{"id":14981,"date":"2025-08-14T18:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/?p=14981"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:00:34","slug":"2025-servsig-best-dissertation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/2025-servsig-best-dissertation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year\u2019s\u00a0<strong>SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award\u00a0<\/strong>winner (and finalists) were announced and congratulated at the Frontiers in Service Conference 2025 in Montreal, Canada. Join us again in complimenting them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SERVSIG Board is thankful to\u00a0<strong>Maastricht University\u00a0<\/strong>for sponsoring this award. Also thanks go to the independent award committee members who diligently worked on the selection process \u2014 Eric Arnould (Chair) &#8211; Finland, Roberta Sebastiani \u2013\u00a0Italy, Joona Ker\u00e4nen \u2013\u00a0Australia, Kris Lindsey Hall \u2013\u00a0USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-00.07.44.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-00.07.44-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-00.07.44-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-00.07.44-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-00.07.44-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-00.07.44.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to the winner:\u00a0<strong>Karen Tian<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 for her dissertation titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/getting-social-support-right-in-digital-health-services\/\">Social Support in Digital Health Services<\/a>\u201d.<br \/><br \/>Congratulations also to the finalists:\u00a0<br \/>\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/tales-from-the-wild-understanding-employee-well-being-with-service-robots\/\">Chelsea Phillips<\/a><br \/>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/important-but-avoided-how-can-service-research-boost-customer-engagement-in-utilitarian-services\/\">Jenna Barrett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more and see previous winners of the award&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/awards\/servsig-dissertation-award\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s\u00a0SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award\u00a0winner (and finalists) were announced and congratulated at the Frontiers in Service Conference 2025 in Montreal, Canada. Join us again in complimenting them! The SERVSIG Board is thankful to\u00a0Maastricht University\u00a0for sponsoring this award. Also thanks go to the independent award committee members who diligently worked on the selection process \u2014 Eric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15095,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions\/15095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}