Béatrice Cointe’s research explore the relations between environmental concerns and the organisation of the economy. Relying on the ethnography of science and the sociology of economics and markets, she focuses on the part played by economics and natural science. She…
The EHESS seminar « Health and Big Data » will welcome Stéphanie Combes Head of the health data administration mission at DREES and project manager for the implementation of Health Data Hub Health Data Hub to facilitate the re-use of health data…
Quentin Dufour will defend his thesis L’objectivation comptable de l’économie nationale. Enquête sur la fabrique du PIB et des comptes nationaux français Accounting objectivation of the national economy. An inquiry into the making of the GDP and the French national…
A book by Vincent-Arnaud Chappe
For twenty years, the law of non-discrimination has been considerably extended. The qualification of « discrimination » is currently used in many instances to denounce numerous unequal treatments.
But what about its real uses? Why and how do people decide to report discrimination in the courts? What difficulties do they encounter?
This book focuses on the appropriation of the category of discrimination in labor litigation. […]
The EHESS seminar « Health and Big Data » will welcome Winston Maxwell Director of Law and Digital Studies at Telecom Paris The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and medical research, an uneasy coexistence < Date: November 21, 2019 The…
Alexandre Camus will defend his thesis Faire valoir un patrimoine Comment une école polytechnique investit la numérisation de la collection audiovisuelle d’un festival musical Valuing cultural heritage. How a polytechnic school invests in the digitization of the audiovisual collection of…
Roman Solé-Pomies is a postdoctoral researcher studying the anticipation of futures in debates about mining and energy infrastructures, more specifically the notion of critical mineral resources in transition scenarios, within the programme et équipement prioritaire de recherche “Sous-sol bien commun”…
Marie Alauzen will defend her thesis Plis et replis de l’État plateforme Enquête sur la modernisation des services publics en France Unfolding the Platform State: An Inquiry into the Modernisation of French Public Services Ecole Doctorale EOS – Économie, Organisation,…
Research Seminar organized by Jérôme Denis, Antoine Hennion, Anne-Sophie Haeringer and David Pontille.
The seminar starts with one observation: the current proliferation of research that deals with care, or attention. These studies investigate the climate or Gaia, the art of repairing objects or conserving artworks, the maintenance of technical networks […]
Thesis title: The forms of valuation of research.
Supervisor: David Pontille.
Since the 1990s, there has been a succession of public policies encouraging the “valorisation of public research”. This consists of opening up the use of research results to beneficiaries other than academic actors, by defending the merits of a “return to society” of tax-funded research. It benefits from dedicated services and funding schemes, presenting valorisation activities as career enhancement or civic involvement on the part of research staff. This thesis claims to define (in the double sense of delimiting and qualifying) valorization and to show how it is the result of a distributed work that redraws the boundaries of scientific activity. […]
