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
SSE Riga, Stockholm School of Economics is a new international partner for Karlstad Business School. Amos and Alexandra, students from Karlstad Business School, were sent on a visit to explore this exciting new partner. Here is their travel story.
On 22nd February, we took a flight to Riga in Latvia for a two-day trip to visit SSE Riga, some businesses and meet students.
2024-06-04
After a year of planning, the Equadiff 2024 mathematics conference is fast approaching. Almost 500 mathematicians from around the world are expected to visit Karlstad and the university.
The conference will take place from June 10-14, featuring participants from countries such as Japan, USA, Brasil and France and will include over 200 talks and lectures.
2013-08-29
... Ph D Student in Business Administration at CTF and the research school Management and IT. Can you tell us about your Ph D studies?
- I am about to start my second year of my PhD studies at CTF under the supervision of professor Per Skålén. I spent my first year taking PhD courses all over Sweden and building the theoretical foundation upon which the empirical part of my study will be based.
2020-09-18
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is considered one of the most observed university rankings in the world. Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University received an impressive ranking position in the span 76–100.
This type of list serves as a source for prospective students and people applying for jobs at universities.
2014-12-09
CTF expands, and during the last two months we have three new colleagues. Here is a short presentation of our new Ph D Students.
Johan Högberg, Ph D Student in Psychology, will conduct his research within the field of Transformative Service Research with Professor Per Kristensson as main supervisor.
2018-02-05
Last week CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, together with Experio Lab, hosted a consortium meeting in Karlstad within the European research training network SDIN.
In addition to supervision of the doctoral candidates associated with SDIN, and a board meeting, a public conference was arranged with the intention to disseminate some of the research conducted within the project.
2016-05-04
Professor of Business Administration at CTF, Service Research Center, Karlstad University. April 27-29 was the second meeting of the international research network, INSR, International Network of Service Researchers, here in Karlstad. How did it go?
- It went fantastic!
2020-03-26
What’s going on at CTF? How can research conducted at CTF make a difference and contribute to sustainable societal development? Read about this, and much more in our annual report.
The year 2019 was an eventful year marked by new research initiatives, collaboration and dissemination of knowledge.
2018-04-26
The new book “Quality of Life and Daily Travel” describes the relationships between life satisfaction, well-being and daily travel. The authors discuss travel and quality of life to the built environment, travel mode choice, travel satisfaction and emotions, and presents case studies highlighting different aspects in daily travel and well-being.
2023-02-27
This autumn, it's time – we start our new Master Programme in Music. Here, in close collaboration with our three professors in voice, piano and string instruments, you get the opportunity to develop as a musician and deepen your artistic skills, your craft and your id.
You, who aim high in your career and already have a bachelor's degree in music from us or another music school have the opportunity to apply for our master’s program.
2013-10-21
"Making a Difference" was the theme of the Association for Consumer Research North American Conference that was held October 3-6 in Chicago, USA. The conference had about 1500 participants, including several world-leading researcher in consumer behavior. CTF was represented by researchers Anders Gustafsson and Tobias Otterbring.
Professor Anders Gustafsson and PhD Student Tobias Otterbring presented two studies.
2017-05-03
Wednesday, May 3rd Chris Hieber, Lead Business Analyst, from Capgemini Stuttgart in Germany, visited the Information System department at KaU and gave a lecture in the Master course “Electronic Business and Enterprise Systems” about Business Process Model Notation (BPMN 2.0) – How to Model Business Processes.
There were many interested visitors, both students, colleagues from the Information Systems department and visiting researchers who took the chance to listen to Chr
2024-01-17
– How children get to and from school matters and affects well-being and performance in school. The best option is to let children walk, cycle, or take the bus to school, says Jessica Westman Trischler at the Service Research Center (CTF) at Karlstad University, who has studied schoolchildren's commuting habits.
2024-06-20
- The research on behavioral changes and innovation within the Service Research Center (CTF) has a clear relevance in our society, says Per Kristensson, director of CTF at Karlstad University.
This year's Service Innovation Day attracted just under 200 visitors to Karlstad.
2018-04-25
What is service logic? What does it mean to manage and analyze organizations based on a perspective of service logic? Find out the answers in the new book “Service logic” by Professor Per Skålén at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University.
In this book, key concepts related to service logic are explained, such as value co-creation and resource integration.
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People who are successful in their fields often owe their success to some kind of mentor – someone who has not only guided and encouraged their skills but also their personalities. You can also become a mentor to a student.
Mentorship is a relationship for development and learning, a tool to stimulate professional and personal development. Mentorship involves two persons – a mentor and a novice – who meet regularly to develop together.
... who will start researching renewable energy and gender equality in Yemen.
Can you tell us more?
"Last year we received funding from Formas for a study that will start now in December. We are three researchers who’ll be working together – Maria-Louise Clausen from the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Copenhagen, Vasna Ramasar from Lund University and me from Karlstad University.
2020-09-28
For the second year in a row, Ikea is ranked as Sweden's most innovative company. This, according to the Swedish Innovation Index, where researchers at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, have asked customers to evaluate the degree of innovation in companies and organizations in the Swedish market.
2020-06-08
Changing the region where you live means that life is reorganised in terms of housing, work, leisure and other aspects that affect everyday life. “Beyond the city life. Post-migration experiences of the everyday life for families with young children moving out from a metropolitan area” is a project focusing on the experiences of families who have moved from a metropolitan area to a smaller city or town.
2016-10-12
Martin Blom, researcher within Computer Science at Karlstad University visited a class of high school students at Thoréns Business School 30 October to answer the question – what is Science?
- Science is the chase for truth, says Martin Blom. To find the truth and the answers to specific questions which we search the truth about we use sceintific methods.
Doctor Natalie Holmes, organic electronics researcher at the University of Newcastle in Australia, is currently spending two months at Karlstad University as a visiting researcher.
2018-06-26
There is a new reality for business and society in the 21st century - “Sustainable business”. “Sustainable business” is in itself a somewhat fuzzy term that implies that business is in some way sustainable, the question is in what way? The old business model with focus only on economic values and address societal and environmental issues as externalities is passed.
