Dr. Henrik Edgren started the teacher education program at Uppsala University (Sweden) in 1994. He graduated with a teacher certificate and diploma in 2001. In 2005 Edgren defended his Ph.D. dissertation in history at Uppsala University. He has experience from different academic milieus. From 2008–2010 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Humanities, Växjö University (Sweden). From 2010–2012 he was a lecturer in military history at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm (Sweden). In 2012 he was designated associate professor in educational history at the Department of Education – in charge of several preschool and teacher education programs at Uppsala University. From 2013 Edgren has been the head (dean) of this department, with around 7,000 students and 270 employees.
Henrik Edgren