Official Graduate Programme: Master / Ph.D in Political and Social Sciences

• Introduction
• Direction and Coordination
• Commission
• Procedures to make a suggestion or to do an enquiry
• Submitted Theses
• Inscribed Theses
• Possible Theses Directors
• Master
• PhD
• Other Graduate programmes sponsored by the Departmant

Introduction

The Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University offers two official postgraduate programmes (Master and Ph.D) which can be followed independently. However, in order to enrol on the Ph.D programme, it is necessary to have previously been awarded the Master or to have an equivalent degree from an internationally prestigious university. These two programmes have been designed for students with a clear international scientific and professional interest.

These programmes have been approved by the governing council of the UPF and the Departament d´Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informació of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government).

The Ph.D programme in Political and Social Sciences has received three quality awards from the Spanish Ministry of Education.

Direction and coordination of the Graduate Programmes (Master and PhD)

• Direction:Clara Riba (clara.riba@upf.edu)
• Coordination: Klaus-Jürgen Nagel (klaus.nagel@upf.edu)

Steering Committee of the Official Graduate Programme of the Department of Political and Social Sciences

This committee is responsible for taking decisions relating to the two programmes. It is composed of professors and senior lecturers in political science and sociology from the UPF and representatives of the students of the Graduate Programme.

Composition

It is currently composed of:

• Clara Riba (Director of the Department and the Official Graduate Programme)
• Klaus-Jürgen Nagel (Coordinator of the Official Graduate Programme)
• Jordi Guiu (Dean of the Studies in Political and Administrative Sciences)
• Gösta Esping-Andersen (Professor of Sociology. Speciality: "Sociodemography")
• Vicenç Navarro (Professor of Political Science. Speciality: "Public Policy")
• Francesc Pallarés (Professor of Political Science. Speciality: "Institutions, Elections and Voters")
• Ferran Requejo (Professor of Political Science. Speciality: "Democracy, Federalism and Multiculturality")
• David Sancho (Head of the area of Political and Administrative Science)
• Sebastià Sarasa (Area of Sociology)
• Oscar Pardo (osdelesseps@gmail.com) and Jordi Serret (jordi.serret@upf.edu) (Representatives of the PhD students)
• William Bickford (william.bickford01@campus.upf.edu) (Representative of the Master students)

Commission Functions

The Commission has the following general competences:

• Propose to the department the teaching staff.
• Coordinate the different postgraduate programs included in the Program.
• Propose to the department the study plans of the Masters.
• All those that derive from the development and organization of the program and that are not assigned to another organ.

Regarding the Masters programs, the comission has the following specific competences:

• Elaborate the plan of studies.
• Coordinate the plan of studies.
• Propose the number of places.
• Propose to the competent organ of the department the specific criteria for admission of students and for the evaluation of the applications.
• Set up a selection commission when the demand is higher than the number of vacancies.
• Designate a tutor for every student.
• Elaborate the necessary documentation for the accreditation of the program's quality, participating actively at the same time in the established procedures of the quality agencies.
• Collaborate with the administrative services in the tasks of diffusion of the program, academic management, the capture of external funds and other tasks that need its collaboration.

Regarding the PhD programme, the comission has the following competences:

• Propose the number of places.
• Propose to the competent organ of the department the specific criteria for admission of students and for the evaluation of the applications.
• Propose to the department the courses, seminars and other activities that are deemed necessary for the formation of the PhD students as researchers.
• Designate the Thesis Directors.
• Establish measures to guarantee the development and quality of the Doctoral Thesis to be defended.
• Propose to the competent commission of postgraduate affairs of the UPF the composition of the thesis tribunals.

Procedures to make a suggestion or to do an enquiry

In order to make suggestions or do enquiries, students can contact:

• The Director of the Official Graduate Programme
• The coordinator of the Official Graduate Programme
• Representatives of the students at the Committee of the Official Graduates Programme

Submitted Theses

Inscribed Theses

Possible Theses Directors

• Arregui, Javier: Lecturer
• Arza, Camila: Ramon y Cajal Researcher
• Astudillo, Javier: Lecturer
• Baizán, Pau: ICREA Researcher
• Esping-Andersen, Gosta: Full Professor
• Ferrer, Mariona: Lecturer
• Fishman, Robert: Visiting Professor
• González, Amparo: Lecturer
• González, M. José: Associate Professor
• Guiu, Jordi: Associate Professor
• Hanf, Kenneth: Associate Professor
• Jodar, Pere: Associate Professor
• Jordana, Jacint: Full Professor
• Lago, Ignacio: Associate Professor
• Nagel, Klaus-Jürgen: Associate Professor
• Navarro, Vicenç: Full Professor
• Notó, Pere: Associate Professor
• Ortíz, Luis: Lecturer
• Pallarès, Francesc: Full Professor
• Polavieja, Javier: ICREA Researcher
• Ramió, Carles: Associate Professor
• Requejo, Ferran: Full Professor
• Riba, Clara: Professora agregada
• Rodríguez, Jorge: Ramon y Cajal Researcher
• Salvador, Miquel: Lecturer
• Sancho, David: Associate Professor
• Sarasa, Sebastià: Associate Professor
• Torcal, Mariano : Full Professor
• Zapata, Ricard : Associate Professor

Master in Political and Social Sciences

PhD in Political and Social Sciences

Other Graduate programmes sponsored by the Departmant

• European Master in Government
• Official Master in Public Management
• Master in Latin American Studies