We are happy to welcome Dr. Jakob Trischler to CTF.
Jakob recently joined CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, as a postdoctoral researcher. Originally from Austria, he completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Management Center Innsbruck. After moving to Australia, Jakob completed his PhD at Southern Cross University in 2015.
2017-09-27
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.
2019-01-24
… from the 1st of January, you are the new post doc at Centre for Regional Studies, CRS. What are your plans?
-I will be here for two years. My research is within the Academy for Smart Specialisation and the project Forests as resources and opportunities in regional development, as well as Innovation for green transition based on the forest as a resource.
What is your background?
- I grew up in the coffee region of Colombia, in the middle of the Andes.
2019-03-13
In a recent study, researchers Johan Högberg and Erik Wästlund at CTF, Service Research Center, have developed a new tool that can measure users’ experiences while using a gamified service.
The measuring tool, Gamefulquest, makes it possible to measure a user’s experience while using a gamified service.
"With the help of this tool we can investigate how different game elements affect the gameful experience and create an understanding for how different implementations of
2018-11-01
Old sewer pipes that break down may cause a lot of damage. In the worst case, leaking water erodes the soil and this may result in sinkholes. Now researchers at Karlstad University have created a mathematical model to calculate the corrosion of sewers. This is important in selecting materials for future sewer lines.
Before creating a new type of sewer pipe that needs to function for decades, the user has to be able to obtain an estimate of the rate of corrosion.
2018-09-04
Researchers Johan Quist and Martin Fransson have for several years together with different authorities conducted research on how the public sector can be better, more relevant and appropriate for citizens.
2018-09-07
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.
2016-09-26
Rodney Clarke (Wollongong) presents a theorisation and design patterns for Internet-of-Things systems.
Developments in technology enable the construction of cheap and accurate emergency sensors. These sensors can provide improved ground truth for models or quantitative evidence to check against trends in social media.
2015-05-11
May 11 Prof. Pettersson and Malin Wik visited Trinity College in Dublin.
Ass. prof. Gavin Doherty, one of the principle investigator of WebWOZ, showed around and presented the utilization of WebWOZ in studies of interaction design. The Irish group has developed this system for Wizard-of-Oz prototyping for language-based applications and has also made a comparative study of such prototyping for other kinds of systems.
2015-11-04
We caught up with Professor Thorsten Gruber, Loughborough University, UK, who is visiting us this week.
Hello Thorsten Gruber! What brings you to CTF this time and what kind of research are you working on right now?
- It is always great to visit CTF, which I call my second home. This time I am here to give a presentation on the role of academic impact, and citations in particular.
2015-03-25
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
2023-05-15
Microstructure, Mechanical properties, Manufacturing processes, and Components
m3c is an industrial doctoral (PhD) research school. The consortium comprises materials scientists from three Swedish universities: the project coordinator and applicant Karlstad University, Jönköping University, and University of Gävle, as well as seven leading industrial partners.
How should AI be used in schools? The SmartStart Teacher Academy project aims to establish an international teacher education program that trains teachers and student teachers to critically integrate AI-based tools into teaching.
Doctoral programme in Social Work at Karlstad University.
Social work conducts research education and so far, five Ph.D. dissertations have been submitted within a broad range of areas. The dissertation or licentiate project of the research education belongs to one of the subjects two research orientations: Critical welfare studies or Applied welfare research.
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Research at Karlstad Business School is more and more assuming a role in the academic world while their new insights and results are usefully applied in companies around the world.
Besides disciplinary research in economics and business administration, for instance, there is also the Service Research Center (CTF) with a focus on value creation through service.
Do you have the best entrepreneurial and business idea?The EUNICE Start Cup is a business idea competition where each EUNICE university selects one team to compete in the final in Vaasa, Finland 24-25th of April, in which they pitch their idea in front of a jury.
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Centre for Teaching and Learning (UPE) supports and stimulates the development of university teachers’ teaching competence. The unit provides active and professional support for quality development of education in the first, second and third cycle at Karlstad University.
Model for teachers’ competence development
UPE's “course catalogue” has been changed and so has our working strategy regarding competence development for university teachers.
Doctoral programme in Social Work at Karlstad University.
Social work conducts research education and so far, five Ph.D. dissertations have been submitted within a broad range of areas. The dissertation or licentiate project of the research education belongs to one of the subjects two research orientations: Critical welfare studies or Applied welfare research.
Dear Geomedians, here is a new selection of news and points of information related to the Centre for Geomedia Studies!
25-01-10
Dear Geomedians,
First, I hope you’ve had a good beginning of the new year – and thank you for productive work during 2024!
Exposure during pregnancy's first trimester to mixtures of suspected endocrine disrupting chemicals found in consumer products is related to lower IQ in children after age 7, according to a study by researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Karlstad University, Sweden, published Environment International in October.
Digitalisation and Key Enabling Techniques such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Software Engineering have a tremendous potential to change industries.
Inspirational speakers
Linnea Claesson
Linnéa Claeson is an award-winning speaker, lawyer (Lawyer of the Year 2018), two-time handball world champion, and committed human rights defender. She has spoken in the European Parliament and led non-profit organizations for refugees and homeless people. Additionally, Linnéa is a goodwill ambassador for Kvinna till Kvinna, an organization that works for women's rights.
