Welcome to Karlstad University! What and where have you studied before you began your employment here in January?
Hej hej! Before coming to Karlstad I was doing my master's in Computer Science.
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Congratulations Diana von Börtzell-Szuch, you have been awarded Mensa Fund Grants 2023. Tell us a bit more about what it is and what you will be doing.
Thank you! I am so happy that my Ph.D. project has been funded.The various Mensa associations in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden together distribute funds each year through the Nordic Mensa Foundation for research into various aspects on different aspects of intelligence.
Internet services are becoming a greater part of our daily lives and the more complex the service, the higher the demands placed on the systems and networks behind the services.
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March 11 marked the day of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan that caused thousands of fatalities and the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. On the same day, two years ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that COVID-19 could be characterized as a pandemic. These two crises are emblematic of how natural hazards and related disasters continue to pose a major threat to societies.
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Having grown up near Karlstad University, Yvonne Liljekvist can practically see all the way “home” from her 5th-floor office in house 21. So it was only natural to get her bachelor’s degree in education with a specialisation in mathematics, science and technology in her hometown.
The course Impact and the utilisation of research is offered by the Innovation Office Fyrklövern and is aimed at doctoral students from four universities. The course focuses on how research results can be used to benefit society, industry, and academia through non-academic strategies.
Our research seminars feature visits from external guests as well as presentations of in-house research that is conducted in the subject.
2024
January 24, 13.00-14.30 - Sherwin Chua - a recently graduated PhD student, Gothenburg University.
Room: 12C350
January 31, 13.00 – 14.30 - Ann Werner, senior lecturer in Musicology at Uppsala University and associate professor in Gender Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden
Room: 12A424
Seminar: Music st
Preschool teacher profession and Swedish preschool - restructuring in a time of reduced birth rates and financial cuts
2025-2029
“Stop it” - do you really need all the preschools you are planning?" This is the call in the fall of 2024 from the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKR) to municipalities planning new preschools. The call highlights a future scenario for Swedish preschools based on a reduced birth rate over the next ten years.
John Sören Pettersson visited Günter Alce and the VR studio in Lund.
Günter Alce, PhD student at Lund University, who gave a presentation in Karlstad in the beginning of the summer about his extraordinary combination of Wizard-of-Oz technique, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality, received Professor John Sören Pettersson when he was visitng Lund on Spetember 22.
2016-01-18
Bridget Kane, PhD, has pursued research within Health Informatics and CSCW at Trinity College and St. James Hospital in Dublin. During the spring 2016 she will help students who write HCI theses in English. She will also contribute to the master course Models and Methods for Multimedia Development. She has a post-graduate diploma in Statistics and will assist in the research education during this spring.
2020-01-24
We welcome Martina Caic, new postdoctoral researcher at CTF. During the next two years, she will, among other things, conduct research on how new technologies affects value co-creation within different networks of actors.
Martina Caic holds a PhD from Maastricht University, the Netherlands, where she was a Marie Curie Fellow within the EU-funded project Service Design for Innovation Network, SDIN. The SDIN project was funded by Horizon 2020 during 2015-2018.
Doctoral programme in Working Life Science at Karlstad University.
At Karlstad University, the subject Working Life Science is a social science discipline (traditionally it had been a natural science/engineering discipline focused on ergonomics). It is built on the study of working people and forms of work.
Date
16 – 18 of April, 2024
Venue
Karlstad University
Description and aim of the workshop
The workshop aims at sharing open problems, new ideas, and mathematical techniques applicable to exploring complex scenarios in materials science. The main goal is to identify potentially interesting research directions to be pursued in the near future.
Do you want to develop your skills and your network? Then you are welcome to an information meeting about international staff exchange!Karlstad University offers you as an employee or Ph.D.
Do you want to develop your skills and your network? Then you are welcome to an information meeting about international staff exchange!Karlstad University offers you as an employee or Ph.D.
Committed to excellence in computer networking, security and privacy, and software engineering
Computer Science is the study of both the theorethical and the practical aspects of software development. In Karlstad, the education as well as the research are mainly focused on computer networking, privacy and security and software engineering.
Education
Teaching is carried out at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Doctoral programme in Working Life Science at Karlstad University.
At Karlstad University, the subject Working Life Science is a social science discipline (traditionally it had been a natural science/engineering discipline focused on ergonomics). It is built on the study of working people and forms of work.
Funded by GEXcel International Collegium
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.
Thirty years ago CTF, Service Research Center, was established at Karlstad University. How it happened, success factors and the latest from today’s research were included in the program when CTF held its anniversary celebration on October 6th at Karlstad University.
Martin Löfgren, Deputy Head at Karlstad Business School at Karlstad University, opened the event and welcomed everyone.
This is a course on value creating processes, interaction and communication facilitating increased understanding of the customer. This page is under construction.
COURSE CONTENT
The aim of the course is to acquire increased knowledge and understanding of value creation processes through various methods with a focus on customer journeys.
Hello Simone Fischer-Hübner, Professor in Computer Science! There's a lot going on right now in your field, cybersecurity. The Knowledge Foundation recently granted funding to a Swedish Industrial Graduate School on Cybersecurity (SIGS-CyberSec) where you will hold the wheel. Congratulations!
PLACE-BASED DIGITAL EXPERIENCES
In the past decades, we have witnessed great changes in the tourism industry as an effect of the general digitalisation process. Tourism actors are now online, which changes the conditions for how the industry communicates with visitors, how marketing, itineraries and bookings take place, and not least how visitors experience the destination.
Annica Löfdahl Hultman
Director
Professor in educational work
054-700 16 12
annica.lofdahl@kau.se
Katarina Ribaeus
Chair
Senior lecturer in educational work
054-700 19 21
katarina.ribaeus@kau.se
Stefan Wagnsson
Members of the board
Associate professor in sports science
Peter Carlman
Members of the board
Senior lecturer in educational work
Ebba Hildén
Members of the board
Senior lecturer in educational work
Martina Jordan
PhD in educational work
Gunhild Tomter Alstad
External members of the
