Professor Ulrika Bergmark from Luleå University of Technology receives the 2025 Research Award from the Swedish Teachers’ Foundation.
17 November 2025
Ulrika Bergmark awarded the Teachers' Foundation Research Prize 2025
For her long-term work to bring research and school life closer together, Professor Ulrika Bergmark at Luleå University of Technology is awarded the Teacher Foundation's Research Prize 2025.
On November 14, at a ceremony at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Ulrika Bergmark received the prize, which is awarded to researchers who, in close collaboration with teachers, develop new knowledge for the development of teaching and the teaching profession.
The prize, which is worth SEK 100 000, is awarded each year to a researcher who, in close collaboration with teachers, creates new knowledge of great importance for the teaching profession and the development of teaching.
Research in dialog with schools and preschools
The motivation emphasizes that Ulrika Bergmark combines her role as a professor at Luleå University of Technology with a position as scientific leader in Piteå municipality. In this way, her research becomes part of the school's everyday life and is directly useful in practice.
She has also methodically involved teachers and principals in the research process - from formulating questions to analyzing, publishing and disseminating the results.
"I feel deeply honored to receive the Lärarstiftelsen Research Prize. It means a lot to me that the research I have conducted together with teachers is recognized. For me, it has always been important to start from teachers' own questions and experiences, to then explore teaching and learning together", says Ulrika Bergmark, Professor of Education at Luleå University of Technology.
Importance for the teaching profession and school development
Through her work, she contributes to strengthening the link between research and everyday school life. This is especially important at a time when the quality of teaching and the ability of teachers to use a scientific basis is high on the education policy agenda.
Ulrika Bergmark emphasizes that teaching processes are complex and that long-term collaboration between researchers and practitioners is needed to create meaningful change - something she herself has shown is possible through her many collaborations with preschools and schools.
About the Teachers' Foundation Research Prize
The Lärarstiftelsen Research Prize is awarded annually to a researcher who, in close collaboration with teachers, develops new knowledge for the development of teaching and the teaching profession. The prize was established in 2017 and is worth SEK 100,000. The purpose is to highlight practice-oriented research that contributes to strengthening the work of schools and preschools on a scientific basis.
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