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Many aspects of medicine and health care are transformed by the ongoing digitisation. Many of the Information Systems group’s researchers have been involved or are involved in research within this area. In the year 2018 we hosted the IEEE conference Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2018).
The Academic Celebration is one of the biggest events of the year at Karlstad University and a long-standing tradition. On 14 October it is time again – with great pomp and ceremony we will confer degrees on new doctors and honorary doctors and inaugurate our new professors. We will also pay attention to this year’s docents and adjunct professors.
Freedom – a beautiful word with so many meanings that we, living in Sweden, often take for granted.
2023-01-02
The process of recruiting a new vice-chancellor at Karlstad University is progressing. The recruitment group has unanimous decided to go ahead with professor Jerker Moodysson, the candidate assessed to have the highest merits in regards to the requirement profile.
He is Professor and his work focuses on the geography of innovation and the dynamics of regional economies.
2023-10-04
The Academic Celebration is one of the biggest events of the year at Karlstad University and a long-standing tradition. On 20 October it is time again and this year we celebrate passion for research – we present and inauguarate our new Vice-Chancellor Jerker Moodysson during this year's celebration. With great pomp and ceremony we will promote our new doctors, award honorary doctorates and inaugurate our new professors.
SASUF Satellite Events are a part of the SASUF Research and Innovation Week 2024, and are organised across Sweden 13-14 May.Visual Culture for Postgraduates: master programmes in comparison and collaborationThrough a gathering of researchers, lecturers, students and university management, we will identify challenges in developing and implementing an international master’s programme in visual culture and interculturality as well as explore strategies to overcome them.
2024-08-26
– The SASUF funded workshop was highly appreciated and offered valuable insights for the participants, says Katharina Rahnert, Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School and one of the initiators.
Katharina Rahnert, what was the purpose of the workshop?
– We wanted to raise awareness among the participants about the importance of corporate sustainability.
Kombinerad ECHA och igMCG konferens 16-18 juni 2025
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GiftED doctoral programmeThe GiftED doctoral programme (Forskarskolan GiftED) has funding from the Swedish Research Council 2021-26. It is a partnership between Karlstad, Stockholm and Mälardalen Universities, with 10 current doctoral students. The image GiftED have embraced is of Swedish summer daisies (prästkragar). This image is a twist on the international flower associated with gifted education, the poppy.
The Department of Law is part of Karlstad University Business School. We offer a law program since autumn 2017, a master's program in tax law and economics, courses in other programs and a number of independent courses.
The pedagogical model that permeates our teaching is built around problem-based learning. We combine theoretical and practical knowledge.
Karlstad University is engaged in a collaboration with the national initiatives Campus Total Defence and Cybercampus Sweden, as well as a regional collaboration with the Swedish Defence University.
Collaboration with the Swedish Defence UniversityAs of January 2026, the Swedish Defence University’s local unit in Karlstad will be co-located with Karlstad Univerity.
In collaboration with eleven partners from six countries, Karlstad University is participating in a new EU project that was recently granted funding as part of the programme Circular Bio-based Europe.
2024-12-06
On November 20–21, the DRIVE project at Computer Science invited partner companies to a joint two-day workshop. DRIVE's overarching goal is to conduct research and education in data-driven and latency-sensitive mobile services for future mobile networks.
This year, participants gathered at Karlstad University to learn about the latest research in the field.
Plagiarism means using other people's work - for example, texts, images, charts, tables or computer programs, and trying to make them appear as your own.
When writing an essay or other writing assignments, it must be clear to the reader what you have written and what you have taken from someone else's work. When you use other people's work, you must always give the source by citing and referring correctly.
Self-plagiarism
"It is not automatically acceptable to reuse your own texts.
After 15 years at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, Annika Rudman chose Karlstad University as her new base.
– I chose Karlstad since I, just like the university, believe in and want to promote internationalisation and interdisciplinary research, says Annika Rudman, new professor of gender studies.
The common denominator of Annika Rudman’s research is a keen interest in the role that gender plays in relation to law, society, politics, culture and human behaviour.
2024-09-13
Singer and vocal pedagogue Anne Margrethe Dahl has a broad repertoire and has made an international career with productions on major opera stages for which she has been praised. She is a respected name in the opera world, and Ingesund School of Music is now pleased to welcome her as an adjunct professor.
Research on oral health aims to apply a salutogenic perspective, which means that research is characterised by the importance of health factors for oral health in different social groups and throughout the life cycle.
Artist 1990: Record an album, book interviews, go on tour.
Artist 2023: Build a brand, get to know your target audience, release a song on digital platforms and make sure to keep the momentum going 24/7.
It doesn’t matter if the artist, the production, or the songs have a classic, vintage feel. Behind most of the active artists today, there is a whole digital ecosystem.
On April 13-14 Samot, The Service and Market Oriented Transport Research Group at Karlstad University, arranged their annual partner conference. The program included availability, special transport and energy efficiency in public transport.
- Since the beginning ten years ago we have gathered our researchers and partners for an annual conference, where we work on common issues and themes related to public transport.
2017-03-15
Today is the World Consumers Rights Day and Computer Science at Karlstad University will in terms of that acknowledge phising as a specific digital threat to consumers with a flyer for anti-Phising training.
“Together with students and researchers at the Technische Universität Darmstadt we work to counteract phising.
2018-04-13
In collaboration with industry experts, researchers at Karlstad University have developed free study material on the technical aspects of privacy on the Internet. This material can be of use to organisations and companies to comply with the EU’s new data protection regulation (GDPR) that will enter into force in just over a month’s time.
Living up to the new regulations may prove to be hard work for many companies and organisations.
2018-04-25
What is service logic? What does it mean to manage and analyze organizations based on a perspective of service logic? Find out the answers in the new book “Service logic” by Professor Per Skålén at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University.
In this book, key concepts related to service logic are explained, such as value co-creation and resource integration.
2021-06-18
The book ”Arbete & Välfärd” (Work & Welfare) will be out in February 2019, but has already been awarded one on of the honorary awards of Kurslitteraturpriset – Sweden's highest award to authors of new course literature.
2017-05-31
About one year from now the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect, so it is high time for businesses and organisations to start preparing. At Karlstad University, a cutting-edge international distance learning course is being developed on how to handle personal data according to the new regulation.
“The new data protection regulation brings about significant changes in the way personal data is to be handled.
