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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 - 2025-12-01

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 - 2025-12-01

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 - 2025-12-01

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 - 2025-12-01

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 - 2025-12-01

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 - 2025-12-01

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 - 2025-12-01

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 - 2025-12-01

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 - 2025-12-01

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 - 2025-12-01

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 - 2025-12-01

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 - 2025-12-01

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed an algorithm that combines data from a simple blood test and brief memory tests, to predict with great accuracy who will develop Alzheimer's disease in the future. The findings are published in Nature Medicine. Approximately 20-30% of patients with Alzheimer's disease are wrongly diagnosed within specialist healthcare, and diagnostic work-up

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/simple-diagnostic-tool-predicts-individual-risk-alzheimers - 2025-12-01

Many people feel mentally unwell during the pandemic, especially, it seems, those who are already exposed to socio-economic inequalities. But who really suffers the most when restrictions, loneliness, depression have become commonplace? Researchers from Lund University have tried to find out in a cross-sectional study where young adults are identified as a particularly vulnerable group. After more

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/how-vulnerable-are-we-pandemic-and-who-actually-hardest-hit - 2025-12-01

Children rarely get seriously ill in COVID-19. However, they can suffer from troublesome secondary diseases, the most serious being MIS-C, a hyper-inflammatory condition that often requires intensive care. In Skåne, around 30 children have been affected by MIS-C. Skåne University Hospital is leading the work to care for the affected children and research is also underway on the disease. MIS-C is a

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-research-skane-university-hospital-shed-light-mis-c - 2025-12-01

An international group of clinicians and scientists, including MIT and Lund University , have analysed how individual genetic changes affect the heart muscle. The researchers have created a new computer tool to integrate genomic and clinical data to enhance medical and surgical decisions to support future therapies for patients with inherited heart disease. The new research was published in NPJ Ge

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/computer-method-help-predict-outcomes-and-tailor-treatments-heart-patients - 2025-12-01

Cardiovascular and lung disease increase the risk of complications in COVID-19. Therefore, the Heart-Lung Foundation has granted SEK 3.1 million for five research projects at Lund University that will contribute to more knowledge about the effects of COVID-19. One of the researchers, Jonas Erjefält, professor in Medical Inflammation, has been granted SEK 1 million for mapping of immunological dise

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/five-lund-researchers-received-grants-deepen-knowledge-about-effects-covid-19 - 2025-12-01

Newborn babies are already being screened for mutations and genetic tests help families with hereditary breast cancer. Genomic-driven precision medicine (GDPM) is an emerging approach for disease treatment. Around 30 Swedish researchers suggest a direction forward in a review article in Journal of Internal Medicine (JIM). "At the moment newborns are screened for a small number of mutations. In the

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/precision-medicine-emerging-approach-complex-diseases - 2025-12-01

To counter the effects of antibiotics, bacteria constantly evolve resistance mechanisms. In order to develop new antibiotics that could overcome the resistance, it´s essential to understand its workings. Using so-called cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) researchers at Lund and Hamburg universities have uncovered the molecular details of an important antibiotic resistance mechanism. This is t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-winning-microscopy-technique-uncovers-mechanisms-bacterial-antibiotics-resistance - 2025-12-01

First-born children are at lower risk of heart attack and stroke than their siblings – provided that the number of siblings does not exceed three; then it is the other way around. And people without siblings have a higher risk of heart attack and stroke later in life compared to those who have siblings. These are among the findings of a new population study from Lund University published in BMJ Op

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/number-siblings-may-be-linked-risk-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-12-01