Axel Isberg, 19 years old, a student at the Elite Sports University, Karlstad University, recently became the European champion in equipped powerlifting at the Junior European Championships in Luxembourg. This marks the third time he has achieved this feat, having also won gold medals at the European Championships in 2022 and 2021.
In total, he lifted nearly a ton and set junior records in three events.
Doctoral studies, or PhD studies, are suitable for those wanting to acquire cutting-edge competence within a particular area and wanting to make a professional career within industry or the public sector or in research.
PhD´s are the most advanced academic qualifications awarded in Sweden.
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Can I transfer my studies to Karlstad University?General information about credit transferAll students at Karlstad University must apply through universityadmissions.se where all our programs and courses are available. The application period for the spring semester 2023 is September 15th to October 17th.
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Anna-Lena Almqvist was born and raised in Umeå, where she also completed her PhD following a bachelor’s degree in sociology at Stockholm University.
Her doctoral thesis focused on how families combine work and childcare in five European countries. She recently started her employment at Karlstad University.
"My most current research focuses on people in vulnerable life situations. It is about bringing their experiences to the fore.
Welcome Ceremony for Exchange Students – Spring Semester 2026We warmly welcome all incoming exchange students to Karlstad University for the spring semester of 2026.The welcome ceremony marks the official start of your exchange experience and provides an introduction to the university, student life, and practical information to help you settle into your studies in Karlstad.
2022-06-01
Live case studies are a good way to learn and provide a feeling of being in a professional setting.
In the course Business Development from a Process and Partnership Perspective, students at Karlstad Business School have been given the opportunity to collaborate with several organisations. Students have been helping to map out business processes and develop improved work procedures using digitalisation.
Tobias Otterbring, former PhD student at CTF, today researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark and visiting researcher at CTF, has been awarded the 2018 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award for his doctoral dissertation.
"I am honored that my work attracts international attention. At the same time it shows that the research conducted at CTF is world-class.
2021-03-15
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The Graduate School of Health has the ambition to offer a strong and creative research education environment in a broader context than any individual subject can offer.
Johan Renault, master program student in marketing, how was your green journey to Schwäbisch Hall in Germany?
- The journey went extremely well. It was fun to drive down all together, and we got to know each other along the way since we did not know each other before, so it was really fun. We stopped a few times along the way, but it actually didn’t feel that long when driving down all together, and we didn’t get bored.
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Cornelia Brantner holds a PhD and a master’s degree from the Department of Journalism and Communication at the University of Vienna, Austria.
After her PhD, she had a postdoctoral position which concluded with a few months at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where she deepened her knowledge of digital methods, such as network analysis.
The first Nordic conference for PhD supervisors has now been held at Karlstad University. With a large turnout from 13 countries and 42 universities, one might wonder how big the Nordic region is, or as expressed by one of the participants, “The Nordic countries have grown in numbers”.
– It has been an intense but very rewarding few days, says Roger Renström, docent in computer science and organiser of the conference.
2024-02-14
In the last ten years, relatively large groups have entered the labour market. At the same time, most societal sectors have expressed a clear skills shortage. The next ten years are expected to be even tougher and competition for skilled employees will intensify.
This development will also likely be reflected in a growing demand for higher education, where we can expect increasing competition to attract students.
2024-05-24
You and an ensemble from Musikhögskolan Ingesund traditionally played during the Polar Music Prize earlier this week.
Where and when did you play in connection to the award ceremony?
“We played at the beginning of the red carpet outside the Grand Hotel as all the guests arrived, from 4:00 PM and for a good hour until the royal family arrived.
How did it feel to play for all of Sweden’s music elite, as well as for the award winners and other musicians who flew in?
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2025-02-11
You are currently at UC Berkeley in California. What are you doing there?
– Thanks to Fulbright, an exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State, the Jane and Dan Olsson foundation and the Sixten Gemzeus foundation, I have the opportunity to spend a year here and collaborate with researchers at the Department of Linguistics. I arrived in the autumn of 2024 and will stay until July 2025.
2023-02-06
Brianne Nichols, is a lecturer at Karlstad University and holds a PhD in Psychology from Bangor University in the UK. Now, she is joining CTF to contribute to ongoing research in the field of transport psychology.
Hello Brianne and welcome to CTF!
2017-01-30
By playing the role of national cyber security experts, doctoral students from Karlstad University won Cyber Challenge 2017, organised by the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish Defence University and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB).
2016-06-01
Lucia Casap, presently PhD student at Academy of Economic Sciences of Moldova, and about to start as Operations Officer at the World Bank in Moldova, will speak about the educational support by World Bank in her country, and about her research on the development of an Educational Management Information System.
June 1: Lucia has continued her studies on EMIS and has also continued her interviews here in Sweden.
2023-05-15
... you started last autum and aim for a doctorate in human geography. What is the topic of your thesis?
"I investigate the relationship between humans, animals and the environment – more specifically between humans, wolves and different spatial conditions.
2019-02-12
Michel Gokan Khan, PhD student in Computer Science at Karlstad University, has developed the “NFV-Inspector”, a free and fully open source platform for optimizing the infrastructure of the next generation of 5G networks.
