Singer and vocal pedagogue Anne Margrethe Dahl has a broad repertoire and has made an international career with productions on major opera stages for which she has been praised. She is a respected name in the opera world, and Ingesund School of Music is now pleased to welcome her as an adjunct professor.
At an international conference in Djerba, Tunisia, our visiting PhD student José Pablo De la Rosa Gutiérrez won an award for his presentation on robotics programming.
– Collaborative robots can be used in many ways, says Jorge Solis, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Modern robotics, where collaboration between man and machine is governed through programming and gesture recognition, can be used in healthcare as well as in the manufacturing industries.
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.
At the start of summer, Henrik Rahm started his position as professor of Swedish language at Karlstad University.
– As a new professor of Swedish language, I hope to inspire new linguistic and multidisciplinary research projects and show that language expertise is important in many contexts, says Henrik Rahm.
Henrik Rahms is a linguist and holds a teaching degree in German, Swedish and Swedish as a second language.
STINT, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, has granted SEK 10 million to the university collaboration MIRAI 3.0.
New research at Karlstad University shows that "boyish" play behavior at the age of 7 can be linked to both behavioral problems and autistic traits.
In a study that includes 718 children, researchers from Karlstad University and Uppsala University have identified clear connections between gender-role-related play and the development of behavioral challenges.
Karlstad University, together with the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and the European Data Protection Supervisor is hosting the hybrid conferences Annual Privacy Forum and IPEN 2024, September 3-5.
With over 400 participants, the conferences are expected to bring together privacy experts, engineers, lawyers, researchers, and policymakers from both the private and public sectors.
"It is the first time that the conference is being held in Sweden, and we ho
International football legend Sven-Göran "Svennis" Eriksson passed away on Monday. Earlier this year he received the sports leadership scholarship Karlstad Grand Prix Award, established by Karlstad University and the Karlstad Municipality.
After 40 years as a professional coach with the entire world as his workplace, Svennis returned to Värmland in 2022.
– 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.
Researchers at Karlstad University have started a 3-year project focusing on greener manufacturing and increased recycling of forest-based materials. They already have extensive knowledge about the chemical processes involved in providing product properties that determine the possibility of recycling.
A battery made from zinc and lignin that can be used over 8000 times. This has been developed by researchers at Karlstad University, Linköping University and Chalmers with a vision to provide a cheap and sustainable battery solution for countries where access to electricity is limited.
Mette Mortensen is a professor of media studies at the University of Copenhagen with a doctorate in art and literature and an interdisciplinary background with a Master’s in literary history.
A group of exchange students who were here 1999-2000, have continued to stay in touch and meet regularly. This summer, they returned and revisited Karlstad University.
– On the weekend of July 27-28, we met again at Karlstad University, a group of international students who studied here in 1999 and 2000, says Lukasz Ingielewicz, who organized the reunion.
During the upcoming Olympic Games, athletes from all over the world gather after years of preparation to perform their lifetime results. However, burnout among athletes is a growing problem, not least at the elite level. A new article by three researchers clarifies the causes of this, consequences, and how to prevent burnout.
Several studies have shown that burnout appears when an athlete feels physically tired and emotionally drained by their training and competing.
The ICA Journalism Studies Division Book Award has been awarded to Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, both professors of media and communication science at Karlstad University, for their book “Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept.”
Additionally, their article titled “Recoding Journalism: Establishing Normative Dimensions for a Twenty-First Century News Media” has achieved success and received The Bob Franklin Journal Article Award.
…you will spend the fall at Kulturhuset Spira in Jönköping for the production of Carmen. And with none other than Rickard Söderberg in the lead role. Exciting! What will you be doing?
“We have been offered an internship to sing the roles of Frasquita (soprano) and Mercédès (mezzo-soprano) - Carmen’s close friends. It will be a concert version with scenic elements.
Democratising the IT system design process has long been a focal point in the field of participatory design. Malin Wik recently defended her thesis in Information Systems at Karlstad Business School.
The research project “Sámi ‘Trail of Tears’ Walking Trail” has now been completed. Richard Ek, professor of human geography and project leader, talks about the importance of the control being with the indigenous population and that the culture surrounding Sápmi is extremely important in keeping the stories surrounding the forced displacement of the Sámi alive.
– Our findings have confirmed what we’ve known all along, Richard Ek explains.
Conference and events at Karlstad University are still within keeping with the criteria of the Green Key certificate.
– We’re really happy that our work continues to move forward, say Helena Björkman and Ida Fridh from the events team that have been running the application process.
Green Key is an international certificate in the field of environmental responsibility and sustainability that currently includes nearly 5,000 establishments in 60 countries.
