Boards and committees

Collaboration committee (LSU)

The local collaboration committee (LSU) is a forum for information and discussion between management and staff and aims at optimising staff involvement in the development of the workplace. 

 

Secretary: Kristine Rosenqvist

  

Minutes from the collaboration committee

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Faculty board

The faculty board discusses the department's research strategy, capacity and resources.

The faculty board consists of the management and academic members.

 

Management 

 

Minutes from the faculty board

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Study board

The department's study programmes are planned and administered by the Study board, which allocates teaching and supervision between the teaching staff and processes credit transfers and exemption applications.

Read about the study board's tasks, annual cycle, standard rules on the faculty's website.

 

According to the University Act, the study board is tasked with ensuring the organisation, implementation and development of education and teaching, including:

  • quality assurance and quality development of education and teaching and ensuring follow-up of programme and teaching evaluations
  • updating and making amendments to the curriculum 
  • approving plans for the organisation of teaching and of tests and other assessments included in exams
  • approving applications for credit transfer, including for pre-approval of credit transfer and for exemptions
  • expressing opinions and discussing matters concerning education and teaching submitted by the Rector

 

 

 

Alternates

Secretary: Jeanette Sporon-Fiedler

 

The study board usually has nine meetings during an academic year. In addition, there are a number of meetings in various committees under the study board, including the credit transfer and exemption committee.

 

The credit transfer and exemption committee is a committee under the study board. The committee makes decisions in routine and non-controversial dispensation and credit transfer cases where academic prerequisites are necessary in order to make a correct assessment of the case.

The committee consists of one full-time academic staff member and one student member. A study administration employee is assigned as secretary to the committee. In addition, the study administrative staff who have processed credit transfer or exemption cases to be discussed at the meeting also participate.

The committee handles most cases by means of hearings, but if the cases are of a fundamental nature or the study administrative staff recommend that the case should be discussed in the committee, the case is discussed at the next meeting of the committee. The committee deals with incoming cases on an ongoing basis.

If the committee's recommendation will have serious consequences for the student, the case will subsequently have to be brought before the study board.

Members

Secretary: Jens Roesdahl Lange 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minutes from the study board

Occupational health and safety group

The occupational health and safety group is responsible for:

  • The physical and psychological work environment
  • Follow-up on the workplace assessment
  • Prevention of occupational accidents and injuries

 

 

 

 

Ethics review board

The purpose of the ethics review board is to help department members meet external ethics requirements and ensure that the department’s research complies with ethical standards. The board conducts ethical assessments of projects that fall outside the remit of the Faculty of Social Sciences’ ethics committee. The faculty committee’s review activities are restricted to research proposals, where the release of external funding is contingent on ethical approval (e.g. reviews of project proposals for the European Research Council).

 

 

 

Please start by reading the guidelines for researchers formulated by the Faculty of Social Sciences’ ethics committee. Then, complete the form application for ethical approvement.

There are three different levels of ethical review at the Department of Sociology. Projects may:

  1. be exempt from ethical review
  2. be eligible for self-certification
  3. require full review by the research ethics committee

For further specification, see the research ethics review application.

Send your completed application to the chair of the ethics committee.

 

 

  • We anticipate - in most cases - a rapid virtual review and approval process (one month)
  • In-person meetings in the committee will be ad hoc and are restricted to ethically complex and demanding submissions. Such submissions will require a longer review time
  • Please address all communications to the chair of the committee

 

 

 

Data management and IT security committee

 

 

Minutes from the data management and IT security committee

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