This year, the event offered inspiring lectures and spirited conversations about three topics at the forefront of the transformation we are all in.
Rundgång, a shopping venue in Karlstad for reused items, has challenged views on second-hand goods and circular thinking. Emma Sundh, circular entrepreneur and project manager, described the importance of making reuse an attractive concept.
- It’s a matter of skill, says Emma Sundh.
Students Sara Spets and Vivien Szabo from the Human Resource Management programme at Karlstad Business School (KBS) visited our new student exchange partner, the International University of Monaco.
– It's all about networking, networking, networking, says Sara Spets.
Sara and Vivien, tell us about the purpose of the study visit
– The collaboration between Karlstad Business School and the International University of Monaco (IUM) is relatively new, and we went to exp
– Academia needs to contribute with both research and specialised education in this area, says John Sören Pettersson, professor of information systems at Karlstad Business School.
Through regional development agreements with Region Värmland, Karlstad University has identified a number of so-called “smart specialisations”, among them video games.
– The challenge for the smart specialisation of video games and gamification in Värmland, which is the basis of
Kauresearch is the university’s Instagram account dedicated to research information. For the second year in a row, the themed week Kau Science Week is held at the same time as the Nobel Week.
Kau Science Week is mainly featured on the Kauresearch account. A post will be published every day throughout the week, drawing attention to researchers and research at Karlstad University. The posts will be accompanied by stories and hashtags for further reading or listening.
On November 7-8, Karlstad University hosted the inaugural Security Divas Sweden, a national conference focusing on cybersecurity and information security that aims to spotlight women in these fields. The event was organized by Karlstad University in collaboration with the Compare Foundation.
The conference welcomed eleven female role models who shared key insights on topics such as information influence, data protection and current perspectives on cybersecurity.
Are you interested in leadership, social development and sustainability? Then Karlstad Business School’s new master’s programme, Management: Sustainable Value Creation, might be the perfect choice for you!
Work-related stress is a serious problem for employee wellbeing and employer efficiency.
– We use cutting-edge deep tech solutions which provide objective and immediate insights, says Poja Shams, senior lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School and the Service Research Center (CTF).
IVA’s annual 100 List puts the spotlight on current research projects that are considered to have great potential to create value through commercialisation, business and
– We want to show that learning is fun and that there are many ways to acquire new knowledge, says John Johansson at Karlstad Business School.
John Johansson, lecturer in business administration, why is lifelong learning important?
– The new technological innovations and increased complexity that we’re seeing today will require us to learn and relearn. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one example of this, which will require learning over time.
– Our research makes a valuable contribution to the students’ work in designing places for tourism, where we demonstrate the importance of working with place-based digital development in harmony with places and people, says Lotta Braunerhielm, docent in human geography at Karlstad University.
Geomedia research looks at the relationship between places and media and how they affect each other.
Behind administration, we find the administrators. A professional group that David Regin Öborn, new doctor in working life science at Karlstad Business School, has focused on in his research.
You spent September at the University of Oxford, please tell us more about that.
– I participated in this year’s Research Masterclass for Graduate Students offered by the Institute of European and Comparative Law (IECL), which is one of the research centres of the Oxford Law Faculty. IECL’s Research Masterclass is a doctoral course that consists of seminars in small groups, and it also creates space for PhD students to work on their own research projects.
Candida MacKenzie, international coordinator at Karlstad Business School, tell us about the conference
- The Business School and Karlstad University's international office participated in the conference together with 7,300 representatives from universities around the world.
- This year's theme was "En Route". From Sweden, nine other universities from all over the country participated to market Sweden as a study destination.
On 16 October, employees, students and the public are welcome to attend open lectures where new docents present their research. The lectures are open to everyone.
In the project “AI-robotar i besöksnäringen: En framtid med nya kollegor” (AI robots in the tourism industry: a future with new colleagues), researchers from Karlstad Business School and the Service Research Center (CTF) are looking at how employees in the tourism industry are affected by having AI robots as colleagues.
Kristina Palm, Poja Shams, Nina Löfgren and Maria Åkesson from CTF, along with Calle Rosengren from Kristianstad University and Carin Håkansta from Karol
Researchers at the Service Research Center (CTF) at Karlstad University have written a report about Nordic food waste with recommendations for political measures. The message is clear:
– We can either take forceful action right now, or else abandon the goal of reducing food waste by 50 percent by 2030.
The researchers have identified initiatives and measures that resulted in less food waste in restaurants, schools, retail businesses and Nordic households.
With only six years left until 2030, the world is marked by war and conflict and many sustainability indicators are pointing in the wrong direction. This year’s A Sustainable Tomorrow gathered 30,000 interested individuals via 200 hubs around Scandinavia.
The American presidential election will be held on 5 November. A lot is at stake, not least in terms of the American economy. Mats Ekman, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Karlstad Business School, explains the difference between the American and the Swedish economy and possible consequences depending who wins the election.
– Products and the market position “come to life” when you see the products from different perspectives, says John Johansson, Lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School.
The game is about reaching a successful market position with the help of product development and portfolio management.
– The SASUF funded workshop was highly appreciated and offered valuable insights for the participants, says Katharina Rahnert, Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School and one of the initiators.
Katharina Rahnert, what was the purpose of the workshop?
– We wanted to raise awareness among the participants about the importance of corporate sustainability.
- An important criterion for selecting development projects for the project is that they must be collaboration projects involving several different stakeholders, says Mikael Johnson,Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School.
What is the aim of the project?
– The aim of the research project Innovation and Service Design is to create, advance and test new and established methods, tools and working methods based on service logic and which a
