Neither academics nor managers need convincing regarding the urgent need to pursue environmental sustainability. Worldwide, nations are committed to advancing the circular economy through resource reduction, reuse, and recycling. Despite these efforts, the recent Circularity Gap Report (2023) reveals a stark reality—the global economy is only 7.2% circular, and this situation worsens year by year.
2020-10-29
Two doctoral students from Karlstad University participated in the first meeting of the WASP-HS graduate school, when 35 doctoral students from a number of Swedish universities gathered to discuss and dive deeper in artificial intelligence and the humanities and social sciences.
The meeting was a two-day virtual event with the purpose to introduce the topics and visions of WASP-HS and to get to know each other.
The doctoral students hold positions at the Swedish universi
2023-03-23
The development of packaging is one of the reasons why the welfare society was able to emerge. With increasingly sophisticated packaging, food could be consumed long after it was harvested or slaughtered, and far from the place where it was produced.
Food production is the sector with the greatest impact on the planet’s ecosystem.
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Hassel, J-E. (2025) Business Administration, Venture Builders: Organizing Strategic Entrepreneurship Support, Karlstad University Studies, 2025:11.Abadzhiev, A. (2024) Business Administration, Managing business model innovation for sustainability transitions: Towards a theory-based typology, Karlstad University Studies, 2024:38.Falk, P.
Seminar materials are normally distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists. Anyone not reached by these lists should feel free to contact us – our seminars and other events are open to anyone who is interested!
Until further notice, seminars and workshops will be in Zoom unless otherwise advertised.
You have probably noticed that an online video clip playing on your mobile phone is interrupted when you leave your house and the Wifi network. The mobile phone connects to 4G, and the video clip resumes. One advantage of multipath networks, which will be common in the future, is that your mobile phone will switch between different networks without you noticing it.
Call for abstracts: Deconstruction and Reconstruction Work.
Karlstad University September 16-17, 2025The workshop will take place in the morning of September 17 before the official start of the Geomedia 2025 conference in Karlstad, Sweden.
Lennart Andersson was Vice-Chancellor of Karlstad University College and Professor of Human Geography. When Lennart Andersson retired in 1994, a foundation was established in his honour to fund an annual seminar. The foundation was intended to make it possible to invite prominent researchers in Lennart Andersson’s own field, Human Geography. The seminar was going to be open for everyone.
TRANSFORMING PASSIONS 6TH INTERNATIONAL GEOMEDIA CONFERENCE, KARLSTAD, SWEDEN, 17–19 SEPTEMBER 2025Passion is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only joy and intense emotional investment but also pain and suffering.
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Call for papersTransforming Passions 6th International Geomedia Conference, Karlstad, Sweden, 17–19 September 2025Passion is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only joy and intense emotional investment but also pain and suffering.
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Sustainable transformation beyond 2030.
Are you interested in circular economy and sustainable development? Are you concerned about how your consumption affects our planet and how you as a consumer or organization can contribute?
Good things always happen when influential open-minded and intelligent people meet; this is the simple underlying idea of forming an international network of service researchers.
The inaugural meeting was hosted in September by CTF.
The target audience for the event was mainly leading researchers from the different research centers around the globe and in the end there were 35 attendees from 13 countries.
- We feel that there are strength in numbers; if we are able to st
2017-07-10
The service research community received excellent news for its journals from the 2017 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by Clarivate Analytics. All seven service research journals covered in Web of Science have increased their impact factors from the previous year. Especially notable is the increase of Journal of Service Research’s impact factor from 2.463 to 6.847.
2024-05-24
Researcher Tobias Pulls from the Department of Computer Science at Karlstad University, together with the Gothenburg-based company Mullvad VPN, has developed a new protection named DAITA ("Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis").
The protection against the rapid AI development in traffic analysis is available in Mullvad's VPN app on various platforms throughout the year, which has over a million downloads worldwide.
"AI has become incredibly good at recognizing patt
2020-11-10
Per Kristensson, you and three colleagues wrote a debate article with this headline in the Swedish newspaper DN Debate regarding the spread of Covid-19. What do you mean by this?
"We believe that governmental agencies and regional authorities have a naïve understanding of how to change people’s behavior.
2021-06-23
A grant of nearly SEK 10 million from the Knowledge Foundation allows researchers at Karlstad University to launch a new research project dedicated to the contribution of modern digitisation technology to pharmaceutical quality assurance and development. The accelerated rate of development of Covid-19 vaccines has raised the demand to speed up the development process for other pharmaceuticals.
The purpose of the network is to establish and grow a sustainable centre of connectedness for people interested in Nordic gifted education research.
This is a new field of research in educational sciences in the Nordic context, with a great need for a research-informed group which supports development of theory, collaboration in research, new empirical work and research-practice connections.
Welcome to the ASLA 2018 symposium!
The biennial symposium of the Swedish Association of Applied Linguistics (ASLA) will take place on April 12–13, 2018, at Karlstad University. The symposium is co-organized by the Center for Language and Literature in Education (CSL) and the Department of Language, Literature, and Intercultural Studies (ISLI).
The 2018 symposium theme is “Classroom research and language/languaging”.
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The overall aim is to, with a focus on benefits for the entire transport system, develop further improve and test new and established methods, tools and working practices based on a service logic and which are adapted to contexts where innovation takes place in collaboration with others. The long-term aim is to strengthen the capacity for innovation in the entire transport sector.
The anonymity network Tor, used daily by millions of users around the world, is important for people in vulnerable situations, for instance in order to avoid surveillance or control. Two Karlstad University researchers have now identified flaws in Tor’s anonymity function and contributed to technologies that make the network safer for users.
The purpose of Tor is to allow users to surf the internet anonymously without information about visited webpages being registered.
2018-09-28
Networking and being involved in different activities during your studies pay off. This was clear at this years’ IT dinner on 20 September when students met representatives from companies that are part of Snits, a network linking industry and IT students at Karlstad University.
During the introductory presentation, all ten participating companies emphasised that many students get job offers after completing their degree projects.
Students i religious studies, human geography and history
We offer a unique opportunity to study in Banaras, India’s holy city and one of the world’s oldest culture centres.
Students i religious studies, human geography and history
We offer a unique opportunity to study in Banaras, India’s holy city and one of the world’s oldest culture centres.
