Organisation

The department is led by the Department Board and Head of Department. The Head of Department is assisted by the Department Management. Much of the work is done within research projects, research profiles, the courses' teaching groups and other permanent or temporary groups and projects.

Here you can see how the department is organized. For contact details, see Contact.

Department Management

Head of Department: Marianne Abramsson
Deputy Head of Department: Bo Malmberg
Director of Studies for the Bachelor's and Master's Levels: Johan Berg
Director of Doctoral Studies: Dominic Power
Head of Administration: Ulrika Palm

Department Board

The Board's work is concentrated on matters of principle, operational guidelines, course syllabuses (establishment and revision), required course reading, admission to the post-graduate (doctoral) programme and appointments. The Department Board consists of the head of department and elected representatives of faculty, other staff and students.

Bachelor and master levels management meeting

A forum for discussion and coordination organized about once a month during the Academic Year. Members: the director and the assistant director of studies, the course and programme directors, the study counsellor and the head of the Student Affairs Office, and a student representative.

Doctoral level faculty meeting

The doctoral level faculty meeting prepares board decisions on acceptance of doctoral students, supervisors and other issues within the Post-Graduate Programme in Geography with emphasis on Human Geography.

The meeting discuss research and the doctoral level including the progress of students and make proposals to the board regarding the programme and acceptance of students. All professors and associate professors at the Department and other doctoral level supervisors participate.

Convener: Dominic Power

Committee for work environment, equal opportunities and environment (ALM)

The committee for the work environment, equal opportunities and the environment (ALM) prepare decisions. The group includes faculty, staff, and student representatives. A few meetings a year.

The task is, among other things, to produce an equality and equal treatment plan, environmental policy and environmental action plan. The group also carries out activities that are determined in the respective plans.

• Marianne Abramsson, professor, chairperson and contact for equal treatment
• Lowe Börjeson, associate professor, work environment representative
• Karen Haandrikman, professor
• Veronica Hohl, study counsellor
• Anders Rickegård, leturer, convener and environment
• Lorena Arias Solano, PhD student
• Anni Tideström, student; Sandra Svéda (deputy), student 

The student council Kultär

Details on the two student councils, Kultär (the department student council) and the Human Geography PhD Student Council are available at the Stockholm University Student Union web site.

Stockholm University Student Union

PhD Student Council

Stockholm University Student Union 

Governing documents

The regulations governing the activities of the Department are primarily the decisions made by the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament), the Swedish Government and the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ), as well as those decided at central level of Stockholm University (e.g. by the University Board or the President), by the Human Science Academic Area and by the Faculty of Social Sciences.

At the Department of Human Geography, the Department Board, the Head of Department and others make decisions. On the Swedish website some of the important documents are gathered. See the heading Styrdokument on the webpage below.

Organisation