Religious Studies is by definition an international discipline and has been organised in this way at Karlstad University for a long time. The impact of today’s global and multicultural society is present in all our subject courses.
Our department is often visited by international guest lecturers who discuss religion and the teaching of religion in different national contexts from varied perspectives and give the students many opportunities for international insights.
Within Rose, research is conducted within a number of different projects where the starting point is that questions about social, economic and environmentally sustainable societal development need to be posed in relation to teaching and learning. ROSE has a clear socially relevant focus in its research with a focus on exploring areas from a comparative subject didactic perspective.
Achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and related sustainability initiatives will require halving of global greenhouse gas emissions each decade from now on through to 2050, when net zero emissions should be achieved. The recent article by the assistant Professor Avit K.
Karlstad University Library has agreements with a number of scientific publishers where the fees for publishing open access are either prepaid or discounted. The library is a member of the Swedish Bibsam consortium at the Royal library, who negotiates these agreements on a national level.
If you are an author/researcher affiliated to Karlstad University, you can publish open access under the terms of these agreements.
The research group Relationships and Everyday Interaction (REVA) brings together academics with research interests in the sociology of emotions, everyday and personal life.
Many important issues, such as climate change, social welfare issues and social and spatial planning, often fall through the cracks between different sectors and stakeholders. This can lead to a lack shared responsibility and important issues being left unresolved.
Forskning
» Vår forskning
» IT, ekonomi och juridik
2025-03-17 Master education for game producersAn often experienced problem in game development is how to get different competences to co-create engaging and consistent game experiences. A series of master courses for game producers is offered from autumn 2025 which can lead to a 1-year master exam in Information Systems. Our education highlights challenges and solutions in organising inter-human communication in creative projects, within and between studios.
The idea that scientific discovery and technical invention can work in synergy is evoked by a number of major organisations and some great scientific ventures. For instance, the discovery of the transistor by Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain at Bell Labs (Nobel Prize, 1956) suggests that discovery and invention can occur simultaneously.
2018-03-13
In January 2018 Karlstad university launched their first two international on-line based top education courses, developed within a project financed by the KK Foundation. Now, the university has been granted further means to develop more such courses.
2025-03-14
Per Kristensson and Lars Witell, together with Mohamed Zaki from the Cambridge Service Alliance, are the editors of the new book "Handbook of Service Experience", which provides a comprehensive perspective on service experiences in business contexts.
2022-11-14
One third of all the food that is being produced today is thrown away. Why is that? What can producers, service providers and consumers do to reduce food waste? What role does packing play?
2024-12-03
Kauresearch is the university’s Instagram account dedicated to research information. For the second year in a row, the themed week Kau Science Week is held at the same time as the Nobel Week.
Kau Science Week is mainly featured on the Kauresearch account. A post will be published every day throughout the week, drawing attention to researchers and research at Karlstad University. The posts will be accompanied by stories and hashtags for further reading or listening.
2022-08-29
Christina Öberg has been elected as the new chairman of the Nordic Academy of Management.
The Nordic Academy of Management (NFF) aims to promote research, education and practice around management in the Nordic countries.
2018-03-28
The Swedish association for quality in the regions of Värmland, Dalsland and Örebro (SFK VDÖ) met on the 8th of March and the hostess was Marie-Therese Christiansson, deputy head at the Business School at Karlstad University, teacher in informatics and president of SFK VDÖ.
Geomedia
» Konferenser och evenemang
» Geomedia Speaker Series
YOUTUBE AND UNESCO’S SAFEGUARDING OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE: INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN DIGITAL HERITAGE AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION
YouTube distributes videos of intangible cultural heritage uploaded by UNESCO, other institutions, communities and individual users.
It's time to look back on 2023 – the second year for the Center for Geomedia Studies. First and foremost, I want to thank you for all the valuable contributions and efforts that collectively build our shared research environment!
The examples below, taken from our news feed, provide a glimpse of what we were up to during 2023. But much more also took place.
New externally funded projects started – others continued. A new Geomedia Phd, Henrik Bergius, joined us.
2025-03-11
Researchers from the Center for Research on Societal Risks (CSR) at Karlstad University, along with researchers from Örebro University, Gothenburg University, and Jönköping University, are in Japan to contribute to a long-term research collaboration between Sweden and Japan.
Avit Bhowmik and Mikael Granberg, both from CSR, are currently in Sendai, Japan, meeting with researchers at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at Tohoku University, Se
Informatik
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» Forskning
» Forskning inom Informatik
Many aspects of medicine and health care are transformed by the ongoing digitisation. Many of the Information Systems group’s researchers have been involved or are involved in research within this area. In the year 2018 we hosted the IEEE conference Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2018).
This year's Sustainability Day at the Business School centred to a great extent on the art of moving from talking to acting, turning ideas and plans into speed and action, since knowledge means nothing without the ability to use it.
2020-03-19
Denna studie analyserar tre 1700-talsdikter – av Olof von Dalin, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht och Carl Michael Bellman – vilka alla på olika sätt aktualiserar teodicéproblemet.
I have just returned from Madrid, where I attended a large international gathering with a focus on customer-driven innovation. The event was organised by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and researchers from all over the world attended.
2025-05-22
International mobility enables valuable collaboration for researchers from Karlstad University and UMONS, the University of Mons in Belgium. The collaboration promotes research in materials science through exchange of knowledge on methods for studying material properties at the nanoscale.
– My visit here at Karlstad University has been enriching in many ways, says Philippe Leclere from UMONS.
2018-10-30
Two research projects at the Karlstad Business School were awarded 2,7 and 5 million by Forte, The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare. It is the subjects Business administration and Working life science that start up new projects starting next year.
Forte, The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare announced the other day regarding the decision of the distribution of research funding.
2025-03-03
Bruksort 2.0 (Industrial town 2.0) is an innovative project that aims to strengthen Hagfors through social development, citizen participation and focus on mobility. The subjects of Business Administration and Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University are part of the project.
Hagfors in Värmland is a town characterised by the steelworks Uddeholm AB – an industry founded in the 17th century that has contributed to the municipality’s development and commun
