Preschool teacher profession and Swedish preschool - restructuring in a time of reduced birth rates and financial cuts
2025-2029
“Stop it” - do you really need all the preschools you are planning?" This is the call in the fall of 2024 from the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKR) to municipalities planning new preschools. The call highlights a future scenario for Swedish preschools based on a reduced birth rate over the next ten years.
Rose (Research on Subject-specific Education) is a multidisciplinary research environment with a special interest in subject-specific – learning and teaching in subjects. It includes how the content of teaching is selected and how different teaching methods affect and shape the subject content, from primary school to higher education. The focus is on what happens in the classroom, and on the interaction between teachers and students in the learning process.
Geomedia
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The city as a cultural space - Dr. Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics (LSE)
This paper looks at the city of difference (Fincher and Jacobs 1998) as a cultural space full of unknowns and uncertainties, risks and opportunities. While urban uncertainties represent a condition associated with city life, their cultural and social meanings remain contested.
Professor "Parsu" Parasuraman is visiting CTF at the end of this week.
On Thursday he will give a seminar at CTF on the theme "?Importance and Impact of Programmatic Research: Insights from My Service Research Journey". ?
On Friday he will be the faculty opponent for a dissertation with PhD Student Poja Shams. The dissertation "What Does it Take to Get your Attention?" is on the choices you make in stores. Read more about the dissertation here.
2016-05-23
On the 10 May Monika Rydstedt Nyman successfully defended her licentiate thesis titled "Learning and knowledge sharing from management of extreme weather induced impacts on the Swedish transport infrastructure - Case study of the Swedish Transport Administration".
As opponent acted professor Peter Söderholm, Quality Technology and Management, Luleå University of Technology (to the right in the image) and as examinator professor Ragnar Andersson, Risk Ma
Forskning
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» Natur, teknik och miljövetenskap
Main objectives:
To understand the role of the molecular interactions in polymer-polymer de-mixing during thin film formation, by monitoring it in-situ, imaging it at scales from nano- to micrometers, and modelling its dynamics.
To understand how molecular interactions can be manipulated by external stimuli with the goal to manipulate morphology.
To rationalize and optimize morphologies for optical and electronic properties of the films.
To develop solution formulations for sustainable coa
Doctoral programme in Chemistry at Karlstad University
PhD studies in chemistry are given with five specializations at Karlstad University: analytical chemistry, biochemistry, physical chemistry, materials science, and chemistry education. Chemistry as a subject includes the study of basic and applied processes at the molecular level.
Musikhögskolan Ingesund
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» Musiklärarprogrammet (300 hp)
Karlstad University’s Music Teacher programme is offered by Ingesund School of Music (MHI). Students taking our excellent Music Teacher programme will develop their pedagogical and musical skills simultaneously over the course of the programme.
Margareta Friman is a professor of psychology and pro-vice chancellor at Karlstad University and has been part of CTF since the mid-90s. Here, she reflects and share some memories from her time at CTF.
It all started when Professor Patrik Larsson, former CTF director and current dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, gave me the opportunity to try out the life as a researcher.
2015-02-20
For those of you who are not familiar with what spring activity means it's broadly that companies invite you students to a study visit. where they can talk about who they are, what they do, etc. Then we gather all at the Tables to eat, mingle and play billiards.
The evening will look like this:
17:00 to 18:30 Info at the companies
18:45 to 19:00 Collection at the Tables
19:00 to 20:00 Food and table socializing
21:00 to 22:00 Billiards 22:00 onwards.
Director
Moa Tunström
Senior lecturer of Human Geography
moa.tunstrom@kau.se
Phone: +46 (0)54-700 2395
Office: 12A 431
Head of the graduate school
Annika Jonsson
Lecturer in Sociology
E-mail: annika.jonsson@kau.se
Phone: +46 (0)54-700 2117
Stefan Backius
Lecturer in History
E-mail: stefan.backius@kau.se
Phone: +46 (0)54-700 2084
Doctoral student representative
Tove Bodland
PhD-student in Risk and environmental studies
E-mail: tove.bodland@kau.se
Centre coordinator
Sigrid Josefsson
E-mail: si
Systematic reviews are designed to identify, evaluate and summarise the results of relevant international studies in order to answer a previously specified question, or questions.
Dr. Jakob Trischler, Postdoctoral researcher at CTF, currently collaborates with a team of social marketing researchers at Griffith Business School, Australia, to address a key challenge that many public sector organizations are facing: How to identify, recruit, and actively involve vulnerable users as ‘co-designers’ during the early stages of the service design process?
Working Life Science offers both subject-specific courses and Bachelor, Master and Doctoral degree programmes in working life science.
Our undergraduate courses are offered to programme students in Human Resource Management and Working Life 180 ECTS cr., and to students planning to major in the subject. We also provide tailor-made contract courses.
All over the world, digital tools are increasingly being used to improve and streamline healthcare services. This does not only lead to positive results, but also creates opportunities for new types of threats regarding information security and privacy.
Information security and protection of privacy are some of the most important factors in the development of high-quality tools in the healthcare sector.
2020-02-21
Ala Sarah Alaqra defended a dissertation in Computer Science on human factors within privacy-enhancing technologies at the end of January, and a few days later Ala began a new employment in Information Systems at the Karlstad Business School.
2017-05-17
Prof. John Sören Pettersson was one of the organisers behind the fifth M4D conference, that is, the conference on mobile communication technologies for development arrange biannual by KAU’s Centre for HumanIT.
Zoom is Karlstad University's software for online meetings and teaching. All students at Karlstad University have access to a personal account in Zoom.
Tomas Gustavsson, lecturer and doctoral student in Project Management at Karlstad Business School, was elected as a member of the Swedish Project Academy on 20 April. This makes him the second representative of Karlstad Business School next to Lennart Ljung, senior lecturer in Project Management, who is already a member.
“It is a great honour and recognition of my research in agile project management”, says Tomas Gustavsson.
2021-12-20
