Research at the Faculty of Educational Sciences
Educational sciences encompass research in a variety of subjects concerned with education, training, teaching, upbringing and learning. This research covers a wide range of topics, from knowledge about practical teaching methods to questions of how education both preserves and transforms society.
Agnès van Zanten honorary doctorate
At its meeting on 18 September, the Faculty decided to award an honorary doctorate to Agnès van Zanten, Professor Emerita at the Centre for Research o...

A thousand years of women’s lives that shaped Sweden
They worked as rowers, guarded the church silver, printed books and had periods. In Sara Backman Prytz’s new book Kvinnoriket (The Women’s Realm), the...

Source criticism in school requires more than isolated interventions
Strengthening school students’ resilience to disinformation requires more than isolated interventions on source criticism. A new study from Uppsala Un...

PhD studies
Department of Education
Upcoming doctoral theses
Events att Uppsala University
Research groups
- Child and Youth Studies
- Pedagogics and Special Needs (the PS-group)
- Research on Educational Leadership (REL)
- Studies in Childhood, Learning and Identities as Interactional Practices (CLIP)
- Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy (STEP)
- Civics Education Design Lab (CEDEL)
- Laboratory for Teching Practices (TePlab)
- Mathematics Education
- Studies of Language Practices (STOLP)
- Studies of Comparative Didactics (SCOD)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Education (ÄDISH)
- Uppsala Studies of History and Education (SHED)
Honorary doctoral degrees
Honorary doctoral degrees are awarded to distinguished individuals who have made an outstanding academic contribution or in some other way promoted research at the University. Each year, the faculty boards have the opportunity to appoint one or more honorary doctors.