Mitt Kau is a digital service for those studying at Karlstad University. We launched the service in the summer of 2020 and early this fall all students will be able to use Mitt Kau. However, building systems and updating takes some time. There is a lot to think about and develop.
We want you to get the best out of us here at Karlstad University. So until mid-September, you as a student need to keep track of two important systems. Does it sound messy?
Service Design for Innovation (SDIN), a Marie Curie European Training Network, is now seeking 9 outstanding Early Stage Researchers (ESR) to join its 3 years research training program, involving a PhD enrolment and a full-time contract.
These Marie Curie positions are attractive and highly prestigious opportunities for Early Stage Researchers in the field of Service Design and Innovation.
SDIN offers the resources, infrastructure and expertise of 8 highly reputed European academic and non-academ
We offer a number of different ways for exchanging experiences between the business sector and the university.
Mentorship
A mentorship may be a good way of starting a partnership with Karlstad University. Sharing your professional experience with a student is invaluable ahead of his/her first job.
End-user Internet access has traditionally been dominated by wired connectivity (ADSL, cable). This landscape is changing, with mobile broadband (3G/4G) complementing or fully replacing the wired access. Whereas wired network access links typically provide a stable link capacity and delay, mobile wireless access adds another level of complexity.
During the conferences NOFA 5 in Helsinki and NGM (Nordic Geographers Meeting) in Tallin (May and June 2015 respectively), we invited participants to make contributions in a special issue on geography education in the journal Nordidactica, on the foundation of their conference abstracts and presentations.
The conference sessions on geography and education had a broad thematic spectrum, including practical as well as theoretical aspects of teaching, studying, and learning geography in schools and
A fiercely passionate suicide prevention activist becomes Karlstad University’s alumnus of the year in 2021. Marie Niljung, an entrepreneur with a mission to change attitudes around mental health and save lives, will receive the award at a ceremony later this fall.
Drivhuset helps students realize their ideas by offering education, networks and coaching. The first Drivhuset started in Karlstad and is now active in 14 places throughout Sweden.
Drivhuset (The Greenhouse) supports students at the University on their way to a viable enterprise. The goal is to create a positive attitude to entrepreneurship and get more students interested in realizing their ideas.
Anders Gustafsson, Professor of Business Administration at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, is the first European to be awarded the prestigious assignment as President of AMA Academic Council.
Anders Gustafsson has been appointed President-Elect Designate of the AMA Academic Council. In this role, he is a member of the council's Executive Committee and is in line to serve as the first council president from outside of North America.
2024-01-25
The Supreme Commander’s and the government’s statements regarding the war situation have provoked many reactions. How could alarmist messaging affect the public, how can we manage our fears and anxieties, and could this kind of rhetoric actually be beneficial?
Researchers at Karlstad University can provide some answers.
The recent call for Swedish citizens to prepare for a potential war has caused anxiety and fear in many people.
2023-09-14
The situation surrounding the course Intercultural studies: race and whiteness in Sweden, which has attracted a lot of media attention, has led to a report being filed with the Disciplinary Board of Karlstad University.
The report was entered in the registry on Thursday and will be processed promptly.
Access to equipment is a fundamental requirement for children and young people to participate in sports and leisure activities. Equipment is the second largest cost for individuals involved in sports, following fees. In 2021, the average Swede spent SEK 2,700 on sports equipment (including clothing).
CGF has existed as a research group since 2006, but its roots trace back to the early 1990s when it operated under the name Gender Equality Center. Today, CGF is a research center at Karlstad University and is part of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. We work closely and extensively with the Gender Studies department.
2024-09-02 - 2025-02-11 (english) Register here no later than August 26.Course descriptionTarget groupTeachers at Karlstad University who supervises or intends to supervise students at doctoral level. Completed DHU course is also a requirement for you who intend to apply for an associate professor.Extent200 hours, with a maximum of 80 scheduled hours.Learning outcomes and contentSupervision is the most important pedagogical instrument in doctoral-level education.
