Research areas

Service studies

The research at the Department of Service Studies is based on current problems in society focusing on the service sector. It interrogates, questions, contributes with new perspectives and shows sustainable ways forward for the service society.

There is a major need for cross-boundary research to address complex societal challenges. Approximately two-thirds of the EU’s economy consists of services – both public and private. The service sector spans a number of different areas, from trade and tourism to e.g. healthcare, school and communications – areas currently facing major challenges, but that also offer many opportunities.

The research at the Department of Service Studies is divided into five themes:

• Consumption, Marketing & Retail
• Management, Organization & Work
• Sustainability, Resources & Services
• Tourism, Place & Mobility
• Culture and Creativity

Department of Service Studies website

Strategic communication

Research in strategic communication tackles the formal and informal communication initiatives which an organisation implements in order to achieve a particular goal. These can be anything from marketing communication and communication to reinforce relations with external groups, to how internal communication affects the organisation. The focus is on communication processes from the perspective of society, the organisation and the individual.

At the Department of Strategic Communication research focuses primarily on:

• Psychological Defence Research Institute
• Crisis communication
• Change communication
• Research into the profession of communications officers
• Communication processes for branding
• Internal communication

Department of Strategic Communication website

Social work

The School of Social Work is located on two campuses: Campus Helsingborg and the School of Social Work in Lund.

Social work is an interdisciplinary field that includes questions about social problems, their definitions, origins, causes and solutions; conditions and living conditions of vulnerable groups and individuals and social interventions. The field also covers organizational and professional research, that is, studies of how social work is organized and carried out.

Many of our researchers are active in thematic groups, collaborating within the university, as well as with external partners.

Website of the School of Social Work

Fashion studies

Fashion studies engages in research on fashion, clothes and textiles from contemporary and historical perspectives. As an umbrella term fashion encompass everything from fashion as cultural phenomenon, social practice, aesthetic expression to commercial commodity. This approach gives the subject its multidisciplinary character.

At Lund University, particular attention is given the materiality of fashion, and fashion and sustainability. Fashion has long been the object of interest, most notably within art history, sociology, ethnology and philosophy.

The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences gathers a large set of disciplines. The multitude of fields of interest, themes and directions is rich and interdisciplinary.

Website of the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences

Faculty of Engineering

LTH – Faculty of Engineering is one of Sweden's largest engineering faculties and is the biggest faculty at Lund University. There are more than 800 active researchers at the Faculty of Engineering in Lund and Helsingborg. They are active within classical technical subjects as well as newer areas with connections to medicine, science, environment and design.

All together the research constitutes 15–20 percent of the total technical research at universities in Sweden.

Learn more about the Faculty of Engineering on their website