Climate change communication spans several disciplines, which in many cases have an insufficient understanding of the each other’s research traditions. Sol Agin has compiled the literature review Mapping the Field of Climate Change Communication 1993–2018.
- The purpose of our systematic literature review is to shed light on the field of environment and climate change communication, says Sol Agin, doctoral student in Media and Communication Studies.
Research on oral health aims to apply a salutogenic perspective, which means that research is characterised by the importance of health factors for oral health in different social groups and throughout the life cycle.
Kombinerad ECHA och igMCG konferens 16-18 juni 2025
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Welcome to the Combined ECHA and igMCG conference on inclusion and sustainability in gifted education, 16 - 18 June 2025.
We have a number of pre booked rooms for you who are visiting us and participate on the conference.
An intense and eventful half-year is coming to an end – and there is much to be proud of. Recently, I had the privilege of leading the international conference, QUIS19 – The 19th International Research Symposium on Service Excellence in Management, in Rome. Over 275 participants from around the world gathered to be inspired and to discuss how research can help address the major societal challenges of our time – such as AI development and sustainability.
Are you interested in cooperating with the lab? Our research/teacher team and you as a partner will jointly define a project where you will get access to the knowledge created in the project. It is also possible to hire the lab and the equipment.
Ph. D students from Karlstad University took first place in the Cyber Challenge 2017. The competition was organized by Swedish Defense University’s Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies(CATS) and the Swedish Contingencies Agency (MSB).
The team from Karlstad University consists of the four Ph.
2024-10-16
You spent September at the University of Oxford, please tell us more about that.
– I participated in this year’s Research Masterclass for Graduate Students offered by the Institute of European and Comparative Law (IECL), which is one of the research centres of the Oxford Law Faculty. IECL’s Research Masterclass is a doctoral course that consists of seminars in small groups, and it also creates space for PhD students to work on their own research projects.
2023-11-10
Karlstad University conducts research and development of intelligent control systems for greenhouse lighting system. In the greenhouse on campus, researchers have grown tomatoes using renewable energy from solar cells. There is also a battery energy storage in place in case there is a surplus of renewable solar energy generated.
2025-04-14
Language teacher Lise Iversen Kulbrandstad was appointed honorary doctor at the Teacher Education, Karlstad University in 2017. She has also served as a guest professor in the research groups ROSE, Research on Subject-specific Education and CSL, Center for Language and Literature Education.
2016-08-26
Prof. Kai Holzweissig presents his thoughts on this subject from a paper by Gregor and Hevner. He will also present some of his research on social software and management of formal new product development processes.
Kai is professor at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart (Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart in Germany and DHBW Stuttgart for short) and visited us during a couple of days in May to discuss future Erasmus exchanges.
2020-10-05
Traces of crofters, cottagers (backstugusittare), artisans and workers in the city – usually referred to as the dispossessed – can be found everywhere in the countryside, forests and cities but are rarely noticed by traditional archaeology.
2013-08-15
The research profile The New Service Economy Plus started 2011 and was completed this spring. It is a continuation of a previous research profile within the same area and is financed by Knowledge Foundation, Karlstad University and partner companies.
- CTF has a long tradition of collaborating and co-producing with companies and organizations.
2021-09-22
Christina Öberg's research on managers’ (in)ability to handle an uncertain future was recently awarded with "Best paper award" within organizational neuroscience at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
The award-winning paper "Managers, Minds and Machines in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" is based on a study of managers’ (in)ability to handle an uncertain future.
"The paper examines how managers tend to navigate companies based on a view of the future as
2025-06-04
The summer holidays are approaching, and with that perhaps also the realisation that our choices as tourists matter. Responsible tourism is not just about travelling – it is about doing so in a mindful way.
2022-01-31
A way of life characterised by hard work and a conviction that the food we eat needs to be produced in a way that is good for humans, animals and the planet for a long time to come. Running small-scale, sustainable farming has its challenges – and opportunities. In the first workshop organised by the project Biokuma, participants got to exchange experiences and ideas.
What was your first food memory?
2023-10-25
The theme of the 2023 Academic Celebration was passion, which was evident in both the morning event at Karlstad CCC and the afternoon ceremony in Aula Magna.
The Academic Celebration on Friday 20 October started at Karlstad CCC where five new professors presented their research in front of a full house in the hall Lerinsalen. After the short presentations, the moderator, Jan van Stam, professor of physical chemistry, held a talk on passion, this year’s theme.
2024-12-10
In this special installment of the Geomedia Speaker Series, we reach out to practitioners as well as academics in an effort to rethink the role of geomedia in the design of different places and in relation to different forms of local life.
Karlstad University wants to attract more students from outside Europe.
"We believe that having students from different countries will lead to higher quality education and better dynamics both on campus and in the classroom," says Pro-Vice-Chancellor Patrik Larsson.
The international students at Kau are mainly exchange students.
2020-06-29
Nowadays, actors in the hospitality industry can be found online, which changes the conditions for how the industry communicates with visitors, the way marketing, travel planning and bookings take place, as well as the visitors’ experience on site. What new opportunities can new digital solutions offer the hospitality industry?
2024-10-09
Why are so many people fascinated by video games? How did it all begin and how has storytelling in video games evolved over time? A new course at Karlstad University explores the history of narratives in video games, with the help of a one-of-a-kind historic video games archive.
Video games are more and more prevalent in popular culture, and the games industry keeps growing each year.
In recent years Servitization has become one of the hottest concepts in service research, especially among manufacturing companies. However, sooner or later these companies discover that their existing development methods, and – tools are not able to handle the specific demands of service development.
What makes more and more people want to keep track of themselves, their habits, number of steps, weight, health, using apps, bracelets and other fitness trackers? Why do we want to measure ourselves, and also give businesses the opportunity to take part of our private data? These are some of the questions Ph D Student Vasileios Charitsis is seeking the answer to.
More and more technologies, apps and gadgets are showing up on the market.
2025-04-09
Karlstad University has appointed three new honorary doctors. They work within sports science, educational science, and health science. All three will receive their awards on October 17th when the university celebrates its Academic Ceremony.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Professor Alan L. Smith, an internationally recognized researcher in sports science, has led research programs at several prominent American universities.
On Tuesday 3 March and Wednesday 4 March, 2020 a group of researchers from the University of West England, University of Gloucestershire, Linköping University and Karlstad University got together in a workshop at Karlstad University, Sweden under the theme of transdisciplinary research in collaboration with actors outside Academia.
The purpose of the workshop was to provide an opportunity for the researchers to meet and share research as a source of learning and inspir