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As of the spring of 2020, there have been some changes in UPE’s range of courses and working strategy regarding competence development for university teachers. The change aims at achieving more flexibility.
It will allow more flexible competence development based on the needs and current work situation of the individual teacher.
SPEAKER: Petr Svenda (Masaryk University)ABSTRACT:The security analysis of cryptographic implementations is vital for building secure systems atop core hardware components. Yet, it is also frequently more challenging to assess due to the general closeness of the hardware industry. The resulting black box analysis is typically more complicated to set up, execute, and interpret the observed results.
2023-05-09
Richard Ek, professor in human geography at Karlstad University, tell us about the Indigeneity and Visual Sovereignty conference held in Cape Town 27–28 April 2023
- The conference theme was “visual sovereignty”, which includes ways for indigenous communities around the world to have ownership and control of for instance materials and photo archives that depict their history, culture, language, and identity.
2015-10-24
Robert Eklund, Linköping University (before this at Telia Sonera), about the methodology used in the development of interactive systems, in particular as regards language-based interaction.
As a language technology researcher at Telia in the beginning of the century, Robert visited us several times for guest lectures in HCI for the Multimedia programme.
2025-05-19
On May 15, 2025, the annual Geomedia Day was held at Elite Stadshotellet in Karlstad. A full day of insightful discussions, research presentations and creative collaboration.
André Jansson opened the event with a welcome address, followed by an update on the upcoming 2025 Geomedia conference from Georgia Aitaki.
The morning continued with a workshop session focusing on the Geomedia Panel data.
2014-08-22
Access Norstedts dictionaries both online and offline
The library provides access to several dictionaries through the portal WordFinder. With WordFinder Online, you can access your dictionaries via a web browser.
If you create a free personal account you will be able to download programs and apps. The account must be created while you are on campus.
Seminar materials and links are normally distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists. Anyone not reached by these lists should feel free to contact us – our seminars and other events are open to anyone who is interested!
JANUARY
Wed 9/1, 13.00–17.00, 12A522: KuFo workshop. Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers, with a focus on RJ applications. Upload application texts in designated folder in Box (or send texts to Maria) no later than 6/1.
InsuranceAll exchange students are covered by the Student IN insurance provided by The Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency (Kammarkollegiet).International students studying in Sweden are covered by insurance 24 hours a day. The Personal Injury Insurance covers students while on the university’s premises.
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InsuranceAll exchange students are covered by the Student IN insurance provided by The Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency (Kammarkollegiet).International students studying in Sweden are covered by insurance 24 hours a day. The Personal Injury Insurance covers students while on the university’s premises.
On Wednesday 15 February it is time for the job fair Hotspot. Throughout the day, a number of parking spaces north of the University Library will be reserved for the exhibitors of the fair.
Special parking permits will be used on the day to ensure that only exhibitors park their cars there.
2014-08-31
Now available for downloading:
Perspectives on Ozlab in the cloud: A literature review of tools supporting Wizard-of-Oz experimentation, including an historical overview of 1971-2013 and notes on methodological issues and supporting generic tools
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-33617
Students who would like to have a printed copy can collect this in the lab.
If you need help on how to use a software included in your course, please contact the course coordinator. IT support cannot provide any support on how to use the software.
Affinity
Software for image processing, illustration and layout.
CRS
» Forskning
» Forskarskolan om hållbar samhällsförändring
Sandra Andersson, Social WorkSofia Billebo, Human GeographyTove Bodland, Risk- and environmental studiesMy research interest concerns the societal ability to prepare for, manage and recover from extreme weather events. My research is based on a resilience perspective on risk and crisis management in a Swedish context with a focus on the local level (region, municipality and civil society).
On January 27, Margareta Friman, Professor of Psychology and transport researcher at CTF, was interviewed by Sveriges Television in Värmland, on how our travel habits will change after the pandemic.
"Those who travel for pleasure will probably continue to do so. Our needs have not changed during the pandemic.
2021-11-08
Diana Kalfas and Pål Lassen, both students at the Human Resource Management and Work Life study programme at Karlstad Business School, have won an award for their bachelor thesis Employees' experiences of Work-Life Balance and forced telework as a result of a pandemic.
What was the aim of your bachelor thesis?
- An increased understanding regarding employee’s experiences of work-life balance and forced remote work - in short, an increased understanding of how remote work
CSR
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Published 6 May 2020, by Finn Nilson, Associate Professor in Risk- and Environmental Studies and Director of the Centre for Societal Risk Research, CSR
Sweden’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic stands out in many ways compared to other countries. One of the most obvious is the method of implementing interventions. Specifically, the Swedish strategy is based on recommending its citizens to act in a certain way and trusting them to follow these recommendations.
...you have recently spent a week in Croatia on an Erasmus exchange. What did you do there?
- I have been at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) at the University of Zagreb. This is the most prestigious university and engineering faculty in Croatia. I was there for one week on Erasmus teaching mission. I held lectures in two courses, gave student consultations for master and PhD students and I held a research colloquium.
Practical placements form an important part of the Master of Science in Psychology Programme. Students are out on their practical placements during semester 6 for 14 weeks.
Practical placements are hosted by public or private organisations employing psychologists. All psychology students will be supervised by a licenced psychologist during their practical placements and the university offers practical and pedagogical support to supervisors.
We are happy to welcome Hugo Guyader to CTF. He will be working with professors Margareta Friman and Lars E Olsson in a research project on shared mobility, and will develop a survey for users of a Swedish ride sharing platform.
"My position at CTF involves research on shared mobility, particularly about ride sharing.
CTF
» Forskning
» Forskning vid CTF
» Publikationer
Hassel, J-E. (2025) Business Administration, Venture Builders: Organizing Strategic Entrepreneurship Support, Karlstad University Studies, 2025:11.Abadzhiev, A. (2024) Business Administration, Managing business model innovation for sustainability transitions: Towards a theory-based typology, Karlstad University Studies, 2024:38.Falk, P.
Jan Ch Karlsson, Professor of Working Life Science at Karlstad Business School, and his German colleague and collaboration partner have been given an award for their article “Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work”.
– Work that includes a lot of negative stress or rigid hierarchies is actually lethal, says Jan Ch Karlsson.
Why is research about meaningful work so important?
– Most people spend a large portion of their lives and their waking hours working.
Bibliotek
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» Publicera
» Open Access
» Open Access deals with publishers
The Bibsam agreement with SAGE runs between 2024-2027 and offers KAU researchers free open access publishing with most SAGE hybrid and fully open access journals.
How does it work?
Journal packages included in the agreement are SAGE Premier for hybrid journals (ca 1000 titles) and SAGE Gold OA Package (ca 200 titles) for fully open access journals.
MATERIALS RESEARCH FOR SOLAR ENERGY APPLICATIONS HAS SEVERAL PROFILES IN OUR AREA.
NEW MATERIALS FOR SOLVENT-BASED SOLAR CELLS - POLYMER- AND PEROVSKITE-BASED ACTIVE MATERIALS.
See more at Molecular and new materials for photovoltaics
RESEARCH ON AND IMPROVEMENTS OF SILICON SOLARCELLS, MODULES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS.
See more at Silicon Solarcell Research
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The digitalisation of society has led to a constant pursuit of better performance. Waiting for changes in the major operating systems Linux and Windows is time-consuming. Research is now turning to new technologies that enable ways of getting around this issue.
With the introduction of BPF into the Linux kernel, we are seeing a change in the traditional application model.
