Seminar materials are normally distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists. Anyone not reached by these lists should feel free to contact us.
Our seminars and other events are open to anyone who is interested!
JANUARY
Thu 19/1, Minerva, KuFo workshop. Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers, with a focus on RJ applications.
Two CTF articles have been selected as a Highly Commended Paper Award in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.
Every year the Emerald Literati Network select the most impressive articles from each of their journals from the previous year.
HHK
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In order to ensure that our educations are well adapted to the needs of the labor market, we regularly follow up the alumni who have graduated from the School of Business and Economics.
During the years 2017-2023, 3065 people graduated from the Business School. Of these, 39 percent were men and 61 percent women.
The conference programme is in work. Below, you will find the plenary speakers who are currently confirmed.
Viviane Baladi (Paris)
Jacob Bedrossian (UCLA)
Anne-Laure Dalibard (Paris)
Franca Hoffmann (Caltech)
Kenneth Karlsen (Oslo)
Christian Kühn (München)
Alexander Mielke (Berlin)
Takashi Sakajo (Kyoto)
Agnieszka Swierczewska-Gwiazda (Warsaw)
Vlad Vicol (Courant, NY)
CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, are expanding their range of flexible courses for professionals. Registration is now open for courses in digitalisation, customer journey and idea management, two of which are offered for the first time. The courses will start at the end of January and registration is open until 18 January.
Registration is now open for the first courses of the spring term aimed at working professionals.
2023-12-07
Welcome to an open seminar with Professor Manoj Mishra from Banaras Hindu University on the effects of global warming and climate change on India, with a specific focus on food and water security.
Professor Manoj Mishra is one of the four guest researchers from India that the Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies is hosting this autumn. He is a professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at Banaras Hindu University.
Nina Lykke has a background in comparative literature, but her main focus has always been gender. She held a position as researcher in gender studies at the University of Southern Denmark from 1981 to 1999, and headed the university’s centre for women and gender studies during this period. She was appointed to the position of docent [associate professor] at the same university in 1992, with a dissertation on feminism and psychoanalysis.
Philemon Hahn played both drums and violin as a child at the cultural school in Simrishamn. However, his interest in the violin was greater and grew stronger over time.
2022-06-03
Coaching via text messages can contribute to healthier habits and a better sense of well-being. This is shown in a study where researchers at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, together with Friskvården i Värmland, have examined how digital services can complement physical meetings and facilitate behavioural change.
Changing your habits to a healthier way of life is not easy.
2022-02-01
Christina Öberg, professor of Marketing, have received a research scholarship from the Knut & Ragnvi Jacobsson Family Foundation for the project "Dealing with the unforeseen - prediction and change in the light of the pandemic and AI".
The project deals with developing research on corporate networks and how business leaders perceive and are affected by networks in decision-making situations.
- I have focused my research on networks between companies for almost
CTF organizes the biennial QUIS symposium on Service Excellence in Management, which attracts leading researchers, business executives, and public sector managers from all over the world. The first QUIS symposium took place in Sweden 1988.
The musician Judith Kleinman will come to the Ingesund Academy of Music at the end of March to teach ergonomics for musicians. Her teaching is based on the Alexander Technique and the visit takes place within the framework of a teacher exchange within Erasmus.
Judith Kleinman is a musician who studied at the Guildhall School of Music.
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Information for you as an employer. The Career Portal is Karlstad University’s online platform, developed in collaboration with JobTeaser. Through the Career Portal, you as an employer can reach students and new graduates from Karlstad University who are looking for jobs, placements, degree projects and project opportunities, for free.
On June 26th - 29th researchers from CTF, together with more than 200 service researchers and business leaders from around the world, gathered in Miami, Florida, to discuss and present the latest trends and research results in the customer service and customer experience at the annual Frontiers in Service Conference.
In today’s society there is a large amount of data available that businesses and organizations can use to, for example, develop new services.
Seminar materials are distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists. Anyone not reached by these e-mails should feel free to contact us.
Our seminars and other events are open to anyone who is interested!
JANUARY
Thursday, 18/1, 8:15-12:00, 12A225 Humlan, KuFo workshop: Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers, especially for RJ applications.
Akademisk högtid
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Academic Celebration 2024 will be celebrated on October 18 in Aula Magna at Karlstad University. All professors and honorary doctors are presented at Karlstad CCC in the morning and inauguarated and promoted at the ceremony in the afternoon.
Relive Academic Celebration 2024
Now you have the opportunity to relive Academic Celebration 2024 on film, which this year also was streamed live during the ceremony. You can also see and order photos in this year's photo album.
Linda Bergkvist and Charlotte Bäccman at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, have studied clients, healthcare personnel, IT personnel and healthcare managers in Swedish and Norwegian municipalities in order to create a better understanding of challenges in implementing digital assistive technology.
The study is published in the anthology "Management and Information Technology after Digital Transformation" and shows a complexity where different actors hav
2022-10-20
Siri Jagstedt is a senior lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School, where she teaches industrial management and engineering. She now joins CTF to conduct research related to digitalisation and servitization.
Hello Siri! Welcome to CTF! Can you tell us about your background?
– I received my PhD from Chalmers with a thesis on the economy and organisation of technology.
Bibliotek
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The University Library offers instruction to all students who are enrolled at one of the university courses or programs.
The teaching is planned together with the program managers and course coordinators at the institutions.
Ellen Moons, professor of physics at Karlstad University was elected a Swedish member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the discipline of physics.
- I am honoured to be elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences, says Ellen Moons. It is a great recognition and a bit hard to take in.
Ellen Moons is professor of physics at the Department of Engineering and Physics, Karlstad University.
Seminar materials are distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists. Anyone not reached by these e-mails should feel free to contact us.
Our seminars and other events are open to anyone who is interested!
JANUARYThursday, 23/1, 8:15-12:00, 12A225 Humlan, KuFo workshop: Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers, short RJ applications only.
Each year, Karlstad University chooses, after a nomination period, two former students who have used their education inspirationally, have embarked on exiting careers and are good role models for the university’s current students, as Alumni of the Year. The Alumni of the Year for 2017 are Marie Fossum Strannegård and Jörgen Svensson.
Marie Fossum Strannegård obtained a Bachelor’s degree with a major in Information Systems from Karlstad University in 1995.
“Borrow and return” is the motto for the research project Retake, which is testing its rotation-based system for recyclable cups and plates during “Almedalsveckan”.
2013-09-05
Child and adolescent mental health was the focus of the two-day advisory board meeting when researchers from Australia, England, Canada, Germany and Sweden gathered at Karlstad University at the end of August.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the research programme on the impacts of changed living conditions on child and adolescent mental health that was granted long-term funding from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, FORTE (prev
