Distinguished Teaching Award – Nominate candidates for the award

The award aims to encourage teachers to make good pedagogical contributions in first-cycle and second-cycle education. The award may be presented to an individual teacher or to several teachers. Teachers are defined as professors, associate professors, lecturers, research assistants, part-time fixed-term teachers and guest teachers.

The award winner(s) will have made a well-documented pedagogical contribution and demonstrated excellence in the following areas:

• pedagogical development work
• interaction with students
• collaboration with colleagues

Decisions on award winner(s) are made by an evaluation committee consisting of the chair and a teacher representative from the Strategic Board for Education, a teacher representative appointed by the Faculty Board and a student representative from the Umeå Medical and Health Sciences Students' Union. The committee will take gender equality into account when evaluating the nominations.

Award amount: SEK 50,000

Nomination: Link to nomination

Contact person
With any questions contact Deputy Dean and Chair of UN, Kristina Lejon, kristina.lejon@umu.se.