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.
The concept of equal opportunities relates to the seven grounds of discrimination regulated in the Discrimination Act, as well as social background.
The Board shall advise the Vice-chancellor on and contribute to the University's work on gender mainstreaming, which the Gender Mainstreaming Plan governs.
The chairperson of the Board is the Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor for Equal Opportunities professor Åsa Cajander. The Board consists of representatives of the University's activities and representatives of the Trade Unions and the Student Unions.
Meetings 2025
- Wednesday February 12
- Thursday April 3
- Wednesday May 14
- Wednesday September 10
- Wednesday November 12
- Thursday December 11
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 Esbjörn Larsson
Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy
Professor Mathias Hallberg
Professor Anna-Karin Olsson
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 Johannah Rybrant
Student Albin Huusko (Dep.)
Doctoral student Sarah Glännefors
Doctoral student Pranava Pakala (Dep.)
Trade-union representatives
SACO-S
Research coordinator Kajsa Hallberg Adu
SEKO
Technician Zekaria Rundasa
TCO/ST
Postdoctoral Sandra Hellstrand
Co-opted
Cecilia Edin, Head of Unit at Student Affairs and Academic Registry Division
Secretary
Ann-Sofie Wigg Bodin, Equal Opportunities specialist
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.
Equal Opportunities Officers at the HR-Division are supporting the board in handling incoming matters.
Seminar about Equal Opportunities
Half-day on Equal Opportunities in Swedish 27 May 2025 at 1.15 to 4.30
In 2025, it is 150 years since Betty Petterson was the first woman in Sweden, to graduate. To commemorate this the Gotland student nation is donating a new portrait to the University of Betty Petterson and Signe Rudberg Selin, journalist and musician, will lecture about Sweden's first female student. The University's work to promote widening recruitment will also be highlighted by some faculties presenting their work.
Date: Thuesday 27 Maj 2025
Where: Betty Pettersson-hall, Blåsenhus and via Zoom for employees and students at Campus Gotland.
When: at 1.15 to 4.30 pm
Languages: presentations in Swedish. Discussions and questions in English and Swedish.
Organiser: Advisory Board for Equal Opportunities
Last day to register is 19 May: https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/8882958
Programme
Portrait of Betty Pettersson is donated to the University Deputy Vice-chancellor Coco Norén receives the portrait from Birk Juniwik, first curator at Gotland student nation |
Women on the verge of knowledge - Sweden's first female student, Betty Pettersson Signe Rudberg Selin, journalist and muscian
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Break with fika and mingle (30 minutes) |
Regardless of background, the University's work to promote widening recruitment -Fakulteten för utbildningsvetenskaper - Historisk-filosofiska fakultetens arbete - Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet |
Equal Opportunities advisor Åsa Cajander conclude the half-day |
Apply for Funding
Funds for Equal opportunities initiatives are announced annually. The next announcement will be in August 2025.
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.
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.
Activity Report
Activity Report 2024 Pdf, 4 MB. in Swedish