Governance

The Society, Politics, Public Health Doctoral School (ED SP2) is run by a Director and two Deputy Directors, assisted by a Board, an extended Board which includes PhD student representatives, a Scientific Advisory Board and a Council.

The Society, Politics and Public Health Doctoral School (ED SP2) is run by a Director and two Deputy Directors, assisted by a Board, an extended Board, including elected PhD students, a Scientific Advisory Board and a Council.
Director : Bernard N'Kaoua (bernard.nkaoua@u-bordeaux.fr)
Deputy Director : Andy Smith (a.smith@sciencepobordeaux.fr)
Deputy Director : Emmanuel Lagarde (emmanuel.lagarde@u-bordeaux.fr)

The Board

The ED SP2Board consists of the Director, the two Deputy Directors, the administrative representative and the deputy secretary. It meets every Wednesday morning. The Board is responsible for monitoring and managing the activities of the doctoral school and acts as an interface between all the members of the doctoral school and the Council. It implements the doctoral school’s program of actions as adopted by the Council. It checks that scientific objectives defined by the Council are carried out and ensures that procedures are properly formalized, disseminated and applied. It examines the validity of applications to register for a PhD, an ADT and an HDR, it studies all requests from PhD students about their doctoral study path (registration, assessment for re-registration, financial support for attending scientific events, training course passport, etc.). It has regular meetings, at least once a year, with the Directors of the research units within the scope of the doctoral school’s subject fields, preferably on site.

The Council

The ED SP2 Council is set up by the President of the University of Bordeaux and is composed of 26 members: 15 members representing the institutes and research units, including 2 ITA (engineering, administrative, technical staff), 5 PhD students elected by their peers and 6 members from outside the doctoral school, chosen from among well-qualified figures from the scientific fields and socioeconomic sectors concerned.

The Council holds plenary meetings or restricted meetings. It is the doctoral school’s decision-making body. It makes all regulatory decisions, and monitors and ratifies proposals from the Board with which it determines the doctoral school’s scientific policy and actions to be taken with the governing bodies of the University of Bordeaux.

Composition of the ED SP2 Council

Dates of Council meetings 2020/2021 :

September 24th, 2021

December 16th, 2021

February 25th, 2021

March 18th, 2021

May 20th, 2021

Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board is composed of the Board plus 3 lecturer-researchers, each representing one of the 3 major fields covered by the ED (Political Science, Human and Social Sciences, and Public Health). The Board’s mission is one of appraisal/assessment of all issues or scientific projects that fall within the scope of the ED (Calls for international, interdisciplinary projects, disability, ED or university thesis prizes, assessment of applications for Ministry for Higher Education doctoral contracts, etc.). Proposals from the Scientific Advisory Board are discussed and approved by the ED Council.

The extended Board including elected PhD students

The extended Board, including elected PhD students, meets once a month (usually on the 1st Wednesday of every month), or more often if necessary. An agenda is drawn up in consultation with all parties concerned.

The meetings are the opportunity for regular updates on the activities of the ED, needs expressed by the PhD students, discussions on systems in place or about to be implemented in order to improve practices if necessary.

The extended Board examines requests for financial support from PhD students (and post-docs) to attend conferences where their oral or poster communications (depending on the disciplinary field) have been accepted; it prepares all surveys/assessments that are to be introduced; it revises the forms/documents distributed to PhD students every year (relating to annual monitoring, admission to a doctoral program, etc.), and discusses all issues relating to the doctorate.

Updated on 06/12/2022

Internal Regulations of the EDSP2

Attached to the IR : the Statutes of the Doctoral school, the Doctoral Charter, the Order of May 25th, 2016 setting the national framework of the doctorate