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Lennart Käll is the chair of Sveriges Radio (Swedish Broadcasting), board member of SJ (Swedish Rail), Grönklittsgruppen, Länsförsäkringar, Grant Thornton and previously chief executive to multiple big companies, latest Svenska Spel. He has a degree in Business and Economics from Karlstad Business School (then part of Karlstad University College).
Education is obviously a valuable investment - it gives you possibilities.
Education is obviously a valuable investment - it gives you possibilities. A good education is the ticket to your future career, but it is the actual knowledge that is the key to your own ability to think and reflect.
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Inspera Assessment is Karlstad University’s service for digital on-campus examinations.
Students are responsible for reading the information below and to prepare their computers before having a digital on-campus exam in Inspera.
Prepare for a digital on-campus exams
Use My Kau to sign up for exams
You must always sign up for an on-campus exam.
Why are discussions of whether you had to wait alone in your friends’ room while they ate dinner with their families, pushing away discussions about more important issues in the internet? Charlotte Bäccman, senior lecturer in Psychology, explains.
A war is being fought in Ukraine, Sweden are approximately 100 days away from an election, climate change is an enormous challenge and the energy prices are skyrocketing.
During spring, we ask questions to our visitors in the library in order to get feedback about our library services. A whiteboard has been placed in the reading room on floor 2, with various questions changing weekly. We look forward to the answers from our visitors! Thanks to Malmö University Library for the inspiration.
Thank you for all your answers!
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Student health, study and career guidance, the University Church, the International Office and the library at Karlstad University arrange many activities to help you through your studies. Here you can see which groups, lectures and activities are current in spring 2025.
If you have completed courses at Karlstad University or another higher education institution that correspond to one or more modules in your current studies, you can apply for a credit transfer.
Other studies and professional experience may also be eligible for credit transfer. This page is intended to serve as a guide in the application process. The ambition is for the application to be processed within a month of its submission, provided the application is complete.
CTF
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2024Edvardsson, B., & Tronvoll, B. (2024). Managing Customer Experiences in Times of Crisis, In (Eds.) Kristensson, P., Witell, L. & Zaki, M. Handbook of Service Experience. Edward Elgar, UK.)Brodén, K., Wästlund E., Westman J. and Liu, X. (2024). Smart and Safe - trygghetsskapande i offentliga miljöer baserat på IoT-lösningar Karlstads Universitet. Karlstads Universitet.Fahimi, M., Falk P., Gray, J.W.Y., & Jarke, J. (2024).
In order to succeed in accelerating the growth of scalable companies, an external perspective is required that looks at an organisation to find development opportunities and potential for improvement.
Please note that the majority of debate- and media articles on this page are available in Swedish only.
Mediainlägg 2022Därför minskar Mangroveskogarna (Karlstads universitet, 2022-05-22)Klimatfrågan lågt rankad bland kommunpolitikerna: Skadligt för klimatet (Sveriges Radio, P4 Värmland, 2022-05-10)Träning hos äldre i fokus i ny studie på universitetet (NWT, 2022-04-28)Mediainlägg 2021Pengaregn över skyfallsforskning (Karlstads universitet, 2021-12-20)Fors
After three years of music studies at Ingesund School of Music, located in a beautiful environment just outside Arvika, you will have a solid foundation for a life as a professional musician.
The Bachelor Programme in Music is aimed at anyone who wants to become a versatile and creative musician, active within the classical music scene. The programme provides a great deal of room for individual practice and solo play.
Art History and Visual Studies is concerned with how people have expressed themselves by giving shape to these expressions through images and forms since they first developed the means to do so, through to today’s prolific flood of images and contemporary art.
2025April 4Danny Thonig, Örebro University, SwedenAtomistic spin dynamics and beyondFebruary 27Andreas Lindblad, Uppsala University, Sweden(Hard) X-ray based electron spectroscopy and core-hole clock spectroscopyFebruary 24Ute Cappel, Uppsala University, SwedenFrom model system to devices – Gaining insight into solar cells with photoelectron spectroscopyJanuary 22, January 29Marcus Berg, Department of Engineering and Physics, Karlstad University"Not Even Wrong?
