Published 7 December 2017 Åsa Lundqvist, Professor at the Department of Sociology has just published a book about how the activation of women into paid work was accomplished. It looks at the ideational grounds and the concrete measures that created the conditions for increasing the employment ratio of women, and thus also a farewell to male breadwinning. Learn more about the book Transformations o

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/creating-conditions-more-women-paid-work - 2025-02-23

Published 18 December 2017 Liv Sunnercrantz at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral dissertation in sociology ”Hegemony and the Intellectual Function: Medialised Public Discourse on Privatisation in Sweden 1988-1993” today, 19th December, at 10:15 in Kulturens auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Emilia Palonen, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University o

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/liv-sunnercrantz-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-02-23

Published 20 December 2017 RESEARCH GRANT: Olle Frödin, Johan Sandberg and Axel Fredholm at the Sociology Department in Lund and Shahamak Rezaei at Roskilde University have been awarded 4 million SEK for the project "Migration, Integration and Development: The Role of Transnational Immigrant Organizations in Sweden". The research project focuses on the role of immigrant organizations for labour ma

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/4-million-study-role-immigrant-organizations-integration - 2025-02-23

Published 25 January 2018 Lisa Flower analyses the emotional regime in the White House in The Conversation: “Donald Trump, loyalty and the ‘emotional regime’ in the White House”. “But what exactly is loyalty? And why did Comey put on his poker face when asked for it?“Read the whole article on theconversation.comLisa Flower’s personal page here on our website About The ConversationLund University i

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/what-do-trumps-demands-loyalty-white-house-mean - 2025-02-23

Published 30 January 2018 Social anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand writes about the so-called Parents' Movement is a Russia in the chapter “Nationalism and Civicness in Contemporary Russia: Grassroots Mobilization in Defense of Traditional Family Values” published in the book Rebellious Parents: Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia. The so-called Parents' Movement is a Russian con

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rebellious-russian-parents-defense-traditional-family-values - 2025-02-23

Published 2 February 2018 NEW PROJECT investigates promises of accessibility for persons with disabilities. Associate Professor David Wästerfors has together with Kristofer Hansson at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and Hanna Egard at Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society, received a research grant from FORTE for a project on Accessibility and its Resistance. Everyday deviat

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/society-reachable-all - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

Published 12 November 2018 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 t

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/wanted-future-leaders-sustainable-businesses - 2025-02-23

Published 13 December 2018 Sharing economy on a digital platform is a subject of interest for tourism researchers Mia Larson and Cecilia Cassinger. One insight from their project is that businesses are having a hard time recruiting and building their community. The two-year BFUF-funded project ”Digitalisation and visualisation of guide services” was concluded with a workshop on 20 november.Researc

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-study-swedish-adventure-tourism-and-sharing-economy - 2025-02-23

Published 2 May 2019 Master students on the service management program collaborated with Danish students during a two day workshop on April 23-24. This is the fifth year that tourism researchers from Copenhagen Business School and Lund University, Department of Service Management and Service Studies, collaborate to develop a two day workshop on social media and tourism for students of their Servic

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/master-students-collaborated-danish-students - 2025-02-23