Hello there, Hanna Enefalk, Associate Professor of History and the new representative for Karlstad University in Humtank. Tell us more!
"Humtank is a think tank for research and education in the humanities, with representatives from fourteen Swedish universities and colleges. It has existed for over ten years and is funded by nearly all Swedish universities engaged in humanities research. Its purpose is to highlight the humanities and their perspectives.
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Specfic 2021 takes place on December 1–3 at Karlstad University. The conference features keynotes by Professor Edward James (University College Dublin), Dr. Merja Polvinen (University of Helsinki), and Professor Jonas Linderoth (University of Gothenburg). See the program and a presentation of the keynote speakers below.
Bo Edvardsson, Professor of Business Administration and Assistant Vice-Chanchellor, has been awarded funds from Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius Foundation and Tore Browaldhs Foundation for the project “Service Innovation from a service ecosystem point of view: Scaling up and technology enablers”.
In the spring of 2018 he will spend time as a guest researcher at Cornell University, USA, EGADE Business School, Mexico and Roma Tre University, Italy, to conduct interviews, a
2015-05-13
Associate Professor John Bonner in Huddersfield developed several Wizard-of-Oz setup together with the then doctoral researcher Andol Li and is now interested in how lectures and other events can be developed with video and sound support.
2013-11-12
Owen Waygood, assistant professor in the École supérieure d’aménagement du territoire et de développement régional (ÉSAD; Graduate School of Spatial Planning and Regional Development) at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada, is visiting CTF this a week to meet with Margareta Friman, Professor and Director of Samot, and other researchers within Samot.
Owen Waygood has a wide interest
2013-10-04
... Professor and Director for Center for Service Innovation, nice to see you here again, what brings you to CTF today?
- I´m visiting CTF today to develop two new research ideas. One with Bo Edvardsson and Lars Witell on Service Innovation: Are managers and academics on the same page. This is an initial study to explore if the demand and supply side of service innovation knowledge is working on the same issues.
2023-06-02
Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, both professors in media and communication studies, have won the 2023 Tankard Book Award.
Tell us about “Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept”, your co-authored and award-winning book.
- Independence, or autonomy as we refer to it in the book, is a key ideal in journalism, says Michael Karlsson. That is true in Sweden as well as abroad.
2023-05-08
Setting the Scene: Academic interventions in the media and tourism industries with our guest professor Stijn Reijnders at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Title
Setting the Scene: Academic interventions in the media and tourism industries
Abstract
This presentation focuses on media tourism: the phenomenon of people travelling to places associated with films, TV series or other forms of popular culture.
2019-05-02
This week, 29 April - 2 May, the 39th version of the IEEE Infocom conference is taking place in Paris, France. The conference is one of the leading conferences in the computer networking area and attracts a large number of researchers from all over the world.
2014-07-04
June 16-19 CTF hosted the FMM2014 in Karlstad, Sweden. This 4th Fourm FMM14 built on the foundations of the previous forums, and was co-chaired by professors Bo Edvardsson and Anders Gustafsson, CTF, together with the fathers of service-dominant logic; professors Robert F. Lusch, University of Arizona, and Stephen L.
2020-02-18
How do frontline employees in retail react to and handle situations where the customer ignores them and instead looks at their mobile phone?
2023-04-21
Today is A. ("Parsu") Parasuraman, Professor of Marketing & The James W. McLamore Chair School of Business Administration University of Miami, visiting CTF. He is here to discuss a Global Consortium of Service Centers initiative and to talk with some or our researchers.
A. Parasuraman is a Professor and Holder of the James W.
Academic Celebration 2023 will be celebrated on 20 October in Aula Magna at Karlstad University. All professors and honorary doctors are presented at Karlstad CCC in the morning and installed and promoted at the ceremony in the afternoon.
This is one of the questions that Anna-Lena Almqvist, Professor of Social Work at Karlstad University, is exploring. Her current research focuses on the participation of children and young people in foster placements and how safer relationships can be created in vulnerable life situations.
Hello Anna-Lena! Can you tell us about your research?
"My main research areas are child welfare, men's work against violence, and LGBTQI-related issues.
2017-06-19
This year, fifteen researchers will receive awards from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, RJ, The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, for full-time research up to one year. One of the recipients is Anders Gustafsson, Professor of Business Administration at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University.
– It it feels fantastic!
2023-02-27
This autumn, it's time – we start our new Master Programme in Music. Here, in close collaboration with our three professors in voice, piano and string instruments, you get the opportunity to develop as a musician and deepen your artistic skills, your craft and your id.
You, who aim high in your career and already have a bachelor's degree in music from us or another music school have the opportunity to apply for our master’s program.
2025-02-26
For the past 15 years, the Service Research Center (CTF), with funding from the Knowledge Foundation, has generated world-class research on service innovation, servitisation and customer experiences.
Den 7 oktober 2015 arrangerade KuFo ett symposium om Sigfrid Siwertz.
11.00 Inledning, Anna Forssberg, Lektor vid KaU
11.15 ”’Jag har ju sagt dig, att jag är en fri man.’ Sigfrid Siwertz Jonas och draken som bildningsroman”, Peter Forsgren, Professor vid Linnéuniversitetet
12.00 ”Begreppet arbete i Sigfrid Siwertz romankonst”, Anna Forssberg, Lektor vid Karlstads universitet
13.30 Siwertz som aktivist: ’Eldens återsken’ och Första världskriget”, Ma
An international contingent of scholars gathered at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, APPC, in May for a two-day conference on the role of attitudes in policy, science communication, education, and other fields.
2015-04-24
As part of Erasmus+, Kerstin Siakas, professor at the Alexander Institute of Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece, visited the department of information systems in 20-24 April.
During her visit, Prof. Siakas participated in a number of course-related activities such as Bachelor thesis supervision and gave a lecture to students in the courses Business Systems II: Development models and Business by Web and Web Analytics.
2015-09-23
Professor William Wei Song from Dalarna University on the research at his department in Information Systems including his own on trust computing.
"We are also involved in a local "big data" project - called smart city Yudu - a three layer framework: 1) business model for describing an overall situation of the city (main sources are from transport data management, weather data management, and government statistic data management), 2) data analysis (vertical versus horizon
2022-06-22
...Professor of Energy and Environmental Technology. Your research on packaging and food waste is currently gaining much international attention. What is this research about?
– Yes, that’s correct! My colleague Helén Williams and I have written an article based on our research on packaging and food waste. We wrote it on behalf of an Australian organisation, 360info.
The project “Adaptions of Octavia E. Butler’s novels in the twenty-first century” is conducted by Maria Holmgren Troy, who is Director of KuFo and professor of English.
Academic work on Octavia E. Butler’s speculative fiction has increased exponentially since the 1990s, and Butler is a towering presence in the multidisciplinary field termed Afrofuturism.
Bridget Kane, associate professor of Information Systems, spent three days in Copenhagen on a trip to Healthcare Denmark, and the European Headquarters of the World Health Organisation.
The field trip was organised through the Centre for Health Policy and Management at Trinity College Dublin.
