new service-related areas of study will be covered by the Master’s Programme in Service Management next year. Sustainability and Services is a research theme which involves a large number of researchers at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies. Starting next year, their expertise will benefit Master’s students within the new specialisation Sustainab

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-masters-specialisations-sustainability-and-creativity - 2025-07-05