Trans-specific healthcare coordinator is a function included in the healthcare services in Region Värmland. The purpose is to support transgender people and those close to them as they move through the healthcare chain. The function is perceived to provide good and important psychosocial support and many express a feeling of being seen and heard for the first time by the healthcare services.
2023-12-08
Cows grazing on a green field under a blue sky. Healthy pigs rooting around in the mud. Chickens in the springtime sunshine. We are surrounded by romanticised images and stories of animals raised for food. But it is both difficult and complicated to ensure ethical animal husbandry within the financial and practical confines of reality. In her doctoral thesis, “How do animals become food?
2023-03-30
The Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) recently conducted and extensive evaluation of 40 nursing specialisation programmes at 25 higher education institutions in Sweden.
2023-01-09
STINT, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, has granted SEK 10 million to the university collaboration MIRAI 3.0.
The alumna of the month has made a super quick career from graduation in 2012 to a position of head consultant at Adeccotoday. She discovered what she wanted to study when working at McDonald’s. Meet Elizabeth Eriksson.
Name: Elizabeth Eriksson
Age: 28
Family: Cohabitant
Field of study: Human Resources Management and Working Life
Profession: Head consultant at Adecco
Working at McDonald’s, Elizabeth realised what her ambition was.
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The University Library is organized in six areas of activity.
Research and Publishing support
The library's research and publishing support provides support and resources to researchers and doctoral students throughout the entire research process.
HypheNation: A study of the Bildungsroman in six American minority novels from the 1990s (Zdravka Katinic) Internal funding 2020-
The project explores six American minority novels published in the "post-era" of the 1990s USA: Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998), Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land (1996), Sapphire's Push (1996), Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat (1995), Linda Hogan's Solar Storms (1994), and Julia Alvarez's How The Gar
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Cheating is a breach of regulations that Karlstad University takes very seriously. Every year students are warned or suspended for attempts to deceive the examiner.
This information is addressed to students at Karlstad University to inform them about cheating, its definition, consequences, and how to avoid it.Cheating is a form of fraudulent deception and ultimately cheaters deceive themselves.
The Centre for Gender Studies (CGF) at Karlstad University has had a long standing focus upon investigating and practically developing different change processes in organisations of various kinds from a feminist perspective. This focus on “Action for Organisational Change” involves analysing, enabling, and generating social change.
The EMER network arranges their second workshop 9-10 februari 2023. This workshop will be fully online and is organised by the University of Jyväskylä.
This year, the event offered inspiring lectures and spirited conversations about three topics at the forefront of the transformation we are all in.
Rundgång, a shopping venue in Karlstad for reused items, has challenged views on second-hand goods and circular thinking. Emma Sundh, circular entrepreneur and project manager, described the importance of making reuse an attractive concept.
- It’s a matter of skill, says Emma Sundh.
IMTRIS is a cross-border project for the processing of wood raw materials, which is a central resource for the regional bioeconomy. Joint R & D efforts contribute to sustainable growth in the border region.
Everyone at the university has a responsibility to ensure that research is undertaken in conformity with the law, in line with funders’ terms and conditions and in accordance with best current practice.
Karlstad Business School has been a member of AACSB since 2010, which is about a systematic approach to development and change, learning as well as collaboration and external engagement. Now the review for accreditation is approaching.
Offering high-quality education, research and collaboration has always been the aim of Karlstad Business School.
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“I am both proud and honoured to be awarded an honorary doctorate at Karlstad University. Especially since Ingesund Folk High School, located right next to the Ingesund School of Music, was the place where my dear parents, Stikkan and Gudrun, not only studied but also became a couple. I truly hope my partnership with the Ingesund School of Music will continue to prosper over the coming years.”
Marie Ledin was born in Stockholm in 1957 and grew up in Nacka.
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Kemal, what did you study during your time at Karlstad Business School?
- I have a Degree of Master in Corporate Finance and Accounting, and a Degree of Bachelor in Mathematics, Business Administration and Economics, specialising in Financial Analysis.
Why did you choose to study at Karlstad Business School?
- It was important to me to study at a university with a good balance between theory and practical application of the knowledge.
How do we do when we search for information on the web, how do we navigate, and what catches our attention? Students from the IT-Design and Web and Multimedia programs are looking into these questions.
2016-02-25
I want to start by thanking all of you for doing such a fantastic job throughout the year. I hope you will have the opportunity to relax, recharge your batteries and enjoy some well-earned time off.
Last time I wrote about my first impressions of Karlstad University and how I view our development going forward.
2024-08-07
What applies in an agreement with a digital influencer and how honest are people in surveys that then guide how companies act? These were two of the questions during the School of Business Day at Karlstad University.
Cecilia Tisell, Director General of the Swedish Consumer Agency, and lawyer Emy Gustavsson lectured on the complex jungle that today’s digital consumers are exposed to.
The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking
(Swedish Research Council, 2013-2015)
Researchers: John Sundholm, Karlstad University, Lars Gustaf Andersson, Lund University.
Immigration to Sweden increased during the 1970s, and many of them were forced into exile. Some of them already were established filmmakers, others were amateurs, albeit with an interest in film. What united them was that they were all strangers in Sweden and that they tried to find their way in a new cultural situation.
Carbon nanotubes are of great interest in both scientific research and commercial applications thanks to the unique properties of the material. A new thesis at Karlstad University looks at how the atomic structure influences the different properties of the material.
- At the moment, there are too few measuring standards and no proper classification system for carbon nanotubes, says Mattias Flygare, recently qualified doctor of physics who just published his thesis.
