Over two days, the industrial graduate school Exact held its spring meeting, focusing on collaboration and development opportunities as well as career planning for doctoral students.
– It has been two days filled with fascinating presentations from our doctoral students and many fruitful discussions about the graduate school’s collaboration and development opportunities, says Jörgen Samuelsson, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Graduate School.
2025-02-18
A number of interest groups are important for Pro2BE and we cooperate with this groups to identify research and innovation challenges and to reach the surrounding community.
Paper Province
Paper Province is a world-leading business cluster within the forest-based bioeconomy in the Swedish region of Värmland. Paper Province is involved in innovation and development, expertise, meeting arenas, internationalization and marketing.
Funded by GEXcel International Collegium
The Trans Studies Research Residency programme started in February 2017 as an initiative of the Trans Studies research group working at the Centre for Gender Studies. The aim is to create an inspiring space for collaboration between trans scholars as well as offer much needed time for focusing on research and writing. The residency will take place for the fourth time in spring 2019.
During the systematic monitoring of the degree of process maturity in parts of the authority, research from Karlstad Business School has caught the interest of Lantmäteriet (The Swedish mapping, cadastral and land registration authority).
During the systematic monitoring of the degree of process maturity in parts of the authority, research from Karlstad Business School has caught the interest of Lantmäteriet (The Swedish mapping, cadastral and land registration authority
2025-03-27
Saga Haglund sees being a professional songwriter and music producer as a personal profession because you share a lot of yourself through your creations. It requires courage, even during weeks when you don't feel at your best. By believing in yourself and your craft, the following week can be a completely different story.
Saga Haglund grew up in Arvika and had her sights set on music from an early age.
Research projects generate large amounts of data, and the structuring of data should be planned early on in the project. Decides from the start how data files are to be named and structured can save time and prevent subsequent errors. Use the metadata, i.e.
CRE8® is a model for innovation-challenge events, developed by the Grants and Innovation Office at Karlstad University. A public or private organization provides a real-world operational challenge to which teams of students try to find solutions. Since it was first introduced in 2017, the CRE8® model has become a very successful concept. With funding from Erasmus+, Karlstad University is now training facilitators to run CRE8® events around Europe.
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Karlstad University applies a number of rules for written exams taken in University examination halls.
The rules help keep examinations as fair as possible. To learn the specifics of the exam you are taking, please ask your teacher or the subject’s administrative office. Here are a few important rules to be aware of before your examination.
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You must sign up to take the exam at least 14 days before the exam date.
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The "forgotten" asylum seekers from Afghanistan
– A study on inclusion and exclusion processes affecting young Hazara refugees in Sweden.
This project is a collaboration between Martin Joormann (Associate Professor in Social Work at KAU) and Anna Lundberg (Professor in Sociology of Law at LU). The project aims to conduct a joint analysis of previously collected data, supplement it with additional data in the form of public documentation, and publish a scientific article.
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I am Lou Hinterberg, and I study Information Management (BA) in Hannover, Germany. This programme is similar to the undergraduate programmes within Information Systems at Karlstad University, e. g. Web and Multimedia. Currently, I complete the 7th semester which is my last semester of my studies. This semester doesn’t include any lectures but an internship with a duration of ten weeks.
2021-05-25
Responsible, sustainable and close collaboration with business are values, which Karlstad Business School shares with Institute Mines - Telecom Business School - a new partner in Information Systems and Business.
From Autumn 2021, Karlstad Business School students will be able to apply for a semester abroad in Paris.
2018-10-19
Students, alumni and representatives of local IT companies participated in the Karlstad Programming Contest, held on 6 October. At the end of the contest, team Bug Repellent, with Dan Wolff from Altran, Marcus Söder from Sogeti, and Niclas Fredriksson, computer science student at Karlstad University, emerged as winners with four solved tasks.
"It was really fun to participate," says Marcus Söder from Sogeti.
2018-05-17
Swedish universities, including Karlstad University, have decided to terminate the agreement with Elsevier, one of the world's largest scientific publishers. The reason is that the parties did not agree on open access
Elsevier is one of the world's largest scientific publishers. In 2017, Swedish universities paid approximately 120 million SEK for subscriptions to electronic journals to the publisher, of which Karlstad University accounted for almost 1.2 million SEK.
The Study and Career Counsellors at Karlstad University always focus on the individual. You will receive tools to make well-informed decisions regarding your studies and career through counselling sessions. The session helps you explore the available opportunities and gives you an overview of your situation and alternatives. The Study- and Career Counsellor is bound by confidentiality in all matters related to your circumstances.
The Magna Charta Universitatum is an international charter on the academic freedom and institutional autonomy of universities. Karlstad University has now signed the new, updated version.
– Signing the charter shows that Karlstad University supports the key principles of, among other things, academic freedom, autonomy and equality. We value the importance of freedom in research and education, and international mobility.
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Karlstads universitet erbjuder kompetensutveckling i ledarskap till forskare som vill vidareutveckla sitt ledarskap utifrån akademiens förutsättningar. Avsikten är att stärka forskare i sin ledarskapsroll och bidra till hållbara och framgångsrika forskningsmiljöer. Ledaskapsutveckling erbjuds på tre olika nivåer anpassat till vart du befinner dig i din forskarkarriär.
The academic insignia hail from the Middle Ages, and include the doctor’s hat, doctor’s ring, and earlier also a book of privileges, which had disappeared from the ceremonies and had been replaced by the diploma. The handshake has symbolic value; it means ‘be greeted’, and the promotor also says these words during the act. The insignia are proof that a doctoral degree has been conferred.
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Renee McDonald has lived most of her life in Texas, United States. She is one of three children of working-class parents. She had a 10-year career as a software and systems developer, attending night classes along the way to work toward a college degree. Realizing she enjoyed the field of psychology, she returned to college full time and then went to graduate school to obtain a PhD in clinical psychology.
– The SASUF funded workshop was highly appreciated and offered valuable insights for the participants, says Katharina Rahnert, Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School and one of the initiators.
Katharina Rahnert, what was the purpose of the workshop?
– We wanted to raise awareness among the participants about the importance of corporate sustainability.
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Platform Studies beyond the Platform
Social media platforms have been characterised in two main ways, first by their programmability (Bogost and Montfort 2010), that is the capacity to build software or analytics on top of their data and functionalities.
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The Study and Career Counsellors at Karlstad University always focus on the individual. You will receive tools to make well-informed decisions regarding your studies and career through counselling sessions. The session helps you explore the available opportunities and gives you an overview of your situation and alternatives. The Study- and Career Counsellor is bound by confidentiality in all matters related to your circumstances.
Paper Surface Centre is a prime international research centre for future sustainable functional surfaces of paper and paperboard. It is located at Karlstad University, one of the new universities in Sweden that has been a centre of learning since 1843.
Based on the competence generated from a long tradition and knowledge, the region is a hub of leading expertise within the field of surface treatment and packaging technology.
