This year, fifteen researchers will receive awards from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, RJ, The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, for full-time research up to one year. One of the recipients is Anders Gustafsson, Professor of Business Administration at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University.
– It it feels fantastic!
2023-09-28
Tell us about your current research
- My research is developing knowledge about digitization practices and its consequences to users, organizations and society as well as the design and visualizations for the development of digital practices, resources and artifacts.
2019-08-29
CTF researcher Jörg Pareigis, has been appointed as Head of Centre for Teaching and Learning at Karlstad University.
"I am grateful for the trust, and happy to work with knowledgeable and motivated colleagues who are just as passionate about this area as I am, says Jörg Pareigis.
The Centre for Teaching and Learning, UPE, has overall responsibility for the development of skills within university pedagogy and didactics.
“I collaborate with researchers in the fields of human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, subject-specific music education and ethics.”
Carl Unander-Scharin was born in Stockholm in 1964 and graduated from Adolf Fredriks musikgymnasium in 1983. He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he studied church music, choir education and the supplementary teacher education.
… Ph D Student i Business Administration at CTF, what are you working on right now?
- Right now, the main focus of my work is on data collection and preparing submissions for next summer’s conferences. Together with Per Skålén and Per Kristensson, we are conducting interviews at Telenor and studying the institutional change processes that led to the emergence of Telenor Banka in Serbia.
2024-01-26
On March 27-29, the Swedish research school of Management and IT (MIT) held the 2019 Spring Conference at Karlstad University, hosted by CTF, Service Research Center and Karlstad Business School.
2021-06-15
Innovation, transformation and sustainable development during changing times marked by the pandemic were in focus at CTF´s Service Innovation Day 2021 where the participants listened to presentations from Vinnova, Ikea, Systembolaget and Ica Maxi on how they work with these issues.
2018-10-16
PhD Student Jana Huck studies patient and employee involvement during the refinement of ideas for improving the Swedish Public Healthcare Service.
The Swedish public healthcare sector is under immense pressure to innovate in order to adjust to major challenges. These challenges not only relate to a lack of resources and medical staff, but also to the demographic change towards an aging society and increasingly unhealthy society.
Children of parents with a mental Illness – Planning for Equitable and Sustainable Digital Mobile Health Interventions to Reach and Support Them
Children of parents with psychiatric conditions have the right to access preventive measures aimed at reducing the risk of developing their own mental health issues and socioeconomic problems.
A group of exchange students who were here 1999-2000, have continued to stay in touch and meet regularly. This summer, they returned and revisited Karlstad University.
– On the weekend of July 27-28, we met again at Karlstad University, a group of international students who studied here in 1999 and 2000, says Lukasz Ingielewicz, who organized the reunion.
2014-11-28
One year has passed since CTF was appointed "Excellent research group" at Karlstad University, and much has happened since then. Among other things, a new research area – Transformative Service Research – has been initiated along with new researchers and Ph.
2014-12-05
CTF’s efforts to develop groundbreaking theoretical knowledge has resulted in multidisciplinary research themes: Service Innovation, Service Management, and Service Experience. Based on these themes CTF is now developing a crosscutting theme on Transformative Service Research, TSR. It is a relatively new field in service research and is increasingly getting more attention in academia.
2014-09-03
Professors Patrik Larsson, CTF, and Lena Gonäs, Working Life Science at Karlstad University, have contributed to this book with a chapter on the Swedish development of human resource management entitled "Employment Regimes and Personnel Work in Sweden".
The book contains studies of the historical development of human resource management (HRM) in
seventeen different nations.
2020-03-25
Digital services can make physical places more attractive and competitive. But, to digitalize just because it is possible might have an opposite effect.
CTF collaborates with partners, both inside and outside academia. Here are some examples of projects, networks and other initiatives where CTF participates.
Samhällsnytta
Samhällsnytta AB is a national arena different where different actors can meet and jointly develop ideas and new forms of collaboration that can contribute to better solutions in society.
Professor of Business Administration at CTF and Assistant Vice-Chancellor at Karlstad University. You just returned for Seoul, South Korea. What did you do there?
– I was invited as keynote speaker at the International Research Symposium IRSSM 8th International Research Symposium in Service Management at Yonsei University. In my presentation I talked about how service innovations are created and what makes them grow in global markets.
2021-02-16
Many people start a new year by making new year’s resolutions, often to make a change and start a healthier life. At the same time, research shows that only a few of us are able to keep our new resolutions. Perhaps the best way is to go all in, and create a new habit that is done every day - a run streak.
A run streak means running at least 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) or a minimum of 20 minutes every day for a set period of time, without fail, and has become a popular movement all over the world.
2023-04-19
Service Research Center (CTF) at Karlstad University conducts research on services and value creation based on a user perspective, often with an emphasis on customer experiences.
2024-09-12
At an international conference in Djerba, Tunisia, our visiting PhD student José Pablo De la Rosa Gutiérrez won an award for his presentation on robotics programming.
– Collaborative robots can be used in many ways, says Jorge Solis, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Modern robotics, where collaboration between man and machine is governed through programming and gesture recognition, can be used in healthcare as well as in the manufacturing industries.
2015-06-17
Günter Alce, who recently defended a licentiate thesis in Lund, held a seminar June 17, 2015. Günter and advisers at Sony Mobile and Lund University have developed the WozARd system and has received a couple of study visits from us earlier this academic year.
In this seminar, Günter did not only speak about Wizard of Oz for development of Augmented Reality.
2017-09-27
Anders Gustafsson, Professor of Business Administration at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, is the first European to be awarded the prestigious assignment as President of AMA Academic Council.
Anders Gustafsson has been appointed President-Elect Designate of the AMA Academic Council. In this role, he is a member of the council's Executive Committee and is in line to serve as the first council president from outside of North America.
2022-12-13
Christmas is around the corner and the year is drawing to a close, as I look back on an eventful year. I want to take this opportunity to give my warmest thanks to colleagues, partners, funders, and anyone who has contributed to or our research. I look forward to a new year of interesting research, courses and events.
In 2022 we have managed to make the workplace vibrant and lively again, following the pandemic.
We offer a large number of courses, for students who want to try dancing full time and who want to mature as a dancer before embarking on a career, courses for less experienced dancers who want to try dance and courses for ordinary dancers who want to gain additional knowledge and experience.
Studying dance at Karlstad University
Students studying dance at Karlstad University work closely with enthusiastic teachers and receive personal coaching in small groups.
Traditionally, the concept of “customer” refers to someone who buys something – but in a modern context, it includes all actors who create value together for each other.
