Department governing bodies

Head of Department

Paola Parmiggiani, Professor at the Department of Sociology and Business Law, is the director of the Department.

The Head of Department (Director) represents the Department and coordinates its institutional activities. She acts as chairman of the Department Council and of the Department Board. She takes care of the accomplishment of the provisions and he is responsible for conservation of minutes. She is responsible for the administration and for the accounting. The Head of Department is elected for a term of office of three years and his mandate can be renewed only once.

Deputy Director of Department

The Vice-Head of Deparment is Prof. Emanuela Carbonara.

Departmental Council

The Departmental Council is the assembly organ of the Department: it defines the three-year plans of teaching and research activity and it assumes the spending decisions.

The powers of the Departmental Council are indicated in detail in the article 16, paragraph 2 of the University Statute and defined by the article 9 of the rules of operation (Regolamento di Funzionamento).

The Council is composed by:

• the Head, who chairs it;
• the professors and assistant professors who are members of the department;
• the Administrative-Managerial Head, who takes the functions of secretary;
• the elected representatives of technical-administrative staff (10% of the number of professors, associate professors and assistant professors);
• the elected representatives of students for 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycle (15% of the number of professors, associate professors and assistant professors):
  • Antonio Loconte
  • Sonia Gori
  • Chiara Zito
  • Gabriele Badalassi
  • Martina Pieri
  • Adele Raia
  • Beatrice Fabbri
  • Filomena Scirocco
  • Muhammad Munzir
  • Giordia Padovan
• two elected representatives of research fellows: Chiara Davino, Leonardo Pasqui