On October 15, Karlstad University was visited by Brian Hudson, newly appointed Honorary Doctor of Education. Brian is Emeritus Professor of Education and former Head of the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sussex.
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Guro Gravem Johansen is originally from Troms in northern Norway where she grew up on a farm close to the sea. She is a trained jazz singer with a bachelor’s and master’s degree as well as a PhD in music education from the Norwegian Academy of Music.
Avit Bhowmik, Assistant Professor in Risk and Environmental Studies, who is going to attend COP28 in Dubai, which starts today, reflects on the SB meeting in Bonn.
The annual Conference of Parties (COP) 28 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will be hosted by Dubai is knocking at the door. Almost everyone who keeps an eye on climate change policy at the global level is by now familiar with COPs.
Nanna Fyhrquist was born and raised in Helsinki, Finland. Her academic journey began at the University of Helsinki, where she studied biology and later earned her PhD in 1999.
She went on to be appointed as a docent in physiology and neuroscience at the same university.
At the end of March, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) hosted the webinar Dark Commercial Patterns: Experiences and Tools for Education and Business Guidance. Agnieszka Kitowska, postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science, was one of the speakers.
Angela Caridà, research fellow at University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy, will be visiting CTF during the next three months.
Angela Caridà have a Ph D in Economic and Management of Healthcare.
Her main areas of interest are service innovation, interactive marketing and co-creation.
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Bestoun S. Ahmed Al-Beywanee is originally from Iraq and was born in 1982. He has a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Science from 2004 and got a scholarship to finish his master's study at University Putra Malaysia 2007-2009.
After his master degree Bestoun S. Ahmed Al-Beywanee moved on to a Ph.D. fellowship position at the University of Science Malaysia (2009-2012) in the field of Software engineering.
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The research article “The role of perceived comprehension in idea evaluation" has been recognized as a top 20 most read article in Creativity and Innovation Management during 2017-2018.
Amongst scientific articles published between January 2017 and December 2018 the article received some of the most downloads in the 12 months following online publication.
Businesses need service innovations to survive and strengthen their competitive advantage. By explaining how firms and key actors (such as entrepreneurs) manage to remain innovative, our research explains why innovation platforms are central.
Empirical observations show that key actors or entrepreneurs often drive change in service ecosystems and the development of innovation platforms.
What are the reasons for managers to engage in servitization, and how do they justify their efforts within their organisations? To answer this question, we studied six different firms of various sizes, from 10 to 4000 employees. The firms were from different types of industries, although they were all manufacturing companies with a strong belief in services.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Muhammad Ovais Ahmad who has been recognized on the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists list for 2025!
Dr. Ahmad inclusion on the list is a testament to his significant research contributions in the fields of Information & Communication Technologies, with a specific focus on Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering.
Where do you start with innovation? Typically, with a goal in sight – a pre-defined outcome. From here you can forecast what you need to get there; search for, select and invest in the most suitable skills, technology, and other types of resources in a step-by-step manner. This is a conventional causal decision-making style for firms. Conversely you can start with what you already have – existing means – and then creatively work out potential outcomes with these. This is bricolage.
We are happy to welcome Hugo Guyader to CTF. He will be working with professors Margareta Friman and Lars E Olsson in a research project on shared mobility, and will develop a survey for users of a Swedish ride sharing platform.
"My position at CTF involves research on shared mobility, particularly about ride sharing.
Read new blog post by PhD Student Josina Vink.
Service design is gaining increasing interest and investment in healthcare. This can be seen by the proliferation of design labs popping up in healthcare organizations around the globe.
Margareta Friman, Professor of Psychology at CTF, Service Research Center, Karlstad University will be Assistant Editor on the subject of environmental psychology in the journal “Frontiers in Psychology”.
Margareta Friman has been offered and has accepted a position as assistant editor on the topic environmental psychology in the scientific journal “Frontiers in Psychology”.
The journal publishes research across the psychological field that are divide
On January 1st, 2013, Henrietta Huzell, lecturer and researcher in Working Life Science, will start her new assignment as the Director of CTF along with Professor Bo Edvardsson.
- I am really looking forward to becoming director of CTF, a recognized research environment with a good reputation and where the researchers themselves initiate and develop ideas together, says Henrietta Huzell.
The new role will be to focus the attention on what today both enable and limit
The project “Adaptions of Octavia E. Butler’s novels in the twenty-first century” is conducted by Maria Holmgren Troy, who is Director of KuFo and professor of English.
Academic work on Octavia E. Butler’s speculative fiction has increased exponentially since the 1990s, and Butler is a towering presence in the multidisciplinary field termed Afrofuturism.
For the past 15 years, the Service Research Center (CTF), with funding from the Knowledge Foundation, has generated world-class research on service innovation, servitisation and customer experiences.
Johan Quist, associate professor in Business Administration, was one of four invited researchers who took part in the seminar “Meeting complex challenges with the help of research”.
Innovating the meaning of services means dealing with the vague and intangible nature of meanings: companies risk not being able to transfer them from the strategic to the operational level.
This year researchers at CTF and Swerea IVF will be working on a model and approach for the development and delivery of customized industrial services. The collaboration will be carried out along with three local companies from the region who have been selected in cooperation with ALMI företagspartner i Värmland.
….. you are since January 1st the new vice director at CTF. How does it feel, and can you tell us more about the new assignment?
"Thanks, it feels great! There are few working places where so many exciting things are going on at the same time, and it is fun to be in the middle of this."
"My most important function is to brainstorm with our director Per Kristensson.
