Commissioned Education
Education is a very important part of Karlstad University's work and can also be offered to employees in companies and organizations. We offer evening courses and distance education in Pulp and Paper Technology, so that working people can follow the courses as commissioned education.
You can study advanced modern mathematics (both pure and applied) by enrolling in a research education programme that can lead to a licentiate thesis and/or a doctoral thesis in mathematics.
CTF Professors Anders Gustafsson, Per Kristensson and Lars Witell, are together with Professor Gary Schirr at Radford University, the authors behind the new book "Service Innovation”.
CTF Professors Anders Gustafsson, Per Kristensson and Lars Witell have teamed up with Professor Gary Schirr at Radford University, in the new book "Service Innovation".
"We are delighted that our book on service innovation finally is available in English.
2023-06-01
Jan Ch Karlsson, Professor of Working Life Science at Karlstad Business School, and his German colleague and collaboration partner have been given an award for their article “Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work”.
– Work that includes a lot of negative stress or rigid hierarchies is actually lethal, says Jan Ch Karlsson.
Why is research about meaningful work so important?
– Most people spend a large portion of their lives and their waking hours working.
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Hotspot is Karlstad University’s annual job fair and one of the biggest in Sweden.
Hotspot was founded by the then Karlstad University and the first Hotspot was arranged 1998. The fair welcomes all students at Kau and all industries. Every year, about 100 exhibitors gather and they all have the same goal: to meet and recruit the competence of the future, Karlstad University students.
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The online course Idea Management.
Innovations start with ideas. Knowledge of how to create, develop, and select ideas that lead to successful innovations are therefore essential. This course will give you a review of idea management practices, and teaches you how to manage the generation, refinement, and assessment of ideas for both product and service innovations.
Library PressDisplay provides online access to more than 2,200 newspapers from 97 countries in 54 languages.
Library PressDisplayis a stand-alone web-based portal which provides online access to more than 2,200 newspaper and magazines from 97 countries in 54 languages.
Publications are presented as full-content digital replicas, which allows users to read on-screen exactly as they would with a familiar print edition.
2017-02-13
The EU H2020 funded project MONROE (Measuring Mobile Broadband Networks in Europe) builds and operates an open, European-scale platform with multi-homing capabilities to run experiments on operational Mobile Broadband (MBB) networks.
The project has now accepted 15 new external project proposals for funding.
The MONROE project aims to measure and understand the quality of MBB networks as experienced by the end-user.
To interviewees in the research project ’Transnational bachelors. An ethnography on singledom among migrated men in the European Union’
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‘Transnational bachelors’ are men who have moved between countries and describe themselves as single. This project seeks to understand how these men live and manage their lives as singles.
Single men is the largest group among people who migrate. Unfortunately, very little research about them exists.
Fresh seas, non-polluting transportation and good food produced by sustainable methods are examples of future challenges that affect us all. Natural science is largely the foundation and the means by which the conditions for our daily lives and cultural evolution are determined. It also provides knowledge of the human race and its place in the universe.
Karlstad University excels in the natural sciences.
Jörg Lenhard, a postdoctoral research fellow in computer science, participated in the lecture series “Möt en forksare”. He talked about one of the meeting points between the fields of software engineering and biology: software evolution.
During his lecture Jörg Lenhard described how and why software engineering researchers apply the term evolution and related biological concepts and what researchers hope to gain this way.
Do you want to develop your skills and your network? Then you are welcome to an information meeting about international staff exchange!Karlstad University offers you as an employee or Ph.D.
Do you want to develop your skills and your network? Then you are welcome to an information meeting about international staff exchange!Karlstad University offers you as an employee or Ph.D.
The psychology faculty have developed a way of working to collaborate with companies, organizations, and public actors. The foundation is a common area of interest and a mutual exchange of knowledge and experience.
External actors contribute with practical knowledge, competence, and perspectives from different activities. At the university, we have theoretical knowledge and an academic perspective.
This is exciting times for everyone involved. The research project can actually start!
For you as a project manager this involves many tasks eg. planning, monitoring activities, managing funds and reporting. It is essential for the project manager to understand and fulfill the requirements of the funder and act in compliance with the regulations and policies of the University. This will protect you from potential problems with funders or collaborators.
Collaboration: undergraduate studies and external research
The ambition of the Spatial and Social Planning Programme is to offer education in close collaboration with society at large. Collaboration involves field trips, visits from guest lecturers, and reference groups among employers.
If you are a non-EU citizen, the first thing you need to do is to apply for a residence permit. In Sweden, residence permits are handled by the Swedish Migration Agency. If you are an EU citizen, you are free to move to Sweden at any time to start working.
Applying for a residence permit
There are three types of permits that are commonly used.
“Over time, I have developed a strong drive. I want my research to change working life for the better, and thereby contribute to improved public health.”
Kristina Palm is from Grödinge, 30 kilometres south of Stockholm. She is an electrical engineer, specialised in quality technology. She graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH. She is has a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Science and is a docent at KTH. Here doctoral thesis examined work engagement.
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In this panel, the focus is on the continuity and changes in the conflict between labor and capital and how it is manifested in the everyday life of workers and workplace struggles. 40 years of neoliberal labor market politics have in many ways transformed the Swedish labor market weakening workers as a collective and unions.
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The KAU card is a personal card that functions as a keycard, library card and print card.
Updates May 2024: After a major system upgrade the order portal has changed, and the new cards will have a different layout. The current KAU-cards will not be affected by this, though! You simply keep your card and continue using it normally.
The KAU-card is a multifunctional card to be used on campus as a keycard, library card and print card.
How to design your CV and cover letter for a job outside academia?In average, you get 20 seconds to make the first impression. If the recruiter uses an ATS system (robot) or AI, you need the right key words to be selected. With a well-designed CV and a tailored cover letter you increase your chances of being invited to an interview.In this workshop you will learn:• The differences between an academic CV and a business CV (industry, public service, NGO).
