How could farm-based social services support and promote health and well-being? This is the focus of the doctoral thesis “Nature-Based Interventions in Social Work: A Study of Farm-Based Social Services” by Jenny Höglund, who defended her doctoral thesis at Karlstad University earlier this summer.
Jenny Höglund has studied nature-based interventions aimed at supporting and developing the participants’ resources and health with focus on working life and independence.
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Finn Nilson is a professor in Risk Management at Karlstad University, Head of Subject in Risk and Environmental Studies, and director of the Centre for Societal Risk Research. In his own research, he often assumes the individual’s perspective and believes that it is important to view crises from a holistic perspective.
- It is easy to focus on one detail, says Finn. In the event of a fire, for example, the engineers focus mostly on the cause.
In a new three-year project, researchers at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, will develop new knowledge about elderly's travel habits. The purpose is to map factors that may be important for changed behavior and more sustainable travel habits among the elderly.
2020-04-30
Choosing serving size packages and smaller packages is smarter for the climate. This according to a new study from CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, where the researchers have mapped food waste in Swedish households.
2017-11-01
We welcome Fredrik Johansson who will work full time certain months at Karlstad university during the academic year 17/18. He will teach courses in database design, programming and web.
Fredrik’s ordinary work is at the Karlstad branch of the Norwegian company Cerpus where he helps the company’s client with their web sites.
Seminar materials are distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists. Anyone not reached by these e-mails should feel free to contact us.
Our seminars and other events are open to anyone who is interested!
SEPTEMBERThursday, 25/9, 9.00–17.00, 12A225 Humlan, KuFo workshop: Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers.
Fifteen years ago, open source developers were considered geeky. Today, on the contrary, these are the most sought after developers. Redpill Linpro, a company only working with products based on open source code, hosted the last SNITS lunch of the year on 5 December, with the theme “Kickstarting your career with open source”.
Software developed from source code that is open to everyone to use, change, develop and distribute is known as open source.
2019-01-10
A new research project on the experiences of families who moved out of big cities recently received a grant of SEK 2.9 million from Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning.
2019-12-19
The Christmas and New Year holidays are approaching and another busy year has gone by, now we are looking forward to a new and exciting year.
In 2019, three of our researchers defended their doctoral dissertations and one licentiate thesis was presented. We have admitted no less than four new PhD students. In June, we hosted a fantastic conference, QUIS16, with around 250 international researchers.
2021-01-11
Janna Dervisic is a new PhD student in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School. She is placed at CTF, Service Research Center, and part of the Swedish Research School of Management and Information Technology, MIT. Her research will focus on innovation, services and digital technology.
Janna Dervisic has a master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Karlstad University, and has been working in the construction industry the past year.
2023-01-24
The ethical rules of journalism was first put in writing in the US in the 1920s. A hundred years on, we are looking at a completely different audience.
Anna Fyrberg Yngfalk är lektor och forskare vid Handelshögskolan Karlstads universitet och vid Centrum för Tjänsteforskning (CTF).
I sin forskning studerar Anna hur marknadsföringsdiskurser formar individer och organisationer men också vad effekterna är av det marknadssamhälle som vi lever i termer av makt och maktstrukturer.
Internationalisation is one of Karlstad University’s six strategic goals. The university promotes internationalisation in various ways, with regard to both teachers and students. Erasmus + ICM provides the opportunity for students to travel to countries outside of Europe in order to conduct field studies and complete degree projects.
Two students at Karlstad University’s nursing programme have visited Believers Church Medical Hospital, BCMCH, in Kerala, India.
Two research lines stand out in Karlstad mathematics: Applied Analysis and Mathematics Education.
Applied Analysis
Prof. Adrian Muntean
Prof. Eddie Wadbro
Prof. Sorina Barza
Docent Niclas Bernhoff
Docent Igor Gachkov
Dr. Martin Lind
Dr. Eva Mossberg
Dr. Grigor Nika
Dr. Nikos Kavallaris
Dr. Mirela Vinerean Bernhoff
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Lou Hinterberg, who studies Information Management in Hannover, Germany, will have a ten week internship at Information Systems department at Karlstad University, starting 8th of August, mainly working in the usability lab.
Karlstad University is in the process of switching to a new CMS.
This project is part of an effort of the Swedish EPA and The Swedish Transport Administration, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, and the research council Formas who are funding nine projects dealing with the management of invasive alien species.
The aim of the project is to improve ecosystem functions and services of species-rich road verges and green infrastructure through evidence-based control and monitoring of invasive plants at the landscape scale.
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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.
The article "Institutional Complexity as a Driver for Innovation in Service Ecosystems” by Jaakko Siltaloppi, Kaisa Koskela-Huotari and Stephen L. Vargo has been presented the Informs Service Science 2017 Best Article Award.
– The article uses institutional theory to explain why diversity is important for novel ideas. Institutions here refer to the rules, norms and meanings that guide how people think and act.
2015-06-29
Anna Brunstrom, professor in Computer Science at KAU, arranges a special session on Reducing Internet Latency at the upcoming European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2015) in Paris.
The special session is organized as part of the work within the EU FP7 project RITE, where KAU is one of the partners.
2022-04-14
Christina Öberg, Professor of Business Administration at Karlstad Business School, has been granted research funding for an interview study on the issues related to the distribution of environmental effects.
– Our rural areas has a purpose, while society at large has an environmental objective, says Christina Öberg. The problem is that these two do not go together well.
2020-12-10
Organizations use idea screening to select which ideas to develop into innovation projects. The question is how do experts decide if an idea is good? It is a complex interplay of intuition, analysis and sensemaking, according to a new study from CTF, Center for Service Research at Karlstad University.
The researchers have mapped and analyzed activities that expert evaluators use to screen ideas, and how these activities are used to identify ideas of high quality.
Course content
In this course you will learn more about: the concept service and the development towards value creation through service, service quality and quality development, and service development and innovation. The course consists of three modules: 1)The concept service and the logic of service, 2) Service quality and quality development, and 3) New service development & innovation. Each module includes: readings, videos, cases and online seminars.
After completi
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Research data is a valuable resource and research funders are increasingly requiring that researchers who are awarded grants should be able to report on how collected data is managed and documented as well as how it will be made accessible for future research.
Research funders
The policy of Horizon Europe is that all funded projects are required to adhere to open access publication and open data, following the principle “as open as possible and as closed as necessary”.
What barriers do consumers face on the digital market place, and how can these be counteracted? In a project with the Swedish Consumer Agency, researchers at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, have examined this issue.
