Critical studies on age and ageing focus on social dimensions of age and ageing in everyday life and in society. The research group is multidisciplinary with a mutual interest in critical and social science perspectives on age and ageing.
Instead of taking age for granted, the research group’s critical perspective focuses on age as an important basis for the distribution of opportunities, rights, and obligations in society.
Many important issues, such as climate change, social welfare issues and social and spatial planning, often fall through the cracks between different sectors and stakeholders. This can lead to a lack shared responsibility and important issues being left unresolved.
2019-09-17
What are the reasons for managers to engage in servitization, and how do they justify their efforts within their organisations? To answer this question, we studied six different firms of various sizes, from 10 to 4000 employees. The firms were from different types of industries, although they were all manufacturing companies with a strong belief in services.
2018-09-27
There is a shift happening within service design from designing something "out there" to designing ourselves. This shift opens up questions about how we might design our "systemic-self" and what new approaches we need to do so.
In service design, there is often a focus on mapping the service systems we wish to change. We create personas, draw user journeys and plot out the different stakeholders.
2015-11-09
Touch, swipe, och adjustments in the user interface for shell builders and wizards - these are things that some students presently are helping the Ozlab group with.
The web-based Ozlab is now in the process of being further developed to match the needs and requirements arising from the use of mobile units, e.g. swiping functionality and other finger gestures on touch screens.
Bibliotek
» Forskarstöd
» Publicera
» Open Access
» Open Access deals with publishers
Karlstad University Library has signed an open access deal for 2025 with MDPI through the national Bibsam consortia. MDPI is an open access publisher based in Switzerland which publishes more than 400 journals, mostly in the sciences but there are also some titles in the humanities and social sciences. The deal gives KaU researchers 20% discount to the article processing charge.
How does it work?
Samverkan
» Forsknings- och innovationssamverkan
» Forskningssamverkan
In Värmland, a long-standing and strong regional cooperation between the public sector, academia and business has provided targeted investment in service innovation and the digitisation of welfare services.
Since 2015, this work has taken place within the framework of Värmland's research and innovation strategy for Smart Specialisation, under the specialisation area ’Digitisation of Welfare Services’.
Welcome to Karlstad University! What and where have you studied before you began your employment here in February?
I completed my MSc from EIT Digital Master Program with a focus on innovation in Security and Privacy. During this program, I completed 1st year from University of Trento, Italy and 2nd year from Technical University of Berlin,Germany.
How do you like your new hometown?
I don’t like it, I love it!
2020-04-07
Innovating the meaning of services means dealing with the vague and intangible nature of meanings: companies risk not being able to transfer them from the strategic to the operational level.
2019-01-24
An important part of packaging is the printed packaging surface, communicating a message to the consumers. Poor printing quality can affect the perception of the packaging as well as the product.
Our research in the field of religious studies has primarily a focus on pedagogical aspects. Pedagogy in religious studies can be understood as an applied or praxis-oriented field of research.
Forskarhandbok
» Steg 5: Genomför projektet
» Under projektets gång
During the project:
Financial officers assist project managers with accounting, as needed or per agreement.
Project managers should report any financial changes to financial officers.
Recent progress in the area of Machine Learning, AI and Optimization enables intelligent decisions to be made that e.g. improve the quality of the production processes and the final product, the prediction of system properties (such as sales forecasting or power generation), the prediction of machine downtime (predictive maintenance), among others.
The focus area “Intelligence” addresses research that is required in order to engineer AI algorithms for a given use case (e.g.
If you are interested in an education in business administration, you have a lot to choose from - programmes at undergraduate and advanced level or independent courses.
Karlstad University is participating in the first phase of the ten-year Vinnväxt initiative ”Paper Province 2.0: A large-scale demonstrator of forest based bioeconomy” led by the cluster organisation the Paper Province. The aim of the initiative is to create sustainable growth by developing internationally competitive and attractive research and innovation environments in the region.
In order for pharmaceuticals to be safe, they must be clean of pollutants. Carbon dioxide can be used to make the purification process more environmentally friendly, which may seem paradoxical since carbon dioxide is usually associated with a negative climate impact.
Student
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Karlstad university wants the Silent room ( 3C315) to be open to everyone.
The door should always be kept open. In the event of noise outside, keep the door on the verge, do not close it. There is a secluded part that is available to anyone who wants privacy.
The room is available for prayer, meditation, tranquility, contemplation and other.
AT-LAB - Regional additive manufacturing laboratory at Karlstad University
Left to right:
Staffan Sunesson - laboratory engineer
Göran Karlsson
Pavel Krakhmalev – professor of materials science, project leader (profile)
pavel.krakhmalev@kau.se
054 700 2036
rum 21F 216
Urban Ringsby – project economist
Gunnel Fredriksson – project researcher – contact person for research activities (profile)
gunnel.fredriksson@kau.se
054 700 1258
rum 21F 223
Mikael Åsberg - forskare
Ph. D student in Psychology at CTF. You just came back from Bonn, Germany, what did you do there?
- I participated in a doctoral course on decision making at Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective.
Interesting, can you tell us more about the course?
- In the course we studied how to create and test models on how we think when we make decisions.
2021-02-11
... and professor at the University of Borås. You are studying customers and employees in an increasingly digitalized society. Why is this interesting?
"In recent years, there has been a great deal of focus on the opportunities that new digital solutions provide customers and companies. I think it is important also to problematise the use of new technology and highlight negative aspects.
2018-03-28
The Swedish association for quality in the regions of Värmland, Dalsland and Örebro (SFK VDÖ) met on the 8th of March and the hostess was Marie-Therese Christiansson, deputy head at the Business School at Karlstad University, teacher in informatics and president of SFK VDÖ.
In the latest CTF blog, Charlotte Bäccman looks at the reactions to the Corona virus from a social psychological perspective.
Corona or COVID-19, is the virus that singlehandedly has isolated countries, crashed the world economy, and reduced pollution; and you have been forced to (re-)act in some way to its rampage. Today’s reality is contradictory, on one hand we are urged to extreme precautions before an imminent threat.
About 1100 titles from Ebsco eBooks now available
Ebsco ebooks are included in OneSearch.About 1100 titles are available. We do not own this books, but they are automatically loaned/bought as soon as someone uses them. Most titles are in the subject areas "Education", "Social Science", "Geography".
The titles have one link for reading online " eBook full text", and one for downloading.
The books have a limit of 3 concurrent users.
