President

Dr. Josep M. Delgado. Head of the Humanities Department and responsible for the Humanities UCA

Members

Functions:

a) Collect and discuss the needs and demands of the center in terms of gender equality and sexual diversity.

b) To draw up proposals for activities in the field of gender equality policies so that they are developed by the Equality Unit or by other bodies of the University, including the center itself.

c) Inform its center of institutional activities and decisions related to gender equality and sexual diversity policies.

d) To urge the director of the Equality Unit to propose to the governing bodies of the University new measures aimed at promoting equality between women and men and respect for sexual diversity.

e) To urge the governing bodies of the center, and in the case of the department to which the center is attached, to implement the actions provided for in the current Equality Plan of the University.

f) Inform the Center Board of their agreements, reports or proposals.

Composition:

PDI

Stefano Biagetti

Rosa Cerarols

Ana Delgado

Núria F. Rius

Meritxell Ferrer

Marició Janué

Marta Jorba

Nassima Kerras

Lucila Mallart

Thomas Macsotay

Sandra Montón

Maria Antonia Oliver

Teresa Segura-Garcia (coordinator and member of the Commission on Gender Equality Policies at UPF)

PAS

Isabel Cortés

Carina Ortega

Doctoral students

Carmen Á. Granell

Students of the Degree in Global Studies

Malena Lopez

Sara Millán

Students of the Degree in Humanities

Paula Hernández

Rosa Milian

Contact: [email protected]

Web link: https://www.upf.edu/web/humanitats/igualtat

Purposes:
The Standing Committee of the Humanities Department Board is regulated by the 11th article of the Regulation. It will apply, by the Board's delegating, the competences of the sections c) through j) of the 10th article of the Regulation. Furthermore, this commission will assume the purposes of masters monitoring and the guarantee procedures of its quality indicated in the article 10 g bis. In these cases, its compositions will be expanded with a representative of the master students, and members of the Department Board chosen by them and from among them.

Composició:

• Josep M. Delgado (president)
• Josep Pich (acting secretary)
• Miquel Berga
• Josep M. Castellà
• Victòria Cirlot
• Josep M. Delgado
• Víctor Farías
• Stephen Jacobson
• Marició Janué
• Antonio Monegal
• Manel Ollé
• Hélène Rufat 
• Miquel Sánchez (representative of the administrative and service staff at the Department Board)

Purposes:
The Teaching Staff Committee is regulated by the 27th article of the Regulation. Its competences are those that, with regard to teaching staff, are assigned to them by the UPF Statutes and those others that the Humanities Department Board can delegate to them.

Composició:

• Josep M. Delgado (president)
• Josep Pich (acting secretary)
• Montserrat Cots
• Josep M. Fradera
• José M. Micó
• Martín Rodrigo
• Isabel Valverde
• Amador Vega
• Daniele Cozzoli
• Albert García

Purposes:
The Research Committee of the Humanities Department Board is regulated in the 27th article of the Regulation. Its competences, delegated by the Department Board, are to establish the research plans, developing and innovation, scientific information dissemination, coordinating the activity of its teaching and research staff; and informing about University recognition of the research groups organized with Department lecturers and professors. Its own competence is to distribute resources that are available to the Department with regard to research.

Members:

• Josep M. Delgado (president)
• Josep Pich (acting secretary)
• Javier Aparicio
• Sonia Arribas
• Rosa Cerarols
• Daniele Cozzoli
• Sandra Montón
• Estela Ocampo

Representative of the trainee research staff of the Department Board (currently empty)

Purposes:
The Academic Order Committee of the Humanities Department Board is regulated by the 27th article of the Regulation. Its competence, delegated by the Board, is to coordinate and supervise the Teaching Activity Plan of the Department teaching staff.

Members:

• Josep M. Delgado (president)
• Josep Pich (acting secretary)
• Josep M. Castellà
• Antonino Firenze
• Pere Gifra
• Eva March
• Domingo Ródenas
• Martin Rodrigo

These committees follow the guidelines set out in the tenth agreement of the Regulation of the Doctoral School by Agreement of the Governing Council of 13 July 2011, modified by Agreement of the Governing Council of 20 March 2013: 

Tenth. Doctoral Programme Academic Committee 
Each Doctoral Programme has an academic committee responsible for the definition, updating, quality and coordination of the doctoral programme and the progress of the research and training of each doctoral student, as well as those other functions established in this article. 

The academic committee of each doctoral programme is appointed by the Rector and is made up of UPF PhD holders and may include researchers from public research organisations and other national and international R+D+i institutions and entities involved in research on the doctoral programme. 

Each academic committee shall include the coordinator of the doctoral programme, who shall chair it, the coordinators of the university master's degree programmes of the departments and up to a maximum of eight other PhD holders, at the proposal of the department director, depending on the field of knowledge of the doctoral programme or of the entities referred to in the previous section. Among those appointed at the proposal of the department, there must be at least one representative of the UPF's own university research institutes, depending on the lines of research of the doctoral programme. 

The secretary is the youngest member of the doctoral staff, unless the committee has appointed another secretary from among its members. 

The functions of the academic committees of the doctoral programmes are as follows
a) To define, update and guarantee the quality and coordination of the doctoral programme.
b) To organise, design and coordinate each doctoral programme. 
c) To establish the supervision system for doctoral students and the tutoring programme. 
d) To provide the necessary support for the preparation of the doctoral student's personalised activities document. 
e) To establish additional requirements and criteria for the admission of students to a specific doctoral programme. 
f) Appointing the tutor for each doctoral student or modifying the tutor. 
g) To appoint the thesis supervisor or any modification thereof. 
h) To authorise or revoke the co-direction of the thesis. 
y) To authorise or revoke the co-supervision of the thesis. 
j) To authorise stays outside the doctoral student's home country. 
k) To authorise the presentation of the thesis of each doctoral student. 
l) To authorise part-time doctoral studies. 
m) To authorise the extension of the deadline for submission of the thesis. 
n) To decide on the temporary withdrawal of a doctoral student. 
o) To determine the exceptional cases in which certain aspects of the thesis should not be publicised. 
p) Annually evaluate the doctoral student's activity document and the reports of the tutor and thesis supervisor. 
q) To annually evaluate the doctoral student's research plan and the reports of the tutor and thesis supervisor. 
r) Any others attributed to it by general legislation or UPF regulations or the School's Regulations.