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Guro Gravem Johansen is originally from Troms in northern Norway where she grew up on a farm close to the sea. She is a trained jazz singer with a bachelor’s and master’s degree as well as a PhD in music education from the Norwegian Academy of Music.
Jorryt van Bommel was born and raised in the Netherlands, where she also graduated as a teacher in mathematics in 1997. After moving to Sweden in 1999, she began work as a teacher educator at Karlstad University in the autumn of 2000, and later started her PhD studies in 2005.
“My research revolves around mathematics education, for example, how the subject is introduced to children when they start school.
Nanna Fyhrquist was born and raised in Helsinki, Finland. Her academic journey began at the University of Helsinki, where she studied biology and later earned her PhD in 1999.
She went on to be appointed as a docent in physiology and neuroscience at the same university.
Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist started her research career in sociology and gender studies at Lund University. She completed her PhD in sociology in 2007 with a doctoral thesis on male bisexuality, as part of the Gender Research School at Umeå University. She has since taught and conducted research in interdisciplinary settings at various universities in Sweden.
Stig-Börje Asplund was born and raised in Torsby. After graduating from an upper-secondary school programme for athletes in Karlstad, he studied to become a teacher during the mid-1990s, back when Karlstad University was still a university college.
Following his teaching degree, he went on to work as an upper-secondary school teacher in Swedish and history for 17 years. In 2005, he began his PhD studies at Karlstad University, while continuing to teach part-time.
Tell us about your current research
- My research is developing knowledge about digitization practices and its consequences to users, organizations and society as well as the design and visualizations for the development of digital practices, resources and artifacts.
The Mediatization of Space through navigational interfaces, or: the digital map as a symptom of (almost) everything that has happened with media.
After a phase of “spatial forgetfulness,” media and communication studies have revisited the intersection of media, space, and place, challenging earlier views of media inherently transcending geographical constrains leading to spatial annihilation and the disappearance of distance.
Karlstad University has received support from the Swedish Agency for Growth (Tillväxtverket) to build a research environment for circular forest-based bioeconomy, in close cooperation with the region's small and medium-sized enterprises. The research environment is Pro2BE - Processes and products for a circular bioeconomy.
Tourism, popular culture and media - Stijn Reijnders has an interdisciplinary approach to examining the role and meaning of locations in popular culture.
Stijn Reijnders is a full professor of Cultural Heritage, specialised in tourism and popular culture. He is active at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and his research is focused on the intersection of media, culture and tourism.
ResearchersJonas Berghel, Professor in Environment and Energy SystemsLena Brunzell, Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Energy SystemsGunilla Carlsson Kvarnlöf, Senior Lecturer in ChemistryMiguel Xavier Fernandes, Senior Lecturer in ChemistryStefan Frodeson, Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Energy SystemsKarin Granström, Professor in Environmental and Energy SystemsAbdul Haseb, PhD student in ChemistryMozhgan Hashemzehi, PhD student in Chemical EngineeringGunnar Henriksson, Professor i
On September 5-6 CTF gathered for the annual research meeting, this year held at Tanumstrand at the swedish west coast. What was on the agenda for the meeting?
– We had two things on the agenda for our meeting, impact and applications. The theme for this year was impact, but not academic impact!
During visits to student fairs in Australia, John Sören Pettersson also keeps contact with Karlstad University "docent" Dr. Rodney Clarke at SMART lab at Wolongong University.
SMART lab seminar April 28, 2015, on the problems of creating generic Wizard-of-Oz prototyping systems.
John Sören Pettersson and Rodney Clarke at the SMART lab entrence (2015-04-17).
See also post on SMART's blog.
… and head of Karlstad Business School at Karlstad University which recently received AACSB accreditation. Congratulations, how does it feel?
"Thank you, it feels fantastic!
– I want to shed light on the unseen – and the gaze that fails to see, says Markus Lundström, who conducts research on racism, nationalism and political action.
He is looking forward to contributing his expertise in historical sociology at Karlstad University, and dreams about creating an interdisciplinary forum for critical time studies.
Before coming to Karlstad University, Markus Lundström held a position at Mid Sweden University.
“I collaborate with researchers in the fields of human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, subject-specific music education and ethics.”
Carl Unander-Scharin was born in Stockholm in 1964 and graduated from Adolf Fredriks musikgymnasium in 1983. He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he studied church music, choir education and the supplementary teacher education.
We are happy to welcome Stephen L. Vargo, Shidler Distinguished Professor and Professor of Marketing at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who will be visiting us this week.
Stephen L. Vargo was appointed as Visiting Professor at CTF in December 2011.
CTF Professors Anders Gustafsson, Per Kristensson and Lars Witell, are together with Professor Gary Schirr at Radford University, the authors behind the new book "Service Innovation”.
CTF Professors Anders Gustafsson, Per Kristensson and Lars Witell have teamed up with Professor Gary Schirr at Radford University, in the new book "Service Innovation".
"We are delighted that our book on service innovation finally is available in English.
... you received visitors from Guangzhou in Kina on 9 December. Why?
”They were a delegation from Guangzhou Audit Bureau, which is part of the city of Guangzhous’ municipal administration.
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Professor Kirsi Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland
Presentation of abstractFinland is known as an exemplar country in education with high students’ achievement in PISA studies and good teacher education. Inclusive education, curriculum integration, and digital learning are examples of current innovations in Finnish education. The Finnish educational system is built on inclusion, equality, and equity.
In December 2017, Professor Satoshi Fujii was appointed Ander Visiting Professor at CTF. Last week, he paid his first visit to CTF to get acquainted with the research center and to meet with the researchers.
Dr. Satoshi Fujii is a professor of transportation planning and behavioral-psychological analysis of transportation in the Department of Urban Management at Kyoto University, Japan.
Recent progress in the area of Machine Learning, AI and Optimization enables intelligent decisions to be made that e.g. improve the quality of the production processes and the final product, the prediction of system properties (such as sales forecasting or power generation), the prediction of machine downtime (predictive maintenance), among others.
The focus area “Intelligence” addresses research that is required in order to engineer AI algorithms for a given use case (e.g.
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Professor Margaret Sutherland, University of Glasgow, Scotland
PRESENTATION OF ABSTRACTIn 1994 the Salamanca Statements called for inclusive education. Since then, establishing inclusion and inclusive education have become the goal of many countries across the globe.
This week is Joann Peck, Associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, visiting CTF. She is one of our Ander Visiting Professors, and is visiting CTF to meet with the researchers and to work on a joint research project on interpersonal touch.
"I am thrilled to be an Ander Visiting Professor at CTF!
