Chair
Mia Larson, Professor of business administration, Karlstad University.
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Board members
Annette Hill, Professor of media and communication studies, Jönköping University.
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Natasha Webster, Associate professor in human geography, Örebro University.
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Mia Landin, CEO, Visit Värmland.
New applications such as autonomous cars, robot surgery, and the next generation automation and manufacturing technologies demand ever more flexibility and capacity in computer networks.
CTF
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» Publikationer
Every year, our researchers contribute to the academic literature by producing a large number of publications of various types — including articles for academic journals, research reports, books, and dissertations.
Examples of our recent publicationsClick the links in the right column for more publications.Radclyffe-Thomas, N., Schmitz, M., Breitbarth, T., Miandar, T., Maria Pietrzak, M., Sebhatu, S. & Simaens, A. (2025).
Cybersecurity concerns you, your work and your research - it is becoming increasingly important, and a sustainable society without cybersecurity does not exist. This was the main message when researcher and expert Fredrik Blix, Stockholm University and Cybercom, gave an open guest lecture at Karlstad University.
On October 25, CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, organized an open guest lecture with the researcher and cybersecurity expert Fredrik Blix.
2022-05-16
Service design has become a widely utilized method for service innovation in the private and public sector. But what is it about, and does it add to the previously known methods of service development and innovation?
To understand service design and what makes it unique, we inspected what service design encompasses. This task proved to be an almost devastating task because there are virtually hundreds of design tools and methods.
Traditionally, the academia provides education based on science and tested practice. But more is required today: Being a good team member, to communicate well, resolve conflicts, plan a career. At Karlstad Business School we call it Professional Skills®. It involves transferring knowledge from head to hand.
Professional Skills is both a course and a mind set. We value the cooperation with industry, organisations and public services highly.
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Traditionally, the academia provides education based on science and tested practice. But more is required today: Being a good team member, to communicate well, resolve conflicts, plan a career. At Karlstad Business School we call it Professional Skills®. It involves transferring knowledge from head to hand.
Professional Skills is both a course and a mind set. We value the cooperation with industry, organisations and public services highly.
Professor in Business Administration and Assistant Vice-Chancellor of Karlstad University. This spring you were invited to Monterrey Tech and EGADE Business School in Mexico to discuss research and collaboration. Can you tell us about some of your impressions from the trip?
- Monterrey Tech, which is considered to be one of the top universities in South America, has well-developed
collaboration with other universities, companies and organizations.
2017-12-18
Dr. Jakob Trischler, Postdoctoral researcher at CTF, currently collaborates with a team of social marketing researchers at Griffith Business School, Australia, to address a key challenge that many public sector organizations are facing: How to identify, recruit, and actively involve vulnerable users as ‘co-designers’ during the early stages of the service design process?
2019-06-10
Face and voice recognition, cancer detection algorithms, autonomous cars and many other technological innovations have made artificial intelligence (AI) a hot topic.
CTF
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» Pågående projekt
We are increasingly aiming for personal and tailored experiences rather than one-size-fits-all solutions. This is particularly true in the tourism industry, which has evolved from "all inclusive" to "yours exclusive," where the overall experience depends on both the various services offered at a destination, and the specific interests and needs of the guest.
On September 18-20th the 1st Workshop on Service Innovation Research was held at University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy. A small group of prominent researchers were invited to create a common agenda for how research in the field of service innovation can be developed.
About 30 researchers from Europe and the United States gathered to present and to discuss research. Keynote speaker was Tor.
2016-08-29
An open letter and an opinion article were recently published by three researchers from Karlstad University and Chalmers, warning about the government's legislative proposal for increased transparency in encrypted apps.
2021-05-19
On May 20-22, the conference re: publica 2021 will broadcast live from Berlin. The programme covers a broad range of topics, from misinformation and false journalism to climate issues.
Om universitetet
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The overall control and responsibility for higher education and research in Sweden lies with the Swedish Parliament and the Government. The highest decision-making body within the university is the University Board.
Everyone who has been working in Sweden during the whole or part of the previous year should submit a tax return form (Inkomstdeklaration 1). This income tax return form is sent by the Swedish Tax Agency in April to all those obliged to submit a tax return. You must submit the tax return form before 2 May.
Large parts of the tax return form have already been filled in by the Swedish Tax Agency.
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This course focuses on digitalisation and how businesses and organisations can work with digitalisation and digital transformation.
About the course
The aim of the course is to acquire increased knowledge and understanding of central concepts, theories and models in the area of digitalisation and digital transformation, which in turn constitute tools for managing and working systematically with digitalisation in order to improve efficiency and innovation in organisation
Twentyfour persons have received a PhD degree in Physics or Materials Science at Karlstad University since the start.
Mattias Flygare
Dissertation 17 December 2021.
"The influence of crystallinity on the properties of carbon nanotubes”.
Opponent: Professor Thomas Wågberg, Umeå University.
Samuel Starfelt
Dissertation 11 September 2020.
"Scanning tunneling microscopy and photoemission studies of Ag films on metal/semiconductor surfaces”.
Opponent: Professor Anders Mikkel
Antoine Bordas, PhD, tell us about your previous work
– I am currently 3rd year PhD student, under the supervision of Pascal Le Masson and Benoit Weil at Mines Paris - PSL, France, I hold an engineering degree from Mines Paris - PSL, specialized in engineering design and innovation management.
2013-12-20
Erik Wästlund, Lecturer in Psychology and researcher at CTF, appears in the latest issue of the popular science magazine Scientific American. The article talks about how people easier understand and remember text on paper compared to text on a screen.
- As a part of my Ph D thesis I conducted a study where I compared reading comprehension between paper and screen. The results showed that text on paper was easier to understand.
2019-12-17
Can an app help visitors at the Central Hospital in Karlstad find the way? This is what a new research study will investigate. The study is a breakthrough for research in real-world environment within DigitalWell.
The study is a part of DigitalWell Research, a sister project to DigitalWell, and is linked to the case: “Find the way”.
KUFO
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» Specfic 2021
Specfic 2021 takes place on December 1–3 at Karlstad University. The conference features keynotes by Professor Edward James (University College Dublin), Dr. Merja Polvinen (University of Helsinki), and Professor Jonas Linderoth (University of Gothenburg). See the program and a presentation of the keynote speakers below.
