Conferences and seminars

Take your professional development to the next level. Explore higher education conferences (we list the most appreciated conferences) and subject didactic lunch seminars to attend.

The University Teachers' Conference

Stockholm University organises a biennial teacher conference. The conference is aimed at teaching staff, pedagogical leaders and staff with teaching-related tasks at the university. An opportunity to meet colleagues and share experiences on teaching, development and research in higher education pedagogy. The Conference language is Swedish but there is also an English-speaking track.

The Teachers' Conference is one of the university's educational initiatives for teachers and the development of teaching and learning at SU. The organiser is Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching.

Previous conferences

Teachers' Conference 2026 — teaching for democracy and sustainability (19 March 2026)

Teachers' Conference 2024 — meaningful learning in our times (14 March 2024)

See filmed keynote with Annika Fjelkner Pihl, On the importance of study-related relationships for meaningful learning. Fjelkner Pihl is Senior Lecturer in the Business Program and Educational Developer at the Center for Higher Education Development at Kristianstad university (HKR)

Teaching and learning seminars

Who should learn what and why? How can we then organise teaching? How should teaching be 'designed' to best fulfil its potential? How do we design our learning environments?

We all have challenges in our teaching and want to create good conditions for learning for our students. So how do we do this in our different subjects? What does the latest research show?

Our subject didactic lunch seminars are an opportunity for you to keep abreast of the latest research on teaching and learning in your particular subject, a neighbouring subject or perhaps even a completely different subject. Good examples and inspiration are promised!

We invite international and national researchers who have immersed themselves in exciting teaching issues in the humanities, social sciences, aesthetics and natural sciences. They give a presentation about their research either on site or via Zoom, and we as listeners then have the opportunity for a subsequent, more informal, dialogue with the lecturer. If we are on site, we offer sandwiches and drinks.

SAMTAL@SU is aimed at university teachers in the natural sciences and in the humanities. The programme will be published on a regular basis.

Keep an eye on our events calendar for upcoming events

The seminars are organized in collaboration between Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching and The Department of Teaching and Learning.

Contact us — we would be happy to arrange a seminar at your department

Subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Andreas Jemstedt: jemstedt@su.se

Subjects in the Natural Sciences: John Airey: john.airey@su.se

Previous SAMTAL@SU seminars

On the promise of adaptivity in learning chemistry with Nicole Graulich who is the head of the Institute of Chemistry Education at Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany, who will share current research on mechanistic reasoning, adaptive learning support, and how machine learning can be used to trace and foster students’ reasoning over time. (4 March 2026)

Geoscience education — iEarth as a national centre to improve teaching and learning. Researchers Kirsty Dunnett, University of Oslo, Carly Faber, The Arctic University of Norway and Julien Pooya Weihs, University of Bergen. 24 October 2024

Teaching to learn to do chemistry in the laboratory. Dr Hendra Y. Agustian, Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen. 25 September 2024

Obstacles to students’ learning of the limit concept. Dr Abraham Kumsa Beyene, Department of Teaching and Learning, Stockholms University. 23 April 2024

Educational Transformation at a Critical Time: The essential roles and promise of physicists with professor Noah Finkelstein from The Department of Physics at The University of Colorado Boulder. Jan 26, 2024

The pedagogy of love and freedom through the lenses of theatre laboratory. Tatiana Chemi, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. 11 September 2023

Begreppsbildning och undervisning. Cecilia Lundholm, professor vid Institutionen för ämnesdidaktik. 10 May, 2023

Tact and the Pedagogical Relation. Professor Norm Friesen, Boise State University, USA. 17 March, 2023

Navigating the Crossroads between Chemistry and Mathematics — How much is actually ”just maths”? Felix Ho, from the Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University. 20 September, 2023

Using Interleaved Practice to Enhance Undergraduate Students’ Problem-Solving Skills. Dr Steven Pan, director of the Learning Sciences Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the National University of Singapore. 13 Oktober 2022

Virtual reality as a way to visualise chemistry in 3D — a hands on workshop. Karolina Broman, senior lecturer in chemistry education at Umeå University. 11 november 2021

Students´ ability to visualise chemistry in 2D & 3D through digital tools. Karolina Broman, senior lecturer in chemistry education at Umeå University. 6 maj 2021

Semiotic resoursces in chemistry education. Susanne Wickman docent in organic chemistry at Linnæus University. 23 oktober 2019

Race to improve student understanding of uncertainty — using lego in the physics lab. Associate Professor Maria Parappilly from Flinders University in Australia. 10 oktober 2019

Developing the teaching of undergraduate mathematics through research. Barbara Jaworski is Professor of Mathematics Education at Loughborough University and Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Agder, Norway. 17 september 2019

Training science teachers in England. James de Winter leads the physics teacher preparation course at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge in the UK. 16 maj 2018

Seminar Series on Gender/Gender Equality and the Natural Sciences. Sehoya Cotner, Associate Professor in the Department of Biology Teaching and Learning at the University of Minnesota 19 february 2018

Last updated: 2026-06-22

Source: Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching