Can digital services support people who want to change their behavior? This is what researchers at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, currently is studying together with Wellness in Värmland.
Many people want to, or have to for health reasons, change their habits to a healthier lifestyle, for example start exercising, eating healthier or quit smoking. Although many want to make a change, it is not an easy task.
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
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Georg Gulyas was born in Säffle. His Hungarian father worked at the city library while his Finnish mother worked at the church daycare centre. He acquired his basic qualification in classical guitar from Malmö Academy of Music.
After completing his degree, he continued his studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, École Normale de Musique de Paris and Juilliard School in New York.
Read our latest CTF blog, written by Charlotte Bäccman and Linda Bergkvist.
We often think and visualize life as a cycle, beginning with birth and ending with death; where each phase is characterized by specific events, such as the discovery and development of childhood, the identity seeking of adolescence, and towards the end of a long life – the wear of aging.
2014-07-02
Today the development is fast-paced. Many traditional industries and trades will disappear as today’s products and services are being replaced by new, innovative, cost-effective and customized solutions.
- Focus on, and get to know your customers!
2019-02-18
We are happy to welcome Jonas Hjalmar Blom as a new PhD student in Psychology at CTF. His research will mainly focus on behavioral change and digitalization in healthcare.
- My research will focus on decision making and behavioral change in an economic, ecological and psychological sustainable direction.
2022-05-23
Professor Anders Gustafsson has been awarded the “Highly Commended Paper Award” for the article “Small details that make big differences: A radical approach to consumption experience as a firm’s differentiating strategy” by the publisher Emerald.
2025-05-19
Although Marie Nilsberth, like many young people, was curious about a variety of things growing up, becoming teacher has always been at the top of her list. She still believes that teachers play an important role, and following a career as a teacher in years 4-6 and special educational needs coordinator, she now trains future teachers at Karlstad University.
2023-03-08
Between 22 and 26 February, researchers from Service Research Center (CTF) visited the Gothenburg Horse Show to study how event participants experience a rotation system with reusable takeaway cups.
The researchers were there to study a rotation system with reusable containers for food and beverages - in this case coffee cups - and gauge event participants reactions. The system will be tested at three events in 2023, and the Gothenburg Horse Show was first up.
2014-01-23
We welcome Gabriella Arcese Ph. D in Commodity Science, and Laura Di Pietro Ph. D student in Commodity Science and Quality Management, from Roma Tre University, who are visiting us for the coming three weeks to work with Professor Bo Edvardsson and Ph D Student Kotaiba Aal.
Laura Di Pietro is a Ph D student in Commodity Science and Quality Management at the Department of Business Studies.
2019-07-02
We are happy to welcome Petter Falk, who has joined CTF as a new Industrial PhD student in Political Science.
Petter Falk is a new Industrial Phd student at RISE. He will be supervised by Political Science and Business Administration at Karlstad University and linked to CTF.
2024-05-03
Jenny Wilson is an internationally known Swedish indie musician, artist, and not least, producer. Her music is electro-influenced and energetic, and her lyrics are confrontational, often critical of society. At the same time, she does not shy away from being very vulnerable and personal, which is a significant part of her expression.
2016-12-23
...you have recently spent a week in Croatia on an Erasmus exchange. What did you do there?
- I have been at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) at the University of Zagreb. This is the most prestigious university and engineering faculty in Croatia. I was there for one week on Erasmus teaching mission. I held lectures in two courses, gave student consultations for master and PhD students and I held a research colloquium.
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The award is given for 'long term and significant contributions to the service research field and to the development of CTF'.
International Fellows of CTF appointed at CTF 30th Anniversary 2016:
Javier Reynoso, Professor, EGADE Business School, Mexico
Ruth Bolton, Professor, Arizona State University, US
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Marie Karlsson Tuula was born in 1961 and grew up in Malmö. When she was twenty she moved to Stockholm to study. She was accepted to law school in 1983 and completed her Bachelor degree in 1987.
In addition to law, Marie Karlsson Tuula took a number of courses in European processes, business economics and criminology, and completed her apprenticeship at the then Mölndal District Court.
“People’s experiences of different things and how it affects their behaviour have always interested me and are central within my research.”
Martin Grimberg Löfgren grew up in Säffle and has stayed true to his hometown. After completing his studies at Karlstad University, he remained with the university and began his doctoral studies in Business Administration in 2002. He has since worked as a senior lecturer and became docent in 2011 and professor in 2021.
Margareta Friman, Professor of Psychology at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, will be a new Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Karlstad University.
“I feel enthusiasm and joy for my new mission. It is a privilege to be involved in and to influence Karlstad University’s future development,” says Margareta Friman.
In her new assignment, Margareta Friman will lead, coordinate and develop education, research and collaboration within Karlstad University.
2022-06-20
Bo Edvardsson, professor at Karlstad Business Service Research Center (CTF), and Bård Tronvoll, professor at CTF and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, are the editors for the newly published Palgrave Handbook of Service Management.
- The book provides a unique and current overview of service management research, says Bo Edvardsson.
2015-02-20
For those of you who are not familiar with what spring activity means it's broadly that companies invite you students to a study visit. where they can talk about who they are, what they do, etc. Then we gather all at the Tables to eat, mingle and play billiards.
The evening will look like this:
17:00 to 18:30 Info at the companies
18:45 to 19:00 Collection at the Tables
19:00 to 20:00 Food and table socializing
21:00 to 22:00 Billiards 22:00 onwards.
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Anna-Britt Coe was born in Massachusetts, USA, to a Swedish mother and an American father. She has lived in Washington DC, Lima in Peru and Umeå/Nordmaling and studied sociology at undergraduate and postgraduate level at American University, Washington DC, and completed her PhD at Umeå University.
The researchers Lars E Olsson, Peter Magnusson and Alexandre Sukhov have been awarded the “Nokia Award for the Paper with the Best Technological Implications”.
The award “Nokia Award for the Paper with the Best Technological Implications” was presented at the conference “Charting the Future of Innovation”, organized by ISPIM, the International Society for Professional Innovation Management in March in Boston, USA.
The researchers received the award for the conference pa
2022-05-02
... What research area will you conduct research in and what will you focus on?
- I will conduct research in the organizational psychology field focusing on the individual in organizational change. It is a well-known fact that organizational change often entails major challenges for employees within an organization, and that many difficulties linked to different change initiatives often can be traced back to psychological or psychosocial factors in the individual.
“The contemporary historical moment is a knowledge society, with a knowledge economy, where the production and exchange of information and knowledge have become fundamental to the structures of our institutions, the labour markets, our work practices, our financial systems.”
Fran Collyer was born in London and her family migrated to Australia when she was a young girl.
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Erica Sandlund grew up in Norrbotten and began her studies at Luleå University of Technology, and later transferred and completed her studies at Karlstad University and the University of Tennessee.
