The Department Board is the department’s collective governing body.

The Department Board is appointed for a three-year term, with student representatives being reappointed each year.

The Department Board is made up of:

a) The department acting director:

b) The ex officio members of the department:

c) All academic staff members with doctoral degrees and related researchers affiliated with the department.

d) Representatives of: all other academic staff categories and the trainee research staff, appointed by and from amongst themselves; students on programmes taught or co-taught by the department, necessarily including representatives of the department’s master’s and doctoral students, chosen by and from amongst the members of each group; and the department’s administrative and service staff, chosen by and from amongst the staff as provided for in the department regulations.

e) The department’s deputy director and secretary, who, if they are not ex officio or appointed members, may attend in an advisory, non-voting capacity.

The department’s Standing Committee consists of the department director, who chairs it; the deputy directors; the secretary; the directors of the scientific sections; the postgraduate coordinator; and the head of the secretariat.

This committee has decision-making capacity in the following spheres: the department’s ordinary management; the powers set out under Article 11 of the department regulations, except those which cannot be delegated; the proposal of the teaching and research activity plan for department members; the preparation of the preliminary budget; the proposal of administrative and service staff needs; and all other departmental duties delegated to it by the Board. It will also facilitate the exchange of information and, where applicable, coordination between the different lines of research of the department’s scientific sections.

The Teaching Staff Committee is made up of all members of the bodies of full university professors, tenured university lecturers and full university school professors, as well as full professors and senior lecturers in the department, and is chaired by the department’s director or the lecturer to whom the director delegates this power.

It has decision-making capacity with regard to paragraphs i) and j) of Article 11 of the Department Regulations, as well as with regard to determining the need for openings for teaching and research staff and requesting the publication of calls to fill them, although it must at all times be ensured that no lecturer participates in decisions affecting proposals for the creation of new openings in categories superior to his or her own.

The Strategy Committee is a delegated committee of the Board consisting of all full-time teaching and research staff members in the department who hold a doctoral degree. It is tasked with defining the strategic lines of the department’s postgraduate programme and assessing and defending the consistency thereof with its members’ lines of research.

The Academic Committee is the collective department body responsible for defining, updating and assuring the quality and coordination of the doctoral programme, as well as the progress of the research and training of each doctoral student. Its duties and internal organization are regulated by the UPF Doctoral School Regulations (resolution of the Board of Governors of 13 July 2011, amended by resolution of the Board of Governors of 20 March 2013).

Some of the Academic Committee’s most important duties include:

• Appointing or changing each doctoral student’s tutor.

• Appointing or changing each doctoral student’s thesis supervisor.

• Authorizing or withdrawing authorization for joint supervision of a thesis.

• Authorizing or withdrawing authorization for the co-tutoring of a thesis.

• Authorizing doctoral students’ periods abroad.

• Authorizing the submission of each doctoral student’s thesis.

• Authorizing part-time doctoral studies.

• Authorizing extensions of the deadline for submitting a thesis.

• Approving temporary leaves for doctoral students.

• Annually assessing each doctoral student’s activity record and the tutor’s and thesis supervisor’s reports.

Dean: Miquel Salvador Serna

Bachelor’s Degree in Political and Administration Sciences Coordinator: Toni Rodon

Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics Coordinator: Jordi Guiu

Mobility Coordinator: Visnja Vukov

Director of Student Relations: Pere Jodar Martínez

Innovation manager: Abel Escribà i Folch

Members of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences Board

Miquel Salvador Serna, dean

Pere Jodar Martínez, secretary

Cristina Oliva Berini, campus director

Tenured lecturers:

Department of Political and Administration Sciences: Javier Astudillo Ruiz, Maria José González López, Jordi Guiu Payà, Carles Ramió Mata, David Sancho Royo

Department of Law: Josep Ibañez Muñoz

Department of Economics: Albert Satorra Brucart

Department of Humanities: Martin Rodrigo Alharilla, suplent: Josep Pich Mitjana

Hired academic staff and trainee research staff: Abel Escribà i Folch

Students:

Bachelor’s degree in Political and Administration Sciences: Ernest Burés Fradera, Antoni Company Valverde, Eduard Corbera i Pano, Berta Negre Soms

Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economy: Laura Van der Haar Avila

Administrative and service staff: Cristina Capilla Palacios, suplent: Montserrat Fabregat Abellán