Three projects at Karlstad University are the recipients of EU funds to a sum of 21 million SEK. The decision was made by the North Mid-Sweden Structural Fund Partnership on 15 December 2016.
”We are very pleased with this decision of the North Mid-Sweden Structural Fund Partnership. The funds will contribute to strengthening research at the university and the continued development of Värmland,” says Åsa Bergenheim, vice chancellor.
2017-09-11
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about the word ‘market’?
Usually, everybody will have an idea of what a market is and can give a specific meaning for the word. However, if you look closer, these meanings and the assumptions connected to it can be very different from one another. This is true for both the “everyday” and “academic” use of the word.
Academic Celebration 2025 will be held on October 17 in Aula Magna at Karlstad University.
Information about the academic ceremony will be sent to installandi, promovendi, adjunct professors, merited and excellent teachers, as well as main supervisors at the end of April.Official invitations to external guests will be sent out during the Midsummer week.Do you want to know more about Academic Celebration?Frequently asked questions regarding Academic CelebrationSee film fr
The transition from a closed to an open academic publishing landscape has provided greater opportunities for researchers to reach as many stakeholders as possible with their research. At the same time, the transition has meant that the costs of publishing have shifted from readers to researchers, universities, and research funders.Today, university libraries have a large number of publishing agreements that allow researchers to publish for free or at a discounted cost.
The transition from a closed to an open academic publishing landscape has provided greater opportunities for researchers to reach as many stakeholders as possible with their research. At the same time, the transition has meant that the costs of publishing have shifted from readers to researchers, universities, and research funders.Today, university libraries have a large number of publishing agreements that allow researchers to publish for free or at a discounted cost.
The aim of psychology is to try to understand and explain why people think, feel, act and react as they do. Therefore the focus is on the individual and individual development, but individuals and the way they function cannot be separated from their environment. An important task is therefore to see a person’s thoughts, emotions and behaviour as part in a human–environment system.
Third-cycle education may either result in a doctor’s or licentiate degree.
Research on men and masculinities at the Centre for Gender Studies (CGF) concerns conditions for Research on men and masculinities at the Centre for Gender Studies (CGF) concerns conditions for change and emancipatory opportunities. We deal with epistemological and methodological issues in work for gender equality and social justice. Our research has a global perspective and is comparative.
Prisma is the joint application system for the Swedish Research Council, Formas, Forte, the Swedish Institute for Educational Research, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Swedish National Space Agency, which means that you can manage applications to all these research councils via a single account.
Be prepared – create your Prisma account today!
To get started with Prisma, you first need to visit the ORCID website to create a personal account.
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STAFF EXCHANGEDoctoral students can apply for student exchange and practical placement within Erasmus+, and if they teach they can do teaching assignments in Erasmus+ as long as they fulfil the criteria for the programme. For third-cycle study, the criteria stipulate full-time study at the third-cycle level at an international institution and for the course of study to be part of a Karlstad University degree. Research is not included, but work to prepare your thesis is.
Mats, welcome to Karlstad Business School. Please tell us about your background
- Thank you. I am originally from Finland but I have lived in Sweden since 2018 and got my undergraduate degree in Economics at the University of Edinburgh. I completed my doctoral studies at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki and have a degree in Economics and Sociology from the University of Chicago.
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TRUEdig investigates how businesses that develop privacy-enhancing services also can increase users’ security and sense of empowerment.
“TRUEdig will be conducted in cooperation with Computer Science at Karlstad University, so two successful environments with extensive experience of involving external partners are working together,” says Per Kristensson, director of the Service Research Center (CTF) at Karlstad University.
Project partners include: Google, Genelle
DigitalWell Arena, a Värmland-based project that includes Computer Science at Karlstad University, is one of the winners of Vinnova’s Vinnväxt competition. Over 10 years, SEK 148 million will be invested in the development of digital welfare services.
Researchers at the Centre for Psychiatry Research, Stockholm and Karlstad University are investigating whether a new psychological treatment based on learning psychology, language and cognition is effective in the comorbidity between anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression.
Do you struggle with anxiety and depression? Researchers at the Centre for Psychiatry Research, Stockholm, and Karlstad University are investigating whether a new psychological trea
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Competence development, competence supply, further education, continuing education, reskill, upskill and certainly many more names are used for what KAU calls "commissioned education". Commissioned education is skills development for professionals where the employer is responsible for financing the training.
The Business Research Lab at the University of Wollongong has now got its own Ozlab installation.
In December 14-16 our lab assistant Malin Wik is supervising the installationen of the web-based Ozlab.
Associate Professor Rodney Clarke directs the Business Research Lab at the University of Wollongong.
2024-11-11
During the autumn, several research funding foundations announce their decisions. So far, nine applications from researchers at Karlstad University have been granted a total of close to SEK 40.5 million.
The Swedish Research Council, which is Sweden’s largest governmental research funding body, has granted educational science research funds to the project “Skolgång, utvecklingsvägar och skolerfarenheter för elever med neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar”.
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Activists and researchers have voiced concerns about feminism turning too much to criminalisation. The term ‘carceral feminism’ was coined to describe how feminist calls for law reform have supported the law-and-order agenda in the U.S. At the same time, scholars have opposed this way of framing feminist engagement with law reform and instead argued for a more nuanced understanding.
SQuaD (Software Quality and Digital Modernisation) is the new name of what used to be called SERG (the Software Engineering Research Group), one of the three research areas in Computer Science at Karlstad University.
"We are, of course, still software engineers at heart.
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On this page, we have gathered all information related to employment and internship at Karlstad University, if you are from Ukraine.
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If you have worked as a researcher in any of the research subjects present at Karlstad University, employment is a possibility.
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Why did both of you choose to study at Karlstad Business School?
– I think the biggest reason is that we’re born in Värmland, says Erik Steijner. Moving to Karlstad felt natural. We didn’t have any solid plans for life, so instead of applying for random jobs, we chose to study.
What were your expectations for the degree programme at Karlstad Business School? Did it live up to your expectations?
– Our original idea was to study IT, says Erik.
Here you can find information about previous projects in the research field English Literature.
Science fiction and intercultural encounters (Participants: Maria Holmgren Troy, Andreas Jacobsson, Johan Wijkmark)
Internal funding 2016-
The aim of this project is to study interpersonal and interspecies encounters in science-fiction literature, film and television as intercultural encounters.
We welcome Frida Skarin, new Ph D Student in Psychology at Samot. She will conduct her Ph D studies within the research area Transformative Service Research, and her supervisor is Associate Professor Lars E Olsson.
Frida Skarin has a Master's Degree in Applied Positive Psychology from University of East London. She has previously worked as a teacher in mental coaching and conflict management at the Swedish National Police Academy.
Understanding Wider Research Impact
The precise definition of ‘wider research impact’ varies between funders, but, at its most basic level, it is the beneficial change which research creates in society beyond academia. This could be through the enhanced effectiveness of public services and policy, improving quality of life and health, or economic benefits.
