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The professionnal paths of top athletes: pluralities and inequalities – PROPA
“The professional paths of top athletes (TA’s)” is a research subject that has not yet been fully explored by the social sciences. Sociological studies analyze the way in which TA manage to juggle their dual sports and professional projects, and how they handle their career transition. As a result,
Subsidies Lift in the Middle East and North Africa: Unveiling the politics of welfare in post-uprising societies – SUBLIME
SUBLIME investigates the recent shift affecting the cornerstone of the Welfare States in the MENA : the universal subsidies on food and energy. The two waves of uprisings in the region – 2011 and 2019 – have made social justice a central issue. In this context, international donors and new regimes c
Health of the artists of the living performance – STARS
While the live performance sector is increasingly attractive, especially for young professionals, taking into account the health of professionals has long been underestimated. As such, recent studies highlight a significant and growing malaise among artists. This project aims to identify the specifi
The making of 'social citizenship' between colony, metropolis and globalisation: the case of Moroccan workers (1910s-now) – METROCOLMO
This project examines the ways in which 'social citizenship' is produced - in the sense of a principle of solidarity based on labour law and access to social protection. It focuses on the working and employment conditions of colonial and post-colonial workers, in this case Moroccans, over the long t
Class, Community, and Context in the Diffusion of Disinformation in the Digital Era – ACTIVEINFO
What shapes how people respond to disinformation? Fake news, online deception, and computational propaganda are all terms to describe a phenomenon that has generated a broad array of studies, particularly over the past five years , yet one puzzle remains. Dramatically more people believe disinformat
Determining the efficacy of controlled experiments in teaching and learning – DEEC
Research showing the effectiveness of practice in a controlled environment struggles to confirm this effectiveness on a large scale. Our goal is to solve this scaling problem with a problem posing and solving sequence (18 sessions over 6 weeks), in CE1 and CE2 (2nd and 3rd primary). This sequence co
Investigating the long-term social consequences of the Covid-19 health crisis – PANELVICO
Beyond the many victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, and beyond the upheavals observed during the health and social crisis it caused, all individuals risk being durably affected in their daily lives and social relationships by its consequences. The scientific ambition of the research is structured arou
Statistical Surveys and Repeated Tests to Analyse Discrimination in Higher Education – ESTRADES
While the academic literature on discrimination covers a growing number of criteria and fields, higher education remains a little explored field. The objective of the ESTRADES project is to combine two new survey methods in order to analyse discrimination in higher education in France in depth, focu
The immigrant cause: territories, activists and organisations in France from the 1960s to the present-day – CAUSIMMI
The object of the CAUSIMMI project is the area of mobilization of the immigrant cause from the years 1960 until today. It aims to study the collective movements, organizations and biographies of activists of this cause, which we define as all the mobilizations aspiring to equal rights and treatment
Christian apologetics and counter-apologetics in contemporary western societies: Churches facing modernity – APOLOG
The project consists in studying the arguments used by the Christian Churches (both Catholic and Protestant) to defend religious truths in contemporary Western societies, from the Enlightenment to the 21st century. This study mainly focuses on France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain, wi
The doctoral experience: consequences on skills awareness, professional aspirations, and reactions to work demands – PhDEXP
This interdisciplinary project combines expertise from social psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and education science. Its aims are to study the influence of the doctoral experience on PhD graduates and PhD students’ skills awareness, and the influence of this awareness on their professional
Organoids in action – ORGANACT
Organoids are three-dimensional tissue structures that resemble organs (brain, liver, etc.) and that self-organize in vitro. They have undergone a spectacular development in the last ten years, with the development of techniques facilitating their fabrication from human and animal stem cells. The Or
Health employability in questions and in action – ESQA
Occupational health has been the subject of recent substantial reforms (2021) to invite companies to deploy public health policies aimed at maintaining employment. Motivated by major social issues (ageing of the worker in the job and increase in progressive chronic diseases), these texts introduce n
Meeting perspectives on kindergarten practices in France and Quebec: thinking about children's success from the point of view of its actors – PRAMATER
In order to draw a portrait of pedagogical and educational practices for kindergarten children in France and Quebec, the research focuses on the realities experienced by its front-line actors: teachers and, where applicable, other staff, parents and the children themselves, while taking into accou
Contextual Analysis of Digital Information Practices – APINC
This research project focuses on Internet users’ information practices and aims to position them in a larger economy of media, political and symbolic experiences. The objective is twofold: on the one hand, to better think the articulation between "online" and "off-line" media practices, and on the o
Women’s sexual health in France: supply changes, professional practices and healthcare use – GYMS
For decades, public policies have been concerned about women’s sexual health both at the international and the national level. Sexual health is usually defined as “a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality, and not merely the absence of disease, dysfunctio
Study on Non- national EU Citizens’s Candidacies for Municipal Elections and on European Municipal Counsilors in France – ECREMEE
Although the Treaty of Maastricht confers political rights to European citizens who do not bear the nationality of the country in which they reside, very few of them make use of their electoral rights nowadays. Indeed, throughout Europe, only a minority of non-national European citizens vote or stan
Elected representatives and health. A contribution to the analysis of political work – ELUSAN
Social sciences of work and politics have poorly documented the relationship between health and political activity. However, research focusing on elected representatives suggests that there is a need to study this subject. On the one hand, the literature emphasises the intensity of political work, o
Dog-assisted intervention in state administrations: a socio-anthropological analysis – MCA-ARION
Dog-assisted intervention covers a wide range of professional practices and postures aimed at providing social, educational or therapeutic support to people who are often vulnerable. It is part of a recent tradition of techniques, often heterodox, which are classified under the name of 'animal media
Upper secondary school pupils' employment and academic career – TDL
The objective of the TDL project is to explore the little-known issue of high school pupil’s work by quantifying this phenomenon, analyzing the methods of its development and studying its impact on the academic path of "part-employment high school students", particularly during the period of healt
Boundary situations of irregular childhood – SFEI
The research project presented here proposes a sociology of so-called “irregular” childhood based on cases of double institutional monitoring : young people placed under child welfare services, school droupouts, unaccompanied minors (UAM) who have committed delinquent acts, young people with disabil
Persistance in french secondary education – PERSCOL
This project focuses on the sustained motivation (persistance) of learners in distance learning in secondary education in France, and more precisely among students over the age of 16 (in vocational tracks) whereas almost all the studies concerning the topic are related to higher education. We want t
Adolescence and Ecology (Ad-ECO): how emotions and design workshops can stimulate the engagement of adolescents in eco-responsible processes? – Ad-ECO
Considerable efforts have been devoted at identifying the effects of emotion-evoking stimuli on adults’ willingness to engaged pro-environmental behaviors , but surprisingly there are to date few study that have examined whether these effects change with age during adolescence. This lack of knowledg
Reproductive norms: Ethical and practical dilemmas around technical interventions in reproduction – NorPro
Scientific and technical interventions on human life are raising intense debates throughout the world, all the more so when they touch at what we perceive of as the foundation of our humanity, namely procreation. Generally thought of as "natural", procreation from this perspective should not be subm