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.
2015-10-22
Hello Teea Palo, Lecturer at the Department of Marketing, Lancaster University Management School, UK. You will be visiting us during the end of this week. What brings you to CTF, and what kind of research are you working on right now?
- I am extremely interested in the work CTF is doing in service research, and the possibility to visit the center was just too good to pass!
2018-09-20
... researcher and lecturer at University of Wollongong. You are also an associate professor of Information Systems here at Karlstad Business School. Commuting between the two work places takes an unusually long time – about 32 hours of travel from door to door.
How come you work here in Karlstad?
- I came in contact with Information Systems at the beginning of the 2000’s and have had cooperation with Samot and CTF.
2019-11-22
Eight researchers from Karlstad University are included in the list of the 100 most cited researchers according to the Swedish news magazine Fokus.
2019-11-27
Recently, the Web of Science Group published the list "Highly Cited Researchers 2019" recognizing the world’s most cited and influential researchers. On the list, and top 1% of most cited in Economics and Business, is Stephen L.
2019-04-18
Service innovation is a concept that, for the last decade, has received increased attention both among academics as well as practitioners. But it is not easy to understand what the concept means, and why it is important.
2017-01-26
Stefano Pace, Associate Professor in Consumer Behaviour and Marketing at Kedge Business School in France, is currently spending two weeks at CTF to continue and reinforce a research collaboration initiated during a previous visiting period at CTF with Professor Per Skå​lén.
- The visit is possible thanks to funding from Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, and Tore Browaldhs Foundation and involved in the collaboration is also Professor Per Skålén, CTF,
2015-06-17
Günter Alce, who recently defended a licentiate thesis in Lund, held a seminar June 17, 2015. Günter and advisers at Sony Mobile and Lund University have developed the WozARd system and has received a couple of study visits from us earlier this academic year.
In this seminar, Günter did not only speak about Wizard of Oz for development of Augmented Reality.
2018-05-17
Swedish universities, including Karlstad University, have decided to terminate the agreement with Elsevier, one of the world's largest scientific publishers. The reason is that the parties did not agree on open access
Elsevier is one of the world's largest scientific publishers. In 2017, Swedish universities paid approximately 120 million SEK for subscriptions to electronic journals to the publisher, of which Karlstad University accounted for almost 1.2 million SEK.
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.
2021-06-04
The subject Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University continues to advance on the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
The ARWU, one of the top three most renowned university rankings in the world, now places Karlstad University in the 51-75 range – a nice leap from the 76-100 range of last year.
Michael Karlsson, head of subject and professor in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, is pleased with the progress.
- I think we are
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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).
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.
