Lotta Braunerhielm, project manager for ”Digitisation and the Tourism Industry” and assistant professor in Human Geography, informed about a new project aiming to increase the knowledge about and promoting place-related experiences through digital solutions.
2022-08-29
Christina Öberg has been elected as the new chairman of the Nordic Academy of Management.
The Nordic Academy of Management (NFF) aims to promote research, education and practice around management in the Nordic countries.
Learn about exciting new materials like organic molecules, which promise low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells that can be printed like a newspaper.Professor Ellen Moons, leading expert in the field of solar energy research, shares her recent findings.More information and link to Zoom webinar.When? Wednesday April 23 kl. 12:00-12:45Where?
Inspirational speakers
Linnea Claesson
Linnéa Claeson is an award-winning speaker, lawyer (Lawyer of the Year 2018), two-time handball world champion, and committed human rights defender. She has spoken in the European Parliament and led non-profit organizations for refugees and homeless people. Additionally, Linnéa is a goodwill ambassador for Kvinna till Kvinna, an organization that works for women's rights.
Students from the whole world now have the opportunity to apply to a new unique international multidisciplinary training and research programme where doctoral students will reason, design and develop innovative solutions to questions related to the protection of citizens’ privacy.
2017-01-19
The external review of Karlstad University’s strong and excellent research groups concludes that the Computer Science research group produces high quality research.
As part of the university’s strategic investment in research, Computer Science was established as an excellent research group in 2014. Now, two years later, external experts have evaluated the group and assessed research quality and progression.
2020-04-20
... you have spent two months in New Zealand, what did you do there?
"I spent two wonderful months as a visiting researcher at the University of Auckland Business School working with a large group of people including: Suvi Nenonen, Julia Fehrer, Rod Brodie, Charlotta Windahl and Kaj Storbacka at the University of Auckland, and Jonathan Baker at the Auckland University of Technology.
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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.
Welcome to this open lecture by American anthropologist and Guest Researcher at Karlstad University, Associate Professor Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, University of Colorado Boulder. Teitelbaum is the author of War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right (Penguin, 2021), Lions of the North: Music and the New Nordic Radical Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Limitless (Verso, forthcoming 2026).MedverkandeBenjamin R.
PLACE-BASED DIGITAL EXPERIENCES
In the past decades, we have witnessed great changes in the tourism industry as an effect of the general digitalisation process. Tourism actors are now online, which changes the conditions for how the industry communicates with visitors, how marketing, itineraries and bookings take place, and not least how visitors experience the destination.
In June 2019, the excellence initiative in which the Service Research Centre (CTF) and Computer Science took part since 2014, came to an end. The initiative has allowed the research groups to grow and develop in order to continue producing world-class research. This is evident in the final reports from the groups.
In June 2019, the excellence initiative in which the Service Research Centre (CTF) and Computer Science took part since 2014, came to an end.
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The aim of this project is to study interpersonal and interspecies encounters in science-fiction literature, film and television as intercultural encounters.
This network is a forum for people who have participated in some form of learning about Process-orientation in Practice (PoP) or who have participated in some og our events.
2011-10-25
... Ph D student from EBS Business School, Germany, who will be visiting us for the next seven weeks to meet our researchers, and to work with experiments in our Consumer Lab.
Tabea is working at the EBS Business School, which is located in Rheingau, close to Frankfurt, Germany.
2018-11-27
Karlstad University is participating in the first phase of the ten-year Vinnväxt initiative ”Paper Province 2.0: A large-scale demonstrator of forest based bioeconomy” led by the cluster organisation the Paper Province. The aim of the initiative is to create sustainable growth by developing internationally competitive and attractive research and innovation environments in the region.
By playing the role of national cyber security experts, doctoral students from Karlstad University won Cyber Challenge 2017, organised by the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish Defence University and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB).
2018-10-30
Two research projects at the Karlstad Business School were awarded 2,7 and 5 million by Forte, The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare. It is the subjects Business administration and Working life science that start up new projects starting next year.
Forte, The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare announced the other day regarding the decision of the distribution of research funding.
2019-03-15
Landless crofters, the subaltern, and those who lost their land in inheritance cases. In the poor houses, in the city slums. What did it mean not to own land and the vital rights that were connected to it? How could crofters influence their lives or their financial situations? How do we find these “invisible” workers who rented rooms in the cities?
Välkommen till Andrey Abadzhievs slutseminarium vid ämnet företagsekonomi! Titel: Rethinking sustainability in transitions: The crucial roles of knowledge, values, and agencyDatum: 2 april 2024Tid: 13:00-15:00Plats: 11a316Opponent: Professor Thomas Magnusson, Linköpings universitetHandledare: Mikael Johnson, Martin Löfgren, Alexandre SukhovSlutseminarium (”pajseminarium”) är det sista av de tre obligatoriska seminarierna som doktoranden har under sin utbildning innan disputa
2020-05-15
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Northern Europe is an action-oriented network that mobilizes Nordic scientific and technological expertise to promote integrated approaches to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement.
Its particular focus is on localizing the SDGs, teaching sustainable development and supporting their implementation, in particular through Solution Initiatives and Long-term Pathways.
2019-08-29
CTF researcher Jörg Pareigis, has been appointed as Head of Centre for Teaching and Learning at Karlstad University.
"I am grateful for the trust, and happy to work with knowledgeable and motivated colleagues who are just as passionate about this area as I am, says Jörg Pareigis.
The Centre for Teaching and Learning, UPE, has overall responsibility for the development of skills within university pedagogy and didactics.
There are many ways to understand principals' way of practicing school leadership. In this survey study, we explore how principals' actions are related with teachers' expectations of the principal assignment. How this social role is practised depends on the expectations placed on the position of the role in the social system in which it is included, but also on the expectations of the function to be fulfilled.
The History research seminar is the main forum for historical discussion at the Department of History at Karlstad University. Researchers and PhD students at the department present their research, and we also invite guests from other universities, nationally and internationally. Seminars are held in Swedish or English. Most are open events, welcoming staff and Master students as well as local historians and professionals outside academia.
Warm welcome to a presentation and discussions on 'Virtual Practicum' and 'Digital exchange' with visiting Professor Mary-Rose McLaren from Victoria University in Melbourne. Please feel welcome to come to either one or both of the following sessions:Tuesday 21 March13-14 Presentation on the Australian and Ireland innovation 'Virtual Practicum' - join us for inspiration and discussion!
