Good things always happen when influential open-minded and intelligent people meet; this is the simple underlying idea of forming an international network of service researchers.
The inaugural meeting was hosted in September by CTF.
The target audience for the event was mainly leading researchers from the different research centers around the globe and in the end there were 35 attendees from 13 countries.
- We feel that there are strength in numbers; if we are able to st
2017-07-10
The service research community received excellent news for its journals from the 2017 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by Clarivate Analytics. All seven service research journals covered in Web of Science have increased their impact factors from the previous year. Especially notable is the increase of Journal of Service Research’s impact factor from 2.463 to 6.847.
HHK
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Sustainable transformation beyond 2030.
Are you interested in circular economy and sustainable development? Are you concerned about how your consumption affects our planet and how you as a consumer or organization can contribute?
Per Kristensson, you and three colleagues wrote a debate article with this headline in the Swedish newspaper DN Debate regarding the spread of Covid-19. What do you mean by this?
"We believe that governmental agencies and regional authorities have a naïve understanding of how to change people’s behavior.
Geomedia
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Call for papersTransforming Passions 6th International Geomedia Conference, Karlstad, Sweden, 17–19 September 2025Passion is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only joy and intense emotional investment but also pain and suffering.
TRANSFORMING PASSIONS 6TH INTERNATIONAL GEOMEDIA CONFERENCE, KARLSTAD, SWEDEN, 17–19 SEPTEMBER 2025Passion is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only joy and intense emotional investment but also pain and suffering.
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The overall aim is to, with a focus on benefits for the entire transport system, develop further improve and test new and established methods, tools and working practices based on a service logic and which are adapted to contexts where innovation takes place in collaboration with others. The long-term aim is to strengthen the capacity for innovation in the entire transport sector.
A grant of nearly SEK 10 million from the Knowledge Foundation allows researchers at Karlstad University to launch a new research project dedicated to the contribution of modern digitisation technology to pharmaceutical quality assurance and development. The accelerated rate of development of Covid-19 vaccines has raised the demand to speed up the development process for other pharmaceuticals.
2020-01-22
The anonymity network Tor, used daily by millions of users around the world, is important for people in vulnerable situations, for instance in order to avoid surveillance or control. Two Karlstad University researchers have now identified flaws in Tor’s anonymity function and contributed to technologies that make the network safer for users.
The purpose of Tor is to allow users to surf the internet anonymously without information about visited webpages being registered.
2018-09-28
Networking and being involved in different activities during your studies pay off. This was clear at this years’ IT dinner on 20 September when students met representatives from companies that are part of Snits, a network linking industry and IT students at Karlstad University.
During the introductory presentation, all ten participating companies emphasised that many students get job offers after completing their degree projects.
Students i religious studies, human geography and history
We offer a unique opportunity to study in Banaras, India’s holy city and one of the world’s oldest culture centres.
Students i religious studies, human geography and history
We offer a unique opportunity to study in Banaras, India’s holy city and one of the world’s oldest culture centres.
Welcome to the ASLA 2018 symposium!
The biennial symposium of the Swedish Association of Applied Linguistics (ASLA) will take place on April 12–13, 2018, at Karlstad University. The symposium is co-organized by the Center for Language and Literature in Education (CSL) and the Department of Language, Literature, and Intercultural Studies (ISLI).
The 2018 symposium theme is “Classroom research and language/languaging”.
Western music history has largely favored male artists, while female and non-binary artists and composers have been largely excluded from historical narratives. This has contributed to musical canons where important voices are missing.
2022-03-28
For just over two years, Karlstad University along with society at large has followed the Public Health Agency’s guidelines, recommendations, and information due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With the pandemic now slowing down, special measures are no longer needed and the information will therefore be removed.
2023-03-09
Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, has released its annual list of top researchers in the field of business and management.
Bo Edvardsson, professor of business administration at Karlstad business school, is ranked 191 on the international list. Nationally, research.com lists Bo Edvardsson significantly higher, which puts him in an impressive second place.
Congratulations Bo Edvardsson.
2021-02-26
That is the question Sara Davoudi has looked into in her doctoral thesis, “What happened with the leviathan of the Public Sector? The challenges of vertical coordination in regional public organizations and its effect on public value”.
Sara Davoudi, PhD in Business Administration, tell us about your research.
- My research is about vertical coordination, which is best described as the communication between public sector actors and the challenges associated with that.
2021-04-13
The EU programme titled Industry 5.0 aims to employ research and innovation to achieve a more sustainable and human-centric European industry. Some of the work within this initiative is carried out at Karlstad University.
The EU have created definitions and pilot projects based on smart villages – a concept that has emerged to shift the focus on development from cities to rural areas and small towns. Interest from community stakeholders is immense.
In the last decades, smart cities have increasingly been hailed as an urban development ideal and a solution to current and future environmental and climate-related challenges.
Do you want to learn more about servitization, why it is important and how it can be practised? Take our course "Introduction to Servitization".
Course content
In this course you will learn more about: What servitization is - transformation and service mindset. Why servitization is important, both from a supplier and a customer view. How companies and organisations can create competitive advantage and growth through servitization.
Kombinerad ECHA och igMCG konferens 16-18 juni 2025
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Building our Research Community: Pre-conference workshop for doctoral students and early career researchers – Sunday 15 June 13:00-16:00 (1-4pm)
The workshop is offered at no cost to doctoral students and early career researchers attending the 2025 ECHA / igMCG conference.
Workshop contentWondering how to start networking? Worried about how to pitch your research ideas to peers and researchers? Then this is the workshop for you!
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Conference fee
Ordinary conference fee: 156 EURO (1750 SEK)
Those who are invited guests will be notified by e-mail.
The conference fee includes:
Welcome reception and lectures from 8 May after 14.00 until lunch on 10 May.
Coffee breaks with coffee are included every day, as well as lunch on May 9 and grab to go lunch on May 10.
Welcome evening with mingling buffet May 8.
Conference dinner at Scandic Winn 9 May.
Travel information
There are very few domestic flights to our destinatio
Director of Samot, The Service and Market Oriented Transport Research Group at Karlstad University. After almost ten years of operation it is now time to sum up and look at the future. What happens to Samot now?
Right now we are mobilizing for the future. It is important to capitalize on the knowledge and networks that have been formed during the 10-year period. It has been an amazing journey and efforts from many parties.
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June 19-20 (Tues-Wed) 2018
The Center for Gender Studies, Karlstad University and the research network “Ongoing Legacies of Discrimination and Violence Network” (OLIRN) at the Fay Gale Centre for Gender Studies, University of Adelaide, are organizing a workshop on the legacies of social injustices.
We are currently observing an increasingly polarised political landscape in the Western world and beyond.
