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Today's society must be prepared to manage a complex threat scenario. In order to attain good emergency management, it is essential to practice organization and its employees.
Traditional crisis exercise methods, with physical meetings, is costly and time consuming to plan and conduct causing many organizations practice too little and with too few people.
In December 2013 CTF has been appointed Excellence research group at Karlstad University.
- With this appointment we are given the opportunity to develop and further strengthen our position as one of the leading research centers on service innovation in the world, says Director Henrietta Huzell.?
As an Excellence research group CTF will receive up to 15 million SEK a year, for up to five years.
Our main campus lies a few kilometres east of the city centre. The easiest way to get here is by bus or bike, but you can also take the train and, of course, go by car. We also have a campus in Arvika, where Ingesund School of Music is located.
Getting to Campus Karlstad
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Several buses stop at the University.
Societal challenges require in-depth knowledge and enhanced competences. By building upon your bachelor degree with a further year or two of advanced level studies, you will increase your chances of finding an exciting profession and of pursuing an international career.
Julia Dicenta, PhD student at the University of Hohenheim in Germany, has been visiting CTF for five weeks to meet with the researchers and to work on a joint project.
Hello Julia, can you tell us about your research?
– My research is in service design and focuses on integrating customers in developing services.
2025-03-20
Mission 0 House, a collaboration between industry and academia with the goal of eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing processes, has secured its first long-term research funding. Several leading companies, together with the Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen), have jointly guaranteed nearly 100 million SEK for the next five years.
Mission 0 House, led by Polestar and Lindholmen Science Park, started as a pilot project in 2024.
2024-02-14
In the last ten years, relatively large groups have entered the labour market. At the same time, most societal sectors have expressed a clear skills shortage. The next ten years are expected to be even tougher and competition for skilled employees will intensify.
This development will also likely be reflected in a growing demand for higher education, where we can expect increasing competition to attract students.
The spread of coronavirus has had consequences that nobody could have imagined when the first reports from China appeared in January. The ongoing effort to limit the spread of infection and protect old people and persons with previous medical conditions concerns society as a whole, including Karlstad University.
Many people are worried, of course, about health aspects and about the societal consequences that the measures taken will have.
2023-06-27
Jaime Ortega Gutiérrez, associate professor in Marketing at the University of Seville, has been visiting CTF for three months to get to know CTF and meet with the researchers.
Hello Jaime, can you tell us about your research?
– My research areas include value co-creation, social networking, service innovation, and knowledge management within the service sector specifically in tourism.
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GRANTS AND INNOVATION OFFICEGIO offers targeted competence and career development for individual researchers, doctoral students and research environments. The starting point is to provide support adapted to the different phases of a research career, from early career researchers to senior researchers.Skills and career development for researchersUNIVERSITY LIBRARYThe library offers researchers competence enhancing opportunities through the Library Researcher Support seminar series.
Two new Honorary Doctors have been appointed at Karlstad University in 2024. They specialize in the fields of hydropower environmental issues and psychology. The award ceremony will take place during the Academic Celebration on October 18.
The Faculty of Health, Science, and Engineering has appointed Johan Tielman as Honorary Doctor in 2024.
2014-11-28
One year has passed since CTF was appointed "Excellent research group" at Karlstad University, and much has happened since then. Among other things, a new research area – Transformative Service Research – has been initiated along with new researchers and Ph.
2016-10-14
Xin Chen ("Albee"), PhD candidate at School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, presented a part of her PhD research.
Her research topic is:
Smart Communication in Lifestyles under Transformation: Exploring Smart Mobile Devices User Experience among Youth in Hong Kong
Xin’s research interests are in user behaviour, user experience, human-computer interaction and industrial design.
2025-02-05
How should AI be used in schools? The SmartStart Teacher Academy project aims to establish an international teacher education program that trains teachers and student teachers to critically integrate AI-based tools into teaching.
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All theses published within the university are available in the university’s archive and can be ordered by contacting the archivist.
University archive
The archive is situated in 11 D 153
Opening hours: The archive is open by appointment only.
Inquiries should be sent to:
Email: arkiv@kau.se
The Swedish Minister for Social Services, Camilla Waltersson Grönvall, is on a 2-day visit to Karlstad University this week.
– This is the first stop on my tour around Swedish universities that offer programmes in social work.
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The “SCTP SmartSwitch” project aimed at extending the SCTP transport protocol with smart session management to support fast switchover for delay-sensitive applications, such as signaling and video conferencing, as well as smooth recovery from long session disruptions for delay tolerant applications, such as various messaging and bulk transfer applications.
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Do you have a disability that means you need additional support in some form to go on exchange studies abroad? Then you have an opportunity to receive extra support during your application for exchange studies and during your exchange semester abroad.
Your journey to exchange studies:
Start planning your exchange period well in advance and attend an information meeting about studying abroad with the International Office.
In the latest CTF blog, Dr. Kaisa Koskela-Huotari shares her reflections and key takeaways from the international symposium QUIS16, held June 10-13 at Karlstad University.
Two weeks have passed since the closing of QUIS16, and the streets of Karlstad have emptied of our international conference participants.
2017-01-13
The former Information Systems doctoral student Julio Angulo, now at Google Research is giving a Google Talk.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible
and useful.
2018-01-16
Linda Nasr, Assistant Professor in Marketing at Texas State University, visited CTF last week.
– I had the honor and pleasure to visit CTF during last week. The purpose of my trip was to work with Professor Bo Edvardsson and Ph D Student Kotaiba Aal on an ongoing research project.
2015-09-18
