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PhD student Jenni Reuben at Computer Science has been awarded with the 2nd prize in the hackathon competition at the conference womENcourage arranged by ACM-W.
ACM-W (Europe womENcourage Celebration of Women in Computing) is a facet of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) that celebrates women in computing and has many initiatives under its umbrella. One such initiative is womENcourage.
Does your business need a custom-made course to improve its contact with the mass media, or does your organisation possess expertise that you would like to share in a guest lecture for the benefit of our students? For Media and Communication Studies, collaboration with businesses and organisations outside the university constitutes a natural component of education and research.
Collaboration can assume a great many different shapes.
A detailed program and the Book of Abstracts are now available - (updated 230428) - click the PROGRAM meny below
The 17th annual Teacher Education Policy in Europe (TEPE) conference is being organised at Karlstad university, Sweden from 8th – 10th May 2023. The theme of the conference is: Transformation of knowledge in and on teacher education: policy and practice in times of change.
Themes
TEPE 2023 welcomes contributions that address these questions in relation to the following
Would you like to teach Spanish at the secondary school level?
Spanish can be selected as a first or second subject.
There is a great demand for Spanish teachers in Swedish schools, and your chances to be successful in the job market will increase if you study Spanish with a specialisation in teaching.
At Karlstad University, you can take 90 ECTS credits of Spanish with a specialisation in teaching as part of the Secondary Education Programme: Upper Secondary School, a
Christina Öberg's research on managers’ (in)ability to handle an uncertain future was recently awarded with "Best paper award" within organizational neuroscience at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
The award-winning paper "Managers, Minds and Machines in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" is based on a study of managers’ (in)ability to handle an uncertain future.
"The paper examines how managers tend to navigate companies based on a view of the future as
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Jennifer Nilsson is one of two winners of the Karlstad Business School's best thesis award at Bachelor level. Prize cermony at the exams dinner October 2, 2015.
The stipend committe has this year decided to split the prize for best bachelor thesis into two awards:
a. 5,000 kr to Jennifer Nilsson for the Bachelor thesis in Information Systems "To choose product configurator in a manufacturing industry"
b.
The programme has been redesigned with two semesters of in-depth study in an elective subject and with a clearer focus on cultural policy and conservation. Why?
The Culture, Policy and Management Programme is based on Cultural Studies generally, with a focus on cultural policy and cultural heritage. Two semesters are devoted to in-depth study of a field, namely Film Studies, History, History of Ideas, Art History and Visual Studies or Political Science.
A CCS-presentation on Swedish climate politics and implementation by our director Mikael Granberg was recently highlighted in the Times of India.
The Centre for Climate and Safety Director Mikael Granberg has just returned from travelling in India.
The university's external relations officers are here to facilitate collaborations between students and the working life. Our aim is to shorten the time between studies and employment.
If you are interested in working with us and/or with our students, there are plenty of opportunities for it – for instance internships, degree theses, mentorships and job fairs.
What I mean by race when I talk about race.
Dr Sayaka Osanami Törngren, docent/forskare, Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare.
Torsdag 5/12, 13.00–14.30, 12A225 Humlan
Zoom-link: https://kau-se.zoom.us/j/66349758744
Abstract: In this presentation, Sayaka Osanami Törngren establishes what she means by race and how race matters in Sweden despite the common claim that “race does not matter”.
In recent years Servitization has become one of the hottest concepts in service research, especially among manufacturing companies. However, sooner or later these companies discover that their existing development methods, and – tools are not able to handle the specific demands of service development.
Samverkan
» Studentsamverkan
» Samarbeta med studenter
» Mentorskap
People who are successful in their fields often owe their success to some kind of mentor – someone who has not only guided and encouraged their skills but also their personalities. You can also become a mentor to a student.
Mentorship is a relationship for development and learning, a tool to stimulate professional and personal development. Mentorship involves two persons – a mentor and a novice – who meet regularly to develop together.
The subject of Swedish conducts research in several areas, of which a large portion relates to different points of view on literacy – writing and reading – from a learning perspective. This includes projects on the topic of reading multimodal texts in Years 7–9, digital literacy instruction in teacher education, and the writing development of students in higher education.
The revenue generated by orbital and suborbital space travel is expected to soar to 214 billion dollars by 2030. The increased access to space travel has created a space market.
Space tourism, a niche part of the flight industry, has radically transformed the private sector.
Alerts
Alerts allow you to monitor new research automatically. Most databases and journals have an alert function and alerts can be delivered either in RSS feeds or as emails. If you choose to be alerted via email, you have to create a personal account for the database or on the journal’s homepage.
Digital services can make physical places more attractive and competitive. But, to digitalize just because it is possible might have an opposite effect.
Centrum för genusforskning
» Evenemang och seminarier
» Evenemang vid CGF
» ÄLDRE EVENEMANG
» CGF-evenemang 2022
» Nationell konferens för genusforskning - G22
» Öppna paneler
Panel host: Nordic Transgender Studies Network
Currently, the gender binary as a bodily, medical and legal norm as well as the questions whether sex and gender are biological or historically constructed, are heatedly debated in many feminist conversations within Sweden, the Nordics and beyond.
Örjan Almén learned basic programming on a Commodore 64, has always been busy with computers, and today he works with the link between business and IT. Suits him perfectly, he thinks.
Name: Örjan Almén
Degree: Bachelor of Arts.
We are happy to welcome Anna Nilstomt, new PhD student in Psychology at CTF. She will, among other things, study how digitalized services can help improve peoples health.
What is your research focus?
"I will study how habitual behaviors, behavioral changes, motivation and information in the society and individually can be influenced in positive ways.
CS
» Research
» Avslutade projekt
» Nationella projekt
HOT is a made-up short for the Swedish project name ‘Hoppet till Tor’, roughly translatable to ‘The hope/jump to Tor’. This project focuses on the first connection from a user’s computer into the Tor network.
Bibliotek
» Forskarstöd
» Publicera
» Open Access
» Open Access deals with publishers
American Chemical Society (ACS Publications) and Bibsam have reached a read and publishing agreement valid through 2025. The deal gives you as researcher at Kau (submitting corresponding author) the right to publish open access, free of charge. All ACS journals are included in the agreement.
How does it work?
When submitting your manuscript, choose Karlstad university as affilation and use your @kau e-mail address.
Informatik
» Utbildning
» Studera informatik
» Bli student
Competence development, competence supply, further education, continuing education, reskill, upskill and certainly many more names are used for what KAU calls "commissioned education". Commissioned education is skills development for professionals where the employer is responsible for financing the training.
Geomedia
» Konferenser och evenemang
» Geomedia Speaker Series
Platform Studies beyond the Platform
Social media platforms have been characterised in two main ways, first by their programmability (Bogost and Montfort 2010), that is the capacity to build software or analytics on top of their data and functionalities.
