Welcome to CTF seminar, please note that the seminar is internal.Jakob Trischler, Associate Professor in Business Administration and Ingo Oswald Karpen, Professor of Business and Design will hold a seminar.Title “SUSTAIN – Presenting the roadmap to CTF next KK profile application"The seminar will be held in English.For more information please contact charlotta.andersson@kau.se
2023-11-14
Researchers at the Service Research Center (CTF) at Karlstad University have been assigned to identify the initiatives and measures that have led to less food being thrown away in restaurants and school kitchens, retail, and households.
How is the concept of sustainable development given meaning in different contexts and what are the consequences? At the moment there are for example several new “green” industrial initiatives in former industrial towns that raise questions concerning how the experiences from previous structural changes influence the attitudes towards ongoing initiatives. Or, what is sustainable regional development?
In 2011 we conducted an alumni survey where every student acquiring 90 study credits or more from the Department of Economics during the last 3 to 5 years were invited to participate. 68 students (approx. 60%) responded to the survey. A summary of the survey responses shows that:
All respondents were established on the labor market and a large majority had permanent positions.
Musikhögskolan Ingesund
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Music 60 credits is a one-year course that prepares for higher music studies and focuses on instrumental proficiency as well as ensemble and orchestral playing.
The main instrument instruction includes individual lessons as well as joint lessons with everyone in the respective instrument group at Ingesund.
Akademisk högtid
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Anders Lind grew up in Västertorp, a suburban part of Stockholm. His great interest in bird watching resulted in him choosing to specialise in biology in upper secondary school, from which he graduated in 1965. After graduation, he enrolled in university studies but immediately started working as a substitute teacher in a lower secondary school in Västertorp, teaching biology and geography.
Artist diploma is a one-year course in repertoire studies and interpretation at advanced level which is aimed at particularly talented musicians with very high artistic and professional ability. The course prepares an artist career with a focus on developing professional abilities to become active internationally as soloists and chamber musicians.
Read more about the course and how to make your application.
Raviv Gal does research that he hopes will contribute to healthier watercourses and increased biodiversity. Fewer blackflies, higher biodiversity, and slower decomposition – these are some of the unexpected effects that freshwater pearl mussels have on their surroundings in the stream. Raviv Gal recently defended his PhD in biology at Karlstad University.
The freshwater pearl mussel is one of Sweden's longest-living animals – some individuals can live up to 280 years.
2021-01-27
We are happy to welcome yet another PhD student to CTF and Karlstad Business School. Pritam Padhi is a new PhD student in Business Administration, and will study innovation management, service performance and service offerings within organizations.
Pritam Padhi has a Master’s degree in Management and Economics of Innovation from Chalmers University of Technology, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in India.
2021-01-29
We are happy to welcome yet another PhD student to CTF and Karlstad Business School. Pritam Padhi is a new PhD student in Business Administration, and will study innovation management, service performance and service offerings within organizations.
Pritam Padhi has a Master’s degree in Management and Economics of Innovation from Chalmers University of Technology, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in India.
Working after retirement is becoming increasingly common in the Swedish labor market. Statistics from the Swedish Pensions Agency show that approximately 264,000 Swedes have employment income while also receiving their public pension. Many of these post-retirement workers (in Swedish: Jobbonärer, is a blend of the Swedish words for “working” and “pensioner”) are employed through staffing agencies that specialize in retirees.
Martin Blom, researcher within Computer Science at Karlstad University visited a class of high school students at Thoréns Business School 30 October to answer the question – what is Science?
- Science is the chase for truth, says Martin Blom. To find the truth and the answers to specific questions which we search the truth about we use sceintific methods.
At the Centre the research is organised in four different thematic research streams. The research areas are linked in varying degrees to the existing research and teaching profile at Karlstad University as well as within GEXcel.
Transgender Studies
Masculinity Studies
Gender, health and technology
Action for Organisational Change
Henrik Andersson and Rasmus Nim each presented a paper with poster at the Student Interaction Design Research conference in Malmö, Sweden, 1-2 April, 2016.
Henrik presented a pilot study from summer 2015 when he worked within a EU project at Computer Science dept. at Karlstad University.
Forskarskolan om särskilt begåvade barn
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Psychologist Jan Kwietniewski
Head of the Counseling Center for Special Talents (BbB) at the State Institute for Teacher Training and School Development in Hamburg.
Presentation of abstractThe promotion of talent and the support of the gifted are two sides of the same goal: a broadly understood strategy in modern education to enable all pupils to develop their personal talents.
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The aim of the GiftED doctoral programme is to build capacity in Sweden in terms of research on inclusive teaching of gifted pupils. It will be active for 5,5 years as a continuation of a Nordic research collaboration and will include a wider circle of leading international expertise. The GiftED doctoral programme is funded by The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) for 39,5 million Swedish crowns, with co-financing of 5 million sek from Karlstad University.
Bestoun S Ahmed Al-Beywanee was appointed Professor in Computer Science on 1st March. Congratulations, Bestoun!
What is the focus of your research?
My broad research focuses on software quality assurance and applied soft computing in softwareengineering. Part of this in the past years was using AI to solve software quality assurance problems such astest generation and design.
2025-04-09
Karlstad University has appointed three new honorary doctors. One of them is Brian Hudson, Emeritus Professor of Education and former head of The School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sussex. He has worked closely with teacher education-related research at Karlstad University since 2015, particularly with the strong research group Rose, a multidisciplinary research environment with a special interest in subject didactics – learning and teaching in subjects.
2024-08-12
Mette Mortensen is a professor of media studies at the University of Copenhagen with a doctorate in art and literature and an interdisciplinary background with a Master’s in literary history.
2022ArticlesAmin, K., Skyving, M., Bonander, C., Krafft, M., & Nilson, F. (2022). Fall- and collision related injuries among pedestrians in road traffic environment – A Swedish national register-based study. Journal of Safety Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2022.02.007Bonander, C., Stranges, D., Gustavsson, J., Almgren, M., Inghammar, M., Moghaddassi, M., Nilsson, A., Pujol, J. C., Steves, C., Franks, P. W., Gomez, M. F., Fall, T., & Björk, J. (2022).
Setting the Scene: Academic interventions in the media and tourism industries with our guest professor Stijn Reijnders at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
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Setting the Scene: Academic interventions in the media and tourism industries
Abstract
This presentation focuses on media tourism: the phenomenon of people travelling to places associated with films, TV series or other forms of popular culture.
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Anders Green, Senior Lecturer in Media Technology at Södertörn University, outlines research plans related to the game design education offered by his university. Wizard of Oz is one method among others that may play a role here. Research plans and student-level collaboration will also be discussed at the seminar.
Green's research focus includes human-machine interaction, communication, and web development for mobile services.
2024-09-20
We are pleased to welcome our new PhD student, Emad Uddin, who will work on the Drive project, focusing on improving service quality in 5G and 6G networks through data-driven analysis.
The core of the project is to analyze network traffic over time using statistics and machine learning to make better decisions and adapt traffic based on the network’s status.
