We have now published our annual report for 2020. In the report, we summarize the past year and share highlights of our research and collaboration with partners from academia, business and the public sector.
2020 was a different and challenging year marked by the corona pandemic. Despite the challenges with restrictions and new routines, we managed to perform at a continuously high level and drive research forward.
2013-08-20
Dr Yingzi Xu from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, is one of our visiting researchers right now. She is here to work with Professor Bo Edvardsson and Associate Professor Bård Tronvoll and she will be staying for a month.
Yingzi's research interests lie in the area of service research, with a particular interest in customer switching behavior and service recovery. For more infomation please visit the Auckland University website
2019-10-30
CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, is now offering advanced skills development for professionals through two tailor-made courses in the field of services.
2015-11-04
The highly ranked scientific journal Journal of Product Innovation Management, JPIM, presents a specially-compiled virtual issue on Co-Creation with Customers. This issue consist of nine scientific articles previously published in JPIM, that coalesce around a specific theme and that have made the biggest impact in the scientific community.
2024-04-29
Anna-Britt Coe focuses her research on the relationship between activism and everyday life, and is a new professor in Sociology at Karlstad University since March 1st.
“Common for sociological research here at the university is the focus on everyday life, which is unique in Sweden,” says Anna-Britt Coe.
Anna-Britt Coe is a professor of Sociology and researches the relationship between activism and everyday life, demonstrating how these two are more integrated than we pre
2018-10-29
In October, CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, arranged a two day seminar on Service-Dominant Logic. The program was formed around Stephen L Vargo, one of the researchers behind the marketing theory, and one of the world’s top ranked researchers.
- Our Service-Dominant Logic days were very successful.
2014-12-05
You are now back in Spain after spending four months at CTF. What were your expectations before you came here, and what have you achieved during your visit?
- My expectations before coming here were basically: learning new ways of working and presenting my research at an international level, deepening my dissertation research with the brilliant researchers of CTF, attending research courses, and trying to build partnerships for future research.
2017-07-04
Jenny Karlsson and Peter Samuelsson, both PhD students at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, Sweden, participated in the AMA Servsig doctoral consortium preceding the 2017 Frontiers in Service Conference held in June 21-22 at Fordham University, New York. We recently caught up with Jenny and Peter and asked them to tell us about the consortium.
In this year´s AMA Servsig doctoral consortium a record was broken.
2018-01-19
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Johan Samuelsson grew up on a farm outside of Mariestad in Västergötland. In the mid 1990-s, he graduated with a teacher education degree from Karlstad University with a specialisation in history and religious studies.
Marcus Berg is originally from Umeå, where he also majored in Physics before enrolling as a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, which at the time was the biggest university in the U.S. in terms of student numbers, and, not least, had two Nobel Prize laureates in the physics department.
After 15 years at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, Annika Rudman chose Karlstad University as her new base.
– I chose Karlstad since I, just like the university, believe in and want to promote internationalisation and interdisciplinary research, says Annika Rudman, new professor of gender studies.
The common denominator of Annika Rudman’s research is a keen interest in the role that gender plays in relation to law, society, politics, culture and human behaviour.
2020-01-24
We welcome Martina Caic, new postdoctoral researcher at CTF. During the next two years, she will, among other things, conduct research on how new technologies affects value co-creation within different networks of actors.
Martina Caic holds a PhD from Maastricht University, the Netherlands, where she was a Marie Curie Fellow within the EU-funded project Service Design for Innovation Network, SDIN. The SDIN project was funded by Horizon 2020 during 2015-2018.
”Some of our biggest challenges are digitalisation, sustainability and innovation. I believe that my research will encompass these three concepts and show how innovation and digitalisation enable sustainability.”
Bård Tronvoll is from Lillestrøm in Norway.
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2016-07-26
Simone Fischer Hübner, professor in Computer Science at Karlstad university has received the ”William Winsborough Memorial Award” for her work in the field of privacy and security on the internet.
“I am very driven by my interests in my research and I like focusing on on-going changes in order to create a better understanding of what is happening, for both us researchers and for entrepreneurs.”
Christina Öberg completed her fundamental studies in International Economics, with a German specialisation, between 1989-1993 in her hometown of Linköping.
The Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) has now revealed this year’s 100 List, consisting of research projects that are deemed to have great potential to create value through commercialisation, business and method development, or societal impact.
2013-12-20
.. Professor at CTF. You are leaving for Arizona State University during the Christmas Holidays. What are you going to do there?
- I will spend four months as Visiting Professor at The Center for Service Leadership. I will meet and work with Professors Mary Jo Bitner och Amy Ostrom.
Varför har du valt att åka just dit?
- I have established connections there through CTF and have visited the University serveral times during shorter periods.
2013-04-22
Innovation and change are omnipresent in the contemporary society and business. For a long time, innovation has been associated with activities within firms that develop new offerings—products and services—for the customers.
2015-02-20
After giving a speech on “Human Aspects of Security” at the Computer Science department in the morning of February 20th, 2015, Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer visited the usability lab to exchange experiences of usability experiments. Malin Wik demonstrated the Ozlab system.
2024-01-11
In 2023, Ingesund School of Music recruited a professor in music education. Her curiosity in improvised music has been a driving force and inspiration since childhood. Something which she is happy to share with future music teachers. Her name is Guro Gravem Johansen.
Guro Gravem Johansen comes from a small town in a rural part of northern Norway. When the other children played football, she would sing and play the piano in her room.
2013-01-15
Read about our new Director, why you should spend your money on experiences instead of things, and more in our latest newsletter.
Go to CTF News no 6, 2012.
