{"id":15591,"date":"2026-07-15T04:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/?p=15591"},"modified":"2026-07-15T06:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:26:11","slug":"2026-servsig-emerging-service-scholar-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/2026-servsig-emerging-service-scholar-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 SERVSIG Emerging Service Scholar Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/awards\/servsig-emerging-service-scholar-award\/\">SERVSIG Emerging Service Scholar winner<\/a><\/em> was announced and congratulated at the 2026 Frontiers Conference in Helsinki. The Award (sponsored by Auburn University) recognizes contributions to advancing the study of service research, and it is given to honor the contributions of a researcher in the earlier stages of their academic career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the Emerging Service Scholar Award Winner is <strong>Kaisa Koskela-Huotari <\/strong>(Stockholm School of Economics)! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Picture3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Picture3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Picture3.jpg 798w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Picture3-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Picture3-768x537.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">Kristina Heinonen (SERVSIG Co-Chair), Kaisa Koskela-Huotari, Rolf Gunnar Findsrud<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SERVSIG thanks the award committee members for their commitment and their work \u2014 Tom Gruen (Chair), Amanda Beatson, Michael Ehret, Rolf Gunnar Findsrud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See previous award winners\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/awards\/servsig-emerging-service-scholar-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a0SERVSIG Emerging Service Scholar winner was announced and congratulated at the 2026 Frontiers Conference in Helsinki. The Award (sponsored by Auburn University) recognizes contributions to advancing the study of service research, and it is given to honor the contributions of a researcher in the earlier stages of their academic career. This year, the Emerging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15594,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591\/revisions\/15594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}