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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“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.
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.
2017-10-06
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.
2023-11-28
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.
2020-08-27
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Most courses and programs at Karlstad University have additional entry requirements beyond the general eligibility criteria. These specific entry requirements vary depending on the program 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.
David Johansson successfully defended his thesis on tort and intellectual property law at Uppsala University in 2020. Today, he works as senior lecturer at Karlstad Business School.
- Intellectual property law is the law that deals with the protection of, for example, trademarks, designs, patents and copyright, David Johansson explains, newly appointed senior lecturer at the Karlstad Business School.
2022-05-09
Solar cell researchers from Karlstad University have once again conducted experiments in zero gravity during parabolic flights in Bordeaux, France. The aim is to study how the structure of the active layer of the polymer solar cell is formed, to thereby be able to increase its efficiency.
– This is the second time we have conducted experiments during parabolic flights, says Jan van Stam, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Karlstad University.
2014-12-05
CTF’s efforts to develop groundbreaking theoretical knowledge has resulted in multidisciplinary research themes: Service Innovation, Service Management, and Service Experience. Based on these themes CTF is now developing a crosscutting theme on Transformative Service Research, TSR. It is a relatively new field in service research and is increasingly getting more attention in academia.
2017-10-25
Innovation and change are omnipresent in the contemporary society and business. For a long time, innovation has been associated with activities within firms that develop new offerings—products and services—for the customers.
2016-03-11
On 8 March, Compare arranged a seminar on embedded systems at which Martin Blom, senior lecturer in computer science at Karlstad University, among others, gave a lecture on ”Robustness and efficiency testability in embedded systems: A systematic literature study”.
In the past year, a new network for actors working on or interested in embedded systems has emerged in Värmland and neighbouring areas.
2016-09-21
This seminar will look at social media from three perspectives: crisis twittering among citizens, tourists' communication in crisis, and municipality communication in crisis. After the seminar there will be time for continued discussion.
Three presentations will be made during this seminar.
Social Media during Emergencies: Communicative Approaches to Systems
Rodney Clarke, Associate Prof.
2022-01-11
The research on organic solar cells at Karlstad University takes another step forward, thanks to a research grant from the Swedish Research Council.
- We are going to study the molecular interactions between the electron donating and the electron accepting molecules, says Ellen Moons, Professor of Physics and leader for the research project.
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“I primarily focus on migratory species of fish, how stocks are affected by hydroelectric plants, and on solutions for minimising human interference.”
Olle Calles grew up in Skutskär, where Dalälven meets the Bothnian Sea, and he later moved to Hedemora. He chose the Natural Science Program at Martin Koch-gymnasiet in Hedemora, followed by studies in Biology at Uppsala University 1994-2000.
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“Our research is important, because it has the potential to make a difference and contribute to improved mental health in both children and their families.”
Gisela Priebe was born in Germany and moved to Sweden after she had completed her studies in Psychology at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. She graduated from the Psychotherapist Programme, with a specialisation in Family Therapy, at Lund University in 1999.
