The Torsten Söderberg Foundation awards or has awarded prizes in medicine, economics, law, design and crafts, commerce, and journalism within the foundation’s main areas of focus. The prizes are intended to highlight outstanding achievements in each field and to encourage further research and development.
The SEK 1 million Söderberg Prize is awarded every two years to outstanding researchers in economics or law and every two years in medicine. In the first case, the recipient is chosen in cooperation with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Vetenskapsakademien, in the second case in cooperation with the Swedish Medical Society.
The Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize recognized innovative and outstanding achievements in arts and crafts and design. The prize was worth 1 million Swedish kronor and was awarded by the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg for 25 years.
The Söderberg Trade Prize of SEK 500,000 is awarded to a person who, through outstanding theoretical or practical efforts, has contributed to the development of distribution in a broad sense. The prize was last awarded in 2013.
The Söderberg Journalism Prize is awarded for excellence in science journalism, particularly to those who have contributed to the dissemination of knowledge in medicine, economics or law. The prize was last awarded in 2009.
Charis Kubrin and Mark Lipsey are awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. Through their own research and systematic reviews of other relevant research, commonly held assumptions about crime and crime prevention have been challenged. The laureates are appointed...
Over the twenty years that the prize has been awarded, it has recognized a wide range of areas within criminology and related fields. The prize is sponsored by the Stockholm Prize in Criminology Foundation, which was established by the Swedish government and the Torsten Söderberg Foundation.
Frances Crook and Bryan Stevenson are awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology for their success in reducing the incidence of disproportionate punishment through the application of criminological research in their respective professional roles. They will receive the prize from Her Majesty the Queen on...
Frances Crook and Bryan Stevenson are awarded the prize for their success in reducing disproportionate sentences through the application of criminological research in their respective professional roles. Among other things, the laureates' application has reduced the detention of young...
Professors Gary LaFree and Tom R. Tyler are awarded this year's prize of SEK 1 million for their research on the democratic legitimacy and legal certainty of the state's relationship with citizens. They receive the Stockholm Prize in Criminology from H.M....
In light of Tomas Söderberg’s passing, the Torsten Söderberg Foundation has decided that the 2018 Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize in Design and Crafts will be the last to be awarded. The Röhsska Museum, which has presented the prize...
The Röhsska Museum’s selection committee for the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize, funded by the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, has decided to award this year’s prize of 1 million Swedish kronor to Brynjar Sigurðarson.
Markus Heilig, Professor of Psychiatry at Linköping University, receives the 2018 Söderberg Prize in Medicine for important research contributions to the understanding of affective disorders and alcoholism.
The Röhsska Museum’s selection committee for the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize, funded by the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, has decided to award this year’s prize of 1 million Swedish kronor to Daniel Rybakken.
