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.
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.
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2024-04-15
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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.
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What do you work with?
- 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.
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.
– 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
Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap
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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.
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
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ORCID - Open Researcher & Contributor ID. Register for an ORCID ID to avoid being mistaken for another researcher and to ensure that your publications are linked to you.
2024ArticlesAbascal, A., Georganos, S., Kuffer, M., Vanhuysse, S., Thomson, D., Wang, J., … Wolff, E. (2024). Making Urban Slum Population Visible : Citizens and Satellites to Reinforce Slum Censuses. In Urban Inequalities from Space : Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World (Vol. 26, pp. 287–302). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49183-2_14Abascal, A., Vanhuysse, S., Grippa, T., Rodriguez-Carreño, I., Georganos, S., Wang, J., … Wolff, E. (2024).
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.
2019-09-02
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.
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
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.
Researchers in different disciplines have for a long time used models to describe and analyze various ecological, human and societal systems and how those interact.
2014-09-04
We welcome Linda Bergkvist, Ph. D in Information Systems, to our research team. She defended her thesis on outsourcing in the IT industry in June, and will now pursue her research at CTF.
- Towards new challenges. That was the opening words in the preface of my dissertation. I remember my time
as a graduate student as joyful and rewarding, and it is with a smile that I now continue my academic journey.
2017-01-17
International online-courses with strong links to the most successful research environments and tailor-made for professionals at work will be offered at Karlstad University thanks to a development project in conjunction with a number of leading companies and the support of the KK Foundation.
The KK Foundation has granted Karlstad University 6 million SEK for the period 2017-2019 to develop and carry out net-based cutting edge Master–level courses, developed in close coop
2017-01-18
International online-courses with strong links to the most successful research environments and tailor-made for professionals at work will be offered at Karlstad University thanks to a development project in conjunction with a number of leading companies and the support of the KK Foundation.
The KK Foundation has granted Karlstad University 6 million SEK for the period 2017-2019 to develop and carry out net-based cutting edge Master–level courses, developed in close coop
2018-03-15
The NoRD2018 organizers invite submissions to the 10th Nordic Workshop on Relationship Dynamics. NoRD workshops are open to all researchers in the areas of Marketing and Management (or related areas); the ‘Nordic’ title simply refers to the locations and people organizing the workshops.
NoRD focuses on dynamics in buyer-seller relationships (both b-to-c and b-to-b relationships).
2020-12-17
We are often exposed to privacy information that is designed in a way that urges us to quickly give our consent and disclose more data than necessary.
2020-04-16
Lately, there have been reports in the media worldwide about security flaws in Zoom. However, the section of Zoom provided by Karlstad University’s supplier SUNET is not affected by these security flaws to the same extent.
“Employees and students at Karlstad University can feel safe when using Zoom,” says Monika Allöv Andersson, responsible for the Zoom service at Karlstad University IT Department.
