School Organisation from a Postgraduate Perspective

The head of the School of Computer Science and Communication is the Dean (dekanen). Apart from the Dean, the school management consists of the Vice Dean (prodekanen), the Strategic council (strategiskt råd) and the Executive Group (ledningsgruppen).

Strategic council / Strategiskt råd

The Strategic council consists of six employee representatives, including the dean and an representive for technical and administrative personel, two undergraduate student representatives and one graduate student representative and three external representatives (not employed at the school). (See .)

The strategic council should advice the dean in cases he is in charge of and in the following cases.

• important cases concerning the organisation of the school
• development and buisness plan, budget, buisness summary och financial statements
• Important questions concering education
• Other important errands which the dean desides that he need the strategic councils opinion in

For the PhD students is is important that we have n representative in the strategic council such that we can rais any concerns regarding PhD students in this forum.

Executive Group / Ledningsgruppen

The Executive Group is a consultative body under the Dean, which handles more of day-to-day management questions for the school. The postgraduate students have one member in the Executive Group.

Undergraduate Education Group / Grundutbildningsgruppen

The student representatives in the Undergraduate Education Group are undergraduate students.

Program councils / Programråd

There are four supported phd programs at the school:

• Doctoral Program in Mediated Communication
• Doctoral Program in Computer Science
• Doctoral Program in Computational mathematics
• Doctoral Program in Physics

Each program has a council in which we 1-4 representatives depending on the program. At the moment we have representatives in three of the program councils, Mediated Communication, Computer Science and Computational mathematics.

Working Environment Group / Arbetsmiljögruppen

The postgraduate students have one representative in the Working Environment Group, which is a consultative group for matters pertaining to the working environment.

Equal Treatment Group / Likabehandlingsgruppen

The postgraduate students have one representative in the Equal Treatment Group, which is a consultative group for equality and equal treatment questions.

Employment Committee / Tjänsteförslagsnämnden

The Employment Committee deal with employment of staff. Our committee is shared with the School of Electrical Engineering (Skolan för elektro- och systemteknik) and the School of Information and Communication Technology (Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik).

Doktorandrådet / Postgraduate Students' Council

It is up to the postgraduate students to decide whether there should be a Postgraduate Students' Council, and if so how it should be organised. The current organisation of the Postgraduate Students' Council was adopted on October 24th, 2005.

The Postgraduate Students' Council consists of all postgraduate students, including "shadow PhD students". The PhD representatives are elected by all postgraduate students at KTH CSC, and represent the interests of all postgraduate students.