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• 2024-10-15

  Pupils need online reading comprehension

  Swedish pupils need support to fully understand what they read online. They often have great knowledge and abilities, but must be given tools to interpret texts in a digital environment. These are the findings of new research at Karlstad University.

  "Reading a printed text and reading a text online entail different types of challenges, and pupils must be able to work with both text types. You can’t just focus on printed texts and think that the same reading comprehension applies to online texts, says Marie Wejrum who just completed her PhD with the thesis Reading Beside the Lines: Lower Secondary Students’ Critical Reading of Digital Multimodal Argumentative Texts."

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• 2024-10-09

  Language, media and disasters – welcome to our open docent lectures

  On 16 October, employees, students and the public are welcome to attend open lectures where new docents present their research. The lectures are open to everyone. You do not have to sign up to attend.

  The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is hosting open lectures where docents admitted during the autumn of 2023 and the spring of 2024 are invited to give a short popular science lecture related to their research.

  – This is a long-standing tradition where we acknowledge our new docents and provide insight into the diverse research conducted at the faculty, says the Dean Martin Grimberg Löfgren. The format of short popular science lectures has proven to be successful and attracts a big audience.

• 2024-10-09

  From pixels to virtual reality – experience the history of video games

  Why are so many people fascinated by video games? How did it all begin and how has storytelling in video games evolved over time? A new course at Karlstad University explores the history of narratives in video games, with the help of a one-of-a-kind historic video games archive.

  Video games are more and more prevalent in popular culture, and the games industry keeps growing each year. More than three billion people – and four out of five Swedes – play some kind of digital game. This rapid development means that it is increasingly necessary to preserve video game history in a good way.

• 2024-10-07

  New master’s programme provides tools to overcome obstacles to behavioural changes in today’s society

  What drives us? What makes us feel, react and act the way we do? These questions are explored in the master's programme in psychology at Karlstad University, where students acquire specialised knowledge of human behaviour, equipping them to actively address societal challenges in working life.

  In today’s society, where global challenges such as climate change, economical injustice and conflicts affect us all, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the underlying processes behind these crises. That is what the new master’s programme in psychology, which started in the spring, offers.

• 2024-10-07

  Academic Ceremony Celebrates What We Can Achieve Together

  As the leaves on the trees begin to change colour, it’s time for the Academic Ceremony, one of the biggest events of the year at Karlstad University and a long-standing tradition. In troubled times, it is important to protect unity, cooperation, and team spirit and what we can achieve together, not least in research. On October 18th, we will together confer new doctors, honorary doctors as well as install our new professors. We also acknowledge this year’s docents, adjunct professors as well as merited- and excellent teachers.

  Together is this year’s theme for the Academic Ceremony. Many of our researchers at Karlstad University conduct research in collaboration with other researchers, often across disciplinary boundaries. Something that strengthens and advances knowledge after being reviewed and discussed from many different perspectives. Working together also brings joy to work and strengthens Karlstad University as a higher education institution.

• 2024-10-07

  A fresh new look for the square outside House 11

  Redevelopment of the square outside House 11 began in April and has now been completed.
  On Monday 14 October, Akademiska hus holds an official opening at 10-14.

  The terraces of the amphitheater have been freshed up using a pressure washer and there are also new benches, steps and a fence at the top. The square itself now has trees, bushes and perennials, along with places to sit on one side and a stage on the other. Next to the south-facing wall outside House 11, there a new sunbeds. The square has also been fitted with effective and energy-efficient lighting as well as a speaker system.