Dispate the darkness of November, two students from the newly completed User Testing course brought Innovation Park to the university's usability lab.
Picture from the visit: it is Erik Högberg and Joakim Norrman who demonstrates Ozlab for Patrick Standfast from Innovation Park. Erik Högberg works as student expert at Drivhuset which is located at Innovation Park.
Photo: Erik Framner.
2018-12-06
The Treklöver quality assessment report has been finalised on programmes leading to degrees in business administration, economics, statistics and the Master of Science in Business and Economics.
2024-02-01
Starting 1 January, restaurants, cafes, and organisers serving over 150 people per day in Sweden must offer customers the option of takeaway in reusable cups and containers instead of disposable ones.
Geomedia
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» Geomedia Speaker Series
April 3 2025, 13-15Karlstad UniversityToday’s influencers wield pervasive social, cultural, political, and economic power through sustained visibility on their ‘native’ social media platforms and across a wide range of other contexts. This seminar explores how they navigate platform logics, assume popular forms of expertise, and communicate through strategies of authenticity and self-branding.
Work-related stress is a serious problem for employee wellbeing and employer efficiency.
– We use cutting-edge deep tech solutions which provide objective and immediate insights, says Poja Shams, senior lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School and the Service Research Center (CTF).
IVA’s annual 100 List puts the spotlight on current research projects that are considered to have great potential to create value through commercialisation, business and
2016-11-09
Donald Trump is now elected the new US President and a question he raised during his campaign was the confidence of the voting system and election result. So, should Hilary Clinton now question the result? Melanie Volkamer, professor of Computer Science at Karlstad University, researches on e-voting and says that the systems used today could be questioned but there are ways of avoiding this.
Currently, different voting systems are used in the USA.
Geomedia
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» Geomedia Speaker Series
Seeing and Seafaring: How the Scopic Regime of Computation Was Mobilised
Taking a cue from Carl Schmitt’s suggestion in Land and Sea that each of the four elements lends its own distinct perspective on the world, this talk examines the role of water—and more specifically, the sea, the ocean, maritime navigation—in the emergence of modern computational graphics.
It is unusual for a Bachelor’s essay to be of such high quality that it qualifies for presentation in an international conference. But Jonatan Langlet, a Master’s student in Computer Engineering, has proven that it is possible.
2016-03-09
Traditionally, laboratory test requests in hospitals were ordered on multi-part forms that required patient demographic information, clinical findings and reason for request to be handwritten. It was not unusual for transcription and transposition errors to be detected.
This is us who work at Student Health Services at Karlstad University and Ingesund School of Music. We are happy to help you with questions about your well-being and studies. We will help you further if we do not have the answer ourselves. You can book us on site or on zoom regardless of which campus or learning center you belong to.
Alexandre Sukhov is awarded the IMIT scholarship 2020, for his doctoral thesis "The human side of idea screening" and receives SEK 25,000.
"I am deeply honoured for the recognition and the acknowledgement of my research by the IMIT foundation. To me, this signals that my doctoral work is relevant and holds good quality, which is really nice to know after doing several years of research.
2015-03-03
On March 9 we will start our open networked learning course Making Sense of Service Logic. The aim of the course is to introduce central concepts of service research, by applying them to different business and organizational contexts.
Karlstad Business School Advisory Board plays an important role. The board members give valuable insights as to the expectations on Karlstads Business School, not least when it comes to society's needs for research and education. Members of the Advisory Board are appointed by the Dean of the Faculty for Arts and Social Sciences at Karlstad University.
3rd PRME Nordic Chapter Responsible Management Education Symposium | Karlstads universitet (kau.se)The key note for the event will focus on The role of innovation for responsible leadership and transformation and will be given by Bo Edvardsson, Professor Karlstad Business School/CTF-Service Research Center, Karlstad University and Marie Carlsson, VP Electromobility Business Development, Volvo Buses.The event also features a “Meet the editors” session as well as abstract presentations f
All Master's programmes are presented here, grouped in areas of interest. At this level, we offer one-year and two-year Master’s programmes as well as professional degree program.
Students who have earned a Bachelor’s or a professional degree of at least 180 ECTS cr. are eligible for admission to master’s-level study.
With only six years left until 2030, the world is marked by war and conflict and many sustainability indicators are pointing in the wrong direction. This year’s A Sustainable Tomorrow gathered 30,000 interested individuals via 200 hubs around Scandinavia.
Forskning
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We offer several educational programs including a four-year Programme in Business and Economics. Our research is at a high international level and a large part of the research is conducted at CTF, Service Research Center, one of the University’s Excellence Centers. We actively collaborate with the surrounding community, both in the public and private sectors.
Business administration is the science of companies’ and organizations’ conditions, terms and operations.
Karlstad University Library has agreements with a number of scientific publishers where the fees for publishing open access are either prepaid or discounted. The library is a member of the Swedish Bibsam consortium at the Royal library, who negotiates these agreements on a national level.
If you are an author/researcher affiliated to Karlstad University, you can publish open access under the terms of these agreements.
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.
Religious Studies is by definition an international discipline and has been organised in this way at Karlstad University for a long time. The impact of today’s global and multicultural society is present in all our subject courses.
Our department is often visited by international guest lecturers who discuss religion and the teaching of religion in different national contexts from varied perspectives and give the students many opportunities for international insights.
2021 is soon coming to and end. In this Christmas greeting, the director sums up some highlights of the past year.
Christmas and New Year approaches, and soon we can put another eventful and challenging year behind us. When I look back and sum up the past year, there are, despite the pandemic, several important achievements and positive happenings.
2023-11-23
Christmas is just around the corner, there are lots of presents to buy and endless opportunities to get swept up in a shopping spree. This can make it hard to resist the avalanche of advertisements, such as the campaigns leading up to Black Friday.
2024-10-22
Petter Falk, new doctor in Political Science at Karlstad University and the Service Research Centre (CTF), sheds light on conditions and grounds for datafication in his doctoral thesis “Assemble Care // Align Data”.
– What surprised me the most was that datafication is intuitively accepted, despite a kind of intellectual resistance, says Petter Falk.
The term “big data” is frequently used nowadays, but your research emphasises the importance of the small details.
2015-12-21
Representatives from world-leading companies, researchers, teachers, consultants and politicians were invited to Karlstad CCC on December 2-3 to discuss how we can develop future welfare service. The requirements on both services and suppliers are becoming higher and regardless if the user is called customer, citizen, local resident, or patient, it is the experience that makes the difference. To offer services based on the user’s requirements is becoming increasingly important.
