.. after more than 20 years in working life, you are now taking on a new challenge as an industrial PhD student. How does it feel, and what will your research focus on?
"I have wished for an opportunity to connect my practical experiences with research for a long time, and I am very happy for the opportunity to work as an industrial PhD student at Karlstad Business School, and CTF, in the coming years. My research will focus on entrepreneurship.
2018-06-28
Digital Well Arena is a collaborative initiative on digital solutions for a healthier life, between the public sector, academia, civil society, entrepreneurs and business in Värmland. Recently, a workshop was held to make an inventory of the needs for digitalisation in the healthcare sector, what problems society and individuals would benefit from having solved.
As a young university, we wish to preserve a long-standing academic tradition of ceremonies dating back to the Middle Ages, while commemorating our own history and identity.
Here are the answers to the most common questions about exchange studies.
How do I get in contact with the International Office?You are welcome to come and meet us at our visiting times at the International Office (Building 1B) on Thursdays between 13:00 and 14:30.
Utbildning
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PAULA HOLST
ERASMUS+ INTERNSHIP SPRING 2017
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
REGION VÄRMLAND EUROPEAN OFFICE
"LITTLE DID I KNOW WHEN I ACCEPTED AN INTERNSHIP THIS TIME LAST YEAR THAT I WOULD LATER MOVE TO BRUSSELS FULL-TIME!”
In the spring of 2017, I carried out my practical placement at Region Värmland’s European Office. I studied the political science master programme at Karlstad University and chose to complete my programme with international placement.
Working together with other researchers in a cross-country collaboration makes you more open to develop new ideas and look at things from another angle, says Swedish researcher Annika Fredén, currently working at the University of Montreal.
Annika Fredén is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Karlstad University, and also Principal Investigator in the program WASP-HS.
2016-09-28
There was strong demand for places at the 11th International IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity held in Karlstad, Sweden last month thanks to recent changes in EU data protection regulations and the emergence of smart Big Data.
Around 90 people attended the interdisciplinary program, which ran from 21-26 August, focusing on data protection and information privacy from technical, legal, ethical, HCI and industrial perspectives.
Thirty-five PhD students prese
2022-12-20
During 2022, our new Geomedia research centre got off to a flying start. One way of summarizing our achievements, is to revisit what was written about Geomedia during the year. The below examples represent the interdisciplinary scope and quality of our research.
2019-06-20
Mobile broadband gives 30% lower performance than normal broadband. This is shown in a new study presented by Karlstad researcher Mohammad Rajiullah at The Web Conference 2019, a top-ranked (A*) conference held on the 13th –17th May in San Francisco, USA.
Smartphones and mobile broadband have revolutionised web use.
2017-11-10
For the second year running, Computer Science at Karlstad University organized a workshop for external input on the research environment. Computer Science staff presented the research environment to an International Advisory Board (IAB) that gave feedback on the development of the research group.
In 2014, Computer Science was established as one of the two excellent research groups at Karlstad University.
2018-10-04
On 27–28 September, Computer Science at Karlstad University organised a workshop to gain external input on the research group. Staff presented the research environment to an International Advisory Board (IAB) that gave feedback for further development.
It was clear that the Computer Science research group has developed significantly on many fronts since been designated an excellent research environment in 2014.
We are a multidisciplinary group and we work interdisciplinary with knowledge on societal risk.
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Centrum för genusforskning
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I allt från modevärldens nostalgitrender till politiska retrotopier vänds blicken numera mot historien snarare än mot framtiden. När det inte längre är möjligt att ens skönja en ljusnande framtid bortom klimathot och pandemier blir istället det förflutna något eftersträvansvärt. Historien blir något att återvända till och rentav återskapa efter eget skön.
This subproject, "Migration and Transformation of Powerful Knowledge", addresses one of the major social issues of today - migration and cultural encounters. Like the other subprojects in ROSE, this project centres on practice-oriented matters.
On the 10 May Monika Rydstedt Nyman successfully defended her licentiate thesis titled "Learning and knowledge sharing from management of extreme weather induced impacts on the Swedish transport infrastructure - Case study of the Swedish Transport Administration".
As opponent acted professor Peter Söderholm, Quality Technology and Management, Luleå University of Technology (to the right in the image) and as examinator professor Ragnar Andersson, Risk Ma
Inauguration of the AT-LAB - regional additive manufacturing laboratory was held at Karlstad University 5 april 2018.
Agenda:
- Welcome
- Presentation of AT-LAB (Project leader Pavel Krakhmalev, KaU)
- Presentation from Region Värmland (Anders Olsson, Region Värmland)
- Launch the laboratory (Professor Kjell Magnusson, Dean HNT, KaU)
- Mingle and open discussion until 15:00 – 15:30
Pavel Krakhmalev, professor Karlstad University
More information
pavel.krakhmalev@kau.se
Engelska
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The project 'Language use - Swedish and English' is going to investigate how high-functioning students within autism spectrum disorder (ASD) use their first and second language.
The project investigates the use of Swedish and English of persons with ASD.
Gothic fiction has become increasingly pervasive and popular and invaded all cultural registers – popular, high brow, children’s and young adult fiction – in the Nordic countries in the last few decades. Contemporary Nordic Gothic has been well received and acclaimed by both critics and audiences, nationally as well as internationally.
Western music history has largely favoured male artists, while women and non-binary performers and composers have largely been excluded from history writing. This has contributed to musical canons where important voices are missing.How may canonical traditions in music be challenged and expanded, from a gender perspective?
2017-02-27
CTFblogg / Bo Edvardsson
In an article in Journal of Service Research (2015) with the title: “Service Research Priorities in a Rapidly Changing Context” Ostrom et al. outline key research priorities. The aim was to identify research topics that have the potential to advance the service field and provide significant benefits for customers, organizations, and society in general.
CTF
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RESPONSE (Demand-Responsive Transport to ensure accessibility, availability and reliability of rural public transport) is an initiative run by the public transport sector aimed at developing and coordinating existing publicly funded transport services.
Most public transport services, including medical transport, outside urban areas are still focused on providing local, analog and time-bound bus services.
Welcome to QUIS13 - The 13th International Research Symposium on Service Excellence in Management June 10-13 in Karlstad, Sweden!
Registration
Online registration will close May 31.
Register here
If you have questions regarding your registration, please contact the conference administration
E-mail konferens@kau.se
Phone +46 54 700 18 06
Program
We will start with a reception on Monday evening and sessions and social programs will continue until Thursday lunch.
