Research at the Faculty of Educational Sciences
Research in educational sciences primarily involves fields relevant to understanding children, conditions for adolescents and adults, and conditions for learning.
The teacher who thought twice to create a better school
How can we make schools more orderly? How can we create a pleasant, peaceful classroom environment where students learn what is required and no one is...
Online source evaluation important in wartime
Hello there Thomas Nygren, member of the EU’s expert group on fake news and online disinformation and professor at the Department of Education. What’s...
"Mother tongue instruction or Swedish? Pupils want both"
Multicultural Sweden needs a substantial expansion in both mother tongue instruction and teaching of Swedish as a second language. It is not only scho...
PhD studies
Department of Education
Upcoming doctoral theses
Events att Uppsala University
Research groups
- Child and Youth Studies
- Educational Leadership
- The Research Group on Comparative Curriculum Studies
- Mathematics Teaching
- Science and technology education
- Pedagogics and Special Needs (the PS-group)
- Studies of Language Practices (STOLP)
- Studies in Childhood, Learning and Identities as Interactional Practices (CLIP)
- Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy (STEP)
- The Laboratory for Teaching Practices (TePlab)
- Uppsala Studies of History and Education (SHED)
- Sociology of Education
- Social Sciences and Humanities Education (ÄDISH)
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.