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The study aims to assess under what social, economic and spatial conditions that processes of urbanization at the lowest level of the urban hierarchy can promote the livelihoods and welfare of residents in small towns. Together with Ola Hall from the Department and colleagues at the University of Dar es Salaam, Makerere University, University of Ghana and the International Centre for Local Democra

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/agnes-andersson-djurfeldt-has-been-awarded-funding-vetenskapsradet-study-lower-level-urbanization - 2025-10-27

Markus Grillitsch, Associate senior lecturer at the Department of Human Geography, and his team has been awarded for their work with ‘Coffee Break With Researchers’.   The winning platform can be found here http://www.coffeebreakwithresearchers.org

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/coffee-break-researchers-won-rsa-media-communications-regional-studies-award - 2025-10-27

Human Geographer Nicklas Guldåker at the department maps socio-economic conditions for an award-winning book about organized gang crime in socially disadvantaged areas (link to news article and book in Swedish).  

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/human-geographer-lund-university-maps-socio-economic-conditions-award-winning-book - 2025-10-27

The Government has appointed Erik Renström as the vice-chancellor of Lund University for the term of office 2021–2026. The Government has appointed Erik Renström as the vice-chancellor of Lund University for the term of office 2021–2026. Renström, a physician and professor of experimental endocrinology, has extensive academic experience. He is currently the dean of Lund University’s Faculty of Med

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/erik-renstrom-new-vice-chancellor-lund-university - 2025-10-27

On 11 February 2021 at 10.00-14.00 all students and recent graduates from Lund University and Malmö University are invited to a virtual career fair.  During the fair you will get the opportunity to network with over twenty different employers through chat and video calls. The participating organisations offer full-time jobs as well as summer jobs and internships in several different industries. Si

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/virtual-career-fair-2021 - 2025-10-27

Online support, meet-ups and events - Campus Online is a new joint effort between all faculty programmes, departments and the Social Sciences Student Union. The aim is to create a meeting space for you at a time when physical meet-ups are discouraged.  You can read more about the initiative and join at Canvas. 

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/campus-online - 2025-10-27

Last application date 25th of February. To read more about the position and how to apply, visit this page. More information on the PhD program at the Department of Human Geography    

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/1-4-doctoral-candidate-positions-human-geography - 2025-10-27

Due to the current spread of covid-19 in Sweden, teaching is right now carried out using digital tools (online). Teaching that needs to be campus-based is conducted in adapted forms in order to follow the recommendations to reduce spread of infection.  We are striving to ensure that all courses will have campus-based elements again as soon as possible, but expect that the whole 2021 spring semeste

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/digital-2021-spring-semester - 2025-10-27

What can the research community at Lund University bring to the table in order to advance the knowledge for sustainable development? Call for abstract open until March 21 What can the research community at Lund University bring to the table in order to advance the knowledge for sustainable development? At this conference, we ask researchers at Lund University for research contributions and pitches

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/knowledge-sustainable-development-lund-university-research-conference - 2025-10-27

Coffee Break with Researchers is an online platform that strives to make scientific knowledge accessible to all through the production of videos and podcasts with researchers while having a coffee. The project cover published papers, research projects, and teaching content. To read more about the award-winning initiative, visit their website: https://coffeebreakwithresearchers.org/. Don't miss the

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/coffee-break-researchers-marcus-grillitsch - 2025-10-27

Sustainability Week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and the City of Lund. Sustainability week serves as a platform for bringing together ideas, for cross-disciplinary collaborations, for raising public awareness and for inspiring sustainable change. This year's sustainability week consists of digital events, outdoor exhibitions, workshops and guided tours

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/sustainability-week-2021-3-8-may - 2025-10-27

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 through a number of presentations, addressed a variety of different cases which show the ways in w

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/tourism-practices-today-and-tomorrow - 2025-10-27

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 behind a large store. Ikea's staff was forthcoming and friendly, and made every effort to giv

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/students-specializing-retail-visited-ikea-almhult - 2025-10-27

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. The work fair of Campus Helsingborg celebrates fifteen years. The event is managed by a project group within the students' union, the participants of which signed up for long days of unpaid work on the side of their full-time studies.Pr

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/campus-engagement-prepares-students-work-life - 2025-10-27

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.– We could definitely become more gender equvalent here at the department when it comes to professors, says Andersson Cederholm. Only two out of seven are women, while the vast majority of

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/dianne-dredge-service-management-visiting-professor - 2025-10-27

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  Gina Tricot and Nilson Group  Svensk Handel (Swedish Trade Federation)   Read more about our Master's programme in Service Management

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/guest-lecturers-bring-bit-reality-class - 2025-10-27

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, digitalization and multicha

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/research-service-encounters-receives-funding - 2025-10-27

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 offer.For her thesis,

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/looking-uniqueness-skane-countryside - 2025-10-27

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 and Lena Eskilsson. T

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/tourism-researchers-and-industry-met-during-breakfast - 2025-10-27

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 addressing electronic market places is highly relevant and important to both theory and practice, as this a

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/master-thesis-electronic-market-places-was-awarded - 2025-10-27