Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona
Universidad Autónoma de
Barcelona
Escola de Postgrau
Escuela de Postgrado
MASTER’S DEGREE IN GRAPHISTICS, GRAPHOPATHOLOGY AND
FORENSIC GRAPHOLOGY
Programme
consisting of two postgraduate degrees: Forensic
Handwriting Analysis, Graphistics, Document Examination and Forensic
Sociolinguistics and Psychological
Analysis of Handwriting, Graphoanalysis, Graphopathology and Graphic Projective
Tests. Once the two postgraduate degrees have been completed (the degrees
are not sequential and may be taken in any order), the Master's student must
submit a thesis.
Directors
Professor Francisco Viñals Carrera is
member of the World Jurist Association and has been decorated by the Ministry
of Defence. In 1993, he set up the specialisation
in Forensic Handwriting Analysis at the Instituto
de Criminología y Cátedra de Derecho Penal at the Universidad Complutense,
local section at Cordoba. This programme of studies was brought to the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1996, to the Escuela de Práctica Jurídica (School of Legal Practice) within the Escuela de Doctorado y Formación Continuada
(School of Doctorate Studies and Continuing Education), now called the Graduate
School. He is member of the International Police Association and professor at
the Escola
de Policia de Catalunya (Catalan
Police School) and at the EPSI-UAB. He has collaborated on various alternative
draft bills and works as a consultant for high international authorities in the
capacity of institutional commissioner for training in criminalistics and
graphological sciences. In 2003, he was chosen for “Personatges de Catalunya”
(Important Catalans), and included in volume XIII of the Història Contemporània de
Catalunya due to the contributions his work has made to
society.
Professor María Luz Puente
Balsells is an anthropologist, criminalist and scientific investigator. She
specialised in forensic research at the Escuela
de Medicina Legal (School of Forensic Medicine) of the Universidad Complutense, in psychological analysis of handwriting
at the Universidad Pontificia de
Salamanca, and in intelligence services at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). She is coordinating professor of the
studies programmes in Forensic Handwriting Analysis and in Criminalistics,
Information Analysis and Advanced Forensic-Science Techniques at the Graduate
School of the Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona (UAB). She is professor of scientific techniques applied to
criminal investigation at the Escola de Prevenció i de Seguretat Integral
(School of Accident Prevention and Integrated Safety) at the UAB. She is also a
member of the managing board of the Instituto
de Ciencias del Grafismo, director of the Seminario de Inteligencia Civil y Militar (Seminar on Civil and
Military Intelligence – ADPCI) and vice-president of the Spanish Association of
Consultant Graphologists. Previously she worked as a writer for various media,
taught information studies, and also worked as a professor attached to the Col·legi Oficial de Doctores y
Llicenciats en Filosofia, Lletres i Ciències de Catalunya (Catalan Association of Doctors and Undergraduates in
Philosophy, Arts and Sciences).
Together they have co-authored:
-Diccionario
Jurídico-Pericial del Documento Escrito (Legal Dictionary
- Expertise in Written Documents), Barcelona, Ed. Herder, 2006
-Análisis de Escritos y Documentos en los
Servicios Secretos (The Analysis
of Writings and Documents in the Secret Services),
Barcelona, Ed. Herder, 2003
-Pericia Caligráfica Judicial. Práctica,
casos y modelos (Forensic Handwriting
Analysis: Practice, Examples and Models),
Barcelona, Ed. Herder, 2001
-Psicodiagnóstico por la Escritura. Grafoanálisis
Transaccional (Psychodiagnostic Assessment
via Handwriting: Transactional Graphoanalysis),
Barcelona, Ed. Herder, 1999
Professor Josep Llobet Aguado
is a jurist, judge pro tempore at the
Audiencia Provincial (provincial criminal court) of Barcelona, and professor of
Civil Law working at the Department of Private Law at the Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona. He directs doctorate courses at the university and
has represented the UAB in training judges in other countries
Co-author
of:
-El deber de información de los contratos, Madrid, Editorial Marcial
Pons, 1996
-Comentarios a la ley sobre condiciones generales de contratación,
Madrid, Editorial Tecnos, 1999
Secretariat
tel. 93 321.57.48 (answering
machine)