Faculty of Social and Human SciencesTHE FACULTY

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Our history

The Faculty of Social and Human Sciences was officially created in 2009 as a result of the merger of 17 academic centres. It was created to take advantage of synergies and face the new university challenges: the construction of the European area, educational innovation embodied in the"UD Education Model", a culture of quality, organisational innovation, the continuation of the internationalisationprocess,research excellence and the promotion of knowledge generation and transfer . It is also one of the faculties located both in Bilbao and San Sebastian, which includes the most scientific disciplines and encompasses the largest number of academic centres of the entire UD.

FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES:

Our values

01

Trust

  • Providing spaces for dialogue to encourage interaction between people in order to build trust and promote collaboration.
  • Increased trust to facilitate dialogue and collaboration.
  • Collaborative and transparent management.

02

Equality

  • Integrating the gender perspective in all organisational, teaching, research and transfer processes.
  • Improving the management environment in which everyday life takes place in the Faculty as a place of work and coexistence.
  • Implementing positive action measures based on equal opportunities and equal position.

03

Social Justice

  • Special care for human rights, primarily with regard to guaranteeing the material conditions for the exercise of basic freedoms.
  • Implementing corrective actions to redress inequality (both material and recognition).
  • Fostering collaborative social relations in which the gain of some is never sustained by the expulsion, exclusion, discrimination or insufficient recognition of the dignity of others.

04

Solidarity

  • Empathy and closeness to those who suffer injustice.
  • Ability to analyse unfair situations (actors, levels of responsibility, etc.).
  • Developing activities to avoid increasing or sustaining unequal social relations.

05

Sustainability

  • Identifying and promoting all those behaviours that improve the relationship between people in the organisation and between the organisation and its environment.
  • Undertaking initiatives dedicated to the care of our environmental, human and social resources.
  • Ensuring that our decisions take into account the care of medium- and long-term opportunities for potential future generations.

Mission and Vision

Mission

Vision

In particular, the specific aims of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences are the following:

  • Convey the knowledgeof the social and human sciences, and provide comprehensive training to people in these fields for social transformation through their respective professions.
  • Expand the frontiers of knowledge through research in the various social and human sciences from a responsible, multidisciplinary and critical perspective.
  • Contribute to the transformation of society through lifelong learning and the applied research transfer jointly with social, political and economic actors, both public and private.
  • Promote coexistence between cultures or identitiesin a diverse society, based on Christian inspiration and the value of inclusion, by incorporating dialogue between faith and culture as well as interreligious dialogue.
  • Specifically promote Basque culture, rooted in the local context and open to global issues, based on a commitment to our local reality.
  • Form a community of people who, working as a team through their own university work, promote human rights and work for justice in the world.

The Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Deusto is recognised for its academic excellence, its commitment to social justice and service towards the transformation of society through teaching, research and transfer:

  • Being critical of social reality, committed to its sustainable transformation and in solidarity with the least favoured people and groups.
  • It is inspired by a vision committed to society, both in terms of inculturation and universality, and in terms of diversity and inclusion.
  • Enhancing innovative teachingfor the development of people with solid knowledge and skills, responsible for their own education.
  • Promoting high-impact research areas, teams and projects that respond to social challenges.

Forming an innovative and creative university community, identified with the values it promotes and open to collaboration with other universities and public or private entities.

Get to know the faculty

Bilbao

Bilbao Campus

It was declared a Historic Monument in 2002 and consists of several buildings of great architectural value. The main building is known as the Main Building and has a classical style. Its most outstanding features are a large central staircase, the Library (now the Assembly Hall), the Gothic Chapel and the Ceremonial Hall.
San

San Sebastian campus

With its avant-garde design and unique architecture, the San Sebastian campus has large green areas and a unique arboretum. A five-storey building for new classrooms and offices, thePadre Arrupe Building, completed the original campus project in 1998.