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Feminist Geographies – Space, Gender and Activist Repertoires
The talk will revisit the spatial turn through the lenses of feminist theory and postcolonial theory, and explore and show how feminist geography, media geography and theories on intersectionality might enrich our understanding of historical and present examples of gender activism and housing activism.
The talk will concretize its theoretical mappings, by discussing results and experiences from the research project “Gender Blender:
From 1 January 2017, Reine Lundin has been the new Dean of the Faculty of Health, Science and Technology at Karlstad University, and has subsequently also taken the role as chairperson of the management group for the research profile HITS (high-quality network services in a mobile world).
Together with five Swedish industrial companies and funded by the Knowledge Foundation Computer Science at Karlstad University continues developing the HITS research profile.
2015-11-09
Touch, swipe, och adjustments in the user interface for shell builders and wizards - these are things that some students presently are helping the Ozlab group with.
The web-based Ozlab is now in the process of being further developed to match the needs and requirements arising from the use of mobile units, e.g. swiping functionality and other finger gestures on touch screens.
2016-11-08
Rasmus Dahlberg, a computer engineering student at Karlstad University, had a summer job at the university a few months ago. This has now led to his participation in an international conference on secure IT systems.
During the summer of 2016, Rasmus worked as assistant in HITS, High Quality Networked Services in a Mobile World, a project conducted by Computer Science at Karlstad University.
2023-05-15
In mid-February, a unanimous university board decided to propose the appointment of Jerker Moodysson as new vice-chancellor of Karlstad University.
2024-12-04
The 5G-DiGITs project has just started, and Karlstad University will play a key role in its development.
5G-DiGITs is a multidisciplinary Erasmus+ initiative addressing the growing demand for education and training in advanced 5G technologies.
This project was financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and was conducted by KuFo researcher Anna Forssberg. Find the project's final report in PDF form on the right side of this page.
I London hölls 2011 den andra internationella forskarkonferensen någonsin om Selma Lagerlöfs författarskap. År 2014 utkom boken Re-Mapping Lagerlöf. Performance, Intermediality and European Transmissions där nya tvärvetenskapliga perspektiv öppnades.
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Mariia is a multidisciplinary researcher and artist from Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, currently living and working in Japan. She earned a Ph.D. from Chiba University Graduate School of Horticulture, transitioning from environmental science and her life as ecologist to the field of landscape participatory planning, discovering greenery's social and cultural sides.
Examples of our research funders and partners
AlmegaAnne-Marie och Gustaf Anders FoundationAntiphonArvika Gjuteri ABArvika Kraft ABArvika MunicipalityATEAAttityd KarlstadAvanto CareBillerud Korsnäs Grums ABBiothe&Santé BretagneBron Innovations (Miun in Sundsvall)City of GothenburgCity of HelsingborgCompareCoompanion Coop VärmlandCustitudeDIGG- Agency for Digital Goverment (Myndigheten för digital förvaring) DigitalWell ArenaEda Bostads ABEda MunicipalityEffect Manage
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If you are a student from a EU/EEA country you do not need to apply for residence permit.
If you are a student from a country outside the EU/EEA or Switzerland and plan to study in Sweden for more than three months, you must obtain a residence permit before traveling.
If you are a student from a EU/EEA country you do not need to apply for residence permit.
Doctoral student in Media and Communication Studies, NODE
Joanne, tell us about your background
- I am originally from China. At the Communication University of China, I studied documentary filmmaking and broadcast journalism.
For Sandra Wettergren, the choice fell on Ingesund School of Music when she decided to become a music teacher and later also a singer at a higher level. Much of this was due to the school’s faculty, which she believes is crucial when choosing an educational institution.
2021-04-26
Vice-chancellor Johan Sterte has made a new decision regarding teaching in the current pandemic. The decision is made to allow the University’s organisation to prepare for a gradual return to campus.
As a general rule, distance teaching and examination will continue in the autumn semester of 2021.
2019-05-10
Computer Science at Karlstad University is now recruiting four new doctoral students. Three of the projects are focused on the development of digital healthcare services and one on reinforcing the department’s work on cloud services.
DigitalWell Arena is a large investment in the development of digital healthcare services.
2016-09-27
The fifth edition of Karlstad programming contest is arranged at 8 October by Computer Science at Karlstad University. The contest is part of the Nordic championship, Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest.
The contest takes place in teams with up to 3 persons who shall solve a dozen tasks with programming in C, C++, C#, Go, Java, Objective-C or Python.
2023-04-05
Nordtrad is a folk music conference for students and teachers in higher music education from the Nordic and Baltic countries. The conference is arranged every year in rotation by different host schools, and in 2023 Ingesund School of Music is the proud organizer.
During the week, students from seven different countries are invited to participate in lectures, workshops, concerts, field trips, jam sessions and fellowship.
Find contact details to the library's teaching group on this page.
The teaching group develops and implements library education for students. The teaching takes place in close collaboration with the teachers and addresses both distance and campus students. The group teaches in information retrieval, source criticism, reference management and copyright.
The tourism industry has been characterised by digitalisation for quite a few years. At the same time, the challenge has been that development has primarily been technology-driven.
Digitalisation and Key Enabling Techniques such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Software Engineering have a tremendous potential to change industries.
Often when radical technological development happens, I gaze at it from a distance and try to understand it's impact on my life. This time I got to be a part of the revolution. I’m talking about the eye-tracking revolution, a journey that has been amazing to be a part of during the past 10 years. A journey that has just started.
Ten years ago I approached Tobii Technology with a radical suggestion, to lend me an eye-tracker.
2024-12-18
Over Christmas and New Year, as well as during other big holidays, food takes centre stage and Swedish households tend to buy and prepare large quantities of food. Despite the fact that large sums are spent on food this time of year, a large part ends up being thrown away.
"Reflect, plan and buy smart!
2017-07-05
Cloud computing is considered as one of the major growth areas in ICT but a problem is the uncertainty when it comes to satisfactory approaches to adequately protect sensitive data.
2017-07-05
Cloud computing is considered as one of the major growth areas in ICT but a problem is the uncertainty when it comes to satisfactory approaches to adequately protect sensitive data.
2019-01-03
Region Värmland has granted SEK 1.2 million to CSR for the project “Forests as resources and opportunities in regional development.” This two-year project commences at the start of 2019.
