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2025-08-13
Mariebergsskogen Turns 100!
On Saturday 16 August, it will be exactly one hundred years since our beloved city park, Mariebergsskogen, was inaugurated. Anna Lööf Falkman, CEO and Alumnus of the Year 2015, invites everyone to a festive celebration lasting all day!
It’s a busy time for Anna Lööf Falkman. In addition to the year-round activities that fill the park, special events are being organised to mark the centenary.
– Throughout the summer, we’ve hosted a photo exhibition around the park, showcasing snapshots from different moments in its history. On Saturday, we’ll hold a jubilee concert at the Open-Air Theatre, featuring Christer and Cecilie Nerfont, Oscar Magnusson, and others paying tribute to the park – standing tickets are still available. -
2025-06-26
Quantum Physics Research in Collaboration with Indian Institution
Over the course of several weeks, two researchers from Bangalore, India, have visited the university as part of an ongoing collaboration funded by STINT, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education.
This is a long-term collaboration, says Sergej Moroz, Associate Professor of Physics. This time, it’s a PhD student, Ankush Chaubey, and his advisor, Subhro Bhattacharjee, who are here for a couple of weeks. Our joint work includes the study of spin liquids.
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2025-06-23
Children and digital contracts – new research highlights regulatory gaps and needs for protection
– My research improves our understanding of how to strengthen the rights of children and better protect them in a digital setting, says Germaine Hillerström, who recently defended her doctoral thesis in civil law at Karlstad Business School.
The subject first piqued Germaine Hillerström’s interest when she read about children who - unbeknownst to their parents - had made digital purchases, which raises the issue of responsibility and the legal capacity of children.
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2025-06-19
From gender research to neurodiversity – meet Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist
How can we understand autism and ADHD in a way that is grounded in the experiences of individuals who live with these forms of neurodivergences? Finding answers to this question is what motivates Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, newly appointed professor of social work at Karlstad University. With a norm-critical and neuroaffirmative perspective, she wants to contribute to better support and greater understanding of neurodivergent individuals in society.
Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist began her research career in sociology, focusing on gender and sexuality studies. Following her doctorate in sociology, she changed course and began researching autism and ADHD from a neurodiversity perspective – an approach that challenges norms and offers new ways of understanding these forms of neurodivergences. This, in turn, affects how support for these groups can be designed.
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2025-06-18
Journalism Rewired: How AI Is Reshaping News in China and Beyond
What happens when AI meets journalism in one of the world’s most tightly controlled media environments? Joanne Kuai, newly graduated PhD in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, dives into China’s AI-powered newsrooms - and what they reveal about the future of journalism everywhere.
Joanne, why did you choose Chinese journalism for your research?
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2025-06-16
Words from our senior management: Where are we headed?
We are now approaching the end of yet another semester and entering the summer period. It is a good time to slow down a little, perhaps even pause for a moment and reflect on both individual and collective achievements.
Karlstad University has existed in its current form for a quarter of a century, but its roots go back much further. The direction we are heading is partly the result of strategic decisions that have been made and partly an organic development that has taken place along the way. The knowledge, plans, ambitions, efforts, successes and failures of many individuals come together in a shared journey of development and growth.
