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2023-12-08
Christmas song of 2023 is a catchy tune
Christmas is approaching, and jingle bells can be heard everywhere. According to tradition, students in the music production program at Ingesund School of Music have written and produced a new Christmas song with everything extra.
This year, Carl Utbult, a songwriter, producer, and teacher at Ingesund School of Music, has been the supervisor for the first-year students in the music production program as they wrote and produced a Christmas song together as part of the regular songwriting course.
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2023-12-07
Major strategic investment in PhD students over a 4-year period
The university board has decided on a strategic investment to recruit more doctoral students. SEK50 million will be set aside to increase the number of doctoral students during the period 2025 to 2028.
The investment is funded by the university’s agency capital and will be distributed on an annual basis, amounting to SEK12.5 million per year.
The first steps will be taken already in 2024. Funds for this initial stage will be taken from the vice-chancellor’s central resource.
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2023-12-07
New collaboration project aims to encourage more commuters to cycle to work
How can we encourage more commuters to cycle to and from work? That is the question of a new collaboration project where researchers at the Service Research Center (CTF) at Karlstad University will investigate the driving forces and incentives behind car travel and the transition to more sustainable commuting.
The research is conducted within a new collaboration project that aims to develop and disseminate knowledge about behaviour-changing solutions that can encourage more people to choose cycling for their daily commute. In this project, CTF, in collaboration with the Swedish 2030-Secretariat, Akademiska Hus, Helsingborg City, Nordic Behaviour Group, Studio Berget and Örebro Municipality, will delve deep into understanding what can prompt commuters who currently use cars for their daily commute to change their daily routine and instead choose cycling.
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2023-12-06
From Uruguay to Karlstad University
Patricia Saenz Mendez came to Karlstad University in 2020, in the midst on the pandemic. A rather strange start, but as a newly appointed docent in chemistry, she feels that she is in exactly the right place.
- I completed my PhD in Uruguay and after that I ended up in Sweden. Before Karlstad University, I was a postdoc at KTH and Örebro University, as well as at University of Gothenburg for a short period, says Patricia Saenz Mendez. I didn’t know that much about Karlstad and the university here when I saw the vacancy, but I realised that it was a subject environment with a specialisation that would suit me perfectly.
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2023-12-04
Kau Science Week on Instagram
Kauresearch is the name of the university’s Instagram account where we share research information, news and glimpses of everyday life as a researcher - often with a fun twist. During the Nobel Week, 4-10 December, the university will draw on the special attention paid to science through a themed week, Kau Science Week.
The themed week will mainly appear on Kauresearch, but also on other platforms, such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Posts will be shared every day during the week to draw attention to research and researchers that relate to the subjects of the Nobel Prize.
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2023-11-30
Speaking the language of tipping points
Avit Bhowmik, Assistant Professor in Risk and Environmental Studies, who is going to attend COP28 in Dubai, which starts today, reflects on the SB meeting in Bonn.
The annual Conference of Parties (COP) 28 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will be hosted by Dubai is knocking at the door. Almost everyone who keeps an eye on climate change policy at the global level is by now familiar with COPs. It’s held every November or December and on a different continent each year.
