Department of Science and Mathematics Education

Doctoral student in pedagogic work with a focus on chemistry students' motivation, primarily students' achievement goals.

Researcher and Senior Lecturer with and interest in matemathics and special educatione. Special interests: equity, assessment, sociopolitical issues.

My research interests concerns early years education of science. I have a PhD in Biology and long experience of teaching science at teacher education.

Professor in Science Education, and PhD in Plant Physiology. Many of the on-going projects build on teacher-researcher collaborations and include both development of teaching and research.

I am a postdoctor and are doing research on issues related to the function of science education and education for a sustainable transformation of the society.

Associate professor (Sw: docent) in mathematics education with research interests regarding language and mathematics.

Ph D student at NMD and UCGS, Umeå Center for Gender Studies. Project about critical perspectives on sex- and relationship education. On leave from Dalarna University.

Works as an institution administrator at NMD.

Researcher and teacher in science education. My aim is that science education is accessible and meaningful to all students and plays a role in the creation of a sustainable society.

My research focuses on how to better integrate sustainability and ethics perspectives into engineering education. 

Chair of the education committee at the Faculty of Science and Technology. Teach and do research in chemistry education.

I'm employed as a Ph. D student in science education with focus on upper primary school and the transition to secondary school. I'm also an instructor for teacher students.

I am a teacher and researcher in mathematics education. My research interest is in formative assessment and language and mathematics.

I am the director of a new science center for learning and communicating science and technology. The science center is currently being develop and will open in late 2019. 

Associate Professor (Docent) of Mathematics Education. Primary research field: The role of language and communication in the learning and teaching of mathematics.

Docent in mathematics education.  Works with mathematical aesthetics and proof.  Just now works with Curiosum, the new science center in Umeå.

Maria Berge holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education Research and is Associate Professor in Science and Mathematics Education at Umeå University. She works as a teacher and researcher at NMD. Her research interests are centred around issues of identity, gender, and power as well as interactional patterns when learning together in science and technology education.

Doctoral student in Educational Work with a focus on the Technology subject.

At the moment I am working as a researcher, with research connected to the project 'Learning by Imitative and Creative Reasoning'.

Oleg Popov is Associate Professor in physics education. His research interests lie in the field of intercultural science education, curriculum development and learning in different contexts.

My thesis project explores programming in the Swedish curriculum for compulsory school and in the technology subject in particular.

I am part of the UmSER research group, and also affiliated with UFM.

Associate Professor in pedagogical work. Research area: Mathematics education, focusing on mathematical reasoning and the relationship between language and mathematics.