Bo Nordlund, senior lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School, and Hans Lind, professor in Real Estate Management, have written the book Advanced Issues in Property together.
2016-12-14
Margareta Friman, Professor in Psychology at CTF, Service Research Center, is a member of the expert group for the a project that investigates how suitable planning could support multimodal connectivity in Norwegian urban regions.
Margareta Friman is a member of the expert group for the new project "Transfer: access, egress and transfer practices for designing multimodal connectivity" financed by the Norwegian Research Council.
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Karlstad University has one of the country’s most comprehensive research centres in educational studies. Michael Tengberg is professor of educational work, which is one of three subjects at the Department of Educational Studies.
- We have a large number of staff and a broad research profile, says Michael. This means that we have a solid knowledge of our disciplines and cover a wide range of areas, which is an advantage.
- We need more knowledge of how to encourage people to more easily change their behaviour to reduce energy consumption, says Per Kristensson, professor of psychology at the Service Research Center (CTF).
A safe, reliable and sustainable future requires a transition to fossil-free energy systems.
2020-02-25
“I’m very pleased and honoured,” says Simone Fischer-Hübner, professor of computer science at Karlstad University. “Privacy and cyber security play an increasingly important role in society, so this honorary distinction is especially significant.
Our researchers and doctoral students are variously involved in disciplines such as business administration, psychology, computer science, information systems, environmental and energy systems, political science, religion sociology, mechanical engineering and materials engineering and industrial engineering and management.
Christina Olin-Scheller is a professor in Educational Work and temporarily a professor at Contemporary Literature, Karlstad University. She is head of the centre formation Centre for Language- and Literary Didactics (CSL) and the strong subject didactic research group Research on Subject-specific Education (ROSE). Olin-Scheller's field of research is reading education and young persons reading and writing in correlation to inter-sectional perspectives in today's media landscape.
How reliable are different methods for connecting to mobile networks to support train signaling systems? This is what Professor Anna Brunström and Associate Professor Johan Garcia at Karlstad University have investigated in collaboration with DRIVE partner Icomera.
2013-02-05
We welcome Ayako Taniguchi, Assistant Professor of Risk Engineering at University of Tsukuba, Japan, who will be visiting Samot, our Public Transport Research Group, until August 25th, 2013.
Ayako Taniguchi has been working at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and as an engineer in Nihon Data Service (Consultancy Company).
2013-09-03
In August Ph D Nancy Sirianni, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Northeastern University, USA, visited CTF. The purpose of her visit was to work on a project within the research profile SISB together with Tetra Pak.
Anders Gustafsson, Bo Femtvik, Lars Witell and Nancy SirianniDuring her visit, Nancy Sirianni worked with researchers Lars Witell and Anders Gustafsson, CTF, and Bo Femtvik, Tetra Pak, on a project that involve the employee’s role in service innovation.
2019-10-15
We are happy to welcome Hugo Guyader to CTF. He will be working with professors Margareta Friman and Lars E Olsson in a research project on shared mobility, and will develop a survey for users of a Swedish ride sharing platform.
"My position at CTF involves research on shared mobility, particularly about ride sharing.
2024-10-01
Richard Ek and Mekonnen Tesfahuney, both professors in human geography at Karlstad University, recently finished a paper called “Sloterdijk, Geomedia, and the Existential Tourist”.
2023-12-28
Seminar materials are normally distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists. Anyone not reached by these lists should feel free to contact us.
Our seminars and other events are open to anyone who is interested!
SEPTEMBER
Tue 13/9, 13.15–16.00, 12A225 Humlan, ISLI PhD student seminar. Double seminar: Sofia Oldin Cederwall presents work from her dissertation project (readers Liliann Byman Frisén & Jessica Sundin, senior reader Sofia Wijkmark).
You’ve been appointed assistant director for Vipp Industrial graduate school as from January 1st 2014. Why is a professor in Psychology interested in industrial research in general and the forestry industry in particular?
– I do research in psychology with business implications - among other things user innovation, creative organizations, service innovation and management.
2022-02-01
Per Skålén, professor of Business Administration, have received funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond to conduct full-time research in 2022. During this time he will further develop his research on marketing practices.
- I am very pleased to have received the funding for this project and to be able to do full-time research.
2014-07-02
Today the development is fast-paced. Many traditional industries and trades will disappear as today’s products and services are being replaced by new, innovative, cost-effective and customized solutions.
- Focus on, and get to know your customers!
2019-06-26
Recently, one of the world's prime conferences in service research, QUIS16, was arranged at Karlstad University. Several of the founders of the research field shared their stories on how it all started and valuable insights, and provided good advice for continued research and development.
KuFo currently funds one doctoral student, Judith Kiros, but several doctoral students at the Department of Language, Literature and Intercultural Studies are supervised by KuFo members, participate in the department's doctoral seminar, or are otherwise associated with the group.
Doctoral students associated with KuFo
Saga Bokne, Doctoral Candidate, English
Email: saga.bokne@kau.se
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Jonas Hoeck, Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature
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Jörg Pareigis defended his doctoral thesis in Business Administration "Customer experiences of resource integration - Reframing servicescapes using scripts and practices" on September 28. Professor Peter Thilenius from Uppsala University was the opponent.
Abstract
It is widely acknowledged that value can be regarded as interactively formed by customers through the integration of a variety of resources.
2015-10-26
We welcome Helena Alves, Assistant Professor from University of Beira Interior, Portugal, who will be visiting us until next year. What brings you to CTF and what kind of research are you working on?
- Knowing that CTF is a very well renowned research center, what brought me here was the possibility of exchanging research ideas with CTF researchers.
2024-11-15
Andrea Schalley, professor of English, has received funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) to conduct full-time research in 2025-2026. She will complete a monograph on language maintenance, synthesising and contextualising a decade of research.
“I am extremely grateful for the RJ sabbatical and the opportunity to focus exclusively on my research,” says Andrea Schalley.
2025-06-05
When the Volvo Research and Education Foundation (VREF) celebrated its 40th anniversary with a global conference on sustainable mobility, Lars E Olsson, professor of psychology at the Service Research Center (CTF), was invited as one of the speakers.
As a Nordic expert, Lars presented groundbreaking research on how hope can function as a driving force for behaviour change and increased well-being in people’s daily travel – a perspective that is attracting international i
Seminar materials are normally distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists. Anyone not reached by these lists should feel free to contact us.
Our seminars and other events are open to anyone who is interested!
SEPTEMBER
Thursday, 19/9, 13.15–16.00, 12C608 Minerva, 50% PhD seminar: Jessika Sundin presents work from her dissertation project.
