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In order to ensure that our educations are well adapted to the needs of the labor market, we regularly follow up the alumni who have graduated from the School of Business and Economics.
During the years 2017-2023, 3065 people graduated from the Business School. Of these, 39 percent were men and 61 percent women.
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Below is a description of some of the ongoing research at Working Life Science at Karlstad university
Digitalisation and work
Digitalisation affects all levels and structures of society. Work life science's research regarding digitalisation is based on an interdisciplinary perspective and relates to how work and the work environment are affected when digital solutions are implemented.
Karlstad Business School welcomes Peter Bellström as a new docent in Information Systems.
Peter Bellström has been a part of Karlstad Business School for many years. Now, Peter takes the next step up to docent, while simultaneously continuing his two main areas of study.
- In the CriseIT project we, for example, create ICT tools that are complements to traditional crisis exercises.
2025-05-19
Although Marie Nilsberth, like many young people, was curious about a variety of things growing up, becoming teacher has always been at the top of her list. She still believes that teachers play an important role, and following a career as a teacher in years 4-6 and special educational needs coordinator, she now trains future teachers at Karlstad University.
Bibliotek
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» Publicera
» Open Access
» Open Access deals with publishers
As researcher affiliated with Karlstad University you can publish open access with some 2,000 Springer Nature journals.
The agreement with Springer Nature is valid 2025-2028 and covers publishing in more than 2,000 hybrid and open access journals.
CSD
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» Education and Bildung in the Anthropocene (EBAN)
The Anthropocene concept denotes not only the realities of endangered Earth systems but also the many controversies surrounding this predicament’s interpretation and conceptualisation.
Hence, it reflects education’s need to address both the factual consequences and the normative questions of guilt, justice, ecojustice and human self-understanding, to which the Bildung dimension is central.
Forskning
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» Kompetensutveckling
» CTRIVE® Competence development
CTRIVE® 3.0 Competence development
This workshop aims to introduce researchers to the ‘Impact Agenda’: the growing demand of funding bodies (especially those channelling public money) that the research they support should benefit wider society, beyond academia. Impact can occur from research in every field. It has become conventional to categorise Impact as either ‘economic’ or ‘societal’.
The Riskville game aims to engage and create awareness about how we build our cities and how this connects to how society is affected by hazardous events. The challenge of Riskville is to develop a city in an attractive, safe and sustainable way.
City planning can be a real challenge when it comes to all different interests and priorities that needs to be taken into account.
Bo Edvardsson, professor at Karlstad Business Service Research Center (CTF), and Bård Tronvoll, professor at CTF and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, are the editors for the newly published Palgrave Handbook of Service Management.
- The book provides a unique and current overview of service management research, says Bo Edvardsson.
2023-10-19
Approximately 15 percent of the world’s population has some form of disability that makes everyday life more difficult.
– In order for this group to be given the same opportunities to live fulfilling lives, we need to learn more about how the psychological and physical difficulties are connected with the experience of using public transport, says Margareta Friman from the Service Research Center (CTF).
Disability is a complicated and multidimensional term that involves t
Veronica Stigsson, alumna of the year for 2018, has contributed much to the food industry through her knowledge of and interest in chemistry and chemical reactions. The joy she takes in her work as well as her skills make her an excellent ambassador for Karlstad University.
“I am honoured and glad, but was surprised when I heard that I’ve been named alumna of the year.
You may already have noticed how important the personal identity number is in Sweden. You virtually need it for everything ranging from getting an apartment to buying insurance.
Karlstad University conducts research and development of intelligent control systems for greenhouse lighting, using a high percentage of locally produced renewable energy.
2013-10-08
... PhD Student from Kassel University in Germany. You have been visiting CTF for six weeks and are now back in Germany. What are you going to do next?
- First of all, let me say that I really enjoyed my visit at CTF!
2021-05-19
Project work has been positively booming in recent years. Karlstad Business School now has global classrooms where students have influence over their education.
In 2021, project management is no longer associated exclusively with IT projects where engineers are at the helm. A lot of work is done in project form on a regional, national, and municipal level and the private sector is hungry for well-prepared students.
The course focuses on how businesses and other organisations can learn from customer complaints, product flaws, and service failure, and make sure that these problems do not recur.
Learning Outcomes
Describe and explain central concepts, theories, models, and methods in the area of customer complaint, and how it is possible to restore the trust of disappointed customers.
Explain and analyse customer complaint processes with a focus on ways in which businesses can rec
Maria åkesson defended her doctoral thesis "Role constellation in value co-creation" in Business Administration on December 15th at Karlstad University. Her thesis focuses on customer-employee role constellations during value co-creation.
Abstract
The contribution of the present thesis is describing and explaining how value is co-created by addressing customer-employee role constellations during service encounters.
Karlstad University is engaged in a collaboration with the national initiatives Campus Total Defence and Cybercampus Sweden, as well as a regional collaboration with the Swedish Defence University.
Collaboration with the Swedish Defence UniversityAs of January 2026, the Swedish Defence University’s local unit in Karlstad will be co-located with Karlstad Univerity.
On June 26th - 29th researchers from CTF, together with more than 200 service researchers and business leaders from around the world, gathered in Miami, Florida, to discuss and present the latest trends and research results in the customer service and customer experience at the annual Frontiers in Service Conference.
In today’s society there is a large amount of data available that businesses and organizations can use to, for example, develop new services.
Forskning
» Forskningsdata
» Forskningsdata och öppen data
Five senior researchers at Karlstad University on the movement towards more open data.The requirements for open access to scientific information have increased in recent years. The goal is to increase the transparency and accessibility of research. It is expected to benefit the development of the research, industry and society at large.Open data in EuropeIn July 2012, the European Commission recommended that member states contribute to increased access to scientific information.
Akademisk högtid
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» Akademisk högtid 2023
At this year's Academic Celebration, 18 new Doctors were confered at Karlstad University.
Faculty of arts and social sciences
Åsa Bergman Brun
Defended her doctoral thesis in the subject Working Life Science on 31 March 2023
The doctoral thesis is entitled: ”The double-sided nature of lifestyle-oriented work within the Swedish equine sector: Characteristics and consequences for employee health and well-being”
Sara Blanck
Defended her doctoral thesis in the subject Ed
In the first study of its kind, researchers from Karlstad University, Sweden and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA, found an elevated rate of language delay in girls at 30 months old born to mothers who used acetaminophen during pregnancy, but not in boys. The study was published online January 10 in European Psychiatry.
The Swedish Environmental Longitudinal, Mother and Child, Asthma and Allergy study (SELMA) provided data for the research.
Samverkan
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HOW CAN MY COMPANY OR ORGANISATION COLLABORATE WITH RESEARCHERS AT KAU?
Collaboration is a natural part of education and research at Karlstad University and there are well-established platforms for collaboration.
We would like to encourage and inspire more people to write as well as develop the storytelling tradition that has traditionally been prominent in Värmland.
Copyright is the legal right that the creator(s) of a work have, i.e., the right to determine how the work may be used. Copyright applies automatically and no registration is required. Virtually all material used in teaching or research is protected by copyright.
