You are currently at UC Berkeley in California. What are you doing there?
– Thanks to Fulbright, an exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State, the Jane and Dan Olsson foundation and the Sixten Gemzeus foundation, I have the opportunity to spend a year here and collaborate with researchers at the Department of Linguistics. I arrived in the autumn of 2024 and will stay until July 2025.
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Ulla Manns, professor in Gender Studies, Södertörns högskola
Overall, my research interests are directed towards the relationship between science and society, social movements and historiography, historical memory and historical silence.
Invitation to a Hands-on Seminar of the Interreg CBCC project on“Preparing for the Tsunami of new Cybersecurity Regulations – Protecting Cybersecurity and Fundamental Rights through Risk Management” 5th November 2024 – 13:00-16:00 at Karlstad University, 21E 415A and via Zoom (https://kau-se.zoom.us/j/69177881065) – please register for attending online or in person (see below). A survey that we conducted within the scope of the CBCC (Cross Border Cyber Capacity) Interreg Sw
2024-12-19
The sounding rocket SubOrbital Express-4 which was launched from the Esrange Space Center outside Kiruna contained an experiment module from Karlstad University. The module is about studying how the active layer of organic solar cells forms in microgravity.
– In this project, we were able to conduct experiments in an unmanned rocket, says Jan van Stam, professor of physical chemistry at Karlstad University.
Session 3A: Ett kritiskt samtal om universitetets villkor
Panel (svenska)
Fredrik Nilsson och Lars Engwall (Uppsala universitet)
Universitetets villkor har stor påverkan på den forskning och utbildning som bedrivs vid våra lärosäten. Även om långsiktighet bör prägla universitetets verksamheter har det visat sig att villkoren för dessa statliga myndigheter snabbt kan förändras.
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONG SWEDISH ADOLESCENTS
- Time trend in mental health in light of economic and social-relation
factors and mental health today in light of physical activity
TIME: Tuesday September 24, 12.00 - 12.45
PLACE: University library, Learning lab, floor 3
Various factors influence adolescents’ mental health problems.
The Centre for Gender Studies (CGF) at Karlstad University has had a long standing focus upon investigating and practically developing different change processes in organisations of various kinds from a feminist perspective. This focus on “Action for Organisational Change” involves analysing, enabling, and generating social change.
The EMER network arranges their second workshop 9-10 februari 2023. This workshop will be fully online and is organised by the University of Jyväskylä.
This year, the event offered inspiring lectures and spirited conversations about three topics at the forefront of the transformation we are all in.
Rundgång, a shopping venue in Karlstad for reused items, has challenged views on second-hand goods and circular thinking. Emma Sundh, circular entrepreneur and project manager, described the importance of making reuse an attractive concept.
- It’s a matter of skill, says Emma Sundh.
IMTRIS is a cross-border project for the processing of wood raw materials, which is a central resource for the regional bioeconomy. Joint R & D efforts contribute to sustainable growth in the border region.
The project budget must be drawn up in consultation with a financial officer. You should make an appointment with your department financial officer well in advance of the application deadline. Bring all information about the call to the meeting.
An estimate is drawn up in line with the SUHF model (Sveriges universitets- och högskoleförbund/The Association of Swedish Higher Education), which includes a budget with full coverage of costs (i.e.
ATLAB Regional additive manufacturing laboratory at Karlstad University
Additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D-printing technology provides unique opportunities for resource efficient manufacturing of complex custom objects with features impossible to be manufactured by conventional methods.
ATLAB
CMM - Characterizing and modeling of materials – from nano to macro
The overall goal in materials research is to improve the performance of the materials.
HypheNation: A study of the Bildungsroman in six American minority novels from the 1990s (Zdravka Katinic) Internal funding 2020-
The project explores six American minority novels published in the "post-era" of the 1990s USA: Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998), Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land (1996), Sapphire's Push (1996), Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat (1995), Linda Hogan's Solar Storms (1994), and Julia Alvarez's How The Gar
Karlstad University, 4-5 November 2019
The First International Queer Death Studies Conference: "Death Matters, Queer(ing) Mourning, Attuning to Transitionings" aims to create an arena for critical discussion of death, dying and mourning that goes beyond the dual approach to death – human death in particular – that is common within Western cultural frameworks of Christian tradition or secular biomedical perspectives.
Karlstad Business School got off to a flying start after the summer by focusing on educational issues at the joint one-day kick-off conference in mid-August.
The transition from high school or the working world to university studies places new demands on your study teqniques. You will be studying more on your own and have more material to tackle. Developing your study teqniques is important to achieve better results at the university. It helps you manage stress, increase learning efficiency, and prepare for your future career.
STINT, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, has granted SEK 10 million to the university collaboration MIRAI 3.0.
2021-06-08
Knowing how long stored carbon dioxide stays in the ground or how the groundwater flows below the ground surface are difficult questions to answer. Mathematical calculations often become so complicated that computers cannot handle them.
This kind of research began in the 1970s when oil and gas were to be extracted in the North Atlantic.
2021-06-09
Cows grazing on a green field under a blue sky. Healthy pigs rooting around in the mud. Chickens in the springtime sunshine. We are surrounded by romanticised images and stories of animals raised for food. But it is both difficult and complicated to ensure ethical animal husbandry within the financial and practical confines of reality. In her doctoral thesis, “How do animals become food?
2023-03-30
The Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) recently conducted and extensive evaluation of 40 nursing specialisation programmes at 25 higher education institutions in Sweden.
2023-11-10
Trans-specific healthcare coordinator is a function included in the healthcare services in Region Värmland. The purpose is to support transgender people and those close to them as they move through the healthcare chain. The function is perceived to provide good and important psychosocial support and many express a feeling of being seen and heard for the first time by the healthcare services.
2023-12-08
