Our staff work on a range of exciting research topics. The following list provides an overview of the research expertise found in English at Karlstad University.
At Karlstad University, you can choose between about 40 programs at the undergraduate level and about 30 at the advanced level. The programs lead to a degree and are composed of courses that you study in a certain order.
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The Trans Studies Research Residency programme started in February 2017 as an initiative of the Trans Studies research group working at the Centre for Gender Studies. The aim is to create an inspiring space for collaboration between trans scholars as well as offer much needed time for focusing on research and writing. The residency will take place for the fourth time in spring 2019.
Upper row: M. Rinio, R. Hansson, G. Hjern, A. Holmberg, B. Petrelius, H. Piehl,
Front row: P. Pacho, A. Lama, A. Potter, T. Chang
The research group is focussing on multi- and monocrystalline silicon solar cells, modules, and their applications. These devices have proven to be the world's most successful solar cells since decades, covering about 94 % of the world market.
Socialt arbete
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The SOFIA Study
Several ongoing and planned studies are conducted within the framework of the longitudinal study on the social and physical development, interventions, and adaptation of children (the SOFIA study), carried out in collaboration with Karlstad Municipality and Örebro University.
The overall purpose of the SOFIA study is to better understand the development of children's social, physical, and mental health, including deviant behavior.
Did you receive an email from an open access publisher who wonders if you want to publish with them? It may seem flattering, but you should be on your guard. Trustworthy publishers do not usually approach you like that, there are some rogue publishers that exploit the open access business model.
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Within a large European consortium of universities led by TEI in Crete (Greece), we aim to build a coherent methodology to detect at an early stage potential of student failures when learning Calculus and Linear Algebra in their first and second year of university studies.
The main role of the Karlstad node is twofold:
organize an industry-academia meet-up where mathematics gets in action to solve relevant problems of our society, involving students at
In a new doctoral thesis from CTF, Pernille K Andersson is investigating how the servicescape is changed by the influence of music, self-disclosure, and eye gaze on service encounter experience and approach avoidance behavior.
- Our feelings and behavior are continuously affected by our surroundings. Stores have servicescapes which have a big influence on customer’s experiences and purchase decisions, says Pernille K Andersson.
Kombinerad ECHA och igMCG konferens 16-18 juni 2025
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We are very proud of our four keynotes coming from four different countries to share their experience and knowledge of gifted education with teachers and researcher to improve education for the highly able learners.
Margaret SutherlandKirsi TirriJan KwietniewskiJorryt van BommelTracy Riley
We are happy to welcome Mia Larson - Associate Professor of Business Administration at Karlstad Business School. She will be placed at CTF, Service Research Center, where she will, among other things, be involved in the research project Trust and Empowerment in Digital Services.
Mia Larson most recently worked at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies at Lund University.
2020-09-29
… Senior Lecturer in Business Administration and researcher at CTF. Digital service infusion is the name of a project you are working on - what is it about?
"It is about how manufacturing companies can make profit on digital services and how they can find new, profitable service solutions. We focus on three current areas; the first area is business models and how they change when companies add digital services to their offerings.
2020-09-01
…..You are one of the researchers in DISCERN, what is the project about and what are you working on right now?
"The goal of the sub project that I am head of, is to create an increased understanding of customer behavior in stores and to investigate how digitalization (Internet of things) can have a positive impact on the customer experience.
2024-12-05
Ho, ho, ho Carl Utbult, songwriter and producer, as well as a teacher at Ingesund. It's that time of the year again; you have been the supervisor for the first-year students in the music production program as they wrote and produced this year's Christmas song together in the regular songwriting course.
2019-08-26
At the end of the spring term, Karlstad Student Union took the opportunity to surprise some members of the teaching staff that students wished to pay special tribute to. "Celebrate a teacher" was the name of the campaign running during the spring semester and on 19 June the result was announced on the student union Instagram.
Individual students as well as societies had been invited to nominate candidates via videos published on the student union Instagram.
2014-07-02
What happens when manufacturing companies, who previously focused on products only, begin to focus on services? What challenges are they put up against and how can they face them? This is what Nina Löfbergs thesis is about.
Globalization and increased competition from low-cost countries has pushed many Swedish manufacturing companies firms to focus on services rather than only products.
2025-06-19
An intense and eventful half-year is coming to an end – and there is much to be proud of. Recently, I had the privilege of leading the international conference, QUIS19 – The 19th International Research Symposium on Service Excellence in Management, in Rome. Over 275 participants from around the world gathered to be inspired and to discuss how research can help address the major societal challenges of our time – such as AI development and sustainability.
Gabriella Torell Palmquist
Period: January 2022 – December 2024.
Project leader: Prof Susanna Hedenborg (Malmö University) & Prof Aage Radmann (Norwegian School of Sport Science)
Project members: PhD Gabriella Torell Palmquist (Ridskolan Strömsholm & Karlstad University), PhD Petra Andersson (University og Gothenburg), Prof Simon Kennedy Beames (Norwegian School of Sport Science), Anna Sätre (assistent) och Matilde Kronborg (assistent).
Funding: The Swedish-Norwegian Foundation for E
Statistically, 1–2 pupils in each primary school class are highly gifted. This means that these pupils usually can learn and remember new information more easily, and can process it more quickly than their classmates can. How should teachers adapt their teaching so that these pupils also are stimulated and can develop?
2019-05-14
Karlstad University is testing a new evacuation plan in Building 21 (Vänern). The first person to arrive at the place where the evacuation vest and instructions are placed may evacuate the premises. This applies to staff as well as students.
The plan entails that there are trained evacuation leaders, but if they are not present when the fire alarm sounds, others need to take the lead in evacuating the premises.
On this page you find information on what to do if something happens. In the event of an emergency, always call 112 first.
Emergency situationIn case of emergency, call 112 to reach emergency services, police or to call for an ambulance, talk to an on-call priest or receive medical advice in case of emergency poisoning.
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What is Information systems in healthcare and and what is the latest research with regard to information communication and collaboration among hospital-based medical teams?
Below you find news articles connected to the research profile HITS.
Annual HITS workshop
Hello there, jun cheng, adjunct senior lecturer within compueter science at karlstad university
Students develop functionality for leading IT companies
International summer school for future internet services
New management group for the research profile hits
Tool for experimental research on cloud computing and networking
From summer job to research conference
Workshop on future mobile
The schedule is continually updated and subject to change. Seminar materials are normally distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists. Anyone not reached by these lists should feel free to contact us.
January
Thu 12/1, 13.00-16.00, 12B545: KuFo workshop. Extra RJ application workshop. Participants should submit their texts to Maria no later than 12 noon on Mon 9/1.
Tue 24/1, 13.15-15, 3A340: PhD seminar. Theory seminar on a text chosen by Kari Løvaas.
Information Systems at Karlstad Business School, welcomed a new teacher on the first of August. Gunnar Olsson, with a sterling background within the IT-business and a former Olympic medalist, has stepped into the academic world.
Gunnar Olsson is originally from Timrå, a place north of Sundsvall that has a strong athletic tradition, not least in ice hockey with the men’s A-team of Timrå IK in the Swedish hockey league, SHL.
