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Innovation

Forskning » Forskningsstöd » Forskarstöd
Researchers, students and other employees at Karlstad University are welcome to contact the Innovation advisors at the Grants and Innovation Office to get free advice and practical help to make your idea An important part of the work at Karlstad University is to ensure that novel ideas from the research and education benefit the society.

Facts and history

HHK » Handelshögskolan » Om Handelshögskolan
Karlstad Business School was estabished in 2009 as part of Karlstad University, Sweden. Facts & Figures 3 200 students 150 international students per year 140 employees 150 MSEK annual turnover 9 programmes (first cycle) 9 programmes (second cycle) 270 graduates per year 77% have got a job within six months of graduation 150 international students per year History 1968 Education in Business Administration starts at the then Karlstad branch to Gothenbur
Digital breakfast seminar on the theme of recovery at work.Christophe Sousann, behavioural scientist at Clarahälsan, will give us information on recovery and mental health for 45 minutes. The aim is to provide knowledge, insights and tools to increase recovery at work and is the first step in the autumn recovery initiative.
Digital breakfast seminar on the theme of recovery at work.Christophe Sousann, behavioural scientist at Clarahälsan, will give us information on recovery and mental health for 45 minutes. The aim is to provide knowledge, insights and tools to increase recovery at work and is the first step in the autumn recovery initiative.
Digital breakfast seminar on the theme of recovery at work.Christophe Sousann, behavioural scientist at Clarahälsan, will give us information on recovery and mental health for 45 minutes. The aim is to provide knowledge, insights and tools to increase recovery at work and is the first step in the autumn recovery initiative.
Nordic Wellness invites you to a 60-minute CrossCage session where university employees have the opportunity to participate, as long as a place has been booked. Thus, they are cancelling the ordinary free gym-hours rule on this particular occasion. After the session, NW will offer snacks and everyone who donates to the Pink Ribbon will also receive a goodie bag.To book a place: call the Nordic Wellness reception (010-155 53 21) and book a place.

VFT – VERIFICATION FOR GROWTH

Samverkan » Forsknings- och innovationssamverkan » Innovationssamverkan
The Grants and Innovation Office (GIO) has access to the VFT funding programme through its involvement with the innovation office Fyrklövern. On the basis of a competitive application, the university receives an annual grant from this Vinnova programme. This funding can be used to verify innovative ideas that might benefit the world in the form of new businesses, licensing, and so forth. It cannot be used to finance research.

Sustainability, societal and human aspects

DAMI4.0 » Samverkan » Competence areas DAMI
Digital technologies and digitalisation-related change can affect society at large as well as individuals. This area studies how digitalisation and digital transformation can create synergies between industry, individuals, employees and society at large. Particular focus is on the expansion towards Industry 5.0, where sustainable digital transformation and an interaction between people, the environment and society is central.

Henrik Nilsson, alumni economics

HHK » Samverkan » Samverkan vid HHK » Alumn och partners » Interviews with alumni
What do you work with? - I work as a senior consultant at Virtusa. It is an international IT consultant company listed on Nasdaq in the US with 19 000 employees all over the world that works within bank, insurance, telecom, health care as well as media and entertainment. In Sweden, Virtusa is focused primarily on bank and insurance.

Central research areas

CTF » Forskning » Forskning » Forskningsprojekt och profiler
Central research areas are: service innovation, service management, service experience, transformativ service research, service logic and service system transformation. Service innovation How to develop new service and service innovations from a customer perspective. Service innovation is an extremely under-researched area and is related to quite a few misconceptions.
2023-11-23
Research findings from Karlstad University were presented at a conference in Oslo. - As always when it comes to changing cultures, it is important to be persistent and not give up, says Markus Fellesson from the Center for Service Research (CTF). Markus Fellesson and Anna Fyrberg-Yngfalk, researchers at the Service Research Center (CTF) and Karlstad Business School, you recently participated in the conference “Prevent and Intervene – Ending Sexual Harassment at Work” in O

Working life conditions and expressions

Socialt arbete » Forskning » Kritiska välfärdsstudier
Organized uncertainty in elderly care: About quality, conditions for resistance, and staff's willingness to stay We face a significant social policy challenge as the demand for elderly care is expected to increase sharply, while there is a shortage of trained workforce in elderly care. Studies have shown that working conditions in elderly care have deficiencies that worsen over time, associated with high sick leave and high staff turnover.

Labor, capital and resistance: Collective and individual forms of workplace struggle

Centrum för genusforskning » Evenemang och seminarier » Evenemang vid CGF » ÄLDRE EVENEMANG » CGF-evenemang 2022 » Nationell konferens för genusforskning - G22 » Öppna paneler
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.
Library card / KAU card for students NEW STUDENTS When you obtain your KAU card, you can use that as a library card. The PIN you chose for your KAU card is the same that you must use to borrow or reserve books. Contact information is automatically collected from "My Kau" If you need to borrow before you have obtained your KAU card, you can turn to the Information desks in the library. You can get an account by showing a valid ID, and also your t-number if you are an exchange student.

Elderly care in time

Socialt arbete » Forskning » Kritiska välfärdsstudier » Arbetslivets förutsättningar och yttringar
In elderly care, especially home care, the forms of employment have changed radically in recent years. The uncertainty about when, where, and how the staff should work has increased through systems such as “informal” short-term substitutes, and split schedules with minute planning of working time in the mobile phone. In the project “The organized uncertainty in elderly care.
2023-10-09 - 2023-11-23 (English) Register hereCourse descriptionTarget groupThe course is primarily aimed at new teachers at Karlstad University.The course is also suitable for doctoral students who will teach.Extent40 hours. Approximately 20 h are scheduled lectures.For doctoral students, it is suggested that the course includes 1 credit.ContentUniversity teachers practice their profession as government employees.