Author: Florence Paterson

Call for applications – 3-years PhD scholarship

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].

Kelly Bronson (University of Ottawa)

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”.

Kelly Bronson

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…

Models and biodiversity. Klaudia Prodani and Mathilde Salin

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.

Béatrice Cointe, CNRS Bronze Medal 2024

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 […]

Lucie Gerber (CNRS – SAGE, University of Strasbourg)

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”.

Controverses environnementales

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.

Study days “Renovating for transition. Social science approaches to energy renovation markets”

21-22 March, 2024. Although building renovation policy is widely recognized as an important factor in the fight against climate change, the modalities of its deployment divide the actors involved, give rise to new entities, and provoke unexpected effects and controversy, both in the design of the instruments and in their implementation.
Technical and commercial innovation continue to play an important role in this field, though other challenges have become more pressing, notably: the overall effectiveness of energy renovation initiatives (implementation of “complete renovations” as opposed to “single-action work”), the need to enhance the skills and coordination of the multitude of small craft businesses involved in these projects, and the ability to support households in defining and managing complex services. The renovation sector is not a single market, it rather provides, as a result of the way in which renovation policies are deployed, a ground for multiple market arrangements.
The objective of these study days is to address these issues through the lens of market recomposition. The aim is to encourage encounters and exchanges between social science research currently being carried out on the topic of renovation from a variety of approaches: through the market, organizations, work, public policies, space, consumption, etc.