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.
2018-10-03
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.
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.
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.
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.
2021-09-22
Three researchers connected to Karlstad Business School and Service Research Center (CTF) at Karlstad University have, as a part of the work within PRME, written a new book - Business Transformation for a Sustainable Future.
Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) is a part of the UN Global Compact initiative, and it is a systematic way of working towards improvement, change and learning, as well as collaboration and communication with society.
Dr Samuel P
2024-04-15
I am a researcher in English linguistics, focusing primarily on language and interaction in social media. I mainly work with textual materials from popular social media platforms, but often combine this with multimodal discourse analysis.
Since 2018, my research has mainly focused on political discourse and metadiscourse in social media.
– Academia needs to contribute with both research and specialised education in this area, says John Sören Pettersson, professor of information systems at Karlstad Business School.
Through regional development agreements with Region Värmland, Karlstad University has identified a number of so-called “smart specialisations”, among them video games.
– The challenge for the smart specialisation of video games and gamification in Värmland, which is the basis of
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- I work as a senior consultant at Virtusa. It is an international IT consultant company listed on Nasdaq in the US with 19 000 employees all over the world that works within bank, insurance, telecom, health care as well as media and entertainment. In Sweden, Virtusa is focused primarily on bank and insurance.
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The department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies offers courses and degree programmes in the subjects of history, cultural studies, religious studies, civics and political science.
Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies attracts students who want to deepen their knowledge in the historical and political fields and in religion/ethics and culture.
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Do you want to make a real difference and grow both personally and professionally? Through Minor Field Studies (MFS), you have the chance to conduct a field study in a country where Sweden is involved in development work.
With Minor Field Studies (MFS), you can receive a Sida-funded scholarship to conduct a field study in a country where Sweden has active development cooperation.
When you have a final version of your thesis, (the cover, the thesis itself and all the appendixes you want to include) you need to create a PDF-file.
On the Library's computers
You can create a PDF-file on all the Library computers.
Log in to the computer using your student account (KauID)
Open your Word file (thesis)
Select Save as PDF and choose where you want to save the file
On the Library computers you need to combine your Word documents before you create a PDF- file
On your comp
What makes us think, feel, and act the way we do? The psychology program at Karlstad University provides you with the tools to understand the whole person – from the brain’s complex functions to how we interact with others in everyday life, at the workplace, and in society.
Is it possible to improve the performance of mobile data communication through a combination of technologies such as WiFi with 4G and 5G? This is what Stefan Alfredsson, senior lecturer in Computer Science, would like to find out in his research.
It is hard to imagine life without a mobile phone. It is our primary access point to social media and the authorities and offers a constant link to entertainment, shopping, and important community services.
2020-04-23
There is a great lack of knowledge among professionals within most government authorities in charge of issues relating honour violence in Sweden.
2021-05-11
... who is cutting back on assignments in anticipation of retirement and recently passed the baton of CRS directorship on to Moa Tunström. CRS was inaugurated 1 April 2015, with you as director. What sort of challenges did you face?
“The assignment was to set up a research centre with externally funded research, publication of scholarly articles, and research collaboration with different external partners.
Programmable Networks are of great importance. It is the starting point for making computer networks open for innovation, and enables the rapid introduction of new functionalities that make our networks more scalable, reliable and effective. Especially the data plane is important because it determines the speed, capacity and latency that distributed applications and services will experience.
The Grants and Innovation Office (GIO) supports individual researchers and research groups at Karlstad University in developing external funding strategies, as well as working with the personal and professional development of research staff.
Support is offered through a range of competence development activities, for both individuals and groups, as well as in connection with external research funding applications to regional, national and international funders.
The GIO
