Eva Funck Beskow honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Educational Sciences
At its meeting on 19 September, the Faculty decided to confer an honorary doctorate on Eva Funck Beskow, programme leader, lecturer and author.
Eva Funck Beskow. Photo: Cecilia Cia Liljeton
Eva Funch Beskow has been creating children's programmes for SVT since Björnes magasin in 1987 and onwards with series such as Evas sommar- och vinterplåster, Evas funkarprogram, Evas känslokoll, Maskinen kroppen and many more.
She has been awarded the Kristallen for Sweden's best children's programme, the Nordic Children's TV Prize for the Nordic region's best children's programme, factual, and the Prix Jeunesse for the world's best children's programme, factual.
Eva has lectured from north to south on the role of basic emotions in our lives and on dyslexia. She has also written popular science books for children and illustrated books about the character Hönapöna, who also played the main role on her children's theatre stage in Stockholm, which she ran from 1981 to 2018. In recent years, Eva has worked on language development programmes for children for SVT Umeå.
For Christmas 2024, Eva has created and written ‘Robbi och Evas Guldjakt’ for SVT. It is a Christmas calendar for younger children and will be shown in several minority languages in addition to Swedish.
Motivation
Through her children's programmes in particular, Funck Beskow has made a major contribution to children's education and quest for knowledge. Her work is characterised by her ability to explain in a clear and lucid manner various phenomena from human physiognomy and psychology to the nature of nature and the structure of society. It is also characterised by her enthusiastic manner and scientifically inspired approach that encourages children to seek new knowledge themselves.
More about Uppsala University's honorary doctorates
Honorary doctor, doctor honoris causa, is a title awarded to people who have made outstanding scientific contributions or otherwise promoted research at the university. It is always the faculties themselves that appoint honorary doctorates, not the rector or the university management in general.