Karlstad Business School Advisory Board plays an important role. The board members give valuable insights as to the expectations on Karlstads Business School, not least when it comes to society's needs for research and education. Members of the Advisory Board are appointed by the Dean of the Faculty for Arts and Social Sciences at Karlstad University.
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The capacity of local civil societies to provide missing services and contribute to sustainable
community building lies at the core of discussions on the future of rural areas in Sweden.
Systematic and theoretically informed empirical studies of the roles and possibilities of local
civil societies to partake in community building in rural contexts are however lacking.
Centrum för genusforskning
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Andrea Pető, Professor of Gender Studies and historian at Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Andrea Pető is a historian and a Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna, Austria, a Research Affiliate of the CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest, and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Her works on gender, politics, Holocaust, and war have been translated into 23 languages.
Computer Science – Committed to excellence in computer networking, security and privacy, and software engineering.
Computer Science is the study of both the theorethical and the practical aspects of software development. In Karlstad, the education as well as the research are mainly focused on computer networking, distributed systems, computer security and software engineering.
Education
Teaching is carried out at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
The cocktail of man-made chemicals that we are exposed to daily is a health risk which current regulations and risk assessment overlook. This is the conclusion of the EU Horizon 2020 EDC-MixRisk project that is now being presented.
We are exposed to a large number of man-made chemicals in our everyday life. This creates combinations of chemical mixtures, to which we are subjected during our whole lifespan.
Course content
In this course you will learn more about: the concept service and the development towards value creation through service, service quality and quality development, and service development and innovation. The course consists of three modules: 1)The concept service and the logic of service, 2) Service quality and quality development, and 3) New service development & innovation. Each module includes: readings, videos, cases and online seminars.
After completi
The highly ranked scientific journal Journal of Product Innovation Management, JPIM, presents a specially-compiled virtual issue on Co-Creation with Customers. This issue consist of nine scientific articles previously published in JPIM, that coalesce around a specific theme and that have made the biggest impact in the scientific community.
2020-08-26
Helén Williams and Fredrik Wikström at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, conduct research about the role of packaging in reducing food waste. Research that has led to a nomination at “Dagligvarugalan 2020, for their contributions to the grocery retail industry, as one of three finalists in the category "Sustainability Initiative of the Year".
On November 16-17, the DRIVE project held a two-day kick-off meeting at Karlstad University. The aim for the kick-off was to get the DRIVE and its subprojects officially started and to let all partner representatives and researchers meet face-to-face.
- I am very excited to get started!
2024-12-05
In the Swedish Sports Confederation's Guidelines for Children's and Youth Sports, it is stated that everyone in sports should work to create safe and inclusive sports environments for children and youth. In our contemporary society, these guidelines may have become even more important.
Transforming the current economy into a ‘new’ bioeconomy needs changed institutional frameworks at regional and national level, sensitive to and inclusive of placebased knowledge. This conference in Karlstad 27-28 of March, aimed at better understanding the role of people and networks in this transition.
New innovative products and services continue to emerge, which will further increase the demand for biomass.
Western music history has largely favored male artists, while female and non-binary artists and composers have been largely excluded from historical narratives. This has contributed to musical canons where important voices are missing.
The schedule is continually updated and subject to change. Last updated 2016-12-15. Seminar materials are normally distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists.
A detailed program and the Book of Abstracts are now available - (updated 230428) - click the PROGRAM meny below
The 17th annual Teacher Education Policy in Europe (TEPE) conference is being organised at Karlstad university, Sweden from 8th – 10th May 2023. The theme of the conference is: Transformation of knowledge in and on teacher education: policy and practice in times of change.
Themes
TEPE 2023 welcomes contributions that address these questions in relation to the following
The 13 May licentiate Tonje Grahn sucessfully defended her thesis in Risk- and environmental studies titled "A Nordic perspective on data availability for quantification of losses due to natural hazards".
As opponent acted professor Kurt Petersen, Safety Analysis and Risk Management, at Lund University.
Link to Tonjes licentiate thesis in DiVA
2019-03-04
Carbon based nano materials such as graphene and carbon nanotubes were predicted a brilliant future when they were discovered. But quality problems curb the development of new products. The problem is that it is difficult to analyse the crystal structure and there are no established standard methods for classifying the materials.
Although the statistical chances of meeting a serial killer in real life are infinitesimally small, they seem to be absolutely everywhere in the media, from true crime to news journalism and all manner of fictional narratives.
The symposium Here, There, Everywhere: The Figure of the Serial Killer addresses this curious ubiquity, asking questions such as: Why is the figure of the serial killer so fascinating to so many people?
Geomedia
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Seeing and Seafaring: How the Scopic Regime of Computation Was Mobilised
Taking a cue from Carl Schmitt’s suggestion in Land and Sea that each of the four elements lends its own distinct perspective on the world, this talk examines the role of water—and more specifically, the sea, the ocean, maritime navigation—in the emergence of modern computational graphics.
One year has passed since CTF was appointed "Excellent research group" at Karlstad University, and much has happened since then. Among other things, a new research area – Transformative Service Research – has been initiated along with new researchers and Ph.
Jono Van Belle (Dep. for Media and Communication, Örebro University) and Maria Jansson (Gender Studies, Örebro University).Jono Van Belle is a postdoctoral researcher on the project Digiscreens and Senior Lecturer in the department of Media- and Communication Studies at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.
On June 26th - 29th researchers from CTF, together with more than 200 service researchers and business leaders from around the world, gathered in Miami, Florida, to discuss and present the latest trends and research results in the customer service and customer experience at the annual Frontiers in Service Conference.
In today’s society there is a large amount of data available that businesses and organizations can use to, for example, develop new services.
