Pedagogical award to Gunnel Ekroth
Pedagogical award to Gunnel Ekroth
Uppsala University annually awards five pedagogical prizes for outstanding contributions within education at basic level as well as advanced level. This year
, our professor in Classical archaeology and ancient history, Gunnel Ekroth is a winner. She is awarded in the area of Theology, Humanities and Educational Sciences.
Gunnel comments on the award:
I am deeply honoured and very happy to have received a pedagogical award. Research activities can be assessed, but teaching is always a bit of trial and error. It feels amazing to get an acknowledgement that it seems to work.
Information about the Pedagogical Awards
Uppsala University annually awards five pedagogical prizes for outstanding contributions within education at basic level as well as advanced level.
The prizes of SEK 20 000 each will be awarded at the Ceremonial Installation of Professors in November.
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 Pedagogical Award.