The university's external relations officers are here to facilitate collaborations between students and the working life. Our aim is to shorten the time between studies and employment.
If you are interested in working with us and/or with our students, there are plenty of opportunities for it – for instance internships, degree theses, mentorships and job fairs.
"Hand in hand we stand" is a project in collaboration between students, teachers, school health services, and school leaders. The goal is to develop a model to promote mental health among young people in the school environment.
The aim of the research project is to develop a model for health promotion work in school environments with a focus on mental health among children and adolescents.
We welcome Oksana Tokar, Ph D Student at the Department IT Management & Consulting, Universität Hamburg, in Germany, who will be visiting us for the next two weeks.
- During my stay at CTF I will be working on my paper about crossing service systems boundaries with my co-writers Tilo Böhmann, Universität Hamburg, Bo Edvardsson and Bard Tronvoll, CTF. I will also meet with researchers at CTF that are working on the same topic.
The purpose of the project is to provide knowledge of climate literacy based on empirical data to be used in school. The researchers have developed a theoretical model of what knowledge, abilities and attitudes constitute students’ climate literacy, hypotheses about what factors affect climate literacy, and how climate literacy can lead to a willingness to act in a more climate-friendly way.
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Are you interested in applying and starting one of our courses at Ingesund? We now offer you to come and visit us for a day to see into the everyday life as a student.
You will be able to follow a current student who attends one of our programmes or courses and watch lessons, as well as get some information that may be good to have before the application and entrance test. Register your interest to Pierre Koch, Director of Studies at Ingesund School of Music.
Months of preparation went in to the first week of CRE8 Europe hosted in Karlstad. A sunny but chilly September morning greeted the students. It turned out to be a week full of meetings, new friendships, challenging tasks and new cultural experiences.
The students (except for the Karlstad students) where all booked at Karlstad City Hostel. A small hotel/hostel with lounge/dining room for the students to meet and hang out during off hours of the program.
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Months of preparation went in to the first week of CRE8 Europe hosted in Karlstad. A sunny but chilly September morning greeted the students. It turned out to be a week full of meetings, new friendships, challenging tasks and new cultural experiences.
The students (except for the Karlstad students) where all booked at Karlstad City Hostel. A small hotel/hostel with lounge/dining room for the students to meet and hang out during off hours of the program.
The conflicts fall into three categories – easy, difficult and impossible. A collaboration between working life science and sociology has led to a book for students.
Jonas Axelsson, Senior Lecturer in working life science at Karlstad Business School, and Markus Arvidson, Senior Lecturer in sociology at Karlstad University, have a long-term interest in matters of loyalty. They have known each other for more than ten years and had many discussions on the topic.
Linking Instruction and Student Achievement – Professional Learning Observations of Teaching
LISA-PLOT is a combined research and development project investigating the importance of peer feedback and video-based group reflections for the development of teachers' teaching quality. Teachers are trained to use research-based criteria as a basis for observing and giving feedback to each other on their teaching.
A close and developing contact with companies, organizations and administration is important for Karlstad Business School. The fact that our programs and courses have a strong relevance for a future professional life are crucial success factors for us and our students.
We simply believe that the results will be better when several parties work together. When different perspectives meet.
As main field of study, Cultural Studies includes a broad selection of courses as part of the Culture, Policy and Management Programme, but also as independent courses for non-programme students.
Three semesters of the programme are focused on the cultural sector and content is based on key issues and addresses current questions in the field.
Teacher motivation is a major factor affecting students’ motivation to learn a second language. But what motivates the teachers? English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ motivation has not been given enough attention, particularly in China, where English plays a key role. A new thesis study at Karlstad University investigates the motivation of English teachers at the university level in China.
2017-09-29
The IT branch has a great need to recruit employees, and students on IT programmes therefore have good chances of finding attractive employment after finishing their studies. What is important to employees and how does that correspond to what the branch has to offer?
On 21 September, a little more than 100 IT students and around 20 business representatives met for the annual IT dinner of the Snits network that links industry and IT students.
2016-10-12
Martin Blom, researcher within Computer Science at Karlstad University visited a class of high school students at Thoréns Business School 30 October to answer the question – what is Science?
- Science is the chase for truth, says Martin Blom. To find the truth and the answers to specific questions which we search the truth about we use sceintific methods.
If you are interested in the connection between computers and humans, the master's program in computer science is for you. Jonathan Magnusson, doctoral student in computer science at Karlstad University, talks about his experiences of an education that in principle guarantees jobs.
The step to higher education was not far for Jonathan Magnusson.
Karlstad University is currently dealing with a situation that has received a lot of media attention. It is, of course, in the interest of the university to ensure a safe environment for our teachers and students, but any measure we take must comply with our regulations.
In brief, the situation involves an online activist with an explicitly right-wing nationalist agenda who has been admitted to a course in intercultural studies with a focus on racism.
2011-10-25
... Ph D student from EBS Business School, Germany, who will be visiting us for the next seven weeks to meet our researchers, and to work with experiments in our Consumer Lab.
Tabea is working at the EBS Business School, which is located in Rheingau, close to Frankfurt, Germany.
Nordtrad is a folk music conference for students and teachers in higher music education from the Nordic and Baltic countries. The conference is arranged every year in rotation by different host schools, and in 2023 Ingesund School of Music is the proud organizer.
During the week, students from seven different countries are invited to participate in lectures, workshops, concerts, field trips, jam sessions and fellowship.
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» Konferens om Åldrande och migration i Sverige och Japan 11-12 maj 2022
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Mariia is a multidisciplinary researcher and artist from Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, currently living and working in Japan. She earned a Ph.D. from Chiba University Graduate School of Horticulture, transitioning from environmental science and her life as ecologist to the field of landscape participatory planning, discovering greenery's social and cultural sides.
We have received information that there is an ongoing phishing campaign targeting students.
We therefore urge you to be extra cautious when receiving emails with links and instructions to click on these links to log in with your username and password. Always use the links on kau.se when logging in to, for example, Canvas and My Kau, and not links provided in emails.
2020-05-12
Users make heavy demands on cloud-based services such as Dropbox, Spotify, and Netflix. With the existing technologies, however, users experience notable service disruption, especially when they move. Kyoomars Alizadeh Noghani, who recently completed his Ph.D.
