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Providing training in the social sciences, conducting and transferring high-level research, and participating in social debates are the missions to which our permanent faculty is dedicated. The twenty-three academics who are joining us this year are fully committed to these missions.

On 1 October, Sciences Po signed a partnership agreement with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), under the aegis of France’s Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. Read our interview with Beatrice Weder di Mauro, the centre’s president, and Philippe Martin, a professor within the Department of Economics at Sciences Po and the Centre’s vice-president.

Interviews by Alina Thiemann. Read all of the testimonies on the page of the School of Research. True to its goal of fostering more collaboration in academics across European universities, CIVICA enables doctoral fellows and researchers to exchange on ongoing research, team up for collaborative projects, and network with colleagues through various existing and upcoming joint initiatives and opportunities. Among these is the Early Stage Researcher (ESR) course catalogue, an online resource that brings together classes, workshops and seminars open to (post)doctoral researchers from across the alliance.

Through their analyses and new research projects, our researchers are responding today to the fundamental need to grasp the political, economic and social impacts of this pandemic in the short and long term.

Eleven projects have been selected for funding in CIVICA’s first call for collaborative research proposals, from a total of 27 applications. Open from 1 February to 23 March 2021, the call marked the launch of CIVICA Research, the alliance’s long-term research and innovation agenda. The aim of such research calls is to foster new, innovative research and deepen cooperation between CIVICA’s eight member universities.

Sciences Po remains a top university in the social sciences in the 2021 QS World University Rankings by subject. The institution ranked fourth domestically in Economics and moved from the sixth to the fourth place in History. In France, Sciences Po ranked first in Politics and International Studies, Social Policy and Administration, and Sociology.

Sciences Po remains a top university in the social sciences in the 2021 QS World University Rankings by subject, keeping its second place worldwide in "Politics & International Studies" for the second year.

Migration, Diversity, & Mobility, the latest November 2020 issue of Sciences Po’s research magazine, COGITO, covers a timely and important subject. Sciences Po’s Migration and Diversity group, which brings together Sciences Po researchers from multiple disciplines, contributed to the publication. The articles culminate in a multifaceted analysis fitting for migration’s diverse forms. Overall, the publication compiles research that sheds light on migration issues of the past and present, so as to better understand them in the future.

In 2020, Sciences Po welcomed eight new members to its permanent faculty. Eight researchers who, each in their own field of expertise, open doors to new knowledge for our research and our teaching. These new thinkers strengthen our research units, irrigate our courses, and reinforce Sciences Po's presence in public debate. Discover their bios below!

Sciences Po continues to progress in the 2020 QS World University Rankings bysubject (PDF, 9.2Mo), moving from third to second place in the world. In this world ranking released on March 4, 2020, Sciences Po is positioned just behind Harvard University, and with Princeton University.

Sciences Po continues to progress in the 2020 QS World University Rankings by subject (PDF, 9.2Mo), moving from third to second place in the world in "Political Science & International Studies". In this world ranking released on March 4, 2020, Sciences Po is positioned just behind Harvard University, and tied with Princeton University. Sciences Po is for the first time the first university of Europe in this discipline, in front of the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Studies (LSE). 

Jeanne Hagenbach, a CNRS researcher at the Department of Economics, won, in the framework of a very selective competition, funding from the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant) to conduct her research project "Motivated Reading of Evidence ". Presentation.

During a moving ceremony on 13 November 2019, Sciences Po awarded the sociologist Viviana Zelizer and the economist Joseph Stiglitz the titles of Docteur honoris causa. This distinction was given to Dr. Zelizer for her work as the founder of a new school of economic sociology, and to Dr. Stiglitz as the figure of the new Keynesian economy. The invaluable contributions made to their respective disciplines were highlighted in the praises of Jeanne Lazarus and Jean-Paul Fitoussi, respectively.

In November 2019, Christophe Jaffrelot, CNRS Senior researcher at Sciences Po, CERI, was elected member of the prestigious French Académie des sciences morales et politiques. He accepted to answer our questions on his career as a researcher and teacher at Sciences Po. This interview was conducted by Miriam Perier.

Sciences Po moves up to 3rd position globally in the 2019 QS World University Rankings by subject. Just behind Harvard University and the University of Oxford, Sciences Po is the first university of continentalEurope and this discipline.

This year, 16 new permanent faculty members have joined Sciences Po. Discover their research and specialisations.

Guillaume Plantin, Vice President for Research and professor at the department of economics, worked abroad for many years before joining Sciences Po. This experience was conducive to his understanding of research in a global context: global in terms of the issues to explore – environment, digital technology, populism – and global in terms of the global competition in which science is evolving. He believes that research at Sciences Po has a solid record and has demonstrated the necessary creativity to meet these challenges – in its own way. He explains in this interview.

The European Research Council (ERC) officially published the list of projects it has retained for its 2019 “Starting Grants” Call.

Sciences Po improves once again its global position in "Politics and International Studies", moving up, after three successive years in 4th place, to 3rd position globally in the 2019 QS World University Rankings by subject, released on 27 February, 2019. Just behind Harvard University and the University of Oxford, Sciences Po is the first university of continental Europe and this discipline.