Invitation to a Hands-on Seminar of the Interreg CBCC project on“Preparing for the Tsunami of new Cybersecurity Regulations – Protecting Cybersecurity and Fundamental Rights through Risk Management” 5th November 2024 – 13:00-16:00 at Karlstad University, 21E 415A and via Zoom (https://kau-se.zoom.us/j/69177881065) – please register for attending online or in person (see below). A survey that we conducted within the scope of the CBCC (Cross Border Cyber Capacity) Interreg Sw
2024-12-19
The sounding rocket SubOrbital Express-4 which was launched from the Esrange Space Center outside Kiruna contained an experiment module from Karlstad University. The module is about studying how the active layer of organic solar cells forms in microgravity.
– In this project, we were able to conduct experiments in an unmanned rocket, says Jan van Stam, professor of physical chemistry at Karlstad University.
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Sexual politics in post-revolutionary Iran and the troubling diasporic epistemic responsibilities
Jina Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody following her arrest for ‘improper’ wearing of the hijab and more than five weeks of women-led uprising in Iran have put the gender politics of the Iranian regime at the center of global attention.
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Ulla Manns, professor in Gender Studies, Södertörns högskola
Overall, my research interests are directed towards the relationship between science and society, social movements and historiography, historical memory and historical silence.
Session 3A: Ett kritiskt samtal om universitetets villkor
Panel (svenska)
Fredrik Nilsson och Lars Engwall (Uppsala universitet)
Universitetets villkor har stor påverkan på den forskning och utbildning som bedrivs vid våra lärosäten. Även om långsiktighet bör prägla universitetets verksamheter har det visat sig att villkoren för dessa statliga myndigheter snabbt kan förändras.
2024ArticlesAbascal, A., Georganos, S., Kuffer, M., Vanhuysse, S., Thomson, D., Wang, J., … Wolff, E. (2024). Making Urban Slum Population Visible : Citizens and Satellites to Reinforce Slum Censuses. In Urban Inequalities from Space : Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World (Vol. 26, pp. 287–302). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49183-2_14Abascal, A., Vanhuysse, S., Grippa, T., Rodriguez-Carreño, I., Georganos, S., Wang, J., … Wolff, E. (2024).
The Centre for Gender Studies (CGF) at Karlstad University has had a long standing focus upon investigating and practically developing different change processes in organisations of various kinds from a feminist perspective. This focus on “Action for Organisational Change” involves analysing, enabling, and generating social change.
All doctoral students are appointed at least two supervisors in connection with their admission to the doctoral programme who will provide help and support during the education period up to the thesis defence and graduation.
SUPERVISION
New doctoral students shall be appointed a main supervisor and at least one assistant supervisor and at least one of them must have completed supervisor training.
Service innovation is an area that many firms, organizations and society are struggling with. Service as a phenomenon is what most of us is occupied with; both as employees and how we spend our money. I have spent a lot of time trying to make sense of what it really is.
The first thing that is striking with service innovations is that some are easy to copy while others are difficult to copy and latter types work well as differentiators for firms.
2018-02-23
Our smartphones constantly leak personal information, and few of us know how this information is used. Computer Science students at Karlstad University have developed Kaudroid – a tool for investigating how apps use permissions to collect user data.
85 percent of people in Sweden owns a smartphone
According to the annual report on “Swedes and the Internet,” 85% of people in Sweden over the age of 12 had a smartphone in 2017.
2020-04-27
Innovation is a central element in addressing sustainability challenges, such as for example defined in the 2030 Agenda. But what are the sources of these sustainability-oriented innovations?
When looking at traditional innovation theory and related policies the answer is clear: Firms and research institutions are in charge.
2020-04-30
Choosing serving size packages and smaller packages is smarter for the climate. This according to a new study from CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, where the researchers have mapped food waste in Swedish households.
2021-02-16
Many people start a new year by making new year’s resolutions, often to make a change and start a healthier life. At the same time, research shows that only a few of us are able to keep our new resolutions. Perhaps the best way is to go all in, and create a new habit that is done every day - a run streak.
A run streak means running at least 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) or a minimum of 20 minutes every day for a set period of time, without fail, and has become a popular movement all over the world.
A selection of the most recent publications from CSR-affiliated researchers.
Political understanding of maladaptation
2020-04-21: Political theories and concepts are to an increasing degree applied as analytical tools for the negative aspects of climate adaptation (maladaptation).
This year's Sustainability Day at the Business School centred to a great extent on the art of moving from talking to acting, turning ideas and plans into speed and action, since knowledge means nothing without the ability to use it.
2022-01-28
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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.
According to the study “Sharing economy platforms as mainstream: balancing pro-social and economic tensions”, there are tensions between the digital and the old ways of sharing things.
- Sharing economy platforms are erasing the borders between personal/social norms and market norms in commercial exchanges, says Hugo Guyader, senior lecturer in Business Administration at Linköping University and former visiting researcher at Karlstad University, who has conducted this st
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.
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.
2024-04-25
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?
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.
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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.
