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.
Degrees and Courses:
2013 - Teaching Registration, Swedish primary and secondary school
2007 - Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 15 ECTS, Karlstad University
2006 - Course for Supervisors in Postgraduate Education, Karlstad University
2001 - PhD, Educational Sciences.
CTF
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DISCERN - digital services and customer experiences
TRUEdig
Självstyrande team (FoU Helsingborg)
MECO, Music Ecosystems Inner Scandinavia
ServzChall
Digital method for development (2018-2021)
RESPONSE
VIPP
Hållbar kollektivtrafik – effekter av bättre samordning och ökad flexibilitet 2018-2021
Kollaborativ kollektivtrafik för levande landsbygd
CoSIE- Co-creation in Public Service
Avans 2018-2020
Effektivare folkbokföring med stöd av forskning
Energieffektivare arbetspendling: Bety
Societal challenges require in-depth knowledge and enhanced competences. By building upon your bachelor degree with a further year or two of advanced level studies, you will increase your chances of finding an exciting profession and of pursuing an international career.
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23 and 28 October on Zoom
The Politics and Intersections of Covid-19: Online Talk Series
Critical Perspectives from Gender Studies
The current global pandemic has brought with it many challenges. Most obviously, the costs are seen in the lives lost and the health, emotional, social, and economic challenges that many people face around the globe due to the pandemic.
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Khabat Amin, Risk- and environmental studies
Researches on safety for pedestrians in road traffic environment.
Sandra Andersson, Social Work
Sofia Billebo, Human Geography
Tove Bodland, Risk- and environmental studies
My research interest concerns the societal ability to prepare for, manage and recover from extreme weather events.
Our choices as consumers are governed by various factors. At the restaurant one of them is the appearance of the person serving us - if the person has a look that is perceived as healthy, we choose the healthy options from the menu. These are the findings from a study made by researchers Poja Shams and Anders Gustafsson.
The health trend is growing and we are becoming increasingly aware of what kind of food we should consume to maintain good health.
Karlstad University’s user lab are used by different disciplines and also in collaboration with external parties. Within the research group for usability studies, there is also the development of methodologies for interaction design, especially around Ozlab which is a GUI experimental web service developed to admit easy testing, even improvisation, of ideas for interactive products. It admits non-programmers to become concept developers and interactivity testers.
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2024
Abadzhiev, A., Sukhov, A. & Johnson, M. (2024). Business model innovation for reducing uncertainty in sustainability transitions: A case study of the wood construction industry. Creativity and Innovation Management, (Published online). https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12622
As'ad, N., Patricio, L., Koskela-Huotari, K. & Edvardsson, B. (2024). Understanding service ecosystem dynamics: a typology.
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2024
Abadzhiev, A. (2024). Managing business model innovation for sustainability transitions: The critical roles of values, knowledge and agency. Paper presented at the International Sustainability Transitions Conference (Early Career Researcher event), Oslo, Norway, 17-20 June.
Abadzhiev, A., Carlborg, P., & Sukhov, A. (2024). Exploring circular business model strategies and practices.
It is becoming increasingly common for employees to share the workplace with their colleagues in large open-plan office areas. In this way, companies and organizations want to save money, but also facilitate the interaction between the employees. However, a new study from Karlstad University shows the opposite.
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2024
Edvardsson, 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..
Fahimi, M., Falk P., Gray, J.W.Y., & Jarke, J. (2024). In/visibilities in Data Studies: Methods, Tools, and Intervention in Jarke, J. & Bates, J. (Eds.), Dialogues in Data Power, Bristol University Press.
Inga Narbutaité Aflaki
Inga Narbutaité Aflaki, PhD in Political Science, has a focus on innovative local and regional policy processes with an emphasis on human motivation, policy entrepreneurship and structural potentials. Currently she specializes in policies to support smart specialization and new forms of co-governance in civil society, especially policies that address social challenges such as immigrant integration.
Lotta Braunerhielm
Lotta Braunerhielm has a PhD in Human geography.
This text is meant to provide support to students who process personal data as part of independent projects/degree projects/essays (called “independent projects” below), but all students will benefit from the information provided in Part 1.
Aim of the text
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and complementing Swedish legislation require that all work with personal data should be done transparently, correctly and securely.
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2024-11-07--08 Security Divas Sweden - pioneering cybersecurity for all
November 7th – 8th marks the first conference in Security Divas Sweden, a network for women in tech and information security, or women who want to work in those fields. The conference welcomes everyone who has an interest in these fields and making the tech business more welcoming for women. Location will be at Eva Eriksson, 21A 342, Karlstad University.
Great interest in increased autonomy and room for action for managers and employees.
As part of the research programme “Arbetsplatsens struktur och arbetsrelaterad ohälsa: kvinnodominans, organisatoriska faktorer, åtgärder och politiska beslut i kommunal förvaltning” (Workplace structure and work-related illness: female dominance, organisational factors, measures and political decisions in local government administrations), researchers at Karlstad Business School look at
2021-02-11
... and professor at the University of Borås. You are studying customers and employees in an increasingly digitalized society. Why is this interesting?
"In recent years, there has been a great deal of focus on the opportunities that new digital solutions provide customers and companies. I think it is important also to problematise the use of new technology and highlight negative aspects.
2018-10-16
PhD Student Jana Huck studies patient and employee involvement during the refinement of ideas for improving the Swedish Public Healthcare Service.
The Swedish public healthcare sector is under immense pressure to innovate in order to adjust to major challenges. These challenges not only relate to a lack of resources and medical staff, but also to the demographic change towards an aging society and increasingly unhealthy society.
2018-10-25
How are power and gender reflected in the service encounter between customer and employee in service organisations, and what are the consequences on the work environment for the employee?
2017-09-29
The IT branch has a great need to recruit employees, and students on IT programmes therefore have good chances of finding attractive employment after finishing their studies. What is important to employees and how does that correspond to what the branch has to offer?
On 21 September, a little more than 100 IT students and around 20 business representatives met for the annual IT dinner of the Snits network that links industry and IT students.
2011-12-26
Maria åkesson defended her doctoral thesis "Role constellation in value co-creation" in Business Administration on December 15th at Karlstad University. Her thesis focuses on customer-employee role constellations during value co-creation.
Abstract
The contribution of the present thesis is describing and explaining how value is co-created by addressing customer-employee role constellations during service encounters.
2021-11-08
Diana Kalfas and Pål Lassen, both students at the Human Resource Management and Work Life study programme at Karlstad Business School, have won an award for their bachelor thesis Employees' experiences of Work-Life Balance and forced telework as a result of a pandemic.
What was the aim of your bachelor thesis?
- An increased understanding regarding employee’s experiences of work-life balance and forced remote work - in short, an increased understanding of how remote work
2020-11-03
