Exposure during pregnancy's first trimester to mixtures of suspected endocrine disrupting chemicals found in consumer products is related to lower IQ in children after age 7, according to a study by researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Karlstad University, Sweden, published Environment International in October.
Contextual Behavioural Science (CBS) is a systematic and pragmatic approach to understanding behaviour, solving human problems, and promoting human growth and development. It uses functional principles and theories to analyse and influence actions through their context.
The service research community received excellent news for its journals from the 2017 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by Clarivate Analytics. All seven service research journals covered in Web of Science have increased their impact factors from the previous year. Especially notable is the increase of Journal of Service Research’s impact factor from 2.463 to 6.847.
Transgender Studies presents a rapidly growing and increasingly influential field in contemporary transdisciplinary Gender Studies.
It is one of the key elements in defining the research and teaching landscape of CGF. Understanding transgender as a non-linear and deterritorialising movement away from birth assigned sex, this field participates in the ongoing project of undoing the western and eurocentric norms of the gender binary.
A systematic approach to improvement, development, learning, collaboration and feedback to society are important tasks at a modern, ambitious business school.
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Through the intersectional turn, issues of racism and antiracism become crucial in feminist research and activism. Understanding the centrality of different experiences of racism has added to a transformation of the field of gender studies, in a variety of aspects: epistemologically, theoretically, methodologically and politically.
In the Research Podcast "Forskningspodden" you will meet researchers from Karlstad University who recently presented their dissertation. Most episodes are in Swedish but on this page you can listen to the episodes that are recorded in English.
Avsnitt 128: Programming as a tool for helping students with mathematicsProgramming has been presented as a way for students to learn mathematics.
In the Research Podcast "Forskningspodden" you will meet researchers from Karlstad University who recently presented their dissertation. Most episodes are in Swedish but on this page you can listen to the episodes that are recorded in English.
Avsnitt 128: Programming as a tool for helping students with mathematicsProgramming has been presented as a way for students to learn mathematics.
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In the Research Podcast "Forskningspodden" you will meet researchers from Karlstad University who recently presented their dissertation. Most episodes are in Swedish but on this page you can listen to the episodes that are recorded in English.
Avsnitt 128: Programming as a tool for helping students with mathematicsProgramming has been presented as a way for students to learn mathematics.
If you are a non-EU citizen, the first thing you need to do is to apply for a residence permit. In Sweden, residence permits are handled by the Swedish Migration Agency. If you are an EU citizen, you are free to move to Sweden at any time to start working.
Applying for a residence permit
There are three types of permits that are commonly used.
... you have spent two months in New Zealand, what did you do there?
"I spent two wonderful months as a visiting researcher at the University of Auckland Business School working with a large group of people including: Suvi Nenonen, Julia Fehrer, Rod Brodie, Charlotta Windahl and Kaj Storbacka at the University of Auckland, and Jonathan Baker at the Auckland University of Technology.
2015-10-24
Robert Eklund, Linköping University (before this at Telia Sonera), about the methodology used in the development of interactive systems, in particular as regards language-based interaction.
As a language technology researcher at Telia in the beginning of the century, Robert visited us several times for guest lectures in HCI for the Multimedia programme.
2016-02-15
We are welcomming Johan Högberg, PhD candidate in Psychology working on gamification in shops at Karlstad University Service Research Centre. At Information Systems Johan will help in several classes; for spring 2016 it will be database design and courses on different web technologies.Johan's engagement at Information Systems will run between 10-20% each semester.
Johan Högberg is preparing for the database design courses guided by Katarina Groth.
2018-06-11
Vice Chancellor Johan Sterte, recently appointed the new board for CRS as the mandate period had run out on May 31. Some members of the board are new, while some guarantee a continutiy to the development of CRS.
2017-10-24
The article "Institutional Complexity as a Driver for Innovation in Service Ecosystems” by Jaakko Siltaloppi, Kaisa Koskela-Huotari and Stephen L. Vargo has been presented the Informs Service Science 2017 Best Article Award.
– The article uses institutional theory to explain why diversity is important for novel ideas. Institutions here refer to the rules, norms and meanings that guide how people think and act.
2017-07-03
June 22-25 researchers from CTF participated in the 2017 Frontiers in Service Conference. The conference was hosted by Fordham University, Gabelli School of Business, New York, USA, and attracted more than 350 service researchers and business leaders from around the world.
Every manager and every researcher need to understand the rapidly changing needs of customers.
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONG SWEDISH ADOLESCENTS
- Time trend in mental health in light of economic and social-relation
factors and mental health today in light of physical activity
TIME: Tuesday September 24, 12.00 - 12.45
PLACE: University library, Learning lab, floor 3
Various factors influence adolescents’ mental health problems.
Computer Science at Karlstad University has successfully recruited a new professor to its excellence research on data security and privacy. Melanie Volkamer works on human factors in security and privacy.
- Often it looks like security contradicts usability. That is, the more secure it is, the less usable it is.
When studying Chemical Engineering at Karlstad University you can choose to specialize in Pulp, Paper, Surface Treatment and Graphic Technology.
Chemical Engineering 300 ECTS
After this programme, with the major Pulp, Paper, Surface Treatment and Graphic Technology, you can for example work with development of new products and processes. Your working place may be a producing plant or a supplyer to the pulp and paper industry.
Nina Lykke has a background in comparative literature, but her main focus has always been gender. She held a position as researcher in gender studies at the University of Southern Denmark from 1981 to 1999, and headed the university’s centre for women and gender studies during this period. She was appointed to the position of docent [associate professor] at the same university in 1992, with a dissertation on feminism and psychoanalysis.
Siri Jagstedt is a senior lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School, where she teaches industrial management and engineering. She now joins CTF to conduct research related to digitalisation and servitization.
Hello Siri! Welcome to CTF! Can you tell us about your background?
– I received my PhD from Chalmers with a thesis on the economy and organisation of technology.
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Activists and researchers have voiced concerns about feminism turning too much to criminalisation. The term ‘carceral feminism’ was coined to describe how feminist calls for law reform have supported the law-and-order agenda in the U.S. At the same time, scholars have opposed this way of framing feminist engagement with law reform and instead argued for a more nuanced understanding.
