We are a core group of nine senior researchers, with a number of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students. We maintain an extensive international network, with collaborators throughout Europe, North America, and beyond.
Project Leaders: Krister Hertting, PhD Halmstad University, and Stefan Wagnsson, PhD Karlstad University
Funding: Swedish Sports Confederation (Riksidrottsförbundet), 650,000 SEK
Project Duration: February 2023 - February 2024
Background and Purpose of the Project:
Swedish sports clubs constitute the most significant organized form of leisure activities for children and youth in Sweden, with approximately 70% of all children aged 6 to 12 being members of a sports club (
Two doctoral students from Karlstad University participated in the first meeting of the WASP-HS graduate school, when 35 doctoral students from a number of Swedish universities gathered to discuss and dive deeper in artificial intelligence and the humanities and social sciences.
The meeting was a two-day virtual event with the purpose to introduce the topics and visions of WASP-HS and to get to know each other.
The doctoral students hold positions at the Swedish universi
2018-11-26
As a service researcher or a marketing scholar, you have most likely heard of Service-Dominant (S-D) Logic. However, do you really know what this potentially paradigm changing mindset is all about? Read the latest CTF blog by PhD Kaisa Koskela-Huotari.
In 2004, Steve Vargo and Bob Lusch published an article in the Journal of Marketing entitled ‘Evolving to a new Dominant Logic for Marketing’.
Marcus Berg is originally from Umeå, where he also majored in Physics before enrolling as a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, which at the time was the biggest university in the U.S. in terms of student numbers, and, not least, had two Nobel Prize laureates in the physics department.
On December 3, Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, and the Tore Browaldh's Foundation announced 20 new recipients of the Wallander Scholarship for outstanding doctoral dissertations. One of the recipients is PhD Kaisa Koskela-Huotari at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University.
Congratulations to the Wallander Scholarship!
"Thank you! I am extremely happy and honored to be awarded the prestigious Wallander Scholarship.
2024-06-19
…you will spend the fall at Kulturhuset Spira in Jönköping for the production of Carmen. And with none other than Rickard Söderberg in the lead role. Exciting! What will you be doing?
“We have been offered an internship to sing the roles of Frasquita (soprano) and Mercédès (mezzo-soprano) - Carmen’s close friends. It will be a concert version with scenic elements.
Dr Anna Pechurina (PhD in Sociology, University of Manchester) is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Social and Psychological Studies at Karlstads University (KaU).
Dr Pechurina’s research expertise includes: study of identity, culture, material culture and homemaking, migration, mobility, international higher education.
Anna is currently researching the meaning of home, hosts/guests relationships as part of sharing economy, and gender identity, work, an
Researchers within Computer Science at Karlstad University have developed a tool, OpenStackEmu, for experimental research on data communication networks, especially on the area of cloud infrastructure.
2018-04-18
On April 16th the EU-funded competition TRA VISIONS 2018 awarded prizes to its young researcher winners of the 2018 Transport Research Arena (TRA 2018). Young researchers from all over Europe submitted innovative concepts in order to enhance smart, sustainable and integrated transport and mobility of people and goods.
2015-12-08
PhD candidate Sanna Ketonen-Oksi from Tampere University of Technology will be visiting CTF between December 2-9. She is interested on how CTF researches have approached the service based thinking and B2B value creation related research.
Sanna Ketonen-Oksi is s a 3rd year PhD candidate in Business and Technology Management at Tampere University of Technology.
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Erik Wästlund was born and raised in Karlstad. He began his academic studies with social anthropology at the University of Gothenburg and then continued with psychology at Karlstad University.
You are now back in Spain after spending four months at CTF. What were your expectations before you came here, and what have you achieved during your visit?
- My expectations before coming here were basically: learning new ways of working and presenting my research at an international level, deepening my dissertation research with the brilliant researchers of CTF, attending research courses, and trying to build partnerships for future research.
Twentyfour persons have received a PhD degree in Physics or Materials Science at Karlstad University since the start.
Mattias Flygare
Dissertation 17 December 2021.
"The influence of crystallinity on the properties of carbon nanotubes”.
Opponent: Professor Thomas Wågberg, Umeå University.
Samuel Starfelt
Dissertation 11 September 2020.
"Scanning tunneling microscopy and photoemission studies of Ag films on metal/semiconductor surfaces”.
Opponent: Professor Anders Mikkel
... Ph D Student in Business Administration at CTF and the research school Management and IT. Can you tell us about your Ph D studies?
- I am about to start my second year of my PhD studies at CTF under the supervision of professor Per Skålén. I spent my first year taking PhD courses all over Sweden and building the theoretical foundation upon which the empirical part of my study will be based.
Swedish higher education offers bachelor’s and master’s programmes, designed to provide students with academic knowledge, critical thinking skills, and practical experience.
Bachelor’s ProgrammesA bachelor’s degree (180 ECTS, 3 years) provides foundational knowledge in a specific field. Some programmes lead to professional degrees, such as in engineering or teaching, which may have additional requirements.
John-Erik Hassel recently completed his PhD in business administration at Karlstad Business School and The Service Research Center (CTF) and has done research on venture builders.
John-Erik Hassel, tell us about your research
– My research is about understanding a relatively new actor in entrepreneurial ecosystems called venture builders and how they can be understood in a larger context.
Excessive latency affects the experienced quality of internet services: online games lag, streaming video buffers, and video conversations are choppy or even interrupted. Toke Høiland-Jørgensen, a phd student at Karlstad University, is working to improve network performance.
2025-05-28
Jakob Olsson, PhD in Comparative Literature at Karlstad University, has been awarded the Martha Sandwall-Bergström Scholarship for his research in children’s and young adult literature. The scholarship is awarded every other year to authors and researchers active in the field.
Congratulations, Jakob! What does this mean to you?
– Thank you! It means a great deal to me, both personally and professionally, to receive such recognition.
2018-10-19
Students, alumni and representatives of local IT companies participated in the Karlstad Programming Contest, held on 6 October. At the end of the contest, team Bug Repellent, with Dan Wolff from Altran, Marcus Söder from Sogeti, and Niclas Fredriksson, computer science student at Karlstad University, emerged as winners with four solved tasks.
"It was really fun to participate," says Marcus Söder from Sogeti.
2018-12-17
The second Mathematics Meets Industry day (MIMM®) was held at Karlstad University on 12 December. Together with representatives from Rolls-Royce, Sogeti and Uddeholm, upper-secondary students, university students, researchers and teachers tried to find mathematical solutions to problems that are yet to be solved.
“We want to showcase Värmland as a basis for attractive employers that use mathematics in advanced modern technology.
Marie Nilsberth has a background as a primary school teacher and special educational needs coordinator, with degrees from the University of Gothenburg and what was then Karlstad University College. She completed her PhD at Karlstad University in 2014 with the doctoral thesis Classroom Trajectories of Teaching, Learning and Literacy. Teacher-Student Desk Interaction in the Middle Years.
Moyses Araujo earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Physics at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil. He completed a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics at Uppsala University (UU), followed by a postdoctoral position at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, supported by the Swedish Research Council.
In 2011, he joined Yale University in the USA as a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Yale Climate and Energy Institute.
In December 2019, CTF in collaboration with Karlstad Business School arranged a multidisciplinary seminar series to advance knowledge within the research area Service system transformation, and as part of a PhD course in Business administration.
The seminar series Service system transformation focused on global societal challenges, and how transformation of societal systems works.
