After our visit to Hudderfield in May, it was now time for John Bonner to visit Karlstad.
The discussions with John Bonner concerned research activities related to innovation management and interaction design with the use and evaluation of ubiquitous and pervasive computing but also teacher exchange.
2023-09-06
The Mediatization of Space through navigational interfaces, or: the digital map as a symptom of (almost) everything that has happened with media.
After a phase of “spatial forgetfulness,” media and communication studies have revisited the intersection of media, space, and place, challenging earlier views of media inherently transcending geographical constrains leading to spatial annihilation and the disappearance of distance.
2015-03-26
Seven out of twenty, or 35 percent. That is the number of research projects at Karlstad University that have been approved and receive funding from the Horizon 2020 EU framework program. The average in EU is 11 percent. One of the projects funded by Horizon 2020 will be led by researchers Bo Edvardsson and Bård Tronvoll at CTF.
The Horizon 2020 EU framework program was launched in January 2014.
2015-09-23
Friday, September 11 Mr. Nurul Islam Nahid, the Bangladeshi minister of education visited the Center for Climate and Safety. The delegation visit was part of the programme in a collaboration between Karlstad University Professional Services and LIFE Academy.
Bangladesh is seen as one of the countries that is affected hardest by climate related risks.
2016-12-14
During the period 29/11 - 6/12 KAU was visited by Olga Novoselskaya from the Byelorussian State Technological University, Belarus.
Olga Novoselskaya is a senior lecturer at the Informatics and Web-Design Department.
During her visit she, amongst other things, met research and study coordinators from the Information System department;
Took part in lectures at one HCI courses (ISGC01 Interaction design);
presented her department and university at the Information Syst
2019-09-25
Mikael Granberg, professor in political science and director of the Centre for Societal Risk Research has been appointed honorary professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
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Charlotte Bäccman and Alexandre Sukhov have been appointed associate professors at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Karlstad University.
2017-03-31
We are now offering three positions as Postdoctoral researchers at CTF. Application deadline April 18, 2017.
1. Postdoctoral position in either Business Administration, Political science, Sociology or Psychology
The postdoctoral position will be connected to ongoing research within CTF, devoted to how service research can increase the understanding of, and thereby strengthen, the industrial sector.
2013-02-15
During this fall, CTF will be holding webinars within service innovation. The first webinar will be held by Professor Per Kristensson who will talk about Service Logic on October 10th.
2014-04-03
… Professor at CTF and Assistant Vice-Chancellor at Karlstad University. You just returned from a month-long visit on New Zealand. What did you do there?
- I was Visiting Professor at University of Canterbury. This was in the context of an international teacher and researcher exchange funded by the Erskine Programme.
2023-02-06
Brianne Nichols, is a lecturer at Karlstad University and holds a PhD in Psychology from Bangor University in the UK. Now, she is joining CTF to contribute to ongoing research in the field of transport psychology.
Hello Brianne and welcome to CTF!
2017-12-13
Marit Engen is our second new postdoctoral researcher that have joined CTF this year.
Marit Engen completed her PhD in 2016 at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer. Her research interest lies in the area of service innovation, and her doctoral thesis, "Frontline employees as participants in service innovation processes – Innovation by Weaving", focused on service innovation processes, and in particular the involvement of frontline employees.
2018-06-08
Professor Lars Järnström, professor in chemical engineering at Karlstad university, was appointed to the 2018 TAPPI Coating and Graphic Arts Technical Award and the Charles W Engelhard Prize.
The world's most prestigious prize in the field of paper coating was this year awarded to Lars Järnström, professor in paper coating technology at Karlstad University. The prize is the TAPPI Coating & Graphic Arts Division Technical Award and includes the Charles W.
2015-09-09
The scientific article “Harnessing the creative potential among users” about customer involvement, written by researchers at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, has been appointed an “Innovation Classic” by the highly ranked scientific journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management.
2016-04-07
We are happy to welcome Charlotte Bäccman, Ph D in Psycholgy to CTF.
Charlotte is a new researcher in the research profile “Service innovation for sustainable business” which is about understanding and mapping the ingredients of service innovation, how service innovation comes in and changes industries fundamentally.
2015-10-22
John Sören Pettersson visited Günter Alce and the VR studio in Lund.
Günter Alce, PhD student at Lund University, who gave a presentation in Karlstad in the beginning of the summer about his extraordinary combination of Wizard-of-Oz technique, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality, received Professor John Sören Pettersson when he was visitng Lund on Spetember 22.
2013-08-14
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2016-06-09
Hedmark University of Applied Sciences visited Karlstad University and, among else, had a guided tour in Karlstad university's usability lab.
Hedmark University of Applied Sciences (HUAS) visited Karlstad University (KAU) during two days, 9-10 June. HUAS has many projects together with KAU. HUAS is one of the project partners in the ongoing project, CriseIT, together with KAU.
2022-09-14
Tourism, popular culture and media - Stijn Reijnders has an interdisciplinary approach to examining the role and meaning of locations in popular culture.
Stijn Reijnders is a full professor of Cultural Heritage, specialised in tourism and popular culture. He is active at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and his research is focused on the intersection of media, culture and tourism.
2021-04-14
Mia Larson’s research is in the borderlands between organization and marketing and her focus has been on tourism, events and sustainable development for a long time. Today, her focus is on digital services and personal integrity, and she was recently promoted to professor of Business Administration at Karlstad University.
Mia's current research focuses on digital services and personal integrity.
2021-12-13
In November, Alexandre Sukhov was a visiting researcher at MINES ParisTech University, France. Tell us, what did you do there?
- I was there to meet with fellow researchers in order to advance our collaboration and research in the field of innovation and idea management. MINES ParisTech has a strong scientific foundation and great expertise in engineering issues, creativity management, design and complex problem solving, which is close to my own research profile.
2022-09-16
Where did you work previously?
- I worked as a postdoc at the Centre for Industrial Mathematics at the University of Bremen in Germany.
How did you come in contact with mathematics at Karlstad University?
- Adrian Muntean was one of my PhD supervisors.
2012-03-29
We welcome Andreas Zolnowski, Research Associate at the ISS International Business School of Service Management in Hamburg, Germany, who will be visiting CTF during March-April.
Andreas joined the ISS International Business School after receiving his diploma in Business Informatics from the University of Duisburg-Essen. Supported by his supervisor Prof. Dr.
