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Department of Political and Social Sciences - SPS

Department governing bodies

Head of Department: Prof. Francesco Niccolò Moro

 

The Head of Department is a full professor at the institution and was elected by the Department Council. He provides strategic guidance, initiates, controls and coordinates the teaching and scientific activity of the department.

He chairs the Department Council and convenes its meetings and is also member of law of the School Councils to which the department is affiliated.

Deputy Head of Department: Prof. Raffella Baritono

The deputy head of department assists and replaces the head in case of absence or impediment.

Head of the Local Organisational Unit (Forlì): Prof. Arrigo Pallotti

The department has an internal Local Organizational Unit in Forlì which serves to coordinate the activities carried out in the different campuses. The members of the Local Organizational Unit are professors and researchers who carry out their duties within the unit.

The head coordinates the teaching and scientific activities carried out on campus.

Department Council

The Department Council is composed of the head, who chairs it; the professors and researchers of the department; the administrative-managerial head, who takes the functions of secretary; the elected representatives of the technical-administrative staff; the elected representatives of the students for the first-, second- and third-cycle programmes; and the elected representatives of research fellows.

The Department Council approves the three-year research plan and, for the aspects within its competence, the three-year teaching plan, in line with the university's three-year programming document; the council carries out further important tasks as per its regulation.

Department Board

The board is the collegiate body of the department.

The board assists the head of the department and exercises decision-making functions on all issues and matters that do not fall within the Department Council’s exclusive competence.

The board of the Department of Political and Social Science is composed as follows:

a) Head of Department: Prof. Francesco Niccolò Moro, who chairs the board.

b) Deputy Head of Department: Prof. Raffaella Baritono

c) Head of the Local Organizational Unit (Forlì): Prof. Arrigo Pallotti

d) Professor representatives:

Full professors:  Prof. Riccardo Prandini, Prof. Sonia Lucarelli.

Associate professors: Prof. Elena Irrera, Prof. Gianfranco Baldini

Researchers: Davide Chinigò, Angela Romano

e) Representatives of the technical-administrative staff: Donato Tricarico, Andrea Rossetti

f) Student representatives: Maura Pili, Pietro Luciano Cordano Alquinta

g) Research fellow representatives: Clara Della Valle

h) Members designated by the Director: Prof. Filippo Andreatta, Prof. Giancarlo Gasperoni, Prof.ssa Francesca Ragno

The administrative-managerial officer, Dr. Francesca Carati, participates in the meetings with an advisory vote and acts as the recording secretary.

Joint Committee of Faculty-Students

In each Department, a Joint Committee of Faculty-Students is established, typically renewed every three years. The Committee consists of a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 20 members, equally divided between faculty and students. The Department Council appoints the faculty members, including the President. The student members of the Joint Committee are primarily elected from the student representatives in the Department Council and, secondarily, from the councils of the Department’s reference study programs, identified by the same student members of those councils, ensuring compliance with the balanced representation criteria outlined in Article 18, paragraph 8 of the University Statute. If necessary for the equal composition of the Committee, the Department may also request the availability of non-representative students present in the electoral rankings and, as a last resort, students enrolled in the Department’s study programs. The student component within the Joint Committee has a two-year term. The faculty component within the Joint Committee has a three-year term.

Functions

The Joint Committee:

  • is responsible for monitoring the educational offer, the quality of teaching, and student services using specific evaluation indicators
  • provides opinions on the establishment, activation, modification, and suppression of the educational offer of the three cycles
  • can make proposals to the Department Council on issues related to teaching
  • drafts an annual report on the teaching activities of the study programs for which the Department is responsible

Composition

The SPS Joint Committee consists of 10 members, including:

5 faculty members, appointed by the Department Council in the session of 10/12/2021:

  • Prof. Paolo Terenzi (President)
  • Prof. Daniela Cavallini
  • Prof. Michela Ceccorulli
  • Prof. Elena Macchioni
  • Prof. Luca Pinto

5 students:

  • Mr. Ninawa Pablo Pipestem
  • Ms. Simona Marrone
  • Mr. Giorgio Gregorio
  • Ms. Sara Giulia Buccafusca
  • Ms. Berenice Di Croce

Administrative support to the Joint Committee is provided by Dr. Monica Malisardi.