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Databases and other electronic resources bought by or subscribed to Karlstad university library are only available outside campus for students and staff who can prove their identity by logging in with Kau ID.
Linking from It's learning, course reading lists etc.
When you want to link directly to an e-resource you need to add a proxy prefix before the url of the resource.
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ALUMNUS IN FOCUS: KRISTIAN THORÉN
Name: Kristian Thorén
Exam: Teacher's Degree Compulsory School's Secondary School and Upper Secondary School and Philosophy of Literature, 2009
Age: 35
What did you choose Karlstad University?
Lots of emotional reasons. The newly-built library was among the most beautiful I saw, as was
There is a preconceived notion that working-class boys and men in rural areas are less keen and less qualified readers than other groups. Through his research, Stig-Börje Asplund, newly appointed professor of educational work, paints a more nuanced picture.
Stig-Börje Asplund’s research is interdisciplinary and his research interests include boys and men in rural areas and their relationship to reading.
Research Center for Digital Adaptive Manufacturing for Industry 5.0
The vision of DAMI is to leverage the potential of digitalization for making production processes smarter, adaptive to the worker, more sustainable and resilient.
We believe that we can create impact through a combination of our excellent research, our strong and innovative industry and our regional support.
We want to make factories of the future smart, adaptive to t
Tomas Gustavsson is a teacher in Project Management at Karlstad Business School at our university. He holds a degree in IS. The seminar covers how to develop quantative analyses of project work.
Tomas collaborates with a company that offers a web-based project work place that is used by companies like IKEA, ABB, but also many smaller companies and organisations. Presently it hosts 54'000 active projects and since 1998 there are database logs from 174'000 projekt.
Akademisk högtid
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Anna-Britt Coe was born in Massachusetts, USA, to a Swedish mother and an American father. She has lived in Washington DC, Lima in Peru and Umeå/Nordmaling and studied sociology at undergraduate and postgraduate level at American University, Washington DC, and completed her PhD at Umeå University.
2024ArticlesAbascal, A., Georganos, S., Kuffer, M., Vanhuysse, S., Thomson, D., Wang, J., … Wolff, E. (2024). Making Urban Slum Population Visible : Citizens and Satellites to Reinforce Slum Censuses. In Urban Inequalities from Space : Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World (Vol. 26, pp. 287–302). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49183-2_14Abascal, A., Vanhuysse, S., Grippa, T., Rodriguez-Carreño, I., Georganos, S., Wang, J., … Wolff, E. (2024).
Karlstad Business School offers many opportunities to make your voice as a student heard. Student interaction and influence are some of the key factors in developing quality and innovation in education, for courses as well as programmes. Students' rights are also regulated by the Swedish Higher Education Act and Higher Education Ordinance.
There are several ways students can interact with Karlstad Business School.
Sony Mobile in Lund has developed a Wizard-of-Oz tool to support WOz testing of augmented-reality applications from mobile units. Research assistant Malin Wik visited Gunter Alce and Klas Hermodsson just before the autumn semester commenced to see WozARd and other remarkable systems. Via Skype also professor John Soren Pettersson participated in the discussions on collaborations (incl.
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The purpose of the project is to integrate AI-based tools into existing processes with the aim of improving attention, communication, and follow-up to improve the care and intervention chain for children and young people with mental health issues.
While laying a solid foundation for innovation and collaboration within and between municipal and regional operations that focus on the mental health of children and young people. The solution is intended to be used within
My research is all about how gender-power orders affect construction of risks and how it appears in managing risks in countys and regions. In a bigger perspective, research is connected to climate changes and the complex risks that society manage and will need to manage. I also teach at the Bachelor's - and Masters Programme at Center for Societal Risk Research (CSR) at Karlstad University.
Here are some central publications related to my research:
Magnusdottir, G.
Vinnova has granted 2.7 million SEK for the project ”User-oriented innovation within primary care through innovation groups”, that will be conducted by CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University
- We will develop a methodology to increase the level of innovation and to implement innovation in primary care.
