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2022
Thèse de sociologie en cours, réalisée dans le cadre d’une Convention de Formation par la Recherche en Administration (COFRA) (à compter du 1er novembre 2022) :
La construction de territoires universitaires
Directeurs de thèse : Christine Musselin et Jérôme Aust
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Kevin Mellet's work lies at the crossroads of the fields of economic sociology, science & technology studies, and social studies of digital technologies.
His current research focuses on:
- the sociological and historical study of marketing, as an economic and social activity, of the professionals who carry out this activity, of their knowledge and their tools.
- the economic uses of digital technologies, captured through the practices of market intermediaries, businesses and consumers.
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Depuis octobre 2021
Thèse de sociologie en cours : Les avocat·e·s de la santé environnementale.
Directeurs : Jean-Noël Jouzel et Jérôme Pélisse
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Philipp Brandt studies emerging professions, expert work and their effects in historical, economic and technological settings. His main project analyzes the construction of a professional “data scientist” identity in New York City’s tech community.
In a new project, he shifts focus to the dying profession of yellow cab drivers. Philipp combines computational methods with qualitative field observations to address these issues.
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His work focuses on higher education and research policies, seeking to understand, from an historical perspective, the restructurings of the forms of state intervention in higher education and research as well as their effects on academic professions and on the territorial application of these policies.
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From october 2021
Thesis of sociology :
Training (and training) in and through research: an analysis of the socialization of doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences.
Co-dir : Christine Musselin and Françoise Thibault, docteure et chercheure en sciences de l’information et de la communication
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The current work of Sarah Gensburger focuses on public action and the transformation of the state through the study of public policies in the field of memory. She is particularly interested in the interactions between bureaucracy, normativity and expertise in the mobilization of the past in contemporary society.
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Over the last 20 years, Olivier Borraz has conducted research in the field of risk governance and regulation, and more recently in crisis preparedness and management.
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Patrick Castel’s research is underpinned by a theoretical framework centered on three perspectives: the sociology of organized action, the sociology of medicine and professions, and the sociology of science.
Two main themes run through his research: the organization of medical activities and the processes of rationalization involved in this, and the processes of designing and implementing public healthcare policies.
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From 2018 :
Thesis of sociology :
« Réforme sociale et réforme de soi. Sociologie historique du mouvement végétarien en France (1875 – fin des années 1930) »,
Co-dir. : Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier et Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel.
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From 2019
Thesis of sociology :
"Orienting towards ecological practices: the market for prescription of sustainable consumption on digital social networks"
Dir. : Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier and financed by the ADEME.
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From october 2021
Thesis of sociology : Designing and organizing outpatient care for cardiovascular pathologies: professional and organizational issues.
Dir : Patrick Castel
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From september 2021 :
A sociology of acne through its medications: prescription, regulation and controversies
Co-dir. : Patrick Castel (CSO) and Emmanuel Langlois (Centre Emile Durkheim - Université de Bordeaux)
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From october 2020
Thesis : Repenser la “réticence vaccinale” : étude comparée des vaccinations HPV et VHB.
Dir. : Henri Bergeron
2023-2024
Member of the Program Young Research, LIEPP
2019-2020
Research assistant on the project ANSM - Une agence dans son environnement
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Henri Bergeron conducts research on healthcare policy and changes in medical practice through the study of various subjects, including illegal drugs, alcohol, obesity, medical research, and public healthcare. He uses tools from the sociology of public policy, the sociology of social movements, and above all the sociology of organizations to evaluate the forces at work in the creation of public policies and the reconfigurations of organizational and institutional fields.
Lecturer à Oxford Brookes University
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2021
Thesis of sociology :
Gouverner par les inégalités : la mise en œuvre d’une initiative d’excellence dans l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche".
Co-dir. Christine Musselin and Jérôme Aust.
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Christine Musselin’s research focuses on universities, with particular interest in what characterizes their governance : within this frame, she recently studied the management of teh COVID crisis in French higher education institutions. She also conducts a host of studies on higher education policies and, alongside Jérôme Aust, inquires into policies for excellence carried out within the framework of the French government’s “Investing for the Future” programme. She is also developing research on academic labour markets.
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Jean-Noël Jouzel works on controversies related to environmental and occupational health issues. His research combines perspectives from science studies, the sociology of public action, and the sociology of mobilisation to contribute to the current boom in work on the social construction of ignorance.
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Jérôme Pélisse’s research blends different veins of sociology: the sociology of work, of law, of professions, and of organizations. He is interested in the processes by which law becomes endogenous in organizations, as well as in the everyday relations actors develop with the law in work settings, conducting his research in a variety of fields, including labour policy, changes in professional relations within businesses, health-security questions (notably linked to “nano” risks), the use of law in the workplace, and legal expertise.
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Jeanne Lazarus’s research focuses on:
- Money and banks
She studies the intertwined practices of households, banks, and governments within an institutional organisation that involves banking regulation, group insurance plans, and fiscal policy.
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Since Septembre 2019
Thesis of sociology : Transforming French forests to tackle climate change. A sociological study of governance and expertise on forests.
Co-dir. : Sylvain BrunierJean-Noël Jouzel.
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From 2018
Thesis of sociology :
" La fabrique de l’internationalisation : trajectoires de recherche et pratiques de recrutement dans l’espace académique"
Dir. : Christine Musselin and Nicky Le Feuvre (Université de Lausanne)
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Daniel Benamouzig’s research interests range from public health to economic policy to institutional governance. He has studied the history of healthcare economics in France, as well as institutional changes in healthcare regulation. He continues to conduct research in the economic sociology and political sociology of healthcare, with special interest in institutional changes and the mobilization of economic knowledge.
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Thesis of sociology : L'expertise en santé au travail au service des représentants du personnel : participation au dialogue social, production de savoirs et recomposition du marché
Dir : Jérôme Pélisse
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Martin Giraudeau is a sociologist and historian of accounting, organisations, and capitalism. His work draws on methods from the sociology and history of science and technology, which he applies to the sciences and technologies of business, so as to explain their historical emergence as well as the evolutions of their roles in organizations and the economy since the early-modern period.
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From 2018 :
Thesis of sociology : The Making of Excellence. Sociology of a policy setting competition between universities : the German Exzellenzinitiative (2004-2017).
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From october 2021
Thesis :
L’action des collectivités locales en santé publique.
Dir. : Daniel Benamouzig
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Renaud Crespin’s work is grounded in a theoretical framework comprising three angles of analysis: the sociology of public action, the sociology of science and technology, and the sociology of labour.
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From october 2020
Thesis : Vendre "de l'IA" : le rôle des intermédiaires marchands dans la structuration du marché de l'intelligence artificielle
Dir. : Henri Bergeron
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Olivier Pilmis’ current work proposes an economic sociology that draws on the sociologies of risk, of labour and professions, and of science and technology. It focuses on how individuals and organisations deal with uncertainty, by inquiring into the ways they anticipate general movements in the economy. Every economic crisis, from the Great Depression in the 1930s to the crisis brought on by the lockdown in 2020, by way of the Great Recession of 2008, underscores the impossibility of unravelling the mysteries of the economy’s future.
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Sylvain Brunier’s research focuses on the history of modernisation projects that employ knowledge tools, advisory work, and public policies.
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Anne-Laure Beaussier’s work examines risk regulation in Europe and healthcare policy in the United States and Europe from an international comparative perspective. She has recently participated in several research projects funded by the ESRC and the ANR on health protection in the United States, access to healthcare in Europe, healthcare quality regulation in Europe, and risk governance in Europe.
