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2024-02-09
What can you actually work with after completing the Sports and Health Coaching Programme at Karlstad University? At least once a year, current students of the programme receive answers during alumni days organized by the programme.
2021-11-29
Female Leader Engineer is a development programme for female engineering students with the potential to acquire leading positions in the business world. Dilan Kilic, student at Karlstad University, was one of the ten finalists. Female Leader Engineer is an award based on a vision of a gender equal power balance in the world of business.
The project is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Main objectives: To understand the role of the molecular interactions in polymer-polymer de-mixing during thin film formation, by monitoring it in-situ, imaging it at scales from nano- to micrometers, and modelling its dynamics. To understand how molecular interactions can be manipulated by external stimuli with the goal to manipulate morphology. To rationalize and optimize morphologies for optical a

Advisory board

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Annica Löfdahl Hultman Director Professor in educational work 054-700 16 12 annica.lofdahl@kau.se Katarina Ribaeus Chair Senior lecturer in educational work 054-700 19 21 katarina.ribaeus@kau.se Stefan Wagnsson Members of the board Associate professor in sports science Peter Carlman Members of the board Senior lecturer in educational work Ebba Hildén Members of the board Senior lecturer in educational work Martina Jordan PhD in educational work Gunhild Tomter Alstad External members of the

Satire as Perspective on the Contemporary

KUFO » Aktiviteter » Tidigare aktiviteter
The Research Group for Culture Studies, KuFo, invites interested researchers to take part, with or without presentation, in the workshop Satire as Perspective on the Contemporary. The workshop will take place on Wednesday 17 October 2018, 10.15-17.30, in Minerva, Building 12, at Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden. The workshop is interdisciplinary, and is intended for researchers who engage with satire from different perspectives. Satire Satire can be regarded as
2025-01-20
At the BioEco Valley Summit, hosted by Karlstad University, Pro2BE, in collaboration with Paper Province, Region Värmland, and Sting BioEconomy, researchers and industry representatives gathered to discuss the future of the bioeconomy.
2023-08-18
A newly published doctoral thesis at Karlstad University shows that organic solar cells is a promising technology, due to its flexibility and large amount of potential applications. – Research and development in this field has resulted in impressive power conversion of almost 20 percent, which is very good, says Ishita Jalan, who recently received her PhD in Physical Chemistry.  In order to increase efficiency even more, it is vital to understand the connection betw

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Fataneh Farahani

Centrum för genusforskning » Evenemang och seminarier » Evenemang vid CGF » ÄLDRE EVENEMANG » CGF-evenemang 2022 » Nationell konferens för genusforskning - G22
Sexual politics in post-revolutionary Iran and the troubling diasporic epistemic responsibilities Jina Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody following her arrest for ‘improper’ wearing of the hijab and more than five weeks of women-led uprising in Iran have put the gender politics of the Iranian regime at the center of global attention.

Mechanical properties of high-performance materials

Materialforskning » Forskningsområden
Our firm belief is that long life-time of products is guaranteed by defect free manufacturing and advanced microstructure control in the production. One of the most important parameters for advanced steels are their mechanical properties in terms of wear resistance at different temperature, fatigue properties, tensile and fracture toughness.

Innovation for green transition in the forest (Ingoskog)

CRS » Forskning » Pågående forskning » Avslutade projekt
How should research and innovation for a green transition based on the forest as a common resource be promoted? This is the starting-point for the three-year Interreg project ”Innovation for green transition in the forest”, a cooperation project between Karlstad University, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and a number of other partners. Renewable materials and biomass should be used sustainably in a circular cycle to guarantee supply, regional development and growth in the area.

