Two CTF articles have been selected as a Highly Commended Paper Award in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.
Every year the Emerald Literati Network select the most impressive articles from each of their journals from the previous year.
2018-04-26
The new book “Quality of Life and Daily Travel” describes the relationships between life satisfaction, well-being and daily travel. The authors discuss travel and quality of life to the built environment, travel mode choice, travel satisfaction and emotions, and presents case studies highlighting different aspects in daily travel and well-being.
2018-10-04
On 27–28 September, Computer Science at Karlstad University organised a workshop to gain external input on the research group. Staff presented the research environment to an International Advisory Board (IAB) that gave feedback for further development.
It was clear that the Computer Science research group has developed significantly on many fronts since been designated an excellent research environment in 2014.
2017-11-10
For the second year running, Computer Science at Karlstad University organized a workshop for external input on the research environment. Computer Science staff presented the research environment to an International Advisory Board (IAB) that gave feedback on the development of the research group.
In 2014, Computer Science was established as one of the two excellent research groups at Karlstad University.
This subproject, "Migration and Transformation of Powerful Knowledge", addresses one of the major social issues of today - migration and cultural encounters. Like the other subprojects in ROSE, this project centres on practice-oriented matters.
Researcher Alexandre Sukhov is awarded the prestigious Wallander Scholarship of SEK 1.725 000 for his doctoral dissertation "The human side of idea screening" which deals with idea evaluation and development in the front end of innovation.
"This is fantastic news and a great honor!
2021-09-22
Three researchers connected to Karlstad Business School and Service Research Center (CTF) at Karlstad University have, as a part of the work within PRME, written a new book - Business Transformation for a Sustainable Future.
Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) is a part of the UN Global Compact initiative, and it is a systematic way of working towards improvement, change and learning, as well as collaboration and communication with society.
Dr Samuel P
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I allt från modevärldens nostalgitrender till politiska retrotopier vänds blicken numera mot historien snarare än mot framtiden. När det inte längre är möjligt att ens skönja en ljusnande framtid bortom klimathot och pandemier blir istället det förflutna något eftersträvansvärt. Historien blir något att återvända till och rentav återskapa efter eget skön.
On the 10 May Monika Rydstedt Nyman successfully defended her licentiate thesis titled "Learning and knowledge sharing from management of extreme weather induced impacts on the Swedish transport infrastructure - Case study of the Swedish Transport Administration".
As opponent acted professor Peter Söderholm, Quality Technology and Management, Luleå University of Technology (to the right in the image) and as examinator professor Ragnar Andersson, Risk Ma
2013-08-20
Dr Yingzi Xu from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, is one of our visiting researchers right now. She is here to work with Professor Bo Edvardsson and Associate Professor Bård Tronvoll and she will be staying for a month.
Yingzi's research interests lie in the area of service research, with a particular interest in customer switching behavior and service recovery. For more infomation please visit the Auckland University website
Inauguration of the AT-LAB - regional additive manufacturing laboratory was held at Karlstad University 5 april 2018.
Agenda:
- Welcome
- Presentation of AT-LAB (Project leader Pavel Krakhmalev, KaU)
- Presentation from Region Värmland (Anders Olsson, Region Värmland)
- Launch the laboratory (Professor Kjell Magnusson, Dean HNT, KaU)
- Mingle and open discussion until 15:00 – 15:30
Pavel Krakhmalev, professor Karlstad University
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pavel.krakhmalev@kau.se
We welcome Dr Li Peilin, associate professor from School of Business Administration of Henan University of Economics and Law in China.
He is here to work with Professor Bo Enquist and Ph D Samuel Petros Sebhatu, researchers in Samot, and will be visiting for one year.
Dr Peilin's research interests lie in the area of corporate governance, corporate culture, HRM.
For more infomation please visit the Henan University of Economics and Law website.
Western music history has largely favoured male artists, while women and non-binary performers and composers have largely been excluded from history writing. This has contributed to musical canons where important voices are missing.How may canonical traditions in music be challenged and expanded, from a gender perspective?
Gothic fiction has become increasingly pervasive and popular and invaded all cultural registers – popular, high brow, children’s and young adult fiction – in the Nordic countries in the last few decades. Contemporary Nordic Gothic has been well received and acclaimed by both critics and audiences, nationally as well as internationally.
Welcome to Gifted education: Inclusion and sustainability. 4th thematic European Council for High Ability (ECHA) conference on inclusion and sustainability.
The 14th International group for Mathematical Creativity and Giftedness conference
At this conference, we bring together participants with an interest in inclusive education of highly able children and students.
The list ranks two percent of the world’s most prominent researchers. Among almost 160,000 researchers, whose publications have accelerated progress in their respective fields, there are ten representatives from Karlstad University.
The introduction of new technologies such as machine learning and big data analytics requires new skills in employees and often new ways of working. It also enables new business models, such as MaaS (Manufacturing as a Service), which builds on lean principles and the adaptive smart factories of the future.
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Located at the crossroad of transforming welfare histories, neoliberal biopolitics and everyday forms of life, this panel will put a spotlight on questions of wellbeing, health and liveability from a feminist and gendered lens.
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Paneldebatt i Aula Magna
Lars Engwall (Uppsala universitet), Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist (Göteborgs universitet), Anette Hallin (Mälardalens universitet), Jerker Moodysson (Karlstads universitet)
Utifrån senare tids tendenser av både ökad marknadisering och ökad politisk styrning, vart är svenska universitet och högskolor på väg? Vilka problem kommer de ha framöver? Vilka möjligheter har de att behålla sin särart?
You are now back in Spain after spending four months at CTF. What were your expectations before you came here, and what have you achieved during your visit?
- My expectations before coming here were basically: learning new ways of working and presenting my research at an international level, deepening my dissertation research with the brilliant researchers of CTF, attending research courses, and trying to build partnerships for future research.
2020-04-16
On Tuesday 3 March and Wednesday 4 March a group of researchers from the University of West England, University of Gloucestershire, Linköping University and Karlstad University got together in a workshop at Karlstad University, Sweden under the theme of transdisciplinary research in collaboration with actors outside Academia.
The purpose of the workshop was to provide an opportunity for the researchers to meet and share research as a source of learning and inspiration bu
2023-01-24
On Monday, representatives from Rifo — an association for researchers and members of parliament — visited Karlstad University.
– We have seen both the wider picture as well as the cutting edge expertise, and we have learned more about the challenges in acquiring research funding, says Gunilla Svantorp.
She is a member of parliament from Värmland, representing Socialdemokraterna.
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The project 'Language use - Swedish and English' investigates how students on the autism spectrum (ASD) use their first and second language.
The project investigates the use of Swedish and English of persons with ASD.
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Call for papersTransforming Passions 6th International Geomedia Conference, Karlstad, Sweden, 17–19 September 2025Passion is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only joy and intense emotional investment but also pain and suffering.
TRANSFORMING PASSIONS 6TH INTERNATIONAL GEOMEDIA CONFERENCE, KARLSTAD, SWEDEN, 17–19 SEPTEMBER 2025Passion is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only joy and intense emotional investment but also pain and suffering.
