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Karlstad University has appointed three new honorary doctors. One of them is Brian Hudson, Emeritus Professor of Education and former head of The School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sussex. He has worked closely with teacher education-related research at Karlstad University since 2015, particularly with the strong research group Rose, a multidisciplinary research environment with a special interest in subject didactics – learning and teaching in subjects. Brian Hudson's broad scientific subject didactic competence and long experience in leading research groups focused on teacher education have been crucial in the development of Rose.

Read more in the article: Three honorary doctorates awarded in 2025

This autumn, the Swedish Research Council has awarded research funds in the field of educational work at Karlstad University. Both for projects where Karlstad is the main applicant and projects where researchers in Karlstad are co-applicants.

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Main applicant Åsa Olsson, Associate Professor in Educational Work, co-applicants from Karlstad University, Evelina Landstedt, Professor in Social Work, Fanny Gyberg, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, and Birgitta Ljung Egeland, Senior Lecturer in Swedish Language.

The Swedish Institute for Educational Research has granted funding to three projects at Karlstad University focusing on practice-oriented education research. The university also has a co-applicant involved in another project. The objective of the projects is improved teaching within the Swedish school system.

The researchers at Karlstad University who have been granted funding all have a particular interest in subject-specific education. The research focus is on what happens in the classroom and the interaction between teachers and pupils in the learning process. The researchers want to know more about how pupils can learn about different subjects in a more effective way, and to find answers, they work closely with both teachers and pupils.

On 9-12 September, the conference BERA/WERA was held in Manchester. One of the participants was Christina Olin-Scheller, professor of literary studies education and educational work at Karlstad University. She took part in the symposium Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Subject Didactics together with participants from other countries.

– The symposium consisted of collaborations that have developed within the KOSS network and the conference we co-organised in Trier in May. The presentations focused on subject didactic issues in relation to different national contexts. My presentation offered a Swedish perspective and highlighted challenges for literary studies education based on powerful knowledge and powerful professional knowledge.