Kristina Palm at Karlstad Business School and Calle Rosengren at Lund University have received an award for their research on the boundary between work and personal life in a digitalised working environment.
2025-03-31
Gisela Priebe, professor of psychology and director of the The Centre for Research on the Mental Health and Life Circumstances of Children and Youth (CBU), is one of the speakers at "Barnrättsdagarna" (the Children's Rights Days) held from 31 March to 2 April in Karlstad. This year's theme, "The Child as a Rights Holder and the Best Interests of the Child," is a constantly relevant topic for Gisela and CBU's research.
Hello Gisela!
2019-05-09
Majken Jul Sørensen, senior lecturer of sociology, has recently been appointed Director of the popular CRS graduate school together with Marie Nordfeldt, professor of social work.
Majken Jul Sørensen's research deals primarily with non-violent resistance and grassroot movements. Her interest in non-violent social movements, conflict change, as well as humour and political activism, centres, among other things, on human capacity to effect change from the bottom-up.
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Karlstad University arrange an academic celebration in the autumn of every year. The celebration includes doctoral and honorary doctorate conferment ceremonies, the installation of new professors, and presentation of medals and scholarships.
Karlstad University was inaugurated on 22 January 1999. As a young university, we wish to preserve a long-standing academic tradition of ceremonies dating back to the Middle Ages, while commemorating our own history and identity.
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In an international and multidisciplinary environment with plenty of research equipment, the conditions are in place mastering challenges and developing as a researcher. Ellen Moons, Professor of Physics, is pleased with the working environment at Karlstad University.
- The group has a broad network of contacts, says Ellen.
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» People and Networks Matter - Enabling Sustainable Bioeconomy Transition 27-28 mars 2019
The conference is a co-production between Nordregio, CRS - Centre for Regional Studies at Karlstad University, UIO TIK – Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at University of Oslo, LUKE – Natural Resources Institute Finland, NIBIO – Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Region Värmland, Paper Province, Nordic Forest Research (SNS), Nordic Agri Research (NKJ) and Ingoskog – Innovation for green transition in the forest.
Marketing Strategies is a course for business administration students who are in their final year of the bachelor's programme or the third year of the Programme in Business and Economics . The course offers students an opportunity to work with real-life cases to improve the marketing strategies of companies or organisations.
2019-12-02
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In this course you will learn more about: the concept service and the development towards value creation through service, service quality and quality development, and service development and innovation. The course consists of three modules: 1)The concept service and the logic of service, 2) Service quality and quality development, and 3) New service development & innovation. Each module includes: readings, videos, cases and online seminars.
After completi
Anna Fyrberg Yngfalk är lektor och forskare vid Handelshögskolan Karlstads universitet och vid Centrum för Tjänsteforskning (CTF).
I sin forskning studerar Anna hur marknadsföringsdiskurser formar individer och organisationer men också vad effekterna är av det marknadssamhälle som vi lever i termer av makt och maktstrukturer.
Over the next two years, a new research project at Karlstad University is going to develop concrete resources to increase user influence in mental health services.
Tobias Hübinette has a Ph.D in Korean Studies, and is Associate Professor in Intercultural Education and primarily teaches Intercultural Studies and Swedish as a Second Language, as well as Gender Studies and Comparative literature.
Hübinette’s research revolves around Swedish critical race- and whiteness studies, as well as adoption, migration, minorities, Korea, Asians and Swedishness. He has, for instance, published the book "Att skriva om svenskheten.
Farzaneh Karegar, lecturer in informatics, together with Simone Fischer-Hübner, professor in computer science, you have written the book The curious case of usable privacy: Challenges, Solutions, and Prospects.
Farzaneh Karegar, tell us what the book is about
- The book addresses the field of useful privacy and its challenges, solutions and new opportunities.
2020-12-10
Organizations use idea screening to select which ideas to develop into innovation projects. The question is how do experts decide if an idea is good? It is a complex interplay of intuition, analysis and sensemaking, according to a new study from CTF, Center for Service Research at Karlstad University.
The researchers have mapped and analyzed activities that expert evaluators use to screen ideas, and how these activities are used to identify ideas of high quality.
2016-04-23
Andreas Kassler, professor of computer science at Karlstad University, has participated in the 12th Expert Talk meeting of the NGSDP, NG Service Delivery Platforms & Service Overlay Networks, to present research on future 5G systems and the balance between energy consumption, capacity and robustness for deployment of 5G functions in a virtualized infrastructure.
- In the project HITS, High Quality Networked Services in a Mobile World, we have looked at how a vir
2013-04-22
Angela Caridà, research fellow at University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy, will be visiting CTF during the next three months. This is her second time at CTF. She visited us during three months last year.
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. In the last two years her research focus has been on the service innovation in healthcare.
2023-11-24
Andrea Schalley, Professor of English Linguistics at Karlstad University, has been granted funding from the Swedish Research Council for the 4-year research project “Swedish or English?
Choral singing is a geographically widespread phenomenon in Sweden. Despite this, it has received relatively limited attention in research. Until now. Per Göransson, who recently completed his PhD in Human Geography at Karlstad University, has done research on the subject.
Choirs have been a popular cultural activity for a long time in Sweden.
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The course Information retrieval and publishing strategies 3ECTS is catered for PhD students who are in the beginning of their research career, and want to learn more about information seeking for research purposes, reference management, copyright issues, open access and publishing strategies.
Prerequisites: Admitted to PhD studies at Karlstad UniversityMaximum number of participants: 24.
...teachers of the Early Years Education Programme at Karlstad University…you are going to Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, in October on an ERASMUS exchange. You are also meeting with a commission of the Australian Government tasked with reviewing the country’s preschool education.
2021-11-29
Jan Ch Karlsson is a former Professor of Sociology at Karlstad Business School. Although he is now retired, his interest for working life issues is as strong as ever.
- Now more than ever, research needs to point out what the situation actually is for employees today, says Jan Ch Karlsson.
Gardening is not Jan Ch Karlsson’s cup of tea.
2019-12-04
When courts decide whether to continue or discontinue care under the Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act (LVU) previous judgements are, in practice, indicative. This means that children and adolescents who have previously been subject to enforced protective custody tend to remain in care for a considerably longer time.
2022-04-20
What barriers do consumers face on the digital market place, and how can these be counteracted? In a project with the Swedish Consumer Agency, researchers at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, have examined this issue.
