Research at the Department of Education
Our researchers and doctoral students work within the framework of one or more research groups. Many are affiliated with research groups at other institutions and universities and participate in national and international research networks.
Research areas
Research groups
- Child and Youth Studies
- Civics Education Design Lab (CEDEL)
- Laboratory for Teaching Practices (TePlab)
- Mathematics Education
- Pedagogics and Special Needs (the PS-group)
- Research on Educational Leadership (REL)
- Science and Technology Education
- Social Sciences and Humanities Education (ÄDISH)
- Studies in Childhood, Learning and Identities as Interactional Practices (CLIP)
- Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy (STEP)
- Studies of Comparative Didactics (SCOD)
- Studies of Language Practices (STOLP)
- The Research Group Housing, Education and Segregation (BUS)
- Uppsala Studies of History and Education (SHED)
Research projects
- AI simulations as training against disinformation in schools
- Climate change teaching supporting sustainability transition
- Developing Primary Teacher Education Research (DePTER)
- Developing, implementing and researching Lesson Design Workshops
- Generating or restricting change for sustainability transitions: A didactic study of the effects of emotions in sustainability-related learning processes – SUSTEMO
- Intercultural Education for Sustainability: creating biosocial narratives through Lesson Design Workshops
- Learning in view of the Energy Transition - Considering consequences in the Global South
- Manners of teaching about controversial sustainability issues and students learning
- RELMAS research school
- Researching the Teaching and Learning of Action Competence in relation to Sustainability
- SEGA:D - Serious educational games against disinformation
- School and the Making of Social Class
- Scientific research network ‘Sustainability Didactics – SUDI’
- Sustainability Didactics
- Teaching and Learning the Embedded Economy
- The Kindergarten as a Factor of Inclusion for Migrant Children and their Families (KINDINMI)
- The public role of education in democratic sustainability transitions
- Transactional investigations of learning in view of sustainability transitions - LESTRA
- Transdisciplinary coproduction of sustainability education – TRANSPOSE
- Transition between preschool and comprehensive school – Analyses of how preschool participation and socio-economic context affect children´s early educational trajectories
Research seminars
Our research seminars are open to participants.
Higher seminar
The higher seminar is part of the department's doctoral education. Here, our doctoral students present parts of their ongoing thesis work for discussion and supervision.
You find information on time and place for the higher seminars in our Calendar (In Swedish)