We welcome Katrin Lättman who is our new Ph D Student in Psychology. She will conduct her Ph D Studies within Samot, The Service and Market Oriented Transport Research Group, where she will study experienced accessibility within public transport.
The university board
A chairperson and members representing the private sector, public organisations, and academia are appointed by the government. The board also includes members appointed by Karlstad Student Union as well as representatives of the university’s teaching staff.
Mental illness among young people in relation to socio-economic factors and physical activity was the topic at the "Meet a Researcher" lunch seminar at Karlstad University on September 24, 2019. Yunhwan Kim and Li Ma at the Centre for research on child and adolescent mental health (CFBUPH) talked about their research.
Mental health problems are due to various factors in society.
In Brazil, 63% of the population receives primary health care at home, and the introduction of digital aids has revolutionized healthcare. Forms that were usually completed by hand can now be easily filled out using a mobile application. At the same time, there are requirements that patient data must be processed securely.
Upcoming courses2024-01-23 - 2024-03-19 (English). Register here.Course descriptionTarget groupTeachers who participate in assessment, examination and who give feedback to students.Extent40 hours.
Upcoming courses2024-01-23 - 2024-03-19 (English). Register here.Course descriptionTarget groupTeachers who participate in assessment, examination and who give feedback to students.Extent40 hours.
Development is a strong driving force for the university and our staff. Below we describe some professional development support we provide to staff.
Teaching and learning in higher education
The Centre for teaching and leadning (UPE), which forms part of the University Library, provides active professional support to Karlstad University’s teaching staff.
HHK
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What do you do today?
“I manage transactions and the land profile at HSB ProjektPartner. This means that I am responsible for the entire transaction process for the real estate business our company conducts when we buy land on which we later build housing. After graduating, my first job was at SBAB as a mortgage consultant.
For some, anonymity on the internet is a necessity. Researchers at Karlstad University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Princeton University have discovered a new attack against the Tor anonymity network that uses the Domain Name System (DNS).
Tor is the world’s largest anonymity network with around two million daily users, and it is used to avoid surveillance and to circumvent censorship online.
At Media and Communication Studies (MKV) at Karlstad University, we conduct internationally prominent research with a particular focus on issues at the intersection of MKV and geography. These include the relationship between media and mobility, how media habits are both created and shaped by the spaces and places we move through, or how the local and the global interact in the contemporary digitalized media landscape.
Den 7 oktober 2015 arrangerade KuFo ett symposium om Sigfrid Siwertz.
11.00 Inledning, Anna Forssberg, Lektor vid KaU
11.15 ”’Jag har ju sagt dig, att jag är en fri man.’ Sigfrid Siwertz Jonas och draken som bildningsroman”, Peter Forsgren, Professor vid Linnéuniversitetet
12.00 ”Begreppet arbete i Sigfrid Siwertz romankonst”, Anna Forssberg, Lektor vid Karlstads universitet
13.30 Siwertz som aktivist: ’Eldens återsken’ och Första världskriget”, Ma
Welcome to this open lecture by American anthropologist and Guest Researcher at Karlstad University, Associate Professor Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, University of Colorado Boulder. Teitelbaum is the author of War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right (Penguin, 2021), Lions of the North: Music and the New Nordic Radical Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Limitless (Verso, forthcoming 2026).MedverkandeBenjamin R.
2017-01-19
The external review of Karlstad University’s strong and excellent research groups concludes that the Computer Science research group produces high quality research.
As part of the university’s strategic investment in research, Computer Science was established as an excellent research group in 2014. Now, two years later, external experts have evaluated the group and assessed research quality and progression.
Centrum för genusforskning
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» Nationell konferens för genusforskning - G22
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In this panel, the focus is on the continuity and changes in the conflict between labor and capital and how it is manifested in the everyday life of workers and workplace struggles. 40 years of neoliberal labor market politics have in many ways transformed the Swedish labor market weakening workers as a collective and unions.
… within the Research School on Sustainable Societal Transformation since 1 February this year. Why did you decide to do a PhD?
“Well, because I’m curious, I want to learn more, develop, and also contribute to developing the knowledge in social work as a field...
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Sociologi
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» Konferens om Åldrande och migration i Sverige och Japan 11-12 maj 2022
Digital inequalities in the framework of health and social welfare services. The case of older Russian-speakers in Finland
Digital information and communication technologies are becoming increasingly important for public administration of welfare states. Due to enthusiastic digitalisation projects, many welfare state services have rapidly become ‘digital by default’.
Henrik, you recently began your doctoral studies in Geomedia at Karlstad University. Tell us about your background.
- I have a Master’s in cultural studies from the University of Gothenburg and an interdisciplinary background in humanities with a great interest in culture and social policy issues. I’m interested in the way geomedia affects society and culture, and the spatial aspects of media.
Tell us about your research project
- The idea is to focus on digital exclusion in public transport.
2025-05-28
Social media has helped normalise the far right. The algorithms amplify and advance strong feelings and opinions and turn us all into consumers of extreme views. This has been identified in Enjoying the Fall, a new doctoral thesis at Karlstad University by Pasko Kisić-Merino.
– One example is how the idea of “the immigrant”, in particular the male immigrant, is constantly being connected to violence, criminality, and genderphobia at the hands of the far-right.
As employer you can choose to train your staff through Karlstad university. Risk- and environmental studies are active in a number of professional training programmes through Karlstad university Uppdrags AB.
KUFO
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The aim of this project is to study interpersonal and interspecies encounters in science-fiction literature, film and television as intercultural encounters.
In the project PERUPP, AI will be fed with offers from actors in the tourism industry to enhance the Värmland experience.
– We want to take advantage of AI technology, says Siri Jagstedt, project leader of one of the work packages.
The modern person wants to have more personal and tailored experiences rather than one-size-fits-all.
Our research explores the social dynamics of political and economic inclusion and exclusion. Racism, as an ideology and everyday practice, constitutes an integral part of this focus, as do discourses on cultural values in contemporary processes of both conflict and convivial coexistence.
Part of the examination task at the course “Advanced service management” at Karlstad Business School is making a poster on your work, like the ones at research conferences. This is a way for the students to show their knowledge- and a way to use research methods in this master's programme.
As previously, all posters were put on display all around the Business school, building 11.
2017-05-05
The Embedded-nätverket Värmland/Dalsland arranged a network seminar where Sebastian Herold, researcher in Computer Science at Karlstad University, presented the project REVaMP2 (Round-trip Engineering and Variability Management Platform and Process).
REVaMP2 is a European collaboration with more than twenty partners from academia and industry.
Bibliotek
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» Open Science
In recent years, prices of traditional subscription-based journals have increased dramatically and access to scientific content has become a question of resources.
