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.
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.
Centrum för genusforskning
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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.
Informatik
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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.
CS
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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.
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.
Bibliotek
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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.
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Jörg Pareigis
Library director
Phone: 054-700 23 39
jorg.pareigis@kau.se
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Linda Borg
Coordinator for the library's learning environment
Phone: 054-700 19 78
linda.borg@kau.se
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Ann Dyrman
Coordinator for researcher and publishing support
Phone: 054-700 10 19
ann.dyrman@kau.se
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Marie-Louise Eriksson
Coordinator for teaching
Phone: 054-700 10 65
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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.
Call for abstracts: Deconstruction and Reconstruction Work.
Karlstad University September 16-17, 2025The workshop will take place in the morning of September 17 before the official start of the Geomedia 2025 conference in Karlstad, Sweden.
Creative Commons licensingOpen access means that all scientific publications that are the result of publicly funded research should be made openly available when they are published. The easiest way to publish research results openly is to use a Creative Commons license (CC license). Which most research funders also require.
2022-09-07
To make our society more sustainable, we need to reduce the carbon footprint of scalable products. This means that it is not enough to invent a new “green” technology. We also need to create a market for it, know how to expand this market, help users of green technology and other important stakeholders to see the environmental, financial and societal benefits in this new market.
2021-11-25
What creates value for fans, and what does their experience look like in today's digital music community? This is what researchers Jenny Karlsson and Jessica Edlom have studied by following the fan community of the Swedish artist Robyn.
Engagement from fans is an important engine when promoting artists. Active and co-creative fans are sought after, used, tracked and taken for granted in the quest for strong music brands.
Bibliotek
» Forskarstöd
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» Open Access
» Open Access deals with publishers
The national library consortium Bibsam has come to an agreement with Elsevier which enables KaU researchers to publish open access free of charge in a large selection of Elsevier journals.
Service design has become a widely utilized method for service innovation in the private and public sector. But what is it about, and does it add to the previously known methods of service development and innovation?
To understand service design and what makes it unique, we inspected what service design encompasses. This task proved to be an almost devastating task because there are virtually hundreds of design tools and methods.
Akademisk högtid
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Henrik Rahm grew up in Linköping and completed a degree in education in Lund in the 1980s, specialising in German, Swedish and Swedish as a second language.
Matematik
» Forskningsprojekt
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2022
Randahl, A. C., Liljekvist, Y., Olin-Scheller, C., & van Bommel, J. (2022). From authorised visitor to key person–a trajectory of participation in teacher Facebook groups. Education Inquiry, 1-16.
2021
Liljekvist, Y. E., Randahl, A. C., van Bommel, J., & Olin-Scheller, C. (2021).
This publication list will be updated periodically. (Network members: Please send additional Nordic gifted education research literature references to cathrine.andersson-busch@kau.se
Nordic Gifted Education Literature List
Campbell, J., Cho, S., & Tirri, K. (2017). Mathematics and science Olympiad studies: The outcomes of Olympiads and contributing factors to talent development of Olympians.
Do you want to learn more about servitization, why it is important and how it can be practised? Take our course "Introduction to Servitization".
Course content
In this course you will learn more about: What servitization is - transformation and service mindset. Why servitization is important, both from a supplier and a customer view. How companies and organisations can create competitive advantage and growth through servitization.
In the ever-evolving landscape of business and healthcare, innovation has become the key to unlocking success. We live in a world where organizations must constantly adapt, enhance their operations, and embrace change to stay competitive. But what types of innovation are most effective, and how do they impact both external effectiveness and internal efficiency within complex service industries?
At the Department of Geography, Media and Communication you find the subject of Human Geography.
Human geography is the study of the interplay between people, places and the environment. The subject focuses on how we live, act and make sense of our world and our place in it. Humanity shapes the world, while being shaped by it. The interaction has multiple dimensions - political, economic and social.
