Disciplinary Domain delegations - teknat
Disciplinary Domain delegations
Matters of a broad scope or that involve matters of principle should be referred to the Disciplinary Domain Board for a decision to be taken at a meeting. The Disciplinary Domain Board delegates its tasks until further notice as below.
Managers for centres with their own staff employed have delegation that corresponds to that of a head of department. Where it is relevant with regard to the centre's mission, the delegations below applies for center formations (with its own employed staff), its manager and its center board in the same way as for a department, its head of department and its department board.
Type of matter | Delegated to |
Urgent matters where a decision cannot wait for the next meeting of the Disciplinary Domain Board | Working Committee |
Teaching positions, promotion matters
Appointing search group for the appointment of professors | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Section Dean |
Appointing search group for the appointment of associate professors or assistant professors | Department Board |
Decision on appointment profile for associate professor, assistant professor or lecturer (subject area/work duties, qualifications, assessment criteria, equality measures) | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Department Board |
Deciding to initiate recruitment of an associate professor, assistant professor, adjunct associate professor, lecturer, adjunct lecturer, adjunct professor or visiting professor (including externally funded appointments) | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Department Board |
Decision about advertising (when, where, how) and renewed advertising of vacancy for associate professor, assistant professor or lecturer | Head of Department |
Submitting proposal to the Vice-Chancellor for individual to fill an advertised post as professor | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Recruitment Committee |
Submitting proposal to the Vice-Chancellor for appointing an adjunct professor | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Recruitment Committee |
Decision to appoint a visiting professor for a period shorter than six months | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Head of Department |
Submitting proposal to the Vice-Chancellor for the appointment of a visiting professor for six months or longer | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Head of Department |
Submitting proposal to the head of department for the appointment of an associate professor, assistant professor or adjunct associate professor | Recruitment Committee |
Submitting proposal to the Vice-Chancellor for the appointment of a professor instead of an associate professor | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Recruitment Committee |
Submitting proposal to the Vice-Chancellor for the discontinuation of a recruitment procedure for a professor | Working Committee |
Discontinuing a recruitment procedure for an associate professor, assistant professor, adjunct assistant professor, lecturer or adjunct lecturer | Head of Department, following
approval by the Working Committee |
Appointing two subject representatives (of which one is rapporteur) as members of the Recruitment Committee for each individual matter concerning appointment as professor, associate professor or assistant professor, as well as promotion to associate professor or professor | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Section Dean (where there is conflict of interest, proposal by Head of Department) |
Appointing experts and special experts to advise on the appointment of professors, adjunct professors or visiting professors | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Section Dean |
Appointing experts and special experts to advise on the appointment of associate professors, assistant professors or adjunct associate professors | Section Dean, on the recommendation of the Head of Department |
Appointing experts and special experts to advise on the appointment of lecturers or adjunct lecturers | Head of Department |
Appointing experts for applications for promotion to professor | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Section Dean |
Appointing experts for applications for promotion to associate professor | Section Dean, on the recommendation of the Head of Department |
Submitting proposal to the Vice-Chancellor for promoting an associate professor to professor | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Recruitment Committee |
Deciding on the promotion of an assistant professor to associate professor | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Recruitment Committee |
Submitting proposal to the Head of Department regarding the promotion of a lecturer to associate professor | Recruitment Committee |
Approving/rejecting an application for partial retirement for a professor | Vice-Rector |
Appointing the Recruitment Committee’s presidium incl. alternate member(s) | Working Committee |
First- and second-cycle educational matters
Admission to later stages of the Bachelor’s and Master’s engineering programmes | Programme director, after preparation by study counsellor |
Admission to later stages of programmes other than the Bachelor’s and Master’s engineering programmes | Senior faculty administrator, following preparation by programme director |
Syllabus for new course or joint course, as well as changes in, and/or responsibility for, level of course | Relevant educational board |
Policy/action plan for follow-up, course evaluation, study counselling, increased completion rates, etc. | Educational boards. Guidelines and financial frameworks decided by the Disciplinary Domain Board |
Revision of syllabi for freestanding courses | Senior faculty administrator, on the recommendation of the department responsible for the course |
Revision of syllabi for programme-wide courses as agreed by the programme boards | Senior faculty administrator, on the recommendation of the programme board |
Revision of syllabi, other | Relevant programme board |
Revision of programme syllabi, including study plans | Relevant educational board |
Leave from study, non-completion | Study counsellor |
Credit transfers, substitution of course etc. for Swedish courses in the Bachelor’s and Master’s level engineering programmes | Programme director |
Credit transfers, substitution of course etc. for foreign courses in the Bachelor’s and Master’s level engineering programmes | Graduation Office, on the recommendation of the programme director |
Appointment of examiner (for offered courses) | Relevant educational board, on the recommendation of the department responsible for the course |
Appointment of examiner (for non-offered courses) | Head of Department (appointed from among examiners appointed for that academic year) |
Decision on nomination of exchange students for university-wide exchange agreements | Study counsellor with responsibility for university-wide exchange agreements |
Doctoral educational matters
Admitting doctoral student funded through full-time employment at Uppsala University | Head of Department |
