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In this article, recently published in Acta Sociologica, Mats Fred draws on more than a decade of fieldwork on social investments in Sweden to explore the rise and fall of reforms: How are reforms kept alive? What happens when key actors leave, networks dissolve, and governance priorities shift? In the 2010s, the idea of social investments gained traction as a key to preventive, evidence-based, an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-investments-swedish-municipalities-rise-and-fall-reform - 2025-12-07

Ketevan Bolkvadze, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, has published a new article in Governance titled "Corrupt or Repressive? How Political Competition Incentivizes Hybrid Regimes to Subvert Police in Distinct Ways." The study explores how varying levels of political competition in hybrid regimes influence whether police forces are used for corruption or repression. Drawing o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bolkvadze-publishes-new-study-police-subversion-hybrid-regimes - 2025-12-07

Jugdes are people not robots and emotions are inevitabably part of their daily life. In The Conversation Lisa Flower gives her view on why the US jugde Brett Kavanaugh is not seen as fit to be a jugde. Lisa Flower, studies the sociology of emotions at the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on ways in which defence lawyers represent their clients using emotions and their bodies. Read the

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/why-do-we-not-want-angry-judges - 2025-12-07

Anna Sarri Krantz at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in social anthropology: "Third Generation Survivors, Tredje generationens överlevande – en socialantropologisk studie om minne, antisemitism och identitet i spåret av Förintelsen” today, 25th October at 10:00 in Stora Algatans auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Bodil Liljefors Persson, religionsvetenskap at Ma

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anna-sarri-krantz-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-12-07

Sophia Yakhlef at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”United agents: community of practice within border policing in the Baltic Sea area” today, 26th October at 13:00 in Kulturens Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus, Department of Criminology, Oslo University.This study focuses on a border police collaboration project c

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sophia-yakhlef-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-12-07

Lisa Flower at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”Loyalty Work: Emotional interactions of defence lawyers in Swedish courtrooms” today, 30 October at 10:15 in Kulturens Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Terry Maroney, Vanderbilt University, Law School, Nashville, USA.AbstractDefence lawyers’ work takes place in emotionally charged, yet emotionally co

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lisa-flower-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-12-07

Urban creativity giving life to hidden places. The November issue of LUM, Lund University Magazine, includes an interview with co-coordinators of the Pufendorf theme on Urban Creativity, Erik Hannerz (Sociology) and Peter Bengtsen (Art History and Visual Studies). LUM's article Urban creativity giving life to hidden places points out that Banksys street art paintings have been moved into museums p

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/erik-hannerz-and-peter-bengtsen-interviewed-about-urban-creativity - 2025-12-07

Tullia Jack at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”Negotiating Conventions: cleanliness, sustainability and everyday life” today, 19 December at one o'clock in the Palaestra auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Alan Warde, Department of Sociology, University of ManchesterPart of AbstractCleanliness has seen a rapid increase in both developed and developi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/tullia-jack-has-defended-her-thesis-0 - 2025-12-07

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 - 2025-12-07

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 - 2025-12-07

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 - 2025-12-07

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 - 2025-12-07

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 - 2025-12-07

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 - 2025-12-07

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 - 2025-12-07

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 - 2025-12-07

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 - 2025-12-07

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 more than Earth allows. Degr

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/circular-economy-just-another-growth-model - 2025-12-07

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 Sustainable Service Management.The

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-masters-specialisations-sustainability-and-creativity - 2025-12-07

The Master’s Programme in Service Management just got more flexible. Sustainable Service Management is the latest addition to the range of available options for our new students. They can now chose from no less than five different specialisations while applying. The Master's Programme in Service Management at Lund University is a management programme with a strong link to research. The programme c

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/wanted-future-leaders-sustainable-businesses - 2025-12-07