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

Who do you think should be given an award for good teaching?

Do you have an outstanding teacher who should be rewarded for their inspiring teaching? Or do you have a colleague who makes outstanding pedagogical contributions? Just don't hesitate, nominate your teacher/colleague for The Award for Good Teaching 2026. All students and staff at SU can nominate teachers. Your nomination will help the university to give high priority to teaching and pedagogical development. You can nominate until 1 March 2026.

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Important dates

  • You can nominate until 1 March 2026.
  • The nomination period runs from December to March each year.
  • The award recipients are announced in 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!

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.

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

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, Deptartment 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, Institutionen för franska, italienska och klassiska språk
  • Magdalena Rosell, Institutionen för biovetenskaper och näringslära, KI
  • Mårten Schultz, Juridiska institutionen
  • Maria Wendt, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

2011

  • Barbro Landén, Institutionen för baltiska språk, finska och tyska
  • Martin Tamm och Yishao Zhou, Matematiska institutionen
  • Elisabet Borg, Psykologiska institutionen

2010

  • Roger Nyborg, Institutionen för nordiska språk
  • Carina Ljungwald och Eva Samuelsson, Institutionen för socialt arbete

2009

  • Ingmar Borgström, Institutionen för naturgeografi och kvartärgeologi
  • Henry Montgomery, Psykologiska institutionen

2008

  • Bo Nilsson, Avdelningen för medicinsk strålningsfysik
  • Annika Norée, Department of Law
  • Monica Skrinjar, Kriminologiska institutionen
  • Ulla Sundberg, Institutionen för lingvistik

2007

  • Krzysztof Bak, Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoria
  • Margareta Ohné, Institutionen för genetik, mikrobiologi och toxikologi

2006

  • Inget individuellt lärarpris delades ut

2005

  • Inget individuellt lärarpris delades ut

2004

  • Brita Bergman, Institutionen för lingvistik
  • Otto Hermelin, Institutionen för geologi och geokemi
  • Alexa Robertson, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
  • Ulrik von Essen, Juridiska institutionen

2003

  • Ulf Björklund, Socialantropologiska institutionen
  • Ingrid Nordberg, Tyska institutionen
  • Lars-Johan Norrby, Institutionen för fysikalisk kemi, oorganisk kemi och strukturkemi
  • Jesper Öberg, Juridiska institutionen

2002

  • Henrik Edelstam, Juridiska institutionen
  • Alan McMillion, Engelska institutionen
  • Stefan Möller, Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap
  • Gunnel Skoog, Zoologiska institutionen

2001

  • Eve Arnold, Institutionen för geologi och geokemi
  • Helmut Müssener, Institutionen för tyska och nederländska
  • Yvonne Svanström, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

2000

  • Karin Helander, Teatervetenskapliga institutionen
  • Theddo Rother-Schirren, Juridiska institutionen
  • Johan Schüldt, Juridiska institutionen
  • Anders Karlhede, Fysikum
    Nathalie Koivula, Psykologiska institutionen

1999

  • Tore Bengtsson, Zoofysiologi, Wenner-Grens institut
  • Anders Carlsson, Institutionen för arkeologi
  • Cecilia Gil-Swedberg, Latinamerika-institutet
  • Claes Nordlöf, Juridiska institutionen

1998

  • Ronney Hagelberg, Juridiska institutionen
  • Bo Nilsson, Institutionen för medicinsk strålningsfysik
  • Ove Strid, Institutionen för klassiska språk
  • Eva Tiby, forskarassistent Kriminologiska institutionen

1997

  • Patricia Shaughnessy, Juridiska institutionen
  • Sune Stöök, Institutionen för franska och italienska
  • Erik Svensson, Matematiska institutionen
  • Merrick Tabor, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

1996

  • Rolf Höök, Juridiska institutionen
  • Owe Jansson, Botaniska institutionen
  • Olle Josephson, Institutionen för nordiska språk
  • Anita Rissler, Psykologiska institutionen

1995

  • Alf Bohlin, Juridiska institutionen
  • Lars Hedin, Institutionen för spanska och portugisiska
  • Cheick Wagué, Företagsekonomiska institutionen
  • Barbro Åsman, Fysikum

1994

  • Gunnar Edvinsson, Fysikum
  • Hans Hertz, Institutionen för slaviska och baltiska språk
  • Marie Sandström, Department of Law
  • Lage Wedin, Psykologiska institutionen

1993 

  • Stig Ekman, Historiska institutionen
  • Jan Kleineman, Juridiska institutionen
  • Allan Larsson, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen
  • Ki Winbladh, Zoologiska institutionen

1992

  • Nils-Magnus Björkman, Sociologiska institutionen
  • Thorsten Carlsson, Institutionen för nordiska språk
  • Marianne Särkinen, Institutionen för geologi och geokemi
  • Wiweka Warnling-Nerep, Juridiska institutionen

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: 2025-12-16

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

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