Digital technology can strengthen contact with family and friends across national borders, but it can also create new barriers for older people with a migrant background.
Jerry Lidberg, head of operations at Region Värmland’s Neurology and Rehabilitation clinic, has been named Alum of the Year 2026 by Karlstad University. Through his commitment to clinical practice and leadership, he demonstrates how a role of great societal importance can take many different forms.
Jerry Lidberg graduated as a registered nurse in 2010 and completed his specialist nursing qualification in intensive care in 2013.
Many companies want to contribute to sustainable development, but their efforts often have limited impact.
– Many of the companies I studied focused, for example, on putting ‘recycled material’ on a package, says Kristin Caravelli-Svärd.
On 15 October, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Karlstad University invites staff, students, and members of the public to attend this year’s open associate professor lectures.
In an era marked by so-called polycrises, where climate change, energy challenges, economic uncertainty, and global conflicts influence and reinforce one another, societal resilience is becoming increasingly important.
A new autumn semester has just begun. In my view, this is one of the most exciting times of the academic year at the university. There is a palpable sense of anticipation in the air. Our campuses become more vibrant with early activities, welcome events, student gatherings and, of course, many reunions following the summer break.
In many respects, the start of this academic year may resemble previous autumn terms.
When a video call stutters, an online game lags, or a webpage feels slow, internet speed is not always the problem. More often, the issue is network delays, known as latency. In his doctoral thesis, Simon Sundberg investigates how such delays arise and develops new methods for measuring them.
Most people associate network performance with bandwidth, that is, the amount of data that can be transferred per second.
Karlstad University has been awarded SEK 11.5 million from the Swedish Energy Agency and Region Värmland as the SOLVE research centre enters a new five-year phase. The investment will contribute to the development of future solar energy systems and support Sweden’s transition towards a more sustainable energy system.
SOLVE brings together universities, businesses and public-sector organisations in research aimed at enabling a faster expansion of solar energy in Sweden.
Two years ago, Annmari Wangin, a lecturer in methodology, supervision, brass education, brass studio, and wind orchestra methodology at the Ingesund School of Music, visited the Pendo Amani Youth Centre in the suburb of Juja on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. There, she taught and made music together with children and young people who were actively involved in music. This summer, she returned together with an Ingesund student.
On 7 September, representatives from the Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen) visited Karlstad University to gain deeper insight into how the university collaborates with industry in research and education.
When you enter a web address into your browser and arrive at the correct website a second later, a process takes place that most people never notice. Behind the scenes, one of the internet's most important systems is at work: DNS, the Domain Name System.
Fredrik Sjølin grew up in Trondheim and is today one of Scandinavia’s most sought-after cellists and chamber musicians of his generation. For more than twenty years, he has been a member of the Danish String Quartet, which continues to be the main focus of his professional career. The quartet also serves as Quartet in Residence at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, where Fredrik has taught both cello and chamber music since 2021.
I juni disputerade Mario Setta vid Karlstads universitet med sin doktorsavhandling i matematik: Boundary-Aware and Multiscale Methods for Topology Optimization.
In the special issue The Touristification of Work in the Post-Digital City, two major societal trends are brought together: the “touristification” of work and the “post-digital” city.
– The six articles in this issue explore how these dynamics are reshaping cities around the world, says André Jansson, Professor of Media and Communication at Karlstad University, who served as editor together with Karin Fast of Karlstad University and Magnus Andersson of Malmö University.
On Thursday, 3 September, representatives from the political parties will visit Karlstad University to meet students, staff and visitors in the foyer outside Aula Magna to discuss their policies ahead of the elections to the Swedish Parliament, the Regional Council and the Municipal Council.
During the day, representatives of the eight parties represented in the Swedish Parliament will also take part in panel discussions in Gläntan.
On Tuesday, Vice-Chancellor Jerker Moodysson and President and CEO Görgen Johansson signed a cooperation agreement between Karlstad University and Saab Dynamics AB.
The purpose of the agreement is to strengthen the strategic partnership in education, research and innovation over the long term.
It has now been decided which innovators will represent Värmland at the national SKAPA Award ceremony in Stockholm in November. Birgitta Persdotter, a researcher in social work and creator of Vaves®, has been named the winner of the 2026 SKAPA Award Värmland.
