…Professor in Consumer Psychology and Innovation at CTF. You are going to Arizona State University, USA at the end of this month. What are you going to do there?
- I am going to spend four months as a guest researcher at the Center for Service Leadership.
August 19-23, 2024, Karlstad, Sweden. In honour of Professor Lars-Erik Persson, on the occasion of his 80 years anniversary.
This conference is devoted to recent developments in Functional and Fourier Analysis, Interpolation, Homogenization and PDE-s, Inequalities, Convexity Theory and Engineering Mathematics.
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Academic Celebration 2024 will be celebrated on October 18 in Aula Magna at Karlstad University. All professors and honorary doctors are presented at Karlstad CCC in the morning and inauguarated and promoted at the ceremony in the afternoon.
Relive Academic Celebration 2024
Now you have the opportunity to relive Academic Celebration 2024 on film, which this year also was streamed live during the ceremony. You can also see and order photos in this year's photo album.
Markus Fellesson, Associate Professor at CTF, Karlstad University, and Nicklas Salomonson, Associate Professor at University of Borås have received great attention and praise for their research on difficult customers.
During the last year, the researchers have been analyzing survey responses from commercial employees.
2017-05-05
For the second time Professor Kai Holzweissig from Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg visited the Information Systems department at Karlstad University.
2018-01-10
Ellen Moons, professor of physics at Karlstad University was elected a Swedish member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the discipline of physics.
- I am honoured to be elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences, says Ellen Moons. It is a great recognition and a bit hard to take in.
Ellen Moons is professor of physics at the Department of Engineering and Physics, Karlstad University.
2016-03-01
We welcome Professor dr. Paul Gemmel from Belgium, who will be visiting us until April 11th.
Paul Gemmel is full professor of Service and Healthcare Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business administration of the Ghent University and Senior Research Fellow at the Vlerick Business School, both located in Belgium.
2018-01-31
A study done at Karlstad University shows that seven products account for almost half the fruit and vegetables wasted by retailers. Potentially, food waste can be drastically limited by focusing on these products.
- Retailers may profit by allocating more staff hours to measures that lead to reduced fruit and vegetable waste, thereby saving money and the environment, says Lisa Mattsson at Karlstad University.
2023-10-04
The Academic Celebration is one of the biggest events of the year at Karlstad University and a long-standing tradition. On 20 October it is time again and this year we celebrate passion for research – we present and inauguarate our new Vice-Chancellor Jerker Moodysson during this year's celebration. With great pomp and ceremony we will promote our new doctors, award honorary doctorates and inaugurate our new professors.
2017-06-22
The government today followed the recommendation of the university board and appointed Professor Johan Sterte as Karlstad University’s vice-chancellor. Johan Sterte succeeds Åsa Bergenheim to the post on 1 September 2017.
Johan Sterte (57) has extensive experience as vice-chancellor. He was the vice-chancellor of Växjö University from 2009 to 2009, and since 2009 he has been vice-chancellor of Luleå Luleå University of Technology.
2012-11-15
Maria Colurcio, assistant professor of Management and Marketing at University of Magna Graecia di Catanzaro-Italy, is visiting us this week to meet with her collegua Angela Caridá and professor Bo Edvardsson.
Maria Colurcio obtained her PhD in Business and Administration in 2001. Her main areas of interest are service innovation, quality, and web marketing.
2012-11-06
Bernard Cova is Professor of Marketing at Euromed Management, Marseilles and Visiting Professor at Bocconi University Milan and is visiting us this week to give a seminar on the topic of Working Consumers and to meet with the researchers at CTF.
Bernard Cova is a pioneer in the Consumer Tribes field since the early nineties - see his 2007 book co-authored with Robert Kozinets and Avi Shankar published by Butterworth-Heinemann -, his internationally-influential research h
2013-09-04
Margareta Friman, Professor and Director at Samot, The Service and Market Oriented Transport Research Group at Karlstad University, has accepted an assignment in the External Advisory Board of Metpex.
Metpex is a research project funded in the context of the 7th Framework Programme of the EU, aiming to develop and evaluate a standardised tool to measure passenger experience across whole journeys.
2016-09-23
We are proud to annouce Javier Reynoso, Professor of Service Management at EGADE Business School, Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), Mexico, as one of the speakers at CTF 30th Anniversary.
What will you talk about on October 6th?
- I am going to talk about service research at the Base of the Pyramid – this means the need and relevance of service research in the huge segment of society who lives with less than 9 USD per day.
2016-06-22
Computer Science at Karlstad University has successfully recruited a new professor to its excellence research on data security and privacy. Melanie Volkamer works on human factors in security and privacy.
- Often it looks like security contradicts usability. That is, the more secure it is, the less usable it is.
2024-10-07
As the leaves on the trees begin to change colour, it’s time for the Academic Ceremony, one of the biggest events of the year at Karlstad University and a long-standing tradition. In troubled times, it is important to protect unity, cooperation, and team spirit and what we can achieve together, not least in research. On October 18th, we will together confer new doctors, honorary doctors as well as install our new professors.
2021-08-27
Bo Edvardsson, professor in Business Administration and founder of CTF, share some stories and reflects on CTF's 35 years of service research at Karlstad University.
It is almost inconceivable that it is 35 years since CTF started. Time goes really fast when you have a fun and a meaningful job.
2022-06-20
Bo Edvardsson, professor at Karlstad Business Service Research Center (CTF), and Bård Tronvoll, professor at CTF and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, are the editors for the newly published Palgrave Handbook of Service Management.
- The book provides a unique and current overview of service management research, says Bo Edvardsson.
2021-11-02
Inger Roos is a senior associate professor in Marketing and was a researcher at CTF during 2002 - 2016. Here, she shares some memories of her first meeting with CTF and what made her become a researcher.
For many years, CTF has meant a lot to me and for my research on customer relationships stability.
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Augmented mobilities and encounters in urban public places: mobile locative media, from the case of Grindr to future smart cities - Professor Christian Licoppe, Telecom Paristech
The aim of this conference is to discuss the use of mobile locative media and the way the availability of various forms of location awareness and proximity awareness provides resources for the reshaping of mobilities (with the pervasive figure of the 'detour') and sociality in urban public place
Professor of Analytical Chemistry Torgny Fornstedt received the J. F. K. Huber Lecture Award at the International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC 2024) in Liverpool in October. The award was given for ‘highly recognised contributions to the fundamental understanding of adsorption chromatography’.
‘This distinction means a great deal to me, as J. F. K.
2018-10-03
The book ”Arbete & Välfärd” (Work & Welfare) will be out in February 2019, but has already been awarded one on of the honorary awards of Kurslitteraturpriset – Sweden's highest award to authors of new course literature.
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Visualizing the smart city - Professor Gillian Rose, The Open University, UK.
Digital technologies of various kinds are now the means through which many cities are made visible and their spatialities negotiated. From casual snaps shared on Instagram to elaborate photo-realistic visualisations, digital technologies for making, distributing and viewing cities are more and more pervasive.
Margareta Friman is a professor of psychology and pro-vice chancellor at Karlstad University and has been part of CTF since the mid-90s. Here, she reflects and share some memories from her time at CTF.
It all started when Professor Patrik Larsson, former CTF director and current dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, gave me the opportunity to try out the life as a researcher.
2017-05-17
