Professor Anders Gustafsson, CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, has been awarded the “Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions to the Services Discipline Award”. Only five times earlier has the award been presented to a researcher outside the US.
"I am overwhelmed and very honored to receive this award.
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PROFESSOR
Bestoun S Ahmed Al-Beywanee
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Sebastian Herold
Muhammad Ovais Ahmad
SENIOR LECTURER
Martin Blom
RESEARCHENGINEERS
Jonas Karlsson
Tobias Vehkajärvi
Yurong Li
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Zipani Tom Sinkala
Bilal Maqbool
Firas Bayram
Manal Rahal
Pavithra Preethimali Herath
… Professor at CTF and Assistant Vice-Chancellor at Karlstad University. You just returned from a month-long visit on New Zealand. What did you do there?
- I was Visiting Professor at University of Canterbury. This was in the context of an international teacher and researcher exchange funded by the Erskine Programme.
2014-10-08
During this fall, CTF will be holding webinars within service innovation. The first webinar will be held by Professor Per Kristensson who will talk about Service Logic on October 10th.
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Academic Celebration 2023 will be celebrated on October 20 in Aula Magna at Karlstad University. We present and inauguarate our new Vice-Chancellor Jerker Moodysson during this year's celebration.
Professor Bo Edvardsson summarizes and reflects on a new book chapter and provides guidance on how to become more successful when developing new services.
Businesses and other organizations need to renew themselves to survive in fast changing markets. This is today even more important than ever before.
2019-04-17
Congratulations to Lars E. Olsson, Associate Professor of Psychology, for the CIM Best Reviewer Award 2018!
The award is presented by the journal Creativity and Innovation Management, with the motivation:
"Lars receives this year's CIM Review Award because his numerous reviews in 2018 have shown true commitment and excellent quality for the CIM journal.
Maria Holmgren Troy is professor of English and Director of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo).
Her research has first and foremost dealt with different aspects and phenomena within American literature and culture as well as speculative fiction, and has often touched on gender issues in fiction of different kinds. She teaches a recurrent M.A.
We caught up with Professor Stephen Osborne, Chair of International Public Management and Deputy Dean of the Business School at University of Edinburgh, who is visiting us this week to meet with researchers Johan Quist and Martin Fransson.
Hello Professor Osborne, and welcome to CTF!
2014-09-03
Professors Patrik Larsson, CTF, and Lena Gonäs, Working Life Science at Karlstad University, have contributed to this book with a chapter on the Swedish development of human resource management entitled "Employment Regimes and Personnel Work in Sweden".
The book contains studies of the historical development of human resource management (HRM) in
seventeen different nations.
Academic Celebration 2023 is celebrated on October 20 in Aula Magna at Karlstad University. All professors and honorary doctors are presented at Karlstad CCC in the morning and inaugurated and promoted at the ceremony in the afternoon. During the ceremony, an inauguration of our new Vice-Chancellor at Karlstad University will also take place.
Professors 2023
Bestoun S.
Jesper Haglund, senior lecturer and associate professor, Karlstad University (chair)
Maria Fahlgren, senior lecturer and associate professor, Karlstad University
Nina Kilbrink, senior lecturer and associate professor, Karlstad University
Susanne Walan, senior lecturer and associate professor, Karlstad University
Nina Christenson, senior lecturer, Karlstad University
Torodd Lunde, senior lecturer, Karlstad University
Monica Evermark, director RUC, Karlstad University
Marie Nilsberth, senior lectu
Associate professor Lothar Fritsch (Karlstad University) will hold a tutorial on privacy compliance at the ImperialCollege in London.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect in May 2018 and will introduce a regulatory framework of new data protection rights for EU citizens. This one-day conference is tailored towards higher education professionals.
2020-06-29
Margareta Dahlström, professor in human geography and director of CRS, is a board member of Reglab as of 1 January 2020.
Reglab is a meeting place for regions, authorities, researchers and others to deepen the knowledge of regional development issues. Reglab includes 21 regions, Vinnova, the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, and the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth.
With funding from the Anne-Marie and Gustaf Ander foundation for media research, Media and Communication Studies has announced an annual Visiting Professorship focused on media, communication, and globalisation each year since 2009: The Ander Visiting Professor in Geomedia Studies (formerly Global Media Studies).
The professorship is awarded each year to a person who has contributed in a significant way through research or media-related activities to knowledge about the
The function of the steering committee is to contribute to the strategic planning of the center, support in dissemination of centers activities, help to build networking community around the center and propose centers budget.
Malin Thorsén, CEO and founder of Bright Planet AB, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Advisory board at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University.
In addition to the chairman, the board has the following external members: Hans Karlsson, SKL, Peter Rovér, Effect Management, Christina Öberg, Örebro Univesity, Jonas Matthing, RISE, Anders Tufvesson, Ninetech, Sofi W.
2017-05-17
Professor Remigijus Gustas and Assistant Professor Prima Gustiene from the Information Systems department at Karlstad Business School were awarded “Best Paper” at the 6th BMSD International Symposium of Business Modeling and Software Design, held in Rhodes, Greece, June 20-22, 2016.
Now, an extended version of their paper “Principles of Semantically Integrated Conceptual Modelling Method” appears as the first chapter of eleven “selected papers” in a Springer LNBIP volume
Nina Lykke has a background in comparative literature, but her main focus has always been gender. She held a position as researcher in gender studies at the University of Southern Denmark from 1981 to 1999, and headed the university’s centre for women and gender studies during this period. She was appointed to the position of docent [associate professor] at the same university in 1992, with a dissertation on feminism and psychoanalysis.
The process of recruiting a new vice-chancellor at Karlstad University is progressing. The recruitment group has unanimous decided to go ahead with professor Jerker Moodysson, the candidate assessed to have the highest merits in regards to the requirement profile.
He is Professor and his work focuses on the geography of innovation and the dynamics of regional economies.
2023-04-21
Bestoun S Ahmed Al-Beywanee was appointed Professor in Computer Science on 1st March. Congratulations, Bestoun!
What is the focus of your research?
My broad research focuses on software quality assurance and applied soft computing in softwareengineering. Part of this in the past years was using AI to solve software quality assurance problems such astest generation and design.
2024-06-25
The ICA Journalism Studies Division Book Award has been awarded to Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, both professors of media and communication science at Karlstad University, for their book “Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept.”
Additionally, their article titled “Recoding Journalism: Establishing Normative Dimensions for a Twenty-First Century News Media” has achieved success and received The Bob Franklin Journal Article Award.
The Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research awarded its 2014 scholarship to Professor Margareta Friman at Karlstad University.
Margareta Friman will receive the scholarship of SEK 250,000 for
combining behavioral science with transportation research, and thus
has increased understanding of the factors that influence the decisions and choices of transport people make.
The scholarship will be awarded by the Håkan Frisinger Foundation
at a seminar held o
