Ongoing dissertation projects in History and externally funded research projects are described very briefly below. In addition, lecturers conduct their own research within the framework of their own professional development. The research conducted within the subject is primarily focused on the theme of region building and subject education.
An important part of packaging is the printed packaging surface, communicating a message to the consumers. Poor printing quality can affect the perception of the packaging as well as the product.
2021-10-18
SweDigArch has been awarded funding from the Swedish Research Council to create a national infrastructure for digital archaeology. The new infrastructure is a collaborative venture between six Swedish universities, the National Heritage Board and National Historical Museums. SweDigArch is a unique initiative that will link data from research, archaeological excavations and digitized museum collections.
Socialt arbete
» Forskning
» Kritiska välfärdsstudier
Organized uncertainty in elderly care: About quality, conditions for resistance, and staff's willingness to stayWe face a significant social policy challenge as the demand for elderly care is expected to increase sharply, while there is a shortage of trained workforce in elderly care. Studies have shown that working conditions in elderly care have deficiencies that worsen over time, associated with high sick leave and high staff turnover.
Feminist comics have come to play a prominent role in Swedish cultural debates, serving as political satire, social commentary and a medium for activism. The aim of the project is to examine the explosion of feminist comic art in Sweden, popularized by creators such as Liv Strömquist, Nina Hemmingsson, and Sara Granér, among many others.
E-Vote-ID is an international and annual meeting for electronic voting specialists from all over the world. This years conference was a great success with two keynotes and over 100 participants, included from as far as Fiji, Ecuador and Australia.
Melanie Volkamer, Professor in Computer Science at Karlstad university was part of arranging this years conference which was arranged 18–21 October 2016 in Bregenz, Austria.
Centrum för genusforskning
» Evenemang och seminarier
» Evenemang vid CGF
» ÄLDRE EVENEMANG
» CGF-evenemang 2020
Critical Perspectives from Gender Studies
Online Talk Series – 23.09.2020 and 28.10.2020 (09:00-17:00)
The current global pandemic has brought with it many challenges. Most obviously, the costs are seen in the lives lost and the health, emotional, social, and economic challenges that many people face around the globe due to the pandemic.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Karlstad University wishes to honour a person with a prominent role in the Swedish music industry. She also has ties to Värmland and has been of great importance to Ingesund School of Music in connection with the annual Polar Music Prize where she acts as CEO.
2023-06-21
A workshop was held at Karlstad University together with students studying Information Systems – what was the purpose of this workshop?
- We looked at the EU directives, laws and standards that regulate web accessibility, says Gunnar Olsson, Lecturer in Information Systems at Karlstad University.
2024-10-15
Swedish pupils need support to fully understand what they read online. They often have great knowledge and abilities, but must be given tools to interpret texts in a digital environment. These are the findings of new research at Karlstad University.
"Reading a printed text and reading a text online entail different types of challenges, and pupils must be able to work with both text types.
2024-08-09
Vinnova, Formas and the Swedish Energy Agency say yes to funding for SustainGov, where Samhällsnytta at Karlstad University is one of the partners.
The decision means that SustainGov is granted around SEK 11 million in government funding per year for running the programme, which is intended to help the public sector do the right things.
– It is important for Karlstad University that we get to be a part of this long-term and strategic initiative, says Johan Quist, Managin
Most student works are written in Swedish. A few English examples are available under "Documents" on this page.
Students who are looking for lab, prototyping, and testing help to conduct their course assignments, projects, thesis works should look in the "The Usability Lab and Systems" in the menu.
During the winter of 2023/2024, a collaboration was initiated with operations developers at Karlstad municipality's Contact Centre.
Forskning
» Forskningsstöd
» Forskarstöd
» Grants and Innovation Office
» Samarbeten med andra partners
» CRE8® Europe
Our co-financier is the European Union, Erasmus + via the University and Higher Education Council (UHR)
Erasmus + is the European Union's education, youth and sport program for the years 2014 to 2020.
Through the program, preschools, schools, universities, vocational and adult education, municipalities, recreation centers and non-profit organizations in Sweden can apply for funds to carry out collaborations and exchanges with organizations in other countries.
For the second year runnig, Karlstad hosted the Bioeconomy Day on March 21-22. Leading industry and organisations, key stakeholders and policy makers from Sweden and Norway gathered. Researchers from CRS, Karlstad University, were also among the participants.
This year's Bioeconomy Day contained a mix of seminars, discussions and conversations between expertise from industry and politicians at all levels.
2019-08-26
At the end of the spring term, Karlstad Student Union took the opportunity to surprise some members of the teaching staff that students wished to pay special tribute to. "Celebrate a teacher" was the name of the campaign running during the spring semester and on 19 June the result was announced on the student union Instagram.
Individual students as well as societies had been invited to nominate candidates via videos published on the student union Instagram.
2023-06-07
On 13–14 June, Karlstad University hosts Framtidens Lärande Väst (Future Learning West). The event is fully booked, which means that more than 2,000 people will be attending. Note: We recommend that you bring your own lunch box and that you bear in mind that the parking area might be busy. Two rows of the parking area north of the library are reserved for the 2-day event.
How can municipalities, schools and teachers create successful school development in a digital age?
Student
» Meny
» Mina studier
» Anmälan
» Examination
Digital examinations are a part of a number of courses at Karlstad University. You will receive more information from teaching staff if your courses are examined digitally. Students complete digital exams on their own computers, or on computers borrowed for this purpose.
As a student, you are responsible for preparing for writing a digital exam.
For a short period, we will have 2 different systems in which we will do digital exams.
At Karlstad University the subject English can be studied at all university levels, and can be the main field of study for a Bachelor’s degree, a Master’ degree (60 or 120 ECTS credits) and a Doctor’s degree.
English is also included or can be included in all the current teacher degrees.
People’s ways of living and doing gender are deeply intertwined with health and technological practices.
For example, perceptions of gender, that are mutually constituted by intersectional differences such race, class, sexuality and ability, inform and are (re)produced in encounters between health care practitioners, patients and care givers.
Staff members of English at Karlstad University are active in the following research networks and research centres:
Center for Language and Literature in Education (CSL), Sweden (Liliann Byman Frisén, Marika Kjellén, Marie Tåqvist, Members; Rickard Nilsson, Blog and Event-Coordinator; Erica Sandlund, board member; Andrea Schalley, Co-Director)
International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA) Research Network on “Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Developmen
E-MigrAgeing: Sustainable Ageing of Migrant Populations in Sweden and Japan and their Transnational families in the Framework of Digital Technologies was the title for this two-day online workshop. The aim was to discuss topics of migration, ageing, and digital technologies in Sweden and Japan.
Samverkan
» Forsknings- och innovationssamverkan
» Forskningssamverkan
» Forskningssamarbeten med Karlstads universitet
HOW CAN MY COMPANY OR ORGANISATION COLLABORATE WITH RESEARCHERS AT KAU?
Collaboration is a natural part of education and research at Karlstad University and there are well-established platforms for collaboration.
