By annika [dot] persson [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 13 February 2025 A new anthology explores how waste – in all its forms – can be an unexpected but powerful starting point for understanding and questioning contemporary society. Professor Hervé Corvellec is the editor and has also contributed with chapters in the book. The anthology, Waste as a Critique, uses waste to

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/waste-critique-new-anthology-herve-corvellec - 2025-07-05

By annika [dot] persson [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 20 February 2025 Bornholm. Photo: Artem Shuba, Unsplash.com. Tourism’s impact on local communities and their ecosystems is a continuous challenge. This applies when we travel, but also when we eat, stay overnight and the activities we take part in at the destination. In a new project funded by the European Union, 15 pa

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-eu-project-search-sustainable-tourism - 2025-07-05

By annika [dot] persson [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 21 February 2025 Photo: Jon Tyson, Unsplash.com A new doctoral thesis by Aurimas Pumputis explores how trust and control function between guests and hosts on peer-to-peer platforms like Airbnb. The study focuses on how these relationships are shaped in digital environments and how platforms use information technology t

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/trust-and-control-guest-host-relationships - 2025-07-05

By annika [dot] permevik [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Permevik) - published 21 March 2025 The 21st of March we conducted a traditional nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Réka Tölg nailed her doctors thesis ”The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings”. Réka is defending her thesis dur

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/reka-tolg-nailed-her-dissertation - 2025-07-05

By annika [dot] permevik [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Permevik) - published 14 April 2025 The examining committee toasts Réka's approved thesis. On 11 April, Réka Tölg defended her doctoral thesis ‘The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings’. The thesis examines how circular consumption actually happe

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/how-does-consumption-become-circular-linear-world-new-doctoral-thesis-shows-opportunities-and - 2025-07-05

Published 9 May 2025 During Sustainability Week at Lund University, students from the Service Management and Strategic Communication master programmes organized a panel discussion during Sustainability Week at Campus Helsingborg, exploring the textile industry’s shift towards circular economy practices. Marie Ledendal, Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Communication and Réka Tölg, Postd

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/panel-discussion-textile-industry-during-sustainability-week - 2025-07-05

Published 26 May 2025 Group photo of all students together with the artists who performed at Maria Farm This year's excursion for the students at the department specialising in tourism offered both sunshine and memorable experiences. For the second year in a row, both bachelor and master students participated, which created a wonderful dynamic and strengthened the community between the programmes.

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/sun-studies-and-student-community-field-trip-estonia - 2025-07-05

Published 27 May 2025 On Friday 23 May, the university's major ceremony, the doctoral conferment, took place. During the ceremony in Lund Cathedral, the 239 doctors who have completed their doctoral studies and defended a doctoral thesis at Lund University over the past year, including some from the Department of Service Studies, were awarded their doctorates. At Friday's ceremony, the newly award

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/festive-and-solemn-universitys-doctoral-conferment - 2025-07-05

Published 9 June 2025 The Campus Helsingborg International Student Career Programme, launched in the spring of 2025, consists of a series of events specifically designed to equip international students with the tools needed to navigate the Swedish labour market, apply for jobs and internships, visit local companies, and build valuable professional networks. The programme is organised in collaborat

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/closing-international-student-career-programme-semester-event-internships - 2025-07-05

By aditi [dot] bisen [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Aditi Bisen) - published 13 June 2025 On 27 May 2025, Formas announced the results for Explore— a highly competitive open call that supports ground-breaking sustainability research. This year, a mere 83 out of 1,117 submitted projects received funding, representing a success rate of just 7 %. One of these successful projects is IDLE – Investigating

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/idleness-vice-or-virtue-tullia-jack-receives-formas-explore-funding-idle-project - 2025-07-05

By annika [dot] permevik [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Permevik) - published 19 June 2025 On the 12th of June, the graduation ceremony for our Master's students was arranged by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the AF-Borgen’s Stora Salen. During the ceremony, below thesis was awarded the honorary award from the department for her excellent work. The ceremony began with live music and a speec

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/graduation-ceremony-our-masters-students-0 - 2025-07-05

Published 9 January 2015 On January 7, you could read an article about one of our researchers, Fillipa Säwe, in the newspaper "Hallå". Here Filippa talks about her research that is focused on the small scale fisheries in Öresund. She also reveals that she in fact does not fisch her self and she tells the story of how she ended up at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies. Erlier

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/interview-our-researcher-filippa-sawe - 2025-07-05

Published 13 May 2015 Photo: Lasse Strandberg It is six times more expensive for society – and for you individually - if you travel by car instead of cycling. This has been shown in a Department of Service Management and Service Management study of Copenhagen, a city of cyclists. It is the first time a price has been put on car use as compared to cycling.  In the comparative study, Stefan Gössling

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/six-times-more-expensive-travel-car-bicycle-study - 2025-07-05

Published 7 October 2021 Alexandra Franzén outside of the AF-building in Lund where Jan Guillou and Peter Bratt gave a speech about the IB-scandal the evening before they were imprisoned for their publication. Spy scandals as a power struggle between three actors: whistleblowers, journalists and the intelligence service. On Friday 1 October Alexandra Franzén at the Department of Sociology defended

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/alexandra-franzen-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-07-05

Published 18 January 2022 The Department of Sociology in Lund will receive three years of funding for a large collaboration project looking at insecure and informal work in the Nordic countries. Researchers Rasmus Ahlstrand and Sara Eldén, here at the Department of Sociology in Lund are part of the project "Tackling Precarious and Informal Work in the Nordic Countries (PrecaNord)" which has been g

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/three-years-funding-large-nordic-collaboration-insecure-and-informal-work - 2025-07-05

Published 17 January 2022 When the American research field "Fear of Crime" was introduced in Sweden in the 1980s, it was translated "otrygghet", a word with a previously established meaning in Swedish. The meaning of the word "otrygghet" has since then changed significantly in Sweden. From being used to signify economic and materialist unpredictability, "otrygghet" has come to be used almost exclu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hanna-sahlin-lilja-has-defended-her-thesis-fear-crime-research-sweden - 2025-07-05

Published 4 January 2022 The everyday life in two day-care centres of psychiatry in the municipality of Copenhagen is examined in a new sociology thesis from Vibeke Klitgaard. Focus lies on the patients' communication and behavior as well as the stigmatization they experience from the social environment. Vibeke Klitgaard defended her thesis "Social (dis) order in district psychiatry: A systems the

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/vibeke-klitgaard-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-07-05

Published 16 February 2022 Associate Professor Sébastien Tutenges and Researcher Susanne Boethius of the Department of Sociology at Lund University are Editor-in-Chief and Co-Editor of the Nordic Journal of Criminology since the turn of the year. Looking forward to the new job! In an interview for The Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK), the new Editor-in-Chief Sébastien Tutenges says h

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-editors-nordic-journal-criminology - 2025-07-05

Published 11 February 2022 In his doctoral thesis in sociology "Structures of subcontracting: Work organisation, control, and labour in the Swedish building sector", Rasmus Ahlstrand analyses the increased use of subcontractors and explores new forms of work organisation in the Swedish building sector. A key contribution of his study is the concept of masked staffing, which refers to unauthorised

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rasmus-ahlstrand-has-defended-his-thesis-changing-swedish-building-sector - 2025-07-05

Published 9 February 2022 In his article "Does remote work weaken trade unions?*" Anders Kjellberg, Professor of sociology, discusses how the balance of power in the labour market is changed when working from home increases in society. He also writes about the new trade union issues that distance working raises in industries where it is widespread. Those affected are primarily white-collar workers

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/does-remote-work-weaken-trade-unions - 2025-07-05