NEWS Lisa Lundin, associate professor at the Department of Chemistry at dg club University, is awarded the Faculty of Science and Technology's pedagogical award 2025. She receives the prize primarily for her great commitment to leading and developing courses and distance learning programmes.
Lisa Lundin is awarded the Faculty of Science and Technology's pedagogical award 2025.
ImageHans Karlsson“I am very proud, happy and surprised! It feels incredibly nice that the work I have put into developing teaching and learning in recent years is being recognized” says Lisa Lundin.
Lisa Lundin is associate professor at the Department of Chemistry. Since 2022, she has been the programme director for the Master of Science in Technical Chemistry Engineering programme. During the years 2017-2022, she was programme director for the previous programme for process operators. She also teaches and has course responsibility for a number of courses. She also participates in pedagogical development work for other courses offered by the faculty.
She receives the faculty pedagogical award for her great commitment and skill in leading and developing courses and distance learning programmes. She is a valued teacher who successfully led the development of the new Master of Science in Technical Chemistry Engineering programme and the previous university programme for process operators, both remotely.
Lisa Lundin has shown a special ability to adapt both content and examination forms for distance formats, while focusing on the content level and students' learning.
She has a unique ability to create learning environments where students develop, both as chemists and as problem solvers. She also actively participates in international educational collaboration with a university in Florida that also conducts distance education in chemistry.
What are your main driving forces when it comes to teaching and developing our programmes?
“The cliché answer is to see when students develop, when they find joy in the subject of chemistry and what they can achieve with their knowledge of chemistry. But also that there is a great need for engineers in technical chemistry and chemists in the labor market and being able to contribute to our ability to meet that need is very important to me.”
What interests you most in education right now?
“I want to develop distance education as a form of education and make it at least as sought-after as on-campus education” says Lisa Lundin. “There are so many possibilities with all the digital tools we have access to today that allow us to meet students regardless of where they live and what kind of life situation they are in.”
I want to develop distance education as a form of education and make it at least as sought-after as on-campus education
“There is clearly a need for alternatives to campus education and the students who make it through distance education have something that is very sought-after in the job market today: a combination of being very independent and working in a group, as well as working remotely in digital environments.”
Tell us a little about the collaboration with the University of Florida on distance education.
“I came into contact with Nicole Lapeyrouse at the University of Central Florida, UCF, when she was on an extended stay at the Department of Chemistry in the spring of 2023. We found each other, and after that we have continued to collaborate on distance education. I have just returned from the US where I have been at UCF for five weeks, thanks to an internationalisation check from the faculty, to work further on developing the MSc in Technical Chemistry Engineering.”
“I have brought back many good ways to improve our distance learning in the programme and have made contacts that open opportunities for collaboration between students in the engineering programmes at Umeå University and at UCF. We have several plans for how to build on what we have done so far, and I look forward to making our courses even more flexible to create the best possible learning environment for our students who choose to study remotely” says Lisa Lundin.
The prize sum is 30,000 SEK and it will be awarded at the university's annual celebration in October.