Admitting doctoral student - with scholarship funding or admission of a doctoral student with funding within EU projects or other projects of a “similar nature” - with SIDA funding via the International Science Programme - with the aim of finishing with a licentiate degree - with part-time employment - with employment at other universities, authorities or industry (industrial doctoral student) - with joint education at doctoral level, i.e. an education that is planned and carried out by two or more higher education institutions in close cooperation - with other employment who plans to carry out the doctoral education within the framework of their regular employment at the university - whose eligibility is partly or entirely based on ch. 7 § 39 item 3 HF, and the applicant refers to knowledge acquired in other ways (outside academy) | Working Committee, following preparatory work by the Doctoral Education Board |
Preparation of agreement for joint education | Chair Doctoral Education Board |
Appointing supervisors | Head of Department |
Establishing subject-specific parts of general study plans | Doctoral Education Board |
Responsibility for quality of doctoral education, including linguistic quality | Professor responsible for doctoral education |
Grading licentiate theses | Professor responsible for doctoral education (can be delegated further) |
Responsibility for introduction to doctoral education | Head of Department, with potential delegation to director of doctoral education |
Preparation of admission matters | Head of Department, with potential delegation to director of doctoral education |
Responsibility for development of individual study plans ahead of admitting doctoral students | Principal supervisor, in consultation with professor responsible for doctoral education |
Establishing individual study plan before admission | Head of Department |
Ensuring follow-up of revised individual study plans | Professor responsible for doctoral education (can be delegated to assistant professor responsible for |
| doctoral education by written delegation) |
Establishing individual study plan (in case of revision with significant differences) | Head of Department |
Establishing individual study plan (in case of revision without significant differences) | Professor responsible for doctoral education (can be delegated to assistant professor responsible for doctoral education by written delegation) |
Coordination of the department’s range of courses | Director of doctoral education |
Credit transfers, previous education | Professor responsible for doctoral education |
Extension of funding for doctoral students due to parental leave, positions of trust, etc. | Administrative Director |
Information provided to professors responsible for doctoral education | Doctoral Education Board |
Range of faculty-wide doctoral courses | Doctoral Education Board |
Appointing examiners for doctoral courses | Head of Department |
Appointing examining committee, chair and opponent/external reviewer for thesis defence | Section Dean, on the recommendation of the professor responsible for doctoral education |
Digital participation of the opponent/external reviewer and/or members of a thesis defence examining committee | Section Dean, on the recommendation of the professor responsible for doctoral education. |
Appointing external examiner for licentiate seminar | Professor responsible for doctoral education, in consultation with principal supervisor |
Decide on suspension of admission to a doctoral subject | Working Committee, after proposal from the Doctoral Education Board |
Other doctoral education matters | Working Committee |
Funding allocation/finances
Decisions regarding fees in accordance with special appraisals in appointment and promotion matters | Administrative Director |
Decisions on matters of an administrative nature regarding costs up to SEK 25,000 | Administrative Director |
Decisions on the use of funds at the disposal of the section deans (section funds) | Section Dean |
Decisions on balance-sheet appropriations (for organisational unit 100) | Working Committee |
Decisions on appropriations of retained funds (for organisational unit 100) | Working Committee, unless otherwise specified in the operational plan |
Decisions on the faculty’s funding of premises projects | Vice-Rector |
Decisions on the allocation/use of reserved funds in accordance with the operational plan | Working Committee, unless otherwise specified in the operational plan |
Decisions on applications for funds from the Vice-Chancellor’s strategic funds | Working Committee |
Decisions on co-funding of the Vice-Chancellor’s strategic funds | Working Committee |
Decisions on final allocation of funding for first- and secondcycle education as tasked | Working Committee |
Organisation
Appointing professor responsible for research programme | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Head of Department |
Appointing professor responsible for doctoral education | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Section Dean |
Decisions on delegation from professor responsible for doctoral education to assistant professor responsible for doctoral education | Working Committee, on the recommendation of the Section Dean |
Appointing assistant programme director (except when a department is responsible for the programme) | Working Committee, on the recommendation of N or T |
Appointing faculty and industry representatives to programme boards (except when a department is responsible for the programme) | Working Committee, on the recommendation of N or T |
Appointing members through by-elections (to the Scholarships Committee, Docentship Committee, Board for Granting Distinguished University Teacher Status, educational boards) | Working Committee |
Decision on revised instructions for a centre established by the Disciplinary Domain Board | Working Committee |
Other matters
Submitting an opinion on applications for docent status | Professor responsible for doctoral education |
Appointing experts for granting of docent status | Section Dean, on the recommendation of the professor responsible for doctoral education |
Granting docent status | Docentship Committee |
Submitting an opinion on teaching expertise in application for distinguished university teacher status | Head of Department |
Appointing experts for granting of distinguished university teacher status | Board for Granting Distinguished University Teacher Status |
Granting distinguished university teacher status | Board for Granting Distinguished University Teacher Status |
Scholarship matters | Scholarships Committee |
Appointing/nominating members to bodies and committees | Working Committee |
Appointing award boards and deciding on the allocation of funding from certain foundations and funds according to particular delegation decisions | Working Committee |
Appointing members to the scholarships committee of the Esseen foundation for academic studies in the subject area of mathematics | Section Dean of the section for Mathematics and Computer Science |
Appointing members/professors to the Celsius-Linnaeus committee (one member per section, of which one also is chair) | Working Committee, on recommendation of the Section Deans |
Consultations; management procedures, appointment of consultation groups | Working Committee |
Drawing up instructions for monitoring and planning during the current year | Working Committee |
Decisions concerning the disciplinary domain board’s reporting to the Vice-Chancellor for the current year, operational planning for future years and the annual report for the previous year | Working Committee |
Feedback to the Disciplinary Domain Board
At each meeting of the Disciplinary Domain Board, information should be given about the decisions taken by the Working Committee on the appointment of professors responsible for research programmes and professors responsible for doctoral education, as well as members of various bodies appointed by way of by-elections (see above).