Congratulations to Soazig Dollet, awarded the MiDi Research Prize

Soazig Dollet, a PhD Candidate at the CEE, was awarded the MiDi Research Prize 2023 for her article Entre contrôle de l'image de soi et fermeture.Retour sur la grammaire des attitudes adoptée par des personnes réfugiées dans le cadre d'entretiens biographiques. Published in the Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, this article on research design and reflexivity addresses the interviewer-interviewee relationship that arose with beneficiaries of international protection schemes. It examines how the use of biographical interviews produced forms of docility and resistance on the part of some interviewees, both in the accounts they give of themselves and in the option (or lack of it) of refusing interaction, and more generally with regard to the injunction to tell one’s story. The jury found the article highly stimulating, and likely to be of interest to academics and practitioners alike.

Soazig Dollet’s PhD work aims to capture how beneficiaries of international protection schemes experience the public policies they are the target of. This research was carried out as part of a Cifre programme in collaboration with the COS Alexandre Glasberg Foundation (2019-2022), whose missions include housing and social work towards refugees and asylum seekers.

This prize, launched in 2023 and awarded by Sciences Po's Migration and Diversity (MiDi) interdisciplinary collective, aims to reward young researchers at the master’s and PhD levels across all Sciences Po schools and departments, and raises the profile of rigorous and innovative research on issues related to international migration and/or ethno-cultural diversity.

The jury, composed of Hélène Le Bail (CERI), Virginie Guiraudon (CEE), Hélène Thiollet (CERI), Christophe Pouly (Sciences Po Law School), and Mohamed Elsayeh (Sciences Po Law School), also awarded the MiDi Research Prize to two master's students: Noémi Cassiau (PSIA) and Irène Coelho Gaspar (Sciences Po School of Research).

Find out more

• rewarded article (in French): Entre contrôle de l'image de soi et fermeture. Retour sur la grammaire des attitudes adoptée par des personnes réfugiées dans le cadre d'entretiens biographiques
• Soazig Dollet’s personal page
• website of the MiDi interdisciplinary collective, which brings together researchers from all Sciences Po research centres working on issues of international migration and ethno-cultural diversity.