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There is a lack of knowledge among professionals in most government agencies that handle and are responsible for honor-based violence in Sweden.
The project 6G-PATH (6G-Pilots and Trials Through Europe), in which the departments of computer science and nursing at Karlstad University participate, has been included on this year’s IVA 100 List.
2025-03-20
Mission 0 House, a collaboration between industry and academia with the goal of eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing processes, has secured its first long-term research funding. Several leading companies, together with the Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen), have jointly guaranteed nearly 100 million SEK for the next five years.
Mission 0 House, led by Polestar and Lindholmen Science Park, started as a pilot project in 2024.
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As a young university, we aim to preserve an academic tradition with roots dating back to the Middle Ages while also considering our own history and identity. In Karlstad, we have chosen to shape our academic ceremony to reflect our culture while connecting to national and international university traditions.
Originally, our mission was to educate professionals in the most knowledge-demanding fields of law, medicine, and theology.
Midway between Stockholm, Gothenburg and Oslo, on the northern shore of Lake Vänern - you'll find Karlstad. Here you will find a mixture of a vibrant nightlife, food from all corners of the world and a wide range of cultural activities. It's close to most things and within easy walking distance you'll find everything you need.
Sun, water and the hospitality of Värmland - where Sweden's longest river meets Europe's third largest lake you will find Karlstad.
Georgia Aitaki has analysed financial crises, striving for international attention and broken hearts in countries far from home.
With her doctoral thesis ”The Private life of a nation in crisis - A study on the politics in/of Greek television fiction”, Georgia Aitaki, senior lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, examined the Greek TV industry and the mechanisms involving its producers, screenwriters and filmmakers.
2024-09-02 - 2025-02-11 (english) Register here no later than August 26.Course descriptionTarget groupTeachers at Karlstad University who supervises or intends to supervise students at doctoral level. Completed DHU course is also a requirement for you who intend to apply for an associate professor.Extent200 hours, with a maximum of 80 scheduled hours.Learning outcomes and contentSupervision is the most important pedagogical instrument in doctoral-level education.
Kombinerad ECHA och igMCG konferens 16-18 juni 2025
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15th of JuneSunday afternoon2:00 PMVisit at the Lars Lerin exhibit at Sandgrund Museum. Lars Lerin is a famous local artist whose paintings are displayed at a museum in central Karlstad. The permanent exhibition at Sandgrund shows different themes from Lars Lerin's 30 years as an artist; watercolor paintings, oil paintings, graphic art, collages and photographs from many places in the world.We will meet outside the museum at 2:00 PM.
This fall, CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, will offer four online courses in Service Innovation. The courses are based on CTFs world-leading research in the field and are intended for professionals working with or having an interest in service, customer experiences and business development. All that is required to participate is a computer and an internet connection.
The approach of the courses is flexible and consists among others of short video lectures and group work.
2023-11-28
The purpose of Health Data Sweden (HDS) is to increase the use of health data within small and medium-sized companies and public organizations.
- HDS must offer services such as available data, legal issues and skills development, says Karin Brodén.
- Increasing the use of health data has been identified as a way to increase efficiency in the health sector and to increase health benefits for individuals, says Karin Brodén, postdoctor in information systems at the Service
2025-02-10
You are a PhD student at the University of Santiago de Compostela and a teacher at the University of Vigo in Spain. You have been teaching law at Karlstad Business School as a part of the Erasmus+ program.
– I was invited by the coordinator of the Law Program at Karlstad University to teach in the course International and European Union Law as part of the Erasmus+ program, says Natalia Seco.
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At Karlstad University, we work actively towards creating a stimulating work environment and good conditions for our researchers. We strive towards fair and transparent recruitment as well as favourable professional development for researchers.
At Karlstad University, we work actively towards creating a stimulating work environment and good conditions for our researchers. We strive towards fair and transparent recruitment as well as favourable professional development for researchers.
Centrum för genusforskning
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2023
January 18
15.15 – 16.45
Room: 4A301A (on Campus)
Josephine Baird
”Playing with Gender: Exploring, Expressing and Embodying (Trans) Gender in Games”
In the cutesy life-simulator game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you get to create your own character, who you can dress up and style any way you want, and can wander around an idyllic little island, which you can also invite your online friends to.
To interviewees in the research project ’Transnational bachelors. An ethnography on singledom among migrated men in the European Union’
DESCRIPTION
‘Transnational bachelors’ are men who have moved between countries and describe themselves as single. This project seeks to understand how these men live and manage their lives as singles.
Single men is the largest group among people who migrate. Unfortunately, very little research about them exists.
As main field of study, Cultural Studies includes a broad selection of courses as part of the Culture, Policy and Management Programme, but also as independent courses for non-programme students.
Three semesters of the programme are focused on the cultural sector and content is based on key issues and addresses current questions in the field.
Researchers in analytical chemistry at Karlstad University have published an article on the analysis of how the coronavirus attaches to receptors in the human body.
Geomedia Speaker Series is a series of lectures and workshops focusing on the field of geomedia studies, i.e., the intersection of media and communication studies and human geography. Internationally leading researchers from different disciplines are invited to give an open lecture and participate in a thematic workshop with members of the Geomedia centre, and other interested parties.
Centrum för genusforskning
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» Evenemang vid CGF
» ÄLDRE EVENEMANG
» CGF-evenemang 2022
» Nationell konferens för genusforskning - G22
» Stängda paneler
We would propose a back-to-back panel, from the Global Gender Matters (GGM) Network, based at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University. We are an interdisciplinary group of scholars, who work on multiple scopes and scales of empirical and theoretical frameworks on local and global issues through a gendered and feminist lens.
We work within the paradigm of a circular forest based bioeconomy using a system analysis perspective.
The research group Water-Energy Nexus at Karlstad University contribute to a circular forest based bioeconomy by upgrading low-value sidestreams to raw materials, which are then used for production of useful materials and energy carriers.
Our vision
We research biomaterials using a systems perspective to enable resource efficiency.
Our mission
Research utilization
13–14 November, 2018. Symposium arranged by KuFo, the Research Group for Culture Studies. Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Reg. no. F17-1392:1).
Authenticity has long been a keyword in the discourses of and surrounding popular music. What is an authentic musical expression? Who is a true fan?
The ongoing climate crisis is not only destabilizing the Earth System but is also now adversely impacting the societal functions. This is now manifesting in negative social tipping dynamics such as anomie, radicalization, polarization, displacement, conflict and financial destabilization, at a global level – new research by Avit Bhowmik finds.
The world is currently undergoing a turmoil.
