Transforming Passions
» Keynotes and invited speakers
FRI 19 Sep 2025, 16.00-17.30
Geijersalen 12A138, House 12/Hus 12 – Karlstad University
Closing Plenary with Erika Polson, Jenny Sundén, Kaarina Nikunen and Paul AdamsChair: Cornelia BrantnerThe Geomedia Coda: Passion, Place & MediaMarking the 10th anniversary of the Geomedia Conference, this closing panel gathers leading scholars to reflect on the transformative power of passion in shaping media, place, and culture.
Transforming Passions
» Keynotes and invited speakers
FRI 19 Sep 2025, 16.00-17.30
Geijersalen 12A138, House 12/Hus 12 – Karlstad University
Closing Plenary with Erika Polson, Jenny Sundén, Kaarina Nikunen and Paul AdamsChair: Cornelia BrantnerThe Geomedia Coda: Passion, Place & MediaMarking the 10th anniversary of the Geomedia Conference, this closing panel gathers leading scholars to reflect on the transformative power of passion in shaping media, place, and culture.
Transforming Passions
» Keynotes and invited speakers
Closing Plenary with Erika Polson, Jenny Sundén, Kaarina Nikunen and Paul AdamsChair: Cornelia BrantnerThe Geomedia Coda: Passion, Place & MediaMarking the 10th anniversary of the Geomedia Conference, this closing panel gathers leading scholars to reflect on the transformative power of passion in shaping media, place, and culture.
In House 11, Erik Wästlund is just finishing a Zoom meeting on research funding. He is new as professor of psychology, but a familiar face in the university corridors.
– I started studying psychology here in 1996, he says.
– Back in those days it was mostly because I wanted to do something more besides my job working in a bar. But pretty soon my studies became more important than my work. Psychology was not a given choice.
CS
» Research
» Pågående projekt
» Internationella projekt
The 6G-PATH project aims to take a prominent role in the development and integration of new and improved tools from EU companies with 5G/6G. To achieve this, 7 testbeds will be included in the project that will be used by 10 use cases spread across four key areas: Health, Education, Smart Cities, and Agriculture.
The goal of the 6G-PATH project is to contribute to the development and integration of new and improved tools and products while relevant KPIs and KVIs are measured.
Congratulations to Josina Vink, Bo Edvardsson, Katarina Wetter-Edman and Bård Tronvoll for receiving the 2019 Robert Johnston Award: Outstanding Paper of the year for the article "Reshaping mental models - enabling innovation through service design" published in the Journal of Service Management, JOSM.
The 2019 Robert Johnston Award recognizes their contribution to JOSM and to the service field.
Practical placement
Through the practical placement included in different courses in Civics, contacts are established with the schools which receive our students. In courses which include longer periods of practical placement, the cooperation with schools is enhanced through the visits and other personal contacts that are employed to follow and support the students’ development.
For just over two years, Karlstad University along with society at large has followed the Public Health Agency’s guidelines, recommendations, and information due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With the pandemic now slowing down, special measures are no longer needed and the information will therefore be removed.
2024-01-11
In 2023, Ingesund School of Music recruited a professor in music education. Her curiosity in improvised music has been a driving force and inspiration since childhood. Something which she is happy to share with future music teachers. Her name is Guro Gravem Johansen.
Guro Gravem Johansen comes from a small town in a rural part of northern Norway. When the other children played football, she would sing and play the piano in her room.
In the subject Media and Communication Studies, you can take independent courses or choose one of our degree programmes. Three years of study, 180 credits, will give you a Bachelor’s degree and qualify you for applying to a Master’s programme.
If you are a present or future student and you have questions about choosing degree programmes and courses, studying abroad, scholarships, study plans, or similar, you can turn to a study and career counsellor.
The subject of Swedish conducts research in several areas, of which a large portion relates to different points of view on literacy – writing and reading – from a learning perspective. This includes projects on the topic of reading multimodal texts in Years 7–9, digital literacy instruction in teacher education, and the writing development of students in higher education.
CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, seeks a Professor in Business Administration with marketing specialization to further develop and strengthen CTF's research in the field.
The appointed professor will be linked to ongoing research at CTF, and at least 50% of duties involve research financed by one of the presently externally funded projects at CTF – to be decided on the basis of the successful candidate’s research profile.
Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap
» Om fakulteten
The Faculty Board has the overall responsibility for quality and quality development regarding the contents of the faculty’s activities.
Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faculty BoardDean (term of office 2022-07-01—2026-06-30)Martin Grimberg LöfgrenDeputy dean (term of office 2025-01-01—2028-12-31)Liselotte EnglundTeacher representatives (term of office 2025-01-01—2027-12-31)Lotta Braunerhielm, Associate professor in Human GeographyAnna-Britt Coe, Professor of
Copying and printing from e-books
The library has e-book agreements with a variety of publishers. Each publisher decides whether you may copy or print from an e-book and how many pages that are allowed. Allowances differ from book to book.
More information about e-books
Copying, downloading and distributing articles from e-journals
Usually articles from the library’s e-journals may be downloaded and printed.
Utbildning
» Att läsa på universitetet
» Anmälan och antagning
If you have been admitted to a programme at Karlstad University but are prevented from starting, you may request and be granted deferment of studies if there are special circumstances.
Deferment of studies can be granted for medical reasons, childcare, student union assignment, or deferred leave of absence from work to study.If your request for deferment is granted, you must later apply again at www.universityadmissions.se when you would like to start stu
Forskning
» Vår forskning
» Samhälle, kultur och språk
Every day we encounter expressions of different religious traditions in our surroundings, in the news, in literature, in art and in popular culture. It is clear that religion can be an expression of both conflict, reconciliation and a sense fellowship. Thus it is important, relevant and interesting to engage in the field of religious studies.
Some of the questions students process and deepen their understanding of are: What is religion?
Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap
» Om fakulteten
» Institutioner och ämnen
The Department of Artistic Studies is located on both our campuses - in Karlstad and in Arvika. In Karlstad we provide the dance education program and a wide range of independent courses, such as Dans 60 hp. Arvika is home to the music school Ingesund and our education in Music and Sound Production.
The Programme in Dance Pedagogy is for you who want to work with dance and love to dance.
Karlstad Business School has approximately 130 employees. What brings us together is a deep interest in economics and business.
Around 2 500 students every year choose to study programmes or courses at Karlstad Business School, either first or second cycle. Most of the academics also conduct research in one of the multidisciplinary research centres or in their subject area.
The EU-funded project Service Design for Innovation, SDIN, aims to build a research platform in service design and innovation through a Europeean training network for early stage reseachers. The project started in January 2015 and is now at the half-way point.
During the first two years the project has achieved the expected results, and the network is well integrated and communicates regularly.
2024-09-17
With only six years left until 2030, the world is marked by war and conflict and many sustainability indicators are pointing in the wrong direction. This year’s A Sustainable Tomorrow gathered 30,000 interested individuals via 200 hubs around Scandinavia.
2024-04-26
As part of the university’s systematic quality assurance efforts, eight third-cycle subject areas (doctoral-level disciplines) have been reviewed by an external assessment group. All of them are rated as meeting a high standard in the report by the assessment group.
The discipline of nursing received a positive assessment of their doctoral education.
Välkommen till Andrey Abadzhievs slutseminarium vid ämnet företagsekonomi! Titel: Rethinking sustainability in transitions: The crucial roles of knowledge, values, and agencyDatum: 2 april 2024Tid: 13:00-15:00Plats: 11a316Opponent: Professor Thomas Magnusson, Linköpings universitetHandledare: Mikael Johnson, Martin Löfgren, Alexandre SukhovSlutseminarium (”pajseminarium”) är det sista av de tre obligatoriska seminarierna som doktoranden har under sin utbildning innan disputa
Due to a major system upgrade it is no longer possible to verify transcripts of records/certificates of registration. We apologise for this and ask you to kindly contact the student and request new transcripts/certificates that can be verified.
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Unit for Educational Services
The university board
A chairperson and members representing the private sector, public organisations, and academia are appointed by the government. The board also includes members appointed by Karlstad Student Union as well as representatives of the university’s teaching staff.
You can use many of our resources from home, on this page we have gathered some of these resources.
Students and staff have access to the library's databases, e-journals and e-books off-campus by logging in with your KauID.
E-books and e-journals
E-books
Our e-books can be read online and they can also often be downloaded to a computer or tablet. Different providers may have different terms of use.
Periodicals
Most of our journals are available digitally.
