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Chairs
The research and teaching chairs of Sciences Po study subjects at the heart of public debate and current affairs. They have two goals: to conduct research in order to better understand contemporary society and to nourish the content of coursework.
Each chair is connected to a graduate school or a research centre. An independent scientific committee elects the chairs and specifies the centre’s scientific programme. Permanent faculty members of Sciences Po as well as outside experts or researchers from partner universities compose the committee. Alongside the scientific committee, the steering committee puts into place the Chair’s activity programme. The steering committee consists of benefactor representatives as well as the chairholder and staff of each chair.
CHAIR FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION
The Chair for the Study of Religion, created in 2020, aims to promote the development of research related to religion and to support social science education related to such subjects. Connected to Sciences Po’s Centre of International Studies (CERI), the Chair is co-directed by CNRS Research Professor Alain Dieckhoff and Associate Professor at Sciences Po and Researcher at CERI Stéphane Lacroix.
The goals of the Chair include uniting researchers of religious studies; proposing religious studies undergraduate and doctoral coursework to Sciences Po; participating in public and academic debate, and supporting the next generation of researchers.
Groupe Bayard support the Chair.
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RESEARCH CHAIR ON OVERSEAS TERRITORIES
Created in 2021 within the CEVIPOF, the Chair on Overseas Territories aims to promote a cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary approach to issues related to the French overseas territories. It has four main missions:
- To foster debates and reflections by enabling all actors from the French overseas territories and the French mainland to meet and exchange views in an academic framework that is neutral, demanding and open to all territories.
- To stimulate research and contribute to the constitution of a body of doctrine in the French overseas territories through a multi-disciplinary approach that comprehensively addresses the overseas territories’ issues and challenges.
- To enrich the undergraduate and graduate education programmes at Sciences Po and train tomorrow's overseas leaders capable of developing and applying innovative solutions.
- To build long-term partnerships with public authorities, local authorities, associations and companies in the French overseas territories, as well as internationally.
Martial Foucault, director of the CEVIPOF, is the chairperson. Other members include Daniel Boy, Sylvain Brouard, Jean Chiche, Olivier Costa and Anne Muxel, permanent researchers at the CEVIPOF, as well as numerous researchers associated with the CEVIPOF.
The committee of partners brings together the Chair's financial contributors, members of Parliament from the French overseas territories (Senate, National Assembly, European Parliament, EESC) and invited associations and business groups contributing to the work or dissemination of the Chair's work.
HEALTH CHAIR
Created in 2006, the Health Chair reimagines public health and its variants through an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary lens: healthcare system regulation, healthcare services organisation, the impact of new technology, health-related public policy, particularly pertaining to aging and nutrition.
Connected to the Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO), the Health Chair is directed by doctor and previous Inspector General of Social Affairs Gilles Duhamel and CNRS Research Director and CSO Researcher Daniel Benamouzig.
The Chair benefits from the support of the Department of Health, Public Health France, the Île-de-France Regional Agency of Health, the CNAM, Unicancer and CNOI.
