22 PhD programmes offered by the university

Comparative Literature at the Karlstad University centres on different forms of transgression in terms of theme, content, and interdisciplinarity.

Risk and Environmental Studies is a doctoral discipline in the Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies at Karlstad University with a thematic focus on the vulnerability and protection of people, nature and society through the perspective of sustainable development. 

The doctoral education in the Public Health Science subject at the Karlstad University is affiliated with the university's graduate school in the field of health, Graduate School of Health. 

Industrial Engineering Management is an interdisciplinary technical management subject area at Karlstad University. It investigates how organisations are organised as well as how they manage and develop resources, methods, and services.

Information Systems is part of Karlstad Business School at Karlstad University. The discipline includes technical, financial, and educational aspects of information systems.

Working Life Science at Karlstad University focuses on the study of work at the levels of the individual, organisation, and society, centring on areas such as the organisation of work and its consequences, the development of the labour market and the meaning of work in our lives.

Biology is the study of life and involves all levels of organization, from molecular to the ecosystem level. This programme is offered at Karlstad University.

The Chemical Engineering research at Karlstad University encompasses studies of sustainable processes and materials based on lignocellulose as a raw material.

At Karlstad University, doctoral programmes awarding doctoral degrees in Law are offered in several different areas of law.

Chemistry as a subject includes the study of basic and applied processes at the molecular level. This programme is offered at the Karlstad University.

Materials Engineering is a knowledge domain within materials science and engineering subject in which the properties of structural and functional materials are described. This programme is offered at Karlstad University.

Together with Gender Studies, Social Work and Psychology, Sociology forms part of the Department of Social and Psychological Studies at Karlstad University. Sociology also collaborates with other social science subjects in the research school affiliated with the Centre for Regional Studies.

Business Administration is a problem-oriented subject with different theoretical frameworks for different sub-disciplines. At Karlstad University Business School, research in Business Administration is pursued both in multidisciplinary and disciplinary groups.

The doctoral programme in Political Science at Karlstad University results in a doctoral degree. The programme is specifically designed to equip students for continuing academic work nationally or internationally, as well as to pursue careers as political scientists.

The dissertation project in this Social Work programme at Karlstad University belongs to one of the subjects two research orientations: Critical welfare studies or Applied welfare research. The subject of social work belongs together with sociology, psychology, and gender studies to the Department of Social and Psychological Studies.

The curriculum for doctoral studies in History at the Karlstad University emphasises history as a critical discipline in the humanities with a research focus on modern and early modern history.

The Department of Educational Studies at the Karlstad University offers a doctoral programme in Educational Work. 

Mathematics is one of Karlstad University's research areas and our research is conducted both in pure and applied mathematics as well as in mathematics education

In Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University the focus is on the role of media in society and the conditions of media production, content and audience.

Human Geography at Karlstad University is characterised by an interest in using critical social analysis to investigate spatial questions.