Karlstad University has appointed three new honorary doctors. They work within sports science, educational science, and health science. All three will receive their awards on October 17th when the university celebrates its Academic Ceremony.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Professor Alan L. Smith, an internationally recognized researcher in sports science, has led research programs at several prominent American universities.
Would you like to learn new and traditional techniques in art practices? Welcome to Visual Art in Theory and Practice at Karlstad University. We offer a number of independent interdisciplinary courses which provide fundamental practice and theory-based knowledge of art practices.
Images are intersected with and included in all disciplines and involved in all kinds of communication today.
Hello there, Hanna Enefalk, Associate Professor of History and the new representative for Karlstad University in Humtank. Tell us more!
"Humtank is a think tank for research and education in the humanities, with representatives from fourteen Swedish universities and colleges. It has existed for over ten years and is funded by nearly all Swedish universities engaged in humanities research. Its purpose is to highlight the humanities and their perspectives.
2024-12-02
As of this year, the university’s former IT purchase council (”it-beställarrådet”, IT-BR) has moved towards a broader and more strategic mission under a new name, the IT Council.
2024-12-13
Christmas and the New Year are approaching and it is time to sum up another year at Karlstad University. The 25th in order, or the 47th or 181st, depending on how you count. Or the second, for me personally.
I want to start by thanking all of your for doing such a fantastic job throughout the past year.
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Niklas Gericke studied to be a teacher of mathematics and natural science at the former Karlstad University College at the beginning of the 1990s. His majors were biology and chemistry.
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What was it like, studying the Master Programme in Information Systems?
- I had a very good time in Karlstad and I am happy about my choice of education. I had amazing teachers, classmates, tutors and later on even colleagues. The programme consists of many challenging elements and a great freedom of choice.
Why did you choose this programme?
- Originally, I chose Information Systems – the bachelor programme in web and multimedia – because I wanted to be a web developer.
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Due to the ongoing pandemic, all the new doctors for 2020 will have their doctoral degree ceremony in December 3, 2021.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
David Kimutai Cheruiyot
defended his doctoral thesis in the subject Media and Communication on 25 October 2019.
Our alumna Julia Bengtson from Borlänge has an extensive music education, having studied at Musikkonservatoriet Falun, exchange studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and not least a degree in Music Production at Ingesund School of Music. Currently, she is studying music at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg.
Was it always clear to you that you wanted to be a musician and producer?
"Absolutely not.
Art History and Visual Studies is concerned with how people have expressed themselves by giving shape to these expressions through images and forms since they first developed the means to do so, through to today’s prolific flood of images and contemporary art.
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What do you do today?
“I manage transactions and the land profile at HSB ProjektPartner. This means that I am responsible for the entire transaction process for the real estate business our company conducts when we buy land on which we later build housing. After graduating, my first job was at SBAB as a mortgage consultant.
Some topics in school are related to several school subjects due to their interdisciplinary character. These topics are often addressed in the general parts of the national curriculum and should thus be addressed by all teachers in their teaching in the different school subjects. Sustainable Development is one such topic that is given great attention in the Swedish curriculum.
Collaboration with the business community is important for many of the research projects in Computer Science involved in the creation of future high-tech solutions.
2023-10-26
Service Research Center (CTF) welcomes Elina Jaakkola, professor of marketing at Turku School of Economics. She is one of five visiting professors at CTF with support from the Ander Foundation.
Elina Jaakkola is a professor of marketing at Turku School of Economics, University of Turku in Finland.
2023-02-27
Many of the music teachers who are active today studied at Ingesund School of Music. One of these teachers is Henrik Bengtsson, who graduated in 2016. Today, he teaches music in a primary and lower-secondary school in Trollhättan. In addition, he also works as a freelance musician, on his own as well as together with his wife, who also studied at Ingesund.
To be able to apply a broad approach as a music teacher is important to Henrik.
2023-11-28
The industry of today and tomorrow requires modern technology where cooperation takes place between people, between people and machines, and between machines. Machines can monitor themselves, analyse results and autonomously optimise operating conditions and production. The result is greater efficiency and productivity. A new era of industrial robots that can work side by side with humans in above all different forms of small component assembly and material handling has already begun.
At Media and Communication Studies (MKV) at Karlstad University, we conduct internationally prominent research with a particular focus on issues at the intersection of MKV and geography. These include the relationship between media and mobility, how media habits are both created and shaped by the spaces and places we move through, or how the local and the global interact in the contemporary digitalized media landscape.
This issue of Nordidactica contains four articles. The first two articles have a focus towards the subject of "samhällskunskap" (civics/social studies) and the challenges it faces in Sweden. The third one presents a study of first time voters in the national election in Norway 2013 and what these young voters claimed to be the main factors behind their choice.
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The Centre for Gender Studies (CGF) at Karlstad University is pleased to announce the upcoming 4th Nordic Transgender Studies Symposium October 11 – 13, 2016.
The conference will be devoted to questions of decoloniality and its meaning for Trans Studies and trans politics.
This is one of the questions that Anna-Lena Almqvist, Professor of Social Work at Karlstad University, is exploring. Her current research focuses on the participation of children and young people in foster placements and how safer relationships can be created in vulnerable life situations.
Hello Anna-Lena! Can you tell us about your research?
"My main research areas are child welfare, men's work against violence, and LGBTQI-related issues.
Welcome to Gifted education: Inclusion and sustainability. 4th thematic European Council for High Ability (ECHA) conference on inclusion and sustainability.
The 14th International group for Mathematical Creativity and Giftedness conference
At this conference, we bring together participants with an interest in inclusive education of highly able children and students.
Of all organized educational activities, testing procedures are perhaps the most consequential for the learners. Assessing pupils’ performance warrants fulfillment of educational objectives and impacts learners’ grades and subsequent access to higher education.
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Most courses and programmes at Karlstad University have additional entry requirements beyond the general eligibility criteria. These specific entry requirements vary depending on the programme or course.
Bachelor ProgrammesTo be eligible for a bachelor’s programme, you must meet the following requirements:Completed Upper Secondary EducationYou must have completed an upper secondary education.
