Have you ever felt frustrated with all the technology surrounding you? You are not alone. In his book Rethinking Communication Geographies, André Jansson, professor of Media and Communication Studies, has compiled his research on a subject that is relevant to our digital everyday lives.
The school must be notified about sick children. Travel plans must be made. The tax returns must be finished on time.
Christina Olin-Scheller is a professor in Educational Work and temporarily a professor at Contemporary Literature, Karlstad University. She is head of the centre formation Centre for Language- and Literary Didactics (CSL) and the strong subject didactic research group Research on Subject-specific Education (ROSE). Olin-Scheller's field of research is reading education and young persons reading and writing in correlation to inter-sectional perspectives in today's media landscape.
How reliable are different methods for connecting to mobile networks to support train signaling systems? This is what Professor Anna Brunström and Associate Professor Johan Garcia at Karlstad University have investigated in collaboration with DRIVE partner Icomera.
Sociologi
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Today we talk with Andreas Henriksson, who is the co-convenor of the Relationer och Vardagsinteraktion (REVA) research group at the Sociology Department here in Karlstad University. Andreas will talk about his work on intimacy and everyday life, including research into dancing and loneliness. So, let’s start with a brief introduction.
School has started and maybe this year more parents may let their children walk or ride a bike to and from school due to the corona pandemic. Despite the reason, it is a positive development, says Jessica Westman Trischler at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University.
2019-12-16
On December 5, researchers at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, received the Lidl Future Initiatives award of 3.8 million SEK to start up a new research project on transformative packaging design.
2018-04-18
On April 16th the EU-funded competition TRA VISIONS 2018 awarded prizes to its young researcher winners of the 2018 Transport Research Arena (TRA 2018). Young researchers from all over Europe submitted innovative concepts in order to enhance smart, sustainable and integrated transport and mobility of people and goods.
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» Svenskt innovationsindex
The Swedish Innovation Index 2020 includes responses from almost 9,300 customers who ranked almost 90 companies and organizations in twelve industries based on their innovativeness and how attractive these innovations are perceived.
Forskarskolan om särskilt begåvade barn
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The graduate school lasts for 5,5 years (July 2021 to December 2026). Karlstad University (KAU), Mälardalen University (MDU) and Stockholm University (SU) will admit, supervise and educate ten doctoral students who will receive subject specialisation through three doctoral courses.
theories on gifted students and learninginclusive teaching and differentiation for gifted preschool and school students mental health in gifted students.
The Forum for Violence Studies and Violence Prevention consists of an interdisciplinary group of researchers who use different explanatory models and methods to study violence and gender.
Would you like to gain a deeper understanding and knowledge of the logic of value creation in practice, and how you can create value for customers and increase competitiveness and profitability in various types of businesses? Then this course is for you!
Setting up firewalls correctly is a challenging task which becomes more difficult the bigger a network grows. Artem Voronkov, who recently completed a Degree of Doctor in Computer Science, has focused his work on how to help system administrators to better manage firewalls.
Most companies have access to the Internet and their corporate networks connected to it. Many threats to computer systems, e.g.
2019-01-15
How the user perceives accessibility is an important factor in the development and evaluation of attractive and sustainable transport services. Despite this, the user perspective is generally left out in traditional accessibility evaluations, in favor of a focus on objective measures.
2024-02-16
The research paper “Geographical discrepancies in higher education in Sweden” picks up from an almost thirty year old doctoral thesis that focused on the importance of geographical distance in relation to higher education.
- What we’ve seen is that despite various reforms to facilitate higher education, there have been no direct effects, says Thomas Blom, Professor of Human Geography at Karlstad University.
Thomas Blom and Mats Nilsson, Docent in Human Geography at Karls
2017-02-08
Researchers within Computer Science at Karlstad University have developed a tool, OpenStackEmu, for experimental research on data communication networks, especially on the area of cloud infrastructure.
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Castellon was held March 2nd - 6th in Castellon de la Plana, Spain
First day
The Spanish delegation picked up the other delegates at the hotel for departure to the university. Once there, Rector Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya and Vice Rector Camacho Cuena welcomed everybody to Castellón. After that, the Spanish students had prepared a presentation of Spain and Castellón, the food, culture, music and history. A tour of the university ended with lunch.
In the most recent CTF publication, Lars E. Olsson and Margareta Friman have examined user characteristics, motives, and barriers to carpooling, this to gain insights about carpool interventions.
Carpooling can be viewed as a simple intervention to reduce congestion, environmental problems, and land use for parking spaces.
2019-04-24
Researchers from Europe and North America met at Karlstad University to discuss the broader perspective of Marketing ethics and CSR with a focus on the role of positive and normative marketing ethics, and the change in business ethics due to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain Technology at “The 7th Pat Murphy International Symposium on Marketing Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility”.
More than 25 researchers from several countries in Europe and North Ameri
2020-04-29
Tomas Gustavsson, lecturer and doctoral student in Project Management at Karlstad Business School, was elected as a member of the Swedish Project Academy on 20 April. This makes him the second representative of Karlstad Business School next to Lennart Ljung, senior lecturer in Project Management, who is already a member.
“It is a great honour and recognition of my research in agile project management”, says Tomas Gustavsson.
2025-02-05
Following the tragic events in Örebro on Tuesday, Karlstad University is flying its flags at half-mast. We are profoundly saddened by what has happened and extend our deepest sympathy to all those affected.
2020-06-16
There is a relatively large group of people from Germany and the Netherlands who have chosen to move to Scandinavia. There are several reasons behind the move from urban, densely populated areas in their home countries to the quiet countryside in middle of nowhere. Previous research has primarily described this as a desire to make a lifestyle change, from stressful urban life to the tranquillity of the countryside.
2021-06-24
Swedish schools often receive criticism for failing to provide optimal stimulation for pupils who have no problem achieving the learning objectives. There is a need for in-depth knowledge about gifted pupils and the government therefore recently tasked the National Agency for Education with mapping out needs and developing initiatives for the education of gifted pupils.
2012-10-02
Jörg Pareigis defended his doctoral thesis in Business Administration "Customer experiences of resource integration - Reframing servicescapes using scripts and practices" on September 28. Professor Peter Thilenius from Uppsala University was the opponent.
Abstract
It is widely acknowledged that value can be regarded as interactively formed by customers through the integration of a variety of resources.
2021-12-20
