Department governing bodies
Head of Department: Professor Filippo Andreatta
The Head of Department, Filippo Andreatta, 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: Professor Pina Lalli
The deputy head of department assists and replaces the head in case of absence or impediment.
Head of the Local Organisational Unit (Forlì): Professor Marco Balboni
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: Professor Filippo Andreatta, who chairs the board.
b) Deputy Head of Department: Professor Pina Lalli
c) Head of the Local Organizational Unit (Forlì): Professor Marco Balboni
d) Head of the Administration Office: Romana Orsini
e) Professor representatives:
Full professors: Professor Marco Balboni, Professor Raffaella Baritono, Professor Nicola De Luigi, Professor Giancarlo Gasperoni, Professor Sonia Lucarelli, Professor Mario Zamponi.
Associate professors: Professor Eugenia Baroncelli, Professor Laura Sartori
Researchers: Michela Ceccorulli, Davide Ragno
f) Representatives of the technical-administrative staff: Rossana Benfenati, Andrea Rossetti
g) Student representatives: Luca Iavarone, Deepika Salhan
h) Research fellow representatives: Ester Sigillò