Geomedia 2023 International Conference

Geomedia » Konferenser och evenemang » Geomedia International Conferences
Digital Geographies of Hope Tampere, Finland, 20-22 September 2023 In the current world of precarity, uncertainty and violence, digital media technologies and datafication have produced complex new forms of spatial and temporal connections, interactions and power dependencies. Digital media technologies are immersing in growing areas of urban environments, everyday practices and experience.
2018-11-29
Each year, the business and economics students at Karlstad Business School, award a particularly skilled teacher the Teacher of the Year Award. This year's award goes to Tony Edman of Business Administration. This was announced at the Key Job Fair fest banquet on Wednesday the 28th of November. Karlekon, the student association for business administration and economics, give the award Theacher of The Year to an engaged, skillful and dedicated teacher every year.
2021-09-30
The Public Health Agency’s general guidelines concerning our shared responsibility in preventing the spread of infection is removed on 29 September. This means longer opening hours on campus and that all rooms on the premises can be used as before.
2015-05-20

PhD defence June 10, 2015

News » 2015-05-20
May 20 Julio Angulo will "nail" his dissertation "Designing for Usable Privacy and Transparency in Digital Transactions" which he will defend on June 10. The defence is a public event. Assigned by the faculty is:     Opponent: Joachim Meyer, professor, Tel Aviv University     Committee: Karin Hedström, docent, örebro University     Committee: Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, professor, Uppsala U
2015-02-20
Roughly 50 students and professionals in the IT industry met at this year's kick-off meeting for the mentoring program on 19 February. Expectations in the air among both novices as mentors.   Katarina Groth, a teacher of informatics, holding this year's mentoring program. She informed about the framework and gave tips for a successful mentor-mentee relationship. - Being a mentor is to be an interested and good listener and be open to sharing their experiences.
2023-04-28
The DRIVE sub-project 3 “Service optimization in federated edge platforms“ aims to design and develop artificial intelligence and machine learning based solutions to optimize the performance of augmented reality and virtual reality services on user-edge-cloud continuum platforms.
2024-07-09

Protect athletes from burnout

News » 2024-07-09
During the upcoming Olympic Games, athletes from all over the world gather after years of preparation to perform their lifetime results. However, burnout among athletes is a growing problem, not least at the elite level. A new article by three researchers clarifies the causes of this, consequences, and how to prevent burnout. Several studies have shown that burnout appears when an athlete feels physically tired and emotionally drained by their training and competing.
The ambition of earlier strategies has mainly been to promote collaboration between the subject of History and other disciplines at doctoral level, locally at Karlstad University as well as nationally and internationally. This is still centrally important for the subject. The research profile of the subject comprises two main specialisations, channeled primarily through research conducted at The Centre for Regional Studies (CRS) and The Centre for Social Science Education (CSD), respectively.

INFORMATION FOR PHD STUDENTS

Forskning » Forskarutbildning » Forskarutbildningar » Doktorandsektionen
 As a doctoral student there is much information that is useful for you to know.  On this page we have collected many helpful facts concerning different areas of being a PhD, like supervision, departmental duties, individual study plan, etc., with links to each topic if you want to know more.   Supervision  Doctoral students are entitled to supervision and are meant to have at least two supervisors, one of whom should be the principal supervisor

Managing rural communities: The role of local civil societies

CRS » Forskning » Pågående forskning » Avslutade projekt
The capacity of local civil societies to provide missing services and contribute to sustainable community building lies at the core of discussions on the future of rural areas in Sweden. Systematic and theoretically informed empirical studies of the roles and possibilities of local civil societies to partake in community building in rural contexts are however lacking.

Keynote speaker: Andrea Pető

Centrum för genusforskning » Evenemang och seminarier » Evenemang vid CGF » ÄLDRE EVENEMANG » CGF-evenemang 2022 » Nationell konferens för genusforskning - G22 » Öppna paneler
Andrea Pető, Professor of Gender Studies and historian at Central European University, Vienna, Austria Andrea Pető is a historian and a Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna, Austria, a Research Affiliate of the CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest, and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her works on gender, politics, Holocaust, and war have been translated into 23 languages.