The Faculty of Humanities' collaboration award 2024 to Jenny Högström Berntson
Jenny Högström Berntson, coordinator of the Heritage Academy and the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (CCHS), UGOT is awarded the Humanities Faculty's Collaboration Award 2024.
A newly established award
The award aims to recognize employees' successful and appreciated efforts in collaboration with the surrounding society.
The motivation reads:
"Jenny Högström Berntson has for many years and with great success worked to disseminate and convey cultural heritage research at the University of Gothenburg to a wide public through, for example, the Heritage Academy, several engaging and relevant podcast productions and the collaboration network #culinaryheritage (#matarv). With knowledge, enthusiasm and outstanding initiative, Högström Berntson enables a living and constantly developing collaboration between the university and the surrounding society, which is based on learning, exchange of ideas, knowledge sharing and utilization.”
Högström Berntson received the award from Åsa Apring, Dean at the Faculty of Humanities, at an award ceremony 7 November. The ceremony was followed by a lecture on collaboration by Jenny Högström Berntson with a subsequent panel discussion on collaboration, synergies and the role of the humanities in society between the awardee and Simon Dobnik (professor at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science), Marie Rydenvald (university lecturer at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism and language technology), under the direction of Andrea Castro, Assistant Dean for Research at the Faculty of Humanities.
The collaboration award is newly established, and it is the first time it has been awarded at the Faculty of Humanities.
“I am very proud and grateful”, says Jenny Högström Berntson. “I find the Faculty of Humanities' collaboration award a commendable stance to highlight the role and value of external collaboration.”
Platforms for collaboration
Within the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (CCHS), interdisciplinary collaboration across research disciplines and faculties within the university as well as with other universities and the surrounding community is a basic prerequisite. Cooperation with external cultural heritage actors has a central role and has been carried out within the framework of the cooperation platform Heritage Academy (Kulturarvsakademin) for many years.
“I congratulate Jenny Högström Berntson in the warmest way. She is an extremely worthy recipient of the collaboration award. Partly for the pioneering work with sustainable external arrangements and podcasts she carries out, and partly because she has the expert skills that are necessary when the university is to become even better at collaborating with what we call the outside world, says Astrid von Rosen”, Director Centre for Critical Heritage Studies.
