In your role as an external expert, your commitment and expertise are crucial for our efforts to create strong research environments. Your assessments affect our direction, our decisions, and who we welcome as new members of our teams. Hence, the role of the external expert is central to our continued success and development.
Below, you will find the information needed to carry out your assignment. Please do not hesitate to contact the HR specialist if you have any questions.
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GRANTS AND INNOVATION OFFICEGIO offers targeted competence and career development for individual researchers, doctoral students and research environments. The starting point is to provide support adapted to the different phases of a research career, from early career researchers to senior researchers.Skills and career development for researchersUNIVERSITY LIBRARYThe library offers researchers competence enhancing opportunities through the Library Researcher Support seminar series.
ITQ – the network for girls studying IT at universities and practitioners in business, celebrated 10 years with cake, guest lectures, and not least mingle and networking. The guest was Siduri Poli, the digital inspirer of 2017, who told of her interest for technology as a tool for change.
Present were also current IT students, high school students from Fria Läroverken as well as professionals from CGI, Ibiz solutions, Municipality of Karlstad, Netgain, Sogeti and ÅF.
2017-06-13
In media and in communication from the government innovation is brought forward to save our Swedish businesses through increased revenues and lowered cost. In addition, it will help us to create more jobs and a brighter future. Innovation has in recent years become such a buzzword, it seems like everyone is an expert in innovation and that all firms are innovative. So, what does this then mean in practice - let us see both sides of the coin.
2018-06-18
With the emergence of firms such as Spotify, Uber and Airbnb, the markets related to music, travel and accommodation have lately been under dramatic changes.
2021-12-10
Akademisk högtid
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» Akademisk högtid 2023
At this year's Academic Celebration, 18 new Doctors were confered at Karlstad University.
Faculty of arts and social sciences
Åsa Bergman Brun
Defended her doctoral thesis in the subject Working Life Science on 31 March 2023
The doctoral thesis is entitled: ”The double-sided nature of lifestyle-oriented work within the Swedish equine sector: Characteristics and consequences for employee health and well-being”
Sara Blanck
Defended her doctoral thesis in the subject Ed
That is the question Sara Davoudi has looked into in her doctoral thesis, “What happened with the leviathan of the Public Sector? The challenges of vertical coordination in regional public organizations and its effect on public value”.
Sara Davoudi, PhD in Business Administration, tell us about your research.
- My research is about vertical coordination, which is best described as the communication between public sector actors and the challenges associated with that.
The schedule is continually updated and subject to change. Seminar materials are normally distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists. Anyone not reached by these lists should feel free to contact us.
SEPTEMBER
Fri 6/9, 13.15–15.00, 1B 309 (Sjöströmsalen): Mock defense. Seminar on Fredrik Svensson’s PhD thesis-in-progress, provisionally entitled “Dust, sunlight, a singing bird”: Cormac McCarthy’s Symbolist Ideology. Opponent Bo G.
Informatik
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» Forskning inom Informatik
Call for working papers to the ECIS 2023 workshop "Experiences of remote user participation" (Deadline: April 19th, 2023)
About the workshop
The aim is to cover the methodological breadth of remote user participation in interaction design and include a critical discussion of developing practices.
Sustainable future needs participation. Co-creating digital futures is not easy due to various limitations of physical nature.
Session 1A: Business Schools are aiming at accreditations such as AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS: Why?
Panel (English)
Anette Hallin (Mälardalen University), Sofia Isberg (Umeå University), Björn Kjellander (Jönköping University), Jodie Conduit, (University of Adelaide), Bo Edvardsson (Karlstad University).
A panel discussion on what different accreditations (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS) can mean for the development of business schools in order to meet future challenges in business and society.
Bo Edvardsson, professor in Business Administration and founder of CTF, share some stories and reflects on CTF's 35 years of service research at Karlstad University.
It is almost inconceivable that it is 35 years since CTF started. Time goes really fast when you have a fun and a meaningful job.
Geomedia
» Konferenser och evenemang
» Geomedia Speaker Series
LIZZIE RICHARDSON, GOETHE UNIVERSITY, FRANKFURT, ALESSANDRO GANDINI, UNIVERSITY OF MILAN AND ERIKA POLSON, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
February 22, 2024
14:00-16:00
Live on Zoom
Work is undergoing rapid changes, partly due to technological transformation.
Lazarus Fotoh, newly graduated doctor of business administration at Karlstad Business School, tell us what you have done in your research.
– Considering that the impact of technology on auditing is still unclear, my research explores and helps improve our understanding of how both advanced and less advanced technologies are changing audits and the way they are carried out.
2022-03-29
Our day-to-day activities increasingly depend on digital technologies as we use online services in various contexts of our lives. We use social media and messaging applications to strengthen our social relationships. We use online-based tools for work, entertainment, health and well-being, as well as shopping.
The majority of those technological interactions require us to accept the Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) before we can proceed with using the service.
The group´s research is focusing on processing of raw materials with biological origin, which can be further processed into a large number of technically useful products.
The research encompass coating and printing process technology, rheological behaviour of coating materials, barrier technology and performance in converting and packaging, modelling of mechanical behaviour and mass transport performance of coating layers, renewable materials utilization and performance
CTF
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» Forskning vid CTF
» Publikationer
Hassel, J-E. (2025) Business Administration, Venture Builders: Organizing Strategic Entrepreneurship Support, Karlstad University Studies, 2025:11.Abadzhiev, A. (2024) Business Administration, Managing business model innovation for sustainability transitions: Towards a theory-based typology, Karlstad University Studies, 2024:38.Falk, P.
Socialt arbete
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» Kritiska välfärdsstudier
The "forgotten" asylum seekers from Afghanistan
– A study on inclusion and exclusion processes affecting young Hazara refugees in Sweden.
This project is a collaboration between Martin Joormann (Associate Professor in Social Work at KAU) and Anna Lundberg (Professor in Sociology of Law at LU). The project aims to conduct a joint analysis of previously collected data, supplement it with additional data in the form of public documentation, and publish a scientific article.
CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University initiated the 25 year anniversary accompanied by lovely songs from the University choir SötLikör.
2019-04-17
Lars Järnström, professor of coating technology, came to Karlstad University in 1999 and has been involved in building the current strong research environment for fibre-based processes and products. Now retirement is approaching but he will continue working at the university as senior professor.
Lars Järnström's research centres mainly on environment-friendly surface treatment of fibre-based packaging materials.
2021-05-10
Kombinerad ECHA och igMCG konferens 16-18 juni 2025
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Sun, water and the hospitality of Värmland - where Sweden's longest river meets Europe's third largest lake you will find Karlstad.
