PRAXIS

To distribute knowledge to society, thereby influencing praxis, is an important task for researchers. My efforts in this field are, I have to admit, insignificant. When I am oriented towards praxis, my main method is articles in newspapers, such as  Hallandsposten (the local newspaper) (a recent example), Sydsvenska Dagbladet (regional newspaper), Svenska Dagbladet (national newspaper) (one example), and in business press (Dagens Industri) (a recent example). In my CV you find most of my old articles. I have by now written so many articles that I have stopped listed them in my CV. I have transformed several student dissertations into articles, and helped students to write articles for newspaper.

I am engaged in international collaboration, with the intent to both develop the universities I visit, and my own university. Universities has so much to learn from each other! Today I am especially engaged in a university in the intense city of Kharkiv, Ukraine. As you probably know, Kharkiv is among the largest university cities in Europe, containing about 200.000 lively and engaged students! My visit 2008, together with my doctoral student, Timur Uman, resulted in two TV presentation, of which I am so proud that you can find them here and here. And one page, which I cannot read, but it has interesting photos, especially the last one, indicating that we are recruiting for the future! Indeed, we have much to learn about how to promote our own university through mass media.

The year 2009 we did another trip and it resulted in one exchange contract with PUA and two suggestions of letter of intent with two other universities. We made a travel report to our university, which were presented in Swedish in the internal newspaper. You find one home page about our visit at PUA  here. One page from our visit at Kharkiv National University of Economics can be found here. Today we have exchange contract with PUA and two other universities in Kharkiv in process of making exchange contracts, National Technical University (Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute) and Kharkiv National University of Economics. I do hope that Halmstad University will support our ambitions of developing our contacts with Ukraine.