The Award for Good Teaching

Each year, the university honours one or more individuals with The Award for Good Teaching. Through the award, the university wants to acknowledge good efforts in teaching and their importance for student learning.

Illustration: SaraMara

Important dates

The nomination period runs from December to March each year.
The award recipients are announced in May/June.

Awarding takes place in connection with the Inauguration of new professors and conferment of doctoral degrees

Every year since 1992, Stockholm University has awarded talented teachers a prize of SEK 50,000 and a diploma that is formally handed over at the annual promotions and installation ceremony at the City Hall. The award is to be used to enable the teacher to carry on developing his or her professional competence.

All students and staff at Stockholm University may nominate a teacher to The Award for Good Teaching. The nominee must teach at the university's education and be permanently employed at Stockholm University. A teacher can normally only be awarded the prize once.

The Criterion for the selection of The Award for Good Teaching

The award goes to teachers who meet the criterion that they support student learning through:

Outstanding teaching efforts
Acknowledged interest in, and commitment to, educational development of teaching
Acknowledged pedagogical competence.

You should focus on this criterion when you nominate a teacher. Try to describe in your own words why you think your teacher meets the criterion and deserves the award. Bear in mind that nominations which are too short will not get past the first step in the selection procedure. The preferred amount of text is approximately 100 to 500 words per question. There is plenty of space for your text in the boxes in the nomination form. Just "scroll" down!

How are the recipients of the award selected?

The award is administered by Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching (CeUL).

The entire selection process is kept a secret from the nominees since the award is meant to be a surprise for the award-recipients. To ensure a fair assessment of the nominated teachers, the nominations are anonymized during the selection process.

The selection process consists of the following steps:

The nominations are assessed by working group consisting of experienced higher education experts and representatives from the Stockholm University Student Union. The working group drafts a shortlist consisting of 10 candidates among the nominees.
Next, the department where the shortlisted candidate works is informed of their nomination and sent information. The name(s) of whom wrote the nomination is not included. Each department, together with student representatives, writes a motivation letter which elaborates upon the department's and the students' perspective of candidate based on the criteria of the award.
CeUL's Board of Directors discusses the working group’s shortlist along with the supplementary motivation letters from the departments and then the nominees are ranked. The final ranking is then submitted to the university vice presidents and president.
In June, the university president, in consultation with the vice-presidents, decides upon on a final selection of 1-5 award recipients. The awardees are then announced on this website.

Previous recipients of The Award for Good Teaching

See the Swedish site for motivations and more information about the previous recipients

2026

Erik Angner, Department of Philosophy
Lars-Ove Westerberg, Department of Physical Geography

2025

Juan Carlos Cruz Suárez, Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Eva Fromholz, Department of Social Work
Eva Hedlund, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

2024

Christina Ramberg, Department of Law
Emeli Lönnqvist, Department of Criminology
Olena Jansson, Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German
Salim Belyazid, Department of Physical Geography

2023

Jordi Solsona Belenguer, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
Maja Torres Madzar, Department of Teaching and Learning

2022

Katarina Fast Lappalainen, Department of Law
John Fitzpatrick, Department of Zoology
Olov Karlsson, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
Lena Sjögren, The Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
Oliver Smith, Department of Teaching and Learning

2021

Matilda Baraibar, Department of Economic History and International Relations
Sören Holst, Department of Physics
Adam Jacobsson, Department of Economics
Christophe Premat, Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Anna-Lena Ström, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

2020

Jessica Franzén, Department of Statistics
Agneta Norén, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Niclas Runebou, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Education

2019

Christoffer Carlsson, Department of Criminology
Nicklas Selander, Department of Organic Chemistry
Helena Bani Shoraka, Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

2018

Robert Daniels, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Nils Larsson, Department of Language Education
Iñaki Rodriguez Longarela, Stockholm Business School
Emma Wikberg, Department of Physics

2017

Hildred Crill, Department of Geological Sciences
Lisa Käll, Department for Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies
Said Mahmoudi, Department of Law
Daniel Ritter, Department of Sociology

2016

Lenita Freidenvall, Department of Political Science
Thomas Krigsman, Department of Mathematics and Science Education
Jan Storå, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
Johannes Wickbom, Department of Law

