My long-standing interest in innovation has been driven by a question of ‘how agency and novelty of ideas, concerns and technologies co-produce and stabilize their existence in dynamic sociotechnical agencements’. My perspectives have been STS and Science, Technology and Innovation.…
The Centre for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI) at Mines Paris – PSL, a member of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Innovation (i3, UMR CNRS 9217), is launching a call for applications for a 3-years PhD scholarship.
The PhD will be carried out at the CSI under the supervision of researchers from the center, and will be part of the STS (“Sciences, Technologies, Societies”) doctoral program of PSL University’s Doctoral School SDOSE (ED 543, “Sciences of Decision, Organizations, Society and Exchange”). The doctoral contract is a full-time employment contract.
Application deadline: May 20, 2024.
Read more [In French].
May 28 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Claire Flécher (IETL, Centre Max Weber, Université Lumière Lyon-2) to discuss her book “A bord des géants des mers. Ethnographie embarquée de la logistique globalisée”, Editions La Découverte, 2023. Introduction to the discussion by Guillaume Louvet.
May 2, 2024. The CSI welcomes Kelly Bronson (University of Ottawa) as the guest speaker in a seminar organised as part of her stay at the center. Her presentation is titled “Immaculate conception of data: agribusiness, activists and their shared politics of the future”.
I hold the Canada Research Chair in Science and Society at the University of Ottawa where I am also an Associate Professor of Sociology. I am a critical and empirical sociologist who studies and intervenes into science-society tensions that erupt…
April 30, 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Charlotte Brives, CNRS Research Fellow, Centre Émile Durkheim, Bordeaux II University, to discuss her book “Face à l’antibiorésistance. Une écologie politique des microbes”. Introduction to the discussion by Allyson Pallisser.
March 29, 2024. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Klaudia Prodani (Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies, University of Twente, The Netherlands) and Mathilde Salin (CIRED, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, France). In recent years, attempts to take biodiversity into account in economic and financial calculations have intensified. We will explore the issues, challenges and limits of this economic and financial translation of biodiversity, through a combination of practical approaches and critical analysis of models.
The CSI is pleased to announce that Béatrice Cointe, CNRS researcher at i3 and the CSI, has been awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal 2024.
Each year, the CNRS rewards the men and women who have contributed the most to its influence and to the advancement of research. The bronze medal rewards the first work of researchers who are specialists in their field. This distinction represents an encouragement from CNRS to pursue research that is well under way and is already fruitful.
Béatrice Cointe joined the Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute (i3) as a member of the CSI in 2019. She is also a professor at the She is also a professor at the Centre de formation sur […]
March 26, 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Lucie Gerber, historian of science, CNRS research fellow (SAGE, University of Strasbourg) and associate researcher at the University of Lausanne (FADO, Institut des humanités en médecine) to discuss her book “Le laboratoire des esprits animaux. Modéliser le trouble mental à l’ère de la psychopharmacologie”.
22 mars 2024. Soutenances “Analyse de controverses environnementales” du MS IGE. L’ISIGE (Institut Supérieur d’Ingénierie et Gestion de l’Environnement) et le CSI (Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation) proposent aux étudiants du MS EEDD parcours Ingénierie et Gestion de l’Environnement, un exercice pédagogique original centré autour de l’analyse de controverses « sur le terrain ». Les étudiants présentent les résultats de leurs travaux menés depuis octobre avec l’appui des chercheurs du CSI.
