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The 14th of October Micol Mieli defended her doctorate dissertation, Smartphoned Tourists in the Phygital Tourist Experience. The thesis explores the smartphones role in the tourist experience, how the experience become phygital (both physical and digital) and the concept of planned serendipity. About the thesis The thesis aim is to explore the smartphones role in the tourist experience, in partic

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-thesis-regarding-phygital-tourist-experience - 2026-09-09

This is the question guiding a new study in the project “Consuming digital data”, with the purpose to see how the consumer experience and feels about the collection of their personal data. The study was conducted by Christian Fuentes, professor at Lund University and Niklas Sörum, Docent at University of Borås. Everything we do online is traced. Some information we provide our selves when we regis

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-study-how-do-consumers-experience-online-data-collection - 2026-09-09

During the following three weeks our department hosts Manisha Anantharaman, PhD, Associate Professor of Justice, Community and Leadership at Saint Mary’s College of California. – I am so happy to have the opportunity to spend some time with you at Lund. I hope to engage with many of you regarding ideas or work-in-progress. The visit began with a guest lecture with the topic of circular economy and

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/visit-and-guest-lecture-department-manisha-anantharaman - 2026-09-09

During the past week some of the institutions researches with focus on retail attended the Nordic Retail and Wholesale conference (NRWC) to present their research. Krisitna Bäckström, senior lecturer at our department, won the award for best paper. For the eigth time the NRWC was arranged by the Nordic Retail and Wholesale Association, this time at Tampere University. NRWC is a science conference

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/kristina-backstrom-awarded-research-conference-finland - 2026-09-09

Despite an increasing number of informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces in Sweden and our society, not everyone feel that they can use them. Public spaces for physical activity are dominated by boys and men, while girls and women are under-represented. The research project Equalizer examines the barriers that hinders different groups access to these spaces and methods to remove the obstacle

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/methods-disturbance-gives-more-people-access-public-places - 2026-09-09

Today we conducted this falls second nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Anna Spitzkat nailed her doctors thesis. Anna is defending her thesis during a dissertation at the 9th of December here at Campus Helsingborg. The title of the thesis is ”Understanding Social Media Shopping – Instagram and the reconfiguration of the practice of shopping”. With Annas own words:   "Instagram, i

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/anna-spitzkat-nailed-her-dissertation - 2026-09-09

The 9th of December Anna Spitzkat defended her doctorate dissertation “Understanding Social Media Shopping – Instagram and the Reconfiguration of the Practice of Shopping”. The thesis explores how the consumer uses Instagram for shopping and the blurring of previously established roles. About the thesis The thesis offers new insights into the understanding of novel, technology-driven consumption p

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-doctoral-thesis-about-social-media-shopping - 2026-09-09

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 describe recreational hunting. However, in recent years there has been an emerging market for commercial hunting, where hunters can buy the right to hunt on someone else’s land, where hospitality services and guiding are ofte

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/recreational-hunting-sweden-question-moral-and-balance - 2026-09-09

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 examination, whether it’s unauthorized cooperation, plagiarism, or non-allowed aids. In every study environment there is a unique culture, with boundaries to what is considered acceptable and unacceptable by the students themsel

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/ai-forces-teachers-change-way-courses-are-examined-0 - 2026-09-09

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 professionalism and closeness to the research area. The name change means that "Service management" will disappear from the department titel. However, our bachelor ans masters programmes will still be called Service mnanagement, a

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-name-department-ism-becomes-ses - 2026-09-09

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 theme ”Blue economy, marine markets and marine spatial planning”. On the schedule for the day was lectures on marine spatial planning, beaches and the possibilities of seaweed with speakers from Lund University, Malmö Univ

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/blue-economy-marine-markets-and-marine-spatial-planning - 2026-09-09

Developing cleverly designed circular solutions must outcompete, supersede, and phase out current linear solutions. Professor Hervé Corvellec at the department of service studies writes on Future Earth together with lecturer Alison Stowell at Lancaster university. Advocates of the circular economy routinely argue that developing “circular solutions” has the capacity to stop unsustainable use of re

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/circular-economy-practices-will-not-automatically-phase-out-linear-economy - 2026-09-09

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: Redirecting, reorganizing, reducing and reimaging consumption” has been granted financing of 3,1 million sek. It’s a part of an international cooperation with partner universities across the globe. Changing current consumpti

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/funding-research-digitalization-and-sustainable-consumption - 2026-09-09

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 and health services, and falsified medical products. The aim of the dissertation is to advance knowledge about care as situated practices within and beyond medical institutional settings. It addresses the phenomenon of su

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/rui-liu-nailed-her-dissertation - 2026-09-09

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 researcher with connection to Helsingborg, it is also favorable to have a focus on retail, industry or service. This year 1 million sek was granted to three researchers all with connection to Service studies. Micol Mieli was one

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-doctors-granted-funds-develop-trade-helsingborg - 2026-09-09

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Socialantropolog Petra Östergren har fått tre miljoner för att delta i ett nytt stort EU-projekt om hur man kan komma åt människohandel genom att studera efterfrågan. Ett 15-tal forskare från åtta olika länder deltar i projektet vars slutmål är att minska det lidande som blir följden av de värsta formerna av exploat

https://www.lu.se/artikel/nytt-eu-projekt-ska-komma-manniskohandeln - 2026-09-09

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Ett axplock av priser och utmärkelser vid LU under under april. BESKOWSKA. Vitterhetsakademien ger i år Beskowska stipendiet på 25.000 kronor till fil.dr. Roger Johansson, för hans nytänkande forskning beskriven i bland annat avhandlingen ”Tracking the Mind’s Eye. Eye movements during mental imagery and memory retri

https://www.lu.se/artikel/priser-utmarkelser-i-marsapril - 2026-09-09

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. . Det går stadigt uppåt för Planetariet. Antalet besökare ökar varje år. Under 2013 deltog nästan 9.000 personer vid visningarna av planeter och stjärnor under kupoltaket. Planetariet fortsätter sin bana som publikmagnet. Naturvetenskapliga fakultetens planetarium har de senaste fyra åren haft sin hemvist i Vattenha

https://www.lu.se/artikel/planetariet-popular-publikmagnet - 2026-09-09

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Bianca Jagger, Jan Eliasson och Sydafrikas före detta president F.W. de Clark är bara några av de som har gästat Studentafton i Lund. Nu blir de klassiska aftnarna en dokumentärfilm. Oscar Edlund och Daniel Bengtson står bakom filmen om studentaftnarna. I över hundra år har Studentafton bjudit in allt från musiker,

https://www.lu.se/artikel/hundra-ars-studentaftnar-portratteras-i-ny-dokumentarfilm - 2026-09-09

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Grön medborgarjournalistik på sociala medier – kan det vara ett sätt att lösa Kinas enorma miljöproblem? – Kanske. Medborgarjournalistiken tvingar fram förändringar. Men myndigheterna tror fortfarande att det är experter och mer styrning uppifrån som ska lösa klimatfrågan. De har inte förstått att man inte kan vända

https://www.lu.se/artikel/gron-journalistik-pa-grasrotsniva-viktig-i-kinas-miljokamp - 2026-09-09