2015

Sirkku Männikkö Barbutiu, Department of Computer and Systems Science
Fawad Hassan, Department of Physics
Per Förnegård, Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Andrea Sundstrand, Department of Law

2014

Suzanne Kriström Alonzo, Department of Child and Youth Studies
Mårten Edenroth, Department of Law
Clas Hättestrand, Department of Physical Geography
Maria Wingstedt, Centre for Research on Bilingualism

2013

Alasdair Skelton, Department of Geological Sciences
Jessika van der Sluijs, Department of Law
Fia Sundevall, Department of Economic History
Åke Zimmermann, Department of Slavic Studies

2012

Franco Pauletto,Department of French, Italian and Classical Languages
Magdalena Rosell, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, KI
Mårten Schultz, Department of Law
Maria Wendt, Department of Political Science

2011

Barbro Landén, Department of Baltic Studies, Finnish and German
Martin Tamm och Yishao Zhou, Department of Mathematics
Elisabet Borg, Department of Psychology

2010

Roger Nyborg, Department of Scandinavian Languages
Carina Ljungwald och Eva Samuelsson, Department of Social Work

2009

Ingmar Borgström, Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology
Henry Montgomery, Department of Psychology

2008

Bo Nilsson, Division of Medical Radiation Physics
Annika Norée, Department of Law
Monica Skrinjar, Department of Criminology
Ulla Sundberg, Department of Linguistics

2007

Krzysztof Bak, Department of Literature and History of Ideas
Margareta Ohné, Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology

2006

No individual prize was awarded

2005

No individual prize was awarded

2004

Brita Bergman, Department of Linguistics
Otto Hermelin, Department of Geology and Geochemistry
Alexa Robertson, Department of Political Science
Ulrik von Essen, Department of Law

2003

Ulf Björklund, Department of Social Anthropology
Ingrid Nordberg, Department of German and Dutch
Lars-Johan Norrby, Department of Physical, Inorganic and Structural Chemistry
Jesper Öberg, Department of Law

2002

Henrik Edelstam, Department of Law
Alan McMillion, Department of English
Stefan Möller, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
Gunnel Skoog, Department of Zoology

2001

Eve Arnold, Department of Geology and Geochemistry
Helmut Müssener, Department of German and Dutch
Yvonne Svanström, Department of Economic History

2000

Karin Helander, Department of Theatre Studies
Theddo Rother-Schirren, Department of Law
Johan Schüldt, Department of Law
Anders Karlhede, Department of Physics
Nathalie Koivula, Department of Psychology

1999

Tore Bengtsson, Animal Physiology, The Wenner-Gren Institut
Anders Carlsson, Department of Archaeology
Cecilia Gil-Swedberg, Institute of Latin American Studies
Claes Nordlöf, Department of Law

1998

Ronney Hagelberg, Department of Law
Bo Nilsson, Department of Medical Radiation Physics
Ove Strid, Department of Classical Languages
Eva Tiby, Department of Criminology

1997

Patricia Shaughnessy, Department of Law
Sune Stöök, Department of French and Italian
Erik Svensson, Department of Mathematics
Merrick Tabor, Department of Political Science

1996

Rolf Höök, Department of Law
Owe Jansson, Department of Botany
Olle Josephson, Department of Scandinavian Languages
Anita Rissler, Department of Psychology

1995

Alf Bohlin, Department of Law
Lars Hedin, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Cheick Wagué, Stockholm Business School
Barbro Åsman, Department of Physics

1994

Gunnar Edvinsson, Department of Physics
Hans Hertz, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Marie Sandström, Department of Law
Lage Wedin, Department of Psychology

1993

Stig Ekman, Department of History
Jan Kleineman, Department of Law
Allan Larsson, Department of Economic History
Ki Winbladh, Department of Zoology

1992

Nils-Magnus Björkman, Department of Sociology
Thorsten Carlsson, Department of Scandinavian Languages
Marianne Särkinen, Department of Geology and Geochemistry
Wiweka Warnling-Nerep, Department of Law

Contact

Questions? Please contact,
Annika Forslund at Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching

E-mail: annika.forslund@su.se
Phone: 08-16 22 78

Last updated: 2026-07-07

Source: Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching & Communications Office (LE)