The Centre for Research on Sustainable Societal Transformation (CRS) will have a new director as of 1 April. Moa Tunström, senior lecturer in Human Geography, will take over when Margareta Dahlström steps down ahead of her upcoming retirement.
Moa Tunström defended her doctoral thesis at Örebro University in 2009, “In search of the good city. Constructions of ideals and problems in Swedish urban planning discussion” in the discipline of Human Geography.
2023-05-10
With more than 200 released productions that have sold millions of copies, the co-founder of Silence Records and Silence studio, Anders Lind, is one of Sweden’s greatest music producers. He now receives an honorary doctorate from Karlstad University for his accomplishments.
Anders Lind is one of the founders of the record company Silence Records and the Silence studio in Koppom, Värmland. He has his roots in the Swedish music movement and is a pillar of Swedish progg.
Complete programme
22 October
12:00 Lunch PhD conference
13:00 PhD conference day 1
16:30 Closing PhD conference day 1
17:00 Welcome drink at Hotell Fratelli
18:00 Visit to Sandgrund Lars Lerin museum
23 October
08:30 Registration and coffee
09:00 Inauguration of the conference: Anette Hallin (Mälardalens universitet), Mia Larson (Karlstads universitet), Per Skålén (Karlstads universitet), Margareta Friman (Karlstads universitet).
09:45 Paneldebatt: Vart är vi på väg?
Karlstad Business School offers many opportunities to make your voice as a student heard. Student interaction and influence are some of the key factors in developing quality and innovation in education, for courses as well as programmes. Students' rights are also regulated by the Swedish Higher Education Act and Higher Education Ordinance.
There are several ways students can interact with Karlstad Business School.
On 1 January Karlstad University launched three research and development projects as part of Academy for Smart Specialisation, a partnership between the university and Region Värmland aiming to renew regional industry and strengthen research.
The group´s research is focusing on processing of raw materials with biological origin, which can be further processed into a large number of technically useful products.
The research encompass coating and printing process technology, rheological behaviour of coating materials, barrier technology and performance in converting and packaging, modelling of mechanical behaviour and mass transport performance of coating layers, renewable materials utilization and performance
Marie-Therese Christiansson, Information Systems, Karlstad University is recognised by the university for outstanding outreach activites.
Karlstad University awards on an annual basis one person or group of persons who have excelled for several years in outreach activities. At the Business School, Marie-Therese Christiansson has for many years engaged professional to join her courses in process orientation for organisational development.
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Karlstad university wants the Silent room ( 3C315) to be open to everyone.
The door should always be kept open. In the event of noise outside, keep the door on the verge, do not close it. There is a secluded part that is available to anyone who wants privacy.
The room is available for prayer, meditation, tranquility, contemplation and other.
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Before, during and after the exchange, you can use your Outgoing Mobility portal to fill up the required forms and send us your documents.Go to Outgoing mobility PortalDuring the exchange periodThe continuation of exchange agreements depends on exchange students’ ability to be good ambassadors for their home university. This means being a good student, being aware of representing Karlstad University and participating in information events and fairs at the host university.
Old sewer pipes that break down may cause a lot of damage. In the worst case, leaking water erodes the soil and this may result in sinkholes. Now researchers at Karlstad University have created a mathematical model to calculate the corrosion of sewers. This is important in selecting materials for future sewer lines.
Before creating a new type of sewer pipe that needs to function for decades, the user has to be able to obtain an estimate of the rate of corrosion.
2025-02-05
How should AI be used in schools? The SmartStart Teacher Academy project aims to establish an international teacher education program that trains teachers and student teachers to critically integrate AI-based tools into teaching.
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Karlstad University offers support of different kinds to students with documented special needs. This is a list of the most common sorts of support.
Note-taking
You can recruit a classmate to take notes and copy them for you. The university will compensate the classmate for this service.
Mentor
A mentor can be a classmate or another person who provides coaching or supports you in, for example, structuring your studies.
The network Knowledge and Quality across School Subjects and Teacher Education, KOSS, bring together three cross-disciplinary educational research groups, rooted in several academic disciplines from Sweden, Finland and England.
This seminar will look at social media from three perspectives: crisis twittering among citizens, tourists' communication in crisis, and municipality communication in crisis. After the seminar there will be time for continued discussion.
Three presentations will be made during this seminar.
Social Media during Emergencies: Communicative Approaches to Systems
Rodney Clarke, Associate Prof.
The activities of Geomedia are organized in three research tracks: (1) Mediatization of Space and Culture, (2) Spaces of News Production and Consumption and (3) Tourism and Mobility Studies. These tracks are not exclusive entities but serve as articulations of the Geomedia profile as a whole.
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» People and Networks Matter - Enabling Sustainable Bioeconomy Transition 27-28 mars 2019
People and Networks Matter: Enabling Sustainable Bioeconomy Transition - Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden, 27-28 March, 2019!
Tuesday 26 March
18:00 - Informal get together, The Bishops Arms (Elite Stadshotell Karlstad)
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Day 1 - Wednesday 27 March
Location: Innovation Park
08:30-09:00 - Registration
09:00-09:15 - Welcome and opening of conference
Tomas Blom, Deputy Vice Chancellor, K
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Karlstad Business School participates in several international networks and has exchange agreements with many valued Universities and Business Schools around the world.
Networks
AACSB - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
CIDD - Consortium of International Double Degrees
SANORD Southern African-Nordic Centre
Nordplus
Spolight on Partners
Karlstad Business School develops and maintains high quality partners who provide well motivated, active ex
Sustainable development, democracy and equity are topical issues. Students in the social sciences and humanities develop knowledge and skills to deal with such issues and to implement useful ideas.
Such abilities will be even more valued with an increasingly internationalised and borderless world. At the same time local issues grow in importance for the individual, who wants to live, work and exert influence on the local community.
This year’s SNITS dinner at Karlstad University was more than fully booked, not surprisingly since employment in the IT industry was on the table – a mouth-watering dish which tempted both businesses and students.
On 19 September, 130 students from the different IT study programmes at the university gathered to meet representatives from eleven local businesses in the IT industry.
2018-02-26
BioWiseTrans is a Nordic initiative that aims to maintain and develop a network for studying and promoting transition to a new bioenonomy primarily based on land and forest-based biomass production.
Karlstad University have a number of scholarships that are announced via the university’s scholarship committee. You can find more detailed information about the scholarships and how to apply on the page of each scholarship. The application period is between 15 March and 12 April. If no one is awarded a specific scholarship during the spring semester it may be announced again in September/October.
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Jack Halberstam, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Jack Halberstam is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality at Columbia University.