The proposal development step, also commonly referred to as the pre-award phase represents the beginning of the research project lifecycle, which includes drafting proposals, setting up collaborations, budgeting, compliance check, reviewing and submission. The Pre-award checklist and sections below provide support during the proposal development step.
Doctoral dissertations in nursing
2023
When a parent is affected by a life-threatening illness: Exploring children’s and parents’ needs for support, 2023:24, Emily Beatrice Bergersen
Prehospital nurses’ professional competence – utilization and development, 2023:5, Jörgen Jansson
Missed nursing care – Perceptions from care staff and first line managers within municipal health care for older people, 2023:4, Ingrid Andersson
2022
Patient safety in intrapartum care: Adverse events and he
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This page includes instructions for what students at Karlstad University need to consider in order to process personal data as part of their education in a secure way.
Karlstad University is responsible for the processing of personal data conducted by students within their education. When a student processes personal data under supervision of the University, the student acts as a representative of the University.
Litteraturvetenskap
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The Aesthetics of Evil: Memory and Media in Nazi Perpetrator Fiction. (Alexander Kofod-Jensen)
PhD Project with internal funding (2016-2021)
My PhD project explores how memory and intermediality work in contemporary novels on World War II.
Socialt arbete
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» Tillämpade välfärdsstudier
UserInvolve: Development of sustainable practices for user involvement in the field of mental health
Research program for the development and implementation of user involvement.
UserInvolve (umu.se)
Funded by Forte from 2021 – 2027 Host institution: Umeå University Participating researcher: Katarina Grim
Epistemic (in)justice and barriers to knowledge integration: Development of a checklist and discussion framework for legitimizing user knowledge in the field of mental health
A projec
Traveling to Sweden
If you need some general useful information during/before your journey to Sweden, please check with the Swedish tourist office web page, available to you when you click here.
Travel visa to Sweden & immigration issues: Sweden is a member of the EU Schengen mobility framework. If you have citizenship or an unconstrained residence permit in a Schengen country, you can travel to Sweden for the duration of the summer school without further paperwork.
Managing test tasks: interaction and assessment (2013b)
In a study using an existing corpus of 199 oral proficiency tests (Sandlund & Sundqvist, 2013b), we examine how test-takers at varying proficiency levels manage problems arising from understanding, negotiating, and completing an oral test task.
2024ArticlesAbascal, A., Georganos, S., Kuffer, M., Vanhuysse, S., Thomson, D., Wang, J., … Wolff, E. (2024). Making Urban Slum Population Visible : Citizens and Satellites to Reinforce Slum Censuses. In Urban Inequalities from Space : Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World (Vol. 26, pp. 287–302). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49183-2_14Abascal, A., Vanhuysse, S., Grippa, T., Rodriguez-Carreño, I., Georganos, S., Wang, J., … Wolff, E. (2024).
Forskning
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Working Life Science is the study of work at the levels of the individual, organisation, and society, centring on areas such as the organisation of work and its consequences, the development of the labour market and the meaning of work in our lives.
Working Life Science offers education at all university levels including the doctoral level and contract courses.
Self reflection
This session aims to create the time and space for you to look at a few questions that will enable you to start to seek answers to strategic priorities in relation to your research, its utilisation, its impact and your research journey past, present and future.
The core idea is for you the researcher to think about research in a holistic way and to enable you to set priorities for your research while considering yourself the most valuable resource for creating relevance and rep
Session 6A: Women in academia – navigating dilemmas, paradoxes, and strategies for change
Workshop (English or Swedish)
Linnea Claesson (moderator), Mia Larson (Karlstad University), Cecilia Cassinger (Lund University), Maria Lexhagen (Mid-Sweden University), Christina Öberg (Linnaeus University)
Gender segregation persists within departments of business administration, with significantly fewer women holding senior positions in the academic hierarchy among researchers and lecturers.
