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Crystale Aounit

PhD Candidate

Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)

Research Interest(s): Public action, Health, Knowledge and expertise

Discipline(s): Sociology

Research Group(s): Public Policy and Transformations of the State, Law, Norms and Regulation, Knowledge, Science and Expertise Program

Biography

EDUCATION

2021 : 
Doctoral student at CSO

2018-2021 : 
Master's degree in Social Sciences at ENS Lyon (interrupted by a one-year gap year as a French assistant at Eton College, UK)

2017-2018 : 
Master's 1 in Sociology of Organizations and Public Action at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès

2016-2017 : 
Bachelor's degree in Sociology at the University of Lyon II

2014-2016 : 
Hypokâgne-khâgne B/L at the Lycée du Parc, Ly

Current Research

Since September 2021 :
Sociology thesis in progress: A sociology of acne through its medications: prescription, regulation, and controversies.
Co-supervisors: Patrick Castel (CSO) and Emmanuel Langlois (Centre Emile Durkheim - University of Bordeaux)

Projects

Master's thesis : 
“Getting rid of pimples. Biomedical expertise on acne questioned through the prism of controversies surrounding its treatments” supervised by Patrick Castel and Renaud Crespin (CSO)

Thesis topic

A sociology of acne through its medications : prescription, regulation and controversies

Teaching

Fall semester 2023-2024 :

- Methodology lecture “Introduction to Sociology” 1st year University College, Sciences Po Paris - Reims Campus, (2 tutorials of 25 students - 48 hours)

Spring semester 2022-2023 :

- Methodology lecture “Introduction to Sociology” 1st year University College, Sciences Po Paris - Reims Campus, (2 tutorials of 16 students - 48 hours)

- Teaching Assistant “Sociology of Organizations,” Joint Academic Program - Paris Campus (156 students)

Spring Semester 2021-2023 :

- Teaching Assistant “Sociology of Organizations,” Joint Academic Program - Paris Campus (109 students)

Editorial Activity

- May 2024: Workshops for young researchers on scientific theorization, IOA, Copenhagen

- Organizing committee for the study days, “The Frontiers of Public Health,” Sciences Po (January 17, 2023)

- Co-organizer of the Réseau d'Idée en Santé (RIS) seminar, Lyon (2021-2022)

- Co-facilitator of the RIS seminar (network of ideas on health)