The Distinguished Teaching Award
Information about the Distinguished Teaching Award
Uppsala University annually awards five prizes for outstanding contributions within education at basic level as well as advanced level.
The prizes of SEK 20 000 each will be awarded in the Autumn.
Four of the prizes are allocated for teachers in the following fields;
Theology, Humanities and Educational Sciences
Law and Social Sciences
Medicine and Pharmacy
Mathematics, Science and Technology
The fifth prize is awarded to pedagogical contributions within a particularly prioritized field chosen and announced annually. This prize is called The Independent Distinguished Teaching Award. The prioritized field 2023 is Creative Pedagogy.
Distinguished Teaching Award winners 2023
Theology, Humanities and Educational Sciences
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor Maria Klingenberg at the Department of Theology
Law and Social Sciences
Professor Henrik Dellestrand at the Department of Business Studies
Medicine and Pharmacy
Professor Tryggve Nevéus at the Department of Women's and Children's Health
Mathematics, Science and Theology
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor Christer Elvingson at the Department of Chemistry
The Independent Distinguished Teaching Award
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor Karen Brounéus at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research
How to Nominate?
The nominationform for 2023 will be open between 13 January to 10 March 2023.
In May 2023 we will present the winners of the Distinguished Teaching Award 2023.
To choose laureates we need to know how your nominee works within the categories of nomination described below. Descriptions of all four categories is by no means mandatory, it does however give the drafting committee a more comprehensive picture of how your nominee fulfills the requirements for the award.
Students, colleagues and heads of departments are all invited to nominate candidates for the awards.
More information
For further information about the Distinguished Teaching Award, please contact kvalitetsutveckling@uu.se