Every year, AG Advokat awards a grant of SEK 50.000 to the law student who has produced the best degree project focusing on an issue that has commercial relevance for the real estate and construction industries.
2023-01-10
It is not only beautiful and vast landscapes as seen in "The Lord of the Rings" and medieval castles in "Game of Thrones" that attract screen tourists.
2016-04-06
On 1 April, Computer Science at Karlstad University was presented to regional IT companies at a lunch meeting, where the participants could listen to Anna Brunström, professor of Computer Science, talk about “A testbed for mobile broadband with a strong connection to Värmland”.
At the DigIT Värmland 2015 conference, Computer Science at Karlstad University was elected Digital Rocket of the Year for its research in the areas of Computer Networking, and
2024-03-28
People who own or have access to a holiday home are called “the invisible population” because they can be difficult to reach in the event of a crisis. Geomedia researchers at Karlstad University emphasise the importance of increasing the knowledge regarding how crisis communication from authorities needs to reach temporary populations.
Holiday homes are a significant part of Swedish tourism.
Pro2BE cooperates with adjacent research groups and research environments at Karlstad University.
Packaging for Sustainable Development
At Service Research Center, associate professor Fredrik Wikström and senior lecturer Helén Williams are developing knowledge
At the Service Research Center, CTF, associate professor Fredrik Wikström and senior lecturer Helén Williams work on building knowledge about how packaging features interact with different kinds of human needs.
Andrea Schalley, professor of English, has received funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) to conduct full-time research in 2025-2026. She will complete a monograph on language maintenance, synthesising and contextualising a decade of research.
“I am extremely grateful for the RJ sabbatical and the opportunity to focus exclusively on my research,” says Andrea Schalley.
2024-05-08
"The event is aimed at researchers, teachers, students, and others interested in internationalization within higher education, and focuses on the possibility of pursuing a master's degree in visual culture and communication," says Staffan Löfving, associate professor of Social Anthropology and lecturer in Intercultural Studies.
The satellite event is organized within the framework of the South Africa-Sweden University Forum (SASUF) research and innovation week, which run
2023-01-18
According to the study “Sharing economy platforms as mainstream: balancing pro-social and economic tensions”, there are tensions between the digital and the old ways of sharing things.
- Sharing economy platforms are erasing the borders between personal/social norms and market norms in commercial exchanges, says Hugo Guyader, senior lecturer in Business Administration at Linköping University and former visiting researcher at Karlstad University, who has conducted this st
2019-09-05
Researchers at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, will, within an Interreg Consortium, analyze travel services from a traveler's perspective. The project is funded by the EU regional development fund Interreg Baltic Sea Region.
"The purpose of the project is to study vulnerable travel groups and their perceived experience of existing services," says researcher Per Echeverri.
2020-03-18
Congratulations to Josina Vink, Bo Edvardsson, Katarina Wetter-Edman and Bård Tronvoll for receiving the 2019 Robert Johnston Award: Outstanding Paper of the year for the article "Reshaping mental models - enabling innovation through service design" published in the Journal of Service Management, JOSM.
The 2019 Robert Johnston Award recognizes their contribution to JOSM and to the service field.
Dear Geomedians, here is a new selection of news and points of information related to the Centre for Geomedia Studies!
25-01-10
Dear Geomedians,
First, I hope you’ve had a good beginning of the new year – and thank you for productive work during 2024!
How could farm-based social services support and promote health and well-being? This is the focus of the doctoral thesis “Nature-Based Interventions in Social Work: A Study of Farm-Based Social Services” by Jenny Höglund, who defended her doctoral thesis at Karlstad University earlier this summer.
Jenny Höglund has studied nature-based interventions aimed at supporting and developing the participants’ resources and health with focus on working life and independence.
2025-01-30
This is one of the questions that Anna-Lena Almqvist, Professor of Social Work at Karlstad University, is exploring. Her current research focuses on the participation of children and young people in foster placements and how safer relationships can be created in vulnerable life situations.
Hello Anna-Lena! Can you tell us about your research?
"My main research areas are child welfare, men's work against violence, and LGBTQI-related issues.
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Johan Tielman was born and raised in Linköping and grew up in a family with a keen interest in sports. His father was self-employed and his mother worked as a teacher. His lifelong interest in nature was sparked by visits to his grandparents in the Santa Anna archipelago.
A longing to understand and learn more about aquatic life determined his academic direction.
We welcome Fredrik Johansson who will work full time certain months at Karlstad university during the academic year 17/18. He will teach courses in database design, programming and web.
Fredrik’s ordinary work is at the Karlstad branch of the Norwegian company Cerpus where he helps the company’s client with their web sites.
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!
SEPTEMBERThursday, 25/9, 9.00–17.00, 12A225 Humlan, KuFo workshop: Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers.
Research findings from Karlstad University were presented at a conference in Oslo.
- As always when it comes to changing cultures, it is important to be persistent and not give up, says Markus Fellesson from the Center for Service Research (CTF).
Markus Fellesson and Anna Fyrberg-Yngfalk, researchers at the Service Research Center (CTF) and Karlstad Business School, you recently participated in the conference “Prevent and Intervene – Ending Sexual Harassment at Work” in
2017-12-22
Fifteen years ago, open source developers were considered geeky. Today, on the contrary, these are the most sought after developers. Redpill Linpro, a company only working with products based on open source code, hosted the last SNITS lunch of the year on 5 December, with the theme “Kickstarting your career with open source”.
Software developed from source code that is open to everyone to use, change, develop and distribute is known as open source.
2023-01-24
The ethical rules of journalism was first put in writing in the US in the 1920s. A hundred years on, we are looking at a completely different audience.
2019-01-10
A new research project on the experiences of families who moved out of big cities recently received a grant of SEK 2.9 million from Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning.
2017-12-15
With the right mix of skills, intuition become less of a mystery – and new ideas can be assessed more fairly. In a new thesis, Johan Netz, Ph D in Business Administration at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, has investigated how new ideas are assessed in a screening process.
Johan Netz has investigated how intuitive and rational assessment decision making approaches affects idea screening.
2019-11-11
Anne-Charlotte Paas is a new PhD student in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School, Karlstad University. She will be placed at CTF, Service Research Center, where she will study sustainable development in everyday life.
"I will, among other things, look at different dilemmas that can arise and what implications this can have when a family will try to live a more sustainable everyday life.
2016-08-08
Lou Hinterberg, who studies Information Management in Hannover, Germany, will have a ten week internship at Information Systems department at Karlstad University, starting 8th of August, mainly working in the usability lab.
Karlstad University is in the process of switching to a new CMS.
This project is part of an effort of the Swedish EPA and The Swedish Transport Administration, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, and the research council Formas who are funding nine projects dealing with the management of invasive alien species.
The aim of the project is to improve ecosystem functions and services of species-rich road verges and green infrastructure through evidence-based control and monitoring of invasive plants at the landscape scale.
Researcher Alexandre Sukhov is awarded the prestigious Wallander Scholarship of SEK 1.725 000 for his doctoral dissertation "The human side of idea screening" which deals with idea evaluation and development in the front end of innovation.
"This is fantastic news and a great honor!
