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Civil society's (new?) roles in combating homelessness: a follow-up study.
The project aims to enhance our understanding of the roles of civil society in the field of homelessness during the 2020s and whether and how these roles have changed since the late 1990s. The empirical study consists of interviews with representatives of civil society organizations working in the field of homelessness in Stockholm and Gothenburg, supplemented with relevant documents.
The EMER network arranges their second workshop 9-10 februari 2023. This workshop will be fully online and is organised by the University of Jyväskylä.
How will our actions today affect future generations? What would the effect be if we looked not just 50 or 100, but millions of years ahead? And what role does history play in creating a sustainable future?
2025-04-29
A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that commercial satellite image archives should be opened to enhance research on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
2024-12-13
This year, the event offered inspiring lectures and spirited conversations about three topics at the forefront of the transformation we are all in.
Rundgång, a shopping venue in Karlstad for reused items, has challenged views on second-hand goods and circular thinking. Emma Sundh, circular entrepreneur and project manager, described the importance of making reuse an attractive concept.
- It’s a matter of skill, says Emma Sundh.
IMTRIS is a cross-border project for the processing of wood raw materials, which is a central resource for the regional bioeconomy. Joint R & D efforts contribute to sustainable growth in the border region.
Centrum för genusforskning
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24.04.2019 kl 15-17, room 3A:340
Title: "GUYnecology: The Missing Science of How Men’s Health Matters for Reproduction"
Presenter: Rene Almeling, Yale University
Abstract: Medical researchers have been making headlines with a surprising series of findings about how the health status of men’s bodies prior to conception can directly affect the health of their children.
The Centre for Societal Risk Research (CSR) is a research centre at Karlstad University specialising in society’s understanding and management of risks in a world where risk and security issues are becoming increasingly complex and vital.
CSR is a research centre that creates and shares knowledge about societal risks and the role of society in relation to these risks.
Joeri van Laere from Univeristy College Skövde is visiting the Information Systems group this Wednesday and will make to presentations within Centre for HumanIT's seminar series.
14:15-15:00
The first seminar has the theme "Socio-technology, socio-materiality: are we still lost?" Joeri makes an account of his search for concrete design themes in works from Ciborra, Orlikowski, Weick, Argyris, Quinn et cetera.
2021-02-01
Exposure during pregnancy's first trimester to mixtures of suspected endocrine disrupting chemicals found in consumer products is related to lower IQ in children after age 7, according to a study by researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Karlstad University, Sweden, published Environment International in October.
2019-05-13
Having the opportunity to practise arguing a case in a complex tax dispute and doing it in the premises of the Administrative Court is worth a great deal for the future professional role.
2019-09-11
Last May the site visits to the universities were made, and now the report on cluster nine has been submitted. The Treklöver partners for quality development at Karlstad University, Linnaeus University and Mid-Sweden University have each submitted a report on the respective university.
2022-08-17
Vaccinating a large enough portion of the population against various diseases is a constant challenge. Despite COVID-19 vaccination being offered for free, many people are still not fully vaccinated.
2023-05-22
The Swedish Research Council has conducted a review of physics research conducted at Karlstad University and 11 other higher education institutions.
2025-05-26
Children in lower primary school gain more knowledge about bodily integrity, boundaries and safety after working with the school programme “Respect! My body!” (Stopp! Min kropp!). These are the findings of a recent study that was conducted by researchers at Karlstad University, commissioned by Save the Children.
The school programme “Respect!
Programmet för hösten är preliminärt. Senaste uppdatering 2015-11-23.
Seminarieunderlag skickas vanligtvis ut på forskargruppens och institutionens maillistor en vecka före seminariet. Intressenter som inte nås av maillistorna får gärna kontakta oss.
Augusti
13-14 aug – KuFo. Möte under ISLIs uppstartsdagar.
September
Ons 2 sept, 13.15-14.30, 12B 545 – Eng ling.
The EU H2020 funded project MONROE (Measuring Mobile Broadband Networks in Europe) builds and operates an open, European-scale platform with multi-homing capabilities to run experiments on operational Mobile Broadband (MBB) networks.
The project has now accepted 15 new external project proposals for funding.
The MONROE project aims to measure and understand the quality of MBB networks as experienced by the end-user.
To interviewees in the research project ’Transnational bachelors. An ethnography on singledom among migrated men in the European Union’
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‘Transnational bachelors’ are men who have moved between countries and describe themselves as single. This project seeks to understand how these men live and manage their lives as singles.
Single men is the largest group among people who migrate. Unfortunately, very little research about them exists.
In media and in communication from the government innovation is brought forward to save our Swedish businesses through increased revenues and lowered cost. In addition, it will help us to create more jobs and a brighter future. Innovation has in recent years become such a buzzword, it seems like everyone is an expert in innovation and that all firms are innovative. So, what does this then mean in practice - let us see both sides of the coin.
2019-02-04
A large-scale study reveals that Swedish teenagers who spend a lot of time playing video games excel when it comes to knowing many words in English. Compared to their non-gaming peers, the gamers score significantly higher for particularly difficult words. The study also concludes that the time played is more important than the type of game played for predicting vocabulary scores.
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Syftet med denna panel är att ur ett tvärvetenskapligt perspektiv utforska skönlitteratur som källa till kunskap om queera liv. Skönlitteraturen har haft en stor betydelse både för queer aktivism och forskning. Den har stått i centrum för queer och trans teoriutveckling i Sverige (t.ex. Björklund & Lönngren 2020, Holmqvist 2017, Kivilaakso, Lönngren och Paqvalén 2012, Rosenberg 2002).
Would you like to share your passion for music on a global level, working all over the world? With a master’s degree, you will be an excellent musician and soloist with high ambitions. This will bring you opportunities at an international level, and you will have a prominent role wherever you perform.
At Ingesund Music School, we offer a calm, scenic environment with considerable access to practice rooms, as well as plenty of recording opportunities.
Understanding what products mean to users or potential customers has always been of key importance for innovation practitioners and designers. In fact, products often related to our identity as users, contributing to providing meaning to our daily lives.
