Advisory Board for Equal Opportunities

The Vice-Chancellor have the overall responsibility for ensuring that goal-oriented work is carried out for Equal Opportunities at Uppsala University, which includes all employees and students.

The Advisory Board advises the Vice-Chancellor on University-wide issues relating to the University's Equal Opportunities work.

Equal opportunities mean equal rights and opportunities for all employees, students, and those who contact the University, regardless of grounds for discrimination: legal gender, gender identity or gender expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation, age or social background.

The Board also advises the Vice-Chancellor on and contributes to the University's work on gender mainstreaming.

Professor Åsa Cajander, the Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor for Equal Opportunities, is the chairperson of the Board. The Board consists of representatives of the University's activities and representatives of the Trade Unions and the Student Unions.

Laws and policies

Call for Funding for Equal Opportunities Initiatives starts 19 August

Join the University in the Uppsala Pride parade 26 September!

All staff and students are welcome to join. Registration closes 11 September.

Board Members

Term of office 2021-07-01 – 2024-06-30

Chairperson
Adviser to the Vice-chancellor Professor Åsa Cajander

Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor Torbjörn Gustafsson Chorell
Professor Helana Wahlström Henriksson

Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy
Professor Mathias Hallberg
Professor Maria Kjellsson

Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor Cecilia Boström
Professor Staffan Svärd

University Library
Avdelningschef Nina Svensson

University Administration
Chief legal office Per Abrahamsson

Student representatives
Student Jonathan Arwehed
Student Elwira Löwf (Dep.)
Doctoral student Sarah Glännefors
Doctoral student Laxmipriya Ramesh (Dep.)

Trade-union representatives

OFR/S
Postdoctoral Sandra Hellstrand

SACO-S
Research coordinator Kajsa Hallberg Adu

SEKO
Technician Zekaria Rundasa

Co-opted
Nina Almgren, Human Resources Strategist

Cecilia Edin, Head of Unit at Student Affairs and Academic Registry Division

Secretary
Ann-Sofie Wigg Bodin, Equal Opportunities specialist

Meetings

Meetings 2026

Wednesday February 11
Thursday March 26
Thursday May 28
Wednesday September 9
Wednesday November 11
Wednesday December 8

Preparatory Committee

The member of the Board's Preparatory Coomittee are the chairperson and advisor for Equal Opportunities Åsa Cajander and the Student Representatives.

The Preparatory Committee prepares the preliminary agenda two weeks before the board meeting.

Matters for the agenda are reported to the board's secretary one week before the Preparatory Committee's meeting. Documents are sent to the secretary no less than 10 days before the board meeting.

Officers at the Human Resources Division are supporting the board in handling incoming matters.

Seminar

Seminar on Equal Opportunities in English for employees and students, 4 November

Theme: Sustainable Work Environments and Well-Being for Doctoral Students

Target groups: coworkers and students at Uppsala University

Language: presentations in English. Discussions and questions in English and Swedish.

Contact: Ann-Sofie Wigg Bodin, 471 18 53 or ann-sofie.wigg-bodin(a)uu.se.

The Programme will be published in August

Apply for Funding

Employees, Students and organizations or associations at Uppsala University are welcome to apply for funding to finance actions that will improve equal opportunities at the University.

To the annoncement of Equal opportunities funds

Printing grant

When an equal opportunities initiative or analysis funded with equal opportunities funds results in a report, you can apply for a printing grant.

Employees and students can also apply for a printing grant to print reports related to the University's equal opportunities work.

Employees applying for printing grants should contact the printers procured by the University.

The application must have a ready-to-print manuscript and a quote for printing costs to be considered for a printing grant.

The Board's working group, consisting of the Board's chair, a teacher representative and a student representative, decides on printing grants.

If the University funds all printing costs, the product must follow the University's graphic profile. In the case of co-financing, the University's logo must be included with other logos. The University's support has to be acknowledged in the report's foreword.

The application and a print-ready manuscript are sent to the Board's secretary, Ann-Sofie Wigg Bodin e-mail: ann-sofie.wigg-bodin@uu.se.