Published 1 July 2022 The ambition of the project is to help retailers to better understand how they can support the role of e-commerce managers in their own organization. - There is a lack of research concerning what e-commerce managers do at work. At the same time, their professional role has become increasingly important for today's retail companies. Our aim in this project is to map out and ex

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-will-study-what-e-commerce-managers-do-work - 2025-04-29

By annika [dot] permevik [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Permevik) - published 6 September 2022 A new academic year just started and the department has welcomed around 100 new master students, of which almost all of them are international students. Before starting their studies at our master programme with five different specializations, the students participate in our preparatory week learning

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-master-students-learning-lu-way - 2025-04-29

By annika [dot] permevik [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Permevik) - published 23 September 2022 Today a traditional event took place on the third floor of Campus Helsingborg. Our PhD student Micol Mieli "nailed", or "spikade" as it is called in Swedish, her dissertation. This tradition of nailing the thesis is ancient and the procedure is done three weeks before the official defence. Now Micol

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/micol-mieli-nailed-her-dissertation - 2025-04-29

By annika [dot] persson [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 18 October 2022 The cover to the thesis is AI-generated. The 14th of October Micol Mieli defended her doctorate dissertation, Smartphoned Tourists in the Phygital Tourist Experience. The thesis explores the smartphones role in the tourist experience, how the experience become phygital (both physical and digital) and th

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-thesis-regarding-phygital-tourist-experience - 2025-04-29

Published 16 October 2015 Susanne Boethius defended her dissertation in sociology "Men, violence and moral work. Reports from help-seeking men at treatment centrers working with violence in close relationships" on 2nd October at 14:00 in the auditorium of Kulturen, Lund. External reviewer: Tove Pettersson, Kriminologiska institutionen, Stockholm University.Supervisors: Malin Åkerström and Christof

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/susanne-boethius-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-04-29

Published 26 October 2015 Our researchers Goran Basic, Sophia Yakhlef and Malin Åkerström have published two new reports on their Project Turnstone. Turnstone is a study of the cooperation between the border police and coastguards in the Baltic Sea area.Based on empirical material (interviews and field observations), the purpose is to map and analyse how the staff of the different organizations ex

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/passenger-safety-and-police-and-coastguard-collaboration-baltic-sea-area - 2025-04-29

Published 11 November 2015 Anders Kjellberg has been awarded 75 000 sek from The Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds (Arbetslöshetskassornas Samorganisation, SO) today. The ceremony took place at Juricium, Lund University. The Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds awards a prize every two years to highlight research on unemployment insurance.Anders Kjellberg's personal

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Published 24 November 2015 Ola Stjärnhagen defended his dissertation in sociology "Ekonomisk tillväxt i välfärdskapitalismen. En jämförande studie av BNP per capita-tillväxten i rika OECD-länder 1970-2000" on 24th November at 10:15 in auditorium 128, Stora Algatan 4, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Kenneth Nelson, Institutet för social forskning, Stockholm University.Supervisors: Antoinette Het

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/ola-stjarnhagen-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-04-29

Published 30 November 2015 Goran Basic has published a new article (in Bosnian) linked to the project War Sociology: ”Pomirenje i nepomirljivost u pričama preživjelih poslije rata u Bosni i Hercegovini” (Reconciliation and implacability in narratives of survivors after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina). The article is published in the journal Kriminalističke teme. Časopis za kriminalistiku, krimi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/conditions-reconciliation-bosnia-and-herzegovina - 2025-04-29

Published 3 December 2015 Anders Hylmö has published a chapter on social class, political trust and protests in times of economic crisis in the book Austerity and Protest. The book Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis asks what the relationship is between economic crises and protest behaviour. Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/does-class-matter-anti-austerity-protests - 2025-04-29

Published 7 December 2015 Abdulhadi Khalaf is one of three editors of the newly released book ”Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf”. Abdulhadi Khalaf has also contributed with the chapter The Politics of Migration.AbstractThe states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/labour-migration-and-citizenship-gulf - 2025-04-29

Published 5 February 2016 Simon Ceder defended his dissertation in Education "Cutting Through Water: Towards a Posthuman Theory of Educational Relationality" today, 5th of February at 13:15, in the Palaestra lower auditory, Lund University, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Sharon Todd, Maynooth University, Education Department, Ireland.Supervisors: Bosse Bergstedt and Barbara Schulte, the Depart

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/simon-ceder-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-04-29

Published 8 December 2015 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond has interviewed Antoinette Hetzler about her research project Threats and Violence in School – Are Teachers Without Legal Rights? (Hot och våld I skolan – är lärare rättslösa?) The project will try to answer question like Can teachers and other school personnel use their rights to gain a safer work environment? How much do conditions vary regardi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hetzler-has-been-interviewed-about-her-project - 2025-04-29

Published 18 December 2015 Lisa Eklund has just published an article on "Son Preference Reconfigured? A Qualitative Study of Migration and Social Change in Four Chinese Villages” in The China Quarterly. More information on journals.cambridge.orgLisa Eklund's personal page Abstract:Drawing from ethnographic data from 48 households in four villages in rural Anhui, this study explores how two practic

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/eklund-son-preference-china - 2025-04-29

Published 30 January 2016 Shai Mulinari has, together with Andreas Vilhelmsson and Courtney Davis, published the article "Pharmaceutical Industry Off-label Promotion and Self-regulation: A Document Analysis of Off-label Promotion Rulings by the United Kingdom Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority 2003–2012" in PLOS Medicine. Learn more at PLOS MedicineShai Mulinari has also published t

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Published 1 February 2016 Sara Eldén has reviewed the book “Couple Relationships in the 21st Century”. "Scholars who study love run the risk of being accused of demystifying and simplifying one of the most beautiful things there is in life. When scientific analysis labels, categorizes and separates that which is experienced simultaneously and often strongly at so many levels – emotional, sensory,

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/review-couple-relationships-21st-century - 2025-04-29

Published 1 February 2016 Magnus Ring has co-authored the chapter “How different countries allocate long-term care resources to older users: a comparative snapshot” in Long-term care reforms in OECD countries (ed. Cristiano Gori, Jose-Luis Fernandez and Raphael Wittenberg, Policy Press, 2016). Learn more at Policy PressMagnus Ring’s personal page

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/ring-has-been-co-authored-book-long-term-care-resources-older-users - 2025-04-29

Published 8 February 2016 Tina Kindeberg has published both a book chapter and a journal article. The book chapter is:Kindeberg, Tina (2015). The oral interaction between students and teachers in higher education. In Booth, S & L.Woollacott (eds) The Scholarship of teaching and Learning: It’s constitution and its transformative potential. Stellenbosch: Sun Press.The journal article is:Kindeberg, T

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/kindeberg-two-new-publications-education - 2025-04-29

Published 4 March 2016 Malin Åkerström and David Wästerfors have together with Katarina Jacobsson published the new article “Struggling for One’s Name: Defense Narratives by those Accused of Small-Time Corruption” in "Sociological Focus". Abstract:Under scrutiny (what we term a “bribery gaze”), many interpersonal exchanges in work contexts are perceived as bribes rather than gifts, tokens of appre

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-article-about-people-who-have-been-accused-bribery - 2025-04-29

Published 10 March 2016 Johan Sandberg has just published a new co-authored article (with Moira Nelson) "From Perspectives to Policy Contingencies: Conditional cash transfers as social investments" in Global Social Policy. AbstractDespite the popularity of social investment, there remain ambiguities regarding how to design an effective social investment approach. We review evaluations of condition

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sandberg-new-publication - 2025-04-29