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.
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.
The SI Scholarship for Global Professionals is an academic scholarship provided for full-time, one- or two-year, master’s studies at several universities in Sweden.
Through this scholarship, you’ll gain access to world-class education, cutting-edge research, and a vibrant network of peers – all while developing the tools to drive change back home.The scholarship supports full-time, one- or two-year master’s studies at Swedish universities, across a wide range of English-
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.
We continuously add publications within SOL (School Development, Organization and Leadership). Please visit the page regularly to receive news. Most recent publication first within each category. Publications older than 8 years may be searched elsewhere. On this English page, you will only find publications in English.
Utbildning
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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.
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.
Bibliotek
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The library indexes many open journals and books in its OneSearch discovery system, but open scientific material can be found in several different ways.
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.
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.
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.
2023-10-17
Week 43 coincides with both UNESCO’s Global MIL Week and SPARC’s Open Access Week. To highlight this, the University Library is organising three events. Two of them require registration, one by 17 October and one by 20 October at the latest.
First up is a film screening followed by a talk with the director, in the afternoon Tuesday 24 October. The film will be shown at Filmstaden in central Karlstad and is organised together with Region Värmland.
The law is an important tool for achieving sustainable development, but it has been criticised for not being effective enough. There is great interest from both the business sector and authorities in creating more effective environmental assessments. However, the Land and Environmental Courts have difficulty managing the complexity of environmental issues since the requirements for a legal review – rule of law, predictability and equal treatment – demand delimited and separate processes.
Akademisk högtid
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Erica Sandlund grew up in Norrbotten and began her studies at Luleå University of Technology, and later transferred and completed her studies at Karlstad University and the University of Tennessee.
Britt-Inger Keisu recently left Umeå University and joined Karlstad University as professor of sociology. Her research centres on power, collaboration and conflict, with a particular focus on Indigenous and minority rights in the Arctic.
– Knowledge about Indigenous peoples and Arctic minorities is limited.
2025-11-13
This year’s DRIVE Annual Workshop brought together researchers, industry partners, and interested participants for two intensive days filled with presentations, discussions, and demonstrations.
New for this year was that the first part of the workshop was open to a broader audience, with the goal of spreading research results and creating new connections between academia and industry.
Open session focusing on current research
The open session began with welcome remarks f
2025-12-05
The 6G-PATH project (6G-Pilots and Trials Through Europe), involving both Computer Science and Nursing recently presented its technology to an audience during a fully attended seminar.
The aim of the project is to advance education in health and medical care by using communication technologies such as 5G and 6G, combined with Extended Reality (XR) and Virtual Reality (VR).
The goal is to make healthcare education more realistic and flexible, for example through VR and re
2025-02-19
Are you curious about our music teacher education? The application period for the autumn semester 2025 is approaching. New this year is the option to apply for an open genre as an alternative to our traditional genre areas for main instruments in both the music teacher program and the one-year course Music 60 credits.
The open genre is aimed at those who play music in a genre outside the areas of folk music, classical music, or jazz.
After a few issues with only a few history didatcic articles we improve this by having three such articles in 2018:1. Depending on our interset and profession we read the articles in different ways. The traditional historian read the articles in a general way and with different references than the history didactic. And this is what makes Nordidactica such an interesting meeting point for social studies didactics. The different subject fields of didactics can influence each other.
Karlstad University strives to contribute to sustainable development. Environmental thinking must permeate all our activities. We have therefore introduced an environmental management system and annual environmental goals.
These goals include taking environmental aspects into account in all education and research, making environment-friendly purchases and journeys, reducing the amount of paper and chemicals used and training the staff in environmental issues.
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.
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.
2023 - Tim Roberts
"Language Practices in Swedish-English Families"
Link to the publication in DiVa
2022 - Sebastian Malinowski
"English Philology is just a Bubble' – Unconventional Metaphors in English as a Lingua Franca"
Link to the publication in DiVa
2022 - Liu Fei
"English teaching in China: EFL teacher motivation and demotivation at the university level"
Link to the publication in DiVa
2021 - Yuanyuan Zhu
"Biblical allusion in three Charles Dickens condition-of-England novels"
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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.
