Presentations of current seminars by researchers and PhD students in the research group, and by visitors and guest researchers.
Here is the link to current research seminars i Physics,
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… you have defended your doctoral thesis: “Self-tracking, datafication and the biopolitical prosumption of life”. What is your thesis about?
- The thesis focuses on and examines the popular consumption phenomenon of self-tracking, which allows and enables consumers to track, quantify and datafy diverse facets of their lives.
2015-10-20
Master's student Ida Wadenbrandt worked during the holidays, touring with Robert Wells and Rhapsody in Rock from December 27 to January 6 in China. Intense days that have sparked a desire for more projects abroad and more work in China.
You have done several concerts with Robert Wells with Ingesund's string ensemble before, and as I understand it, you were also the concertmaster then.
2016-03-09
Malin Wik, lab assistant and nowadays PhD student, presented some of our teaching methods in HCI at a seminar March 9 at Södertörn.
Malin was invited by the department of Media technology to speak on “Wizardry, students and research: how the Wizard-of-Oz system Ozlab survived for 15 years.”
The presentation was on how Informations Systems at Karlstad University has used the Ozlab system and Wizard-of-Oz techniques in its undergrad education, from the very first course to
Doctoral studies lead to a PhD in English, the highest university degree. A PhD will qualify you for a career in academia.
At Karlstad University, we offer PhD programmes in English with specialisation in linguistics or literature, and PhD candidates have the opportunity to design their dissertation projects within either of these subject areas.
More information is available here. Available courses are listed at the webpage for doctoral courses.
At Karlstad University, you can join our book club during the semester. The book clubs are for students, and we read and discuss in both English and Swedish. In the book club, we meet without any pressure or requirements. Together we discover new books and stories, and talk about our reading experiences. Kau läser is an open and voluntary book club for all students regardless of background and reading habits.
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At Karlstad University you can study Physics at undergraduate level, Master level and Doctoral level. You can also get in contact with researchers and Ph.D.
The students had the opportunity to try out recent demos created by researchers and practitioners in the field.
– Since the course is science literature based, this practical experience was well received with students expressing interest in more hands-on workshops where they could develop their own demos in the future, says Ala Sarah Alaqra.
Ala Sarah Alaqra, course coordinator of ISAD19 and program director of SAINF at Karlstad Business School, the guest lectures -
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Associate professor Jorryt van Bommel
Karlstad University, Dalarna University, and Inland Norway University of Applied Science
Presentation of abstractFor over a decade I have researched the possibilities and opportunities offered when encountering mathematics through problem solving at school entry. At first, we tested ways to implement problem solving in a setting where students could not (yet) read or write.
On March 27-29, the Swedish research school of Management and IT (MIT) held the 2019 Spring Conference at Karlstad University, hosted by CTF, Service Research Center and Karlstad Business School.
Once your thesis is approved by the examiner it must be registered in the university's publication database DiVA.
Paper archiving of student papers and theses at Karlstad University have ceases. Instead, you are asked to register your work in the university's publication databas DiVA. Read the instructions below to learn how.
Add a title page / cover template to your thesis
Use the University's template for the title page.
Marketing Strategies is a course for business administration students who are in their final year of the bachelor's programme or the third year of the Programme in Business and Economics . The course offers students an opportunity to work with real-life cases to improve the marketing strategies of companies or organisations.
Why did you choose the Dance Pedagogy programme?
“I took the Dance 60 and Dance and Learning courses earlier, and I knew that I wanted to work with dance in some way. I was wondering which direction I should take when I heard of the new Dance Pedagogy programme. I also like studying in Karlstad and didn’t want to move, so I was really glad when the Dance Pedagogy programme started here at Karlstad University.
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Talking books - listen to your course literatureAs a student with a reading disability, you can borrow your course literature in the form of a talking book from MTM - Swedish Agency for Accessible Media. You get access to talking books by contacting the library's contact persons.
Pianist Nikita Khnykin from Oslo is studying the Master programme in music at Ingesund School of Music with Professor Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist as his main teacher.
2025-11-17
Hello there, Dalian Dawody, World Champion in the 71 kg class in Muay Thai and student in the Business and Economics program at the Elite Sports University, Karlstad University...
...You’ve been nominated for Male Athlete of the Year at the 2026 Swedish Sports Gala – congratulations!The traditional question can’t be avoided: How does it feel to receive such recognition?
"It’s a mix of emotions.
2015-06-08
Lucia Casap from Academy of Economic Study of Moldova visits Information Systems for three weeks in june 2015.
Lucia's research study bears the provisional title “E-Governance: Harmonization of education information systems in Moldova by implementing EMIS”. EMIS is Education Management Information Systems. For her trip to Sweden she has received a Japanese scholarship administrated by UNESCO. Next year she plans to stay for two months.
Book club about the novel When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa RidzénRegister no later than April 27, 2026 by emailing jennie.skynas@kau.se. Please note that the number of places are limited. Let us know which group you would like to join: the Swedish speaking or the English speaking group.In the book club, we meet without pressure or requirements – to discover new books/stories and talk about our reading experiences.
Book club about the novel The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyRegister no later than February 23, 2026 by emailing jennie.skynas@kau.se. Please note that the number of places are limited. Let us know which group you would like to join: the Swedish speaking or the English speaking group.In the book club, we meet without pressure or requirements – to discover new books/stories and talk about our reading experiences.
2025-02-10
You are a PhD student at the University of Santiago de Compostela and a teacher at the University of Vigo in Spain. You have been teaching law at Karlstad Business School as a part of the Erasmus+ program.
– I was invited by the coordinator of the Law Program at Karlstad University to teach in the course International and European Union Law as part of the Erasmus+ program, says Natalia Seco.
2015-09-01
26-28 August, PhD students and researchers in the Centre for Natural Disaster Science (CNDS) gathered for the CNDS annual assembly.
For the fift consecutive year CNDS met at Sunnersta Herrgård outside Uppsala to make progress reports of individual research projects and discuss common topics such as interdisciplinary research collaborations in the centre.
This year we reviewed five progress reports and listened to three research presentations.
2024-02-06
Öyvind Alster has been working as a special educational needs co-ordinator at the Student Health Services since this autumn.
– The students have found their way to me and book appointments.
2016-09-28
There was strong demand for places at the 11th International IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity held in Karlstad, Sweden last month thanks to recent changes in EU data protection regulations and the emergence of smart Big Data.
Around 90 people attended the interdisciplinary program, which ran from 21-26 August, focusing on data protection and information privacy from technical, legal, ethical, HCI and industrial perspectives.
Thirty-five PhD students prese
