Human geography research has been conducted at Karlstad University for the past 40 years, initially focusing on issues of local and regional development, tourism and landscape studies. As the subject and its research have grown, new research directions and themes have emerged alongside the already established ones.
Director
Moa Tunström
Senior lecturer of Human Geography
moa.tunstrom@kau.se
Phone: +46 (0)54-700 2395
Office: 12A 431
Head of the graduate school
Annika Jonsson
Lecturer in Sociology
E-mail: annika.jonsson@kau.se
Phone: +46 (0)54-700 2117
Stefan Backius
Lecturer in History
E-mail: stefan.backius@kau.se
Phone: +46 (0)54-700 2084
Doctoral student representative
Tove Bodland
PhD-student in Risk and environmental studies
E-mail: tove.bodland@kau.se
Centre coordinator
Sigrid Josefsson
E-mail: si
CSR
» Forskning
» Pågående forskning vid CSR
» Påverkan på människors hälsa i Bangladesh av konsekvenser från klimatförändringar
During week 33 CSR were visited by a delegation of researchers from Bangladesh. The visit was part of an ongoing project, consequences to human health in Bangladesh by Climate Change, which aims at developing a strong research network in the field of Climate change and health.
Photo: Researchers from Khulna University, Centre for injury prevention and Research Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and the Centre for Societal Risk Research.
Bridget Kane, senior lecturer in Information Systems at Karlstad University with a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, will speak trends with the perspective of the conference series CBMS - Computer-Based Medical Systems.
The design of public space requires a deep understanding of the way large numbers of people move. Of particular importance are their dynamical interactions and the resulting collective behaviour. This is a key issue not only in designing e.g. railway stations, airports, but also in ensuring the safety of crowds at large public events.
However, the modelling and computation of such groups of people is still in its infancy.
Working Life Science offers both subject-specific courses and Bachelor, Master and Doctoral degree programmes in working life science.
Our undergraduate courses are offered to programme students in Human Resource Management and Working Life 180 ECTS cr., and to students planning to major in the subject. We also provide tailor-made contract courses.
"The deracialization of Sweden", is a recently published research anthology focusing on issues of race, racism, anti-racism and whiteness in a Swedish post-war and contemporary context. The anthology is edited by Tobias Hübinette and Peter Wikström, researchers at the Research Group for Culture Studies (Kufo) at Karlstad University.
2024-10-15
Swedish pupils need support to fully understand what they read online. They often have great knowledge and abilities, but must be given tools to interpret texts in a digital environment. These are the findings of new research at Karlstad University.
"Reading a printed text and reading a text online entail different types of challenges, and pupils must be able to work with both text types.
2014-03-19
Ph D Student in Business Administration at CTF and MIT. You are one of our researchers who met with Stefan Löfven, Leader for the Swedish Social Democratic Party, who visited CTF and Karlstad University on March 7, what did you talk about??
- First of all I want to say that it was a great opportunity for me to meet Stefan Löfven. I presented my current research from my first year of PhD studies at CTF.
2013-11-12
Owen Waygood, assistant professor in the École supérieure d’aménagement du territoire et de développement régional (ÉSAD; Graduate School of Spatial Planning and Regional Development) at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada, is visiting CTF this a week to meet with Margareta Friman, Professor and Director of Samot, and other researchers within Samot.
Owen Waygood has a wide interest
Computer Science – 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, distributed systems, computer security and software engineering.
Education
Teaching is carried out at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
This international one-week course gathers PhD students in Earth-, Engineering- and Social sciences for an introduction to the dynamics and impacts of natural hazards (e.g., floods, droughts, wildfires and earthquakes) as well as disaster man- agement and social vulnerability under the umbrella of Disas- ter Risk Reduction (DRR).
Farzaneh Karegar, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at Karlstad University – would you mind telling us about your background?
- During my bachelor's and master's studies in Iran, I studied Computer Engineering, specializing in Hardware Engineering. Upon moving to Sweden, I worked as a project assistant for the European project A4Cloud at the Computer Science Department at Karlstad University.
Geomedia
» Konferenser och evenemang
» Geomedia Speaker Series
Gentrification and the right to the Geomedia city
Wednesday, 8 June 2022, 13:00-15:00 (1-3 pm CET)
The seminar explores the role of media in urban gentrification processes.
Socialt arbete
» Forskning
» Tillämpade välfärdsstudier
Patients with acquired brain injury and their relatives' experiences of psychosocial support in healthcare Ongoing licentiate thesis
The purpose of the project is to develop knowledge about meaningful aspects of psychosocial support in healthcare. Through interviews with individuals with acquired brain injuries and their relatives, experiences of psychosocial support within healthcare are examined.
Ph.D.
Doctoral programme in Business Administration at Karlstad University.
At the Karlstad Business School, research in Business Administration is pursued both in multidisciplinary and disciplinary groups. The groups may involve researchers from Karlstad University and from other universities, in Sweden and abroad. Business Administration is a problem-oriented subject with different theoretical frameworks for different sub-disciplines.
CRS
» Konferenser
» People and Networks Matter - Enabling Sustainable Bioeconomy Transition 27-28 mars 2019
The conference is a co-production between Nordregio, CRS - Centre for Regional Studies at Karlstad University, UIO TIK – Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at University of Oslo, LUKE – Natural Resources Institute Finland, NIBIO – Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Region Värmland, Paper Province, Nordic Forest Research (SNS), Nordic Agri Research (NKJ) and Ingoskog – Innovation for green transition in the forest.
HypheNation: A study of the Bildungsroman in six American minority novels from the 1990s (Zdravka Katinic) Internal funding 2020-
The project explores six American minority novels published in the "post-era" of the 1990s USA: Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998), Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land (1996), Sapphire's Push (1996), Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat (1995), Linda Hogan's Solar Storms (1994), and Julia Alvarez's How The Gar
There was strong demand for places at the 11th International IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity held in Karlstad, Sweden last month thanks to recent changes in EU data protection regulations and the emergence of smart Big Data.
Around 90 people attended the interdisciplinary program, which ran from 21-26 August, focusing on data protection and information privacy from technical, legal, ethical, HCI and industrial perspectives.
Thirty-five PhD students prese
2017-09-18
Computer Science researchers at Karlstad University received Best Paper award at the top ranked research conference ISD, Information Systems Development 2017. The paper concerns users’ perspectives on a cloud-based personal identity management and it is connected to the CREDENTIAL project which Karlstad University is involved.
“I was surprised when they announced our paper as the winner of the award but I was also very happy, of course.
2023-09-19
The Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) recently conducted and extensive evaluation of 40 nursing specialisation programmes at 25 higher education institutions in Sweden.
CRS
» Konferenser
» Regions in Transition 9-10 March 2017
Abstract format
- Abstracts should be maximum 250 words written in English.
- The title in CAPITAL letters.
- Author and co-author (s) name, surname, title, affiliation, and paper track should be typed into the on-line abstract submission system that opens10 September.
- The use of tables and figures in abstract is discouraged.
Extended abstract
- The conference will be based on discussions of extended abstract, maximum 1 500 words written in English.
- All papers will have a discussant which
