We welcome Alexandre Sukhov, new Ph. D student in Business Administration. He has an interest in the methodologies for service innovations, and is studying the impact of idea refinement and its implications in the idea assessment process. The purpose is to find ways of generating and selecting ideas that lead to an increased rate of product and service innovations.
2013-01-15
New dictionaries online!
The university library have subscribes to several dictionaries from Norstedts through Wordfinder online.
The dictionaries are available on the university or by logging in with your NetID. If you creatre a personal account using your @kau email address you can also download an app to your cellphone.
Students and employees may search bilingual dictionaries from Norstedts, in English, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, French, Finnish and German.
2017-05-17
The language café at the university library will continue during the spring semester 2018.
The language café will take place every tuesday between 4 pm - 6 pm. The time and place are the same but now students are in charge of the café.
The Language Café is aimed for anyone who wants to improve there spoken Swedish, but you need to be able to speak and understand some Swedish to participate.
Forskarskolan om särskilt begåvade barn
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This venue is chosen partly due to its suitability as a conference venue but also due to the conference double aims of inclusion and sustainability. The school kitchen is fully equipped to prepare Swedish fika (coffee/tea and snack breaks) and cooked lunch for large groups, as well as a and conference. We are able to have 13 parallel sessions in the building we will use.
In addition, the big auditorium can gather all 500 participants at the keynote presentations.
Teachers from the subject of Swedish contribute to other courses and programmes at Karlstad University, primarily teaching written and oral presentation skills.
We can also offer commissioned courses through Uppdrags AB, for instance in reading and writing development, rhetoric, and presentation techniques.
This year's Sustainability Day at the Business School centred to a great extent on the art of moving from talking to acting, turning ideas and plans into speed and action, since knowledge means nothing without the ability to use it.
On this page you find information on what to do if something happens. In the event of an emergency, always call 112 first.
Emergency situationIn case of emergency, call 112 to reach emergency services, police or to call for an ambulance, talk to an on-call priest or receive medical advice in case of emergency poisoning.
On Friday 8 March, the Minister for Education, Mats Persson, visited Karlstad University.
– It was very interesting in general. I’m very pleased, he says.
– It was particularly interesting to listen to Birgitta Persdotter and her research on social services.
Contact 1: Berit Kessler, faculty administrator,
054-700 1767, 1A 331, berit.kessler@kau.se
Contact 2: Anna Åkesson, faculty administrator,
054-700 19 47, 11B355, anna.akesson@kau.se
Study and Career counselors: Lina Lehn
054 - 700 11 42, lina.lehn@kau.se
Director of studies: Katarina Groth Jansson, see below.
Subject representative: Prof. John Sören Pettersson, see below.
All staff, organised in alphabetical order
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For Sandra Wettergren, the choice fell on Ingesund School of Music when she decided to become a music teacher and later also a singer at a higher level. Much of this was due to the school’s faculty, which she believes is crucial when choosing an educational institution.
2015-11-06
Robert Eklund, Linköping University (before this at Telia Sonera), presented course material and experiences about the methodology used in the development of interactive systems, in particular as regards language-based interaction at a seminar November 06, 2015.
At an extended seminar a whole lot was discussed: the Ozlab group and Eklund went through a 2h guest lecture for students and then the discussions centred around various research problems, not the least the circu
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Compare Business Innovation Centre (C-BIC) is a co-operation between Compare and Karlstad University. It aims to stimulate business development, research and innovation with the regional ICT industry as its starting point.
The project has a focus on test and security and should contribute to enhanced regional knowledge. The project is funded by EU regional funds.
Doctoral programme in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University.
In Media and Communication Studies the focus is on the role of media in society and the conditions of media production, content and audience.
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In order to improve the learning environment in the library, we made a number of relocations and changes during autumn 2016.
The aim was to create learning environments better adapted to new technology and new teaching methods.
Here you will find SMEER publications such as dissertations, reports, articles and more.
On the following link you can search for publications that can inspire you in your work, for example if you are a teacher student writing an essay or if you are a teacher looking for ideas for your teaching
DIVA
Recent SMEER-publications:
Rönner, A. C., Jakobsson, A., & Gericke, N. (2023).
How do academics react to the increase of private sector inspired management in universities and higher education institutions? What strategies are used to adjust – or resist?
2017-06-02
Malin Thorsén, CEO and founder of Bright Planet AB, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Advisory board at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University.
In addition to the chairman, the board has the following external members: Hans Karlsson, SKL, Peter Rovér, Effect Management, Christina Öberg, Örebro Univesity, Jonas Matthing, RISE, Anders Tufvesson, Ninetech, Sofi W.
2023-09-04
Björn Smith, tell us about your background
- I spent the most recent years completing a degree in primary education, school years 4–6. I have also been lecturing at Karlstad University - mainly administrative law and local government law as well as jurisprudence and EU law to some extent. I really enjoyed working as a teacher and learned a lot.
Inauguration of AT-LAB
5 April 2018, 14.00 - 15.30
21A247, House 21 Karlstads university
AT-LAB is an additive manufacturing laboratory supported by the EU grant via Tillväxtverket together with Region Värmland and Karlstad University. The laboratory is working close to regional industries, SMEs, cluster organization IUC Stål och verkstad. It is a part of Academi of Smart Specialization at Karlstad University.
Project leader Prof.
Wellness in a holistic perspective.
At Karlstad University we see the whole person. This is true of both education and research in the field of health, care and social work and it contributes to the quality of the students professional training.
Health, care and social work belong to a broad professional area in which the need for collaboration between different organisations is increasing. Also, there are more actors in this arena, in Sweden and abroad.
After our visit to Hudderfield in May, it was now time for John Bonner to visit Karlstad.
The discussions with John Bonner concerned research activities related to innovation management and interaction design with the use and evaluation of ubiquitous and pervasive computing but also teacher exchange.
2015-09-15
We are happy to welcome Jasenko Arsenovic, new Ph. D student in Business Administration to CTF. He will conduct his doctoral studies at CTF and is also linked to MIT, the Swedish Research School of Management and IT.
Jasenko Arsenovic has a Master’s of Science in Business and Economics from Linnaeus Univeristy and a Master´s degree in Informatics from IT, Management and Innovation program at Jönköping International Business School.
NVivo is a software program used for qualitative data analysis (QDA). NVivo is used for analysis of unstructured text, audio, video, and image data, including e.g.
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Corona pandemic's negative impact on the labor market is also found in the IT industry in the form of reduced investments and procurements as well as discontinued projects. This impact is visible at both national and regional level.
The stagnant labor market has negative consequences both for those who are already established in the labor market and for newly graduated students.
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The goal of this project is to initiate and develop a research collaboration and an exchange program between the Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica at Università di Napoli, the Network Research Lab at UCLA, USA and the Department of Computer Science at Karlstads Universitet, Sweden.
The program involves the entire spectrum of researchers, from graduate students to senior researchers, in the areas of Peer-to-Peer and Overlay Networks (primarily from UCLA), Channel
