Aliénor Balaudé

Doctorante
The Making of Excellence. Sociology of a policy setting competition between universities : the German Exzellenzinitiative (2004-2017)

Research Programs

  • Knowledge, science, expertise program
  • Public policy, transformations of the state program

Research Themes

  • Higher education policy analysis and research
  • Sociologie of evaluation & judgment

RESEARCH

From 2018 :
Thesis of sociology : The Making of Excellence. Sociology of a policy setting competition between universities : the German Exzellenzinitiative (2004-2017).
Supervisors : Christine Musselin and Jérôme Aust.

September 2019-January 2020:
Research stay at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Cologne, Germany), funded by a mobility grant from the Interdisciplinary Center for Studies and Research on Germany (CIERA).

2017-2018 
Master's dissertation (2nd year), Sciences Po Lyon, under the supervision of Renaud Payre and Julien Barrier: 
« The revenge of a site? Policies of excellence and injunctions to regroup: the constrained recompositions of the logics of action of a university site. Grenoble, 1990-2016 "

2015-2016
Master's dissertation (1st year), Sciences Po Lyon: 
"The MuCEM, a museum facing globalization".

Publication

  • Aliénor Balaudé. Compte rendu de Fabian Waßer, Von der "Universitätsfabrick" zur "Entrepreneurial University". Konkurrenz unter deutschen Universitäten von der Spätaufklärung bis in die 1980er Jahre. Francia-Recensio, Deutschen Historischen Institut (Institut historique allemand), 2021, pp.en ligne - en ligne. ⟨hal-03193841⟩

All publication

Other responsibilities 

Participation in the empirical investigation of a collaborative research project (mentoring students and conducting interviews)

December 2020-June 2021

Tutor of a group of 1st-year students of the Master of Sociology of Sciences Po in the framework of the ANR project Covid-in-Uni, co-directed by Christine Musselin (CSO) and Stéphanie Mignot-Gérard (IRG, UPEC) 

- Supervision of a group of English-speaking students in the context of fieldwork (interview survey) in one of the institutions studied, analysis of the data collected and writing of a monograph. 

- Participation in the preparation and coordination of the fieldwork, and realization of interviews (17). 

- Correction of two monographs on the management of the health crisis by a case institution.

Representation Activities

Doctoral delegate to the Scientific Council of Sciences Po (2020-2022)

Doctoral delegate to the Bureau of the Department of Sociology of Sciences Po (2019-2021)

Doctoral delegate to the Laboratory Council of the Centre de Sociology of Organizations (2019-2020) 

Non-academic professional experiences

December 2017-June 2018

Caen MRSH - Athena Alliance: Research officer for the Humanities and Social Sciences Observatory of the National Thematic Alliance of Humanities and Social Sciences

July-September 2017

French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation: Preparation of a study on the costs of implementing the Program of Investment for the Future (PIA) in the Higher Education and Research Sector

May-July 2017

Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme: Co-writing, with F. Thibault and the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, of a report on digital policies in Francophone higher education, commissioned by the Agence Française de Développement

2016-17

Civic Service Mission - Specific populations sector at the Château de Versailles: Management and development of projects with populations far from museums (social field, prisons, hospitals...) and guidance of visitors

training

Since 2018
Doctoral student at the Center for the Sociology of Organisations

2017-2018
Masters degree (2nd year) in "Public Policy Analysis" at Sciences Po Lyon

2016-2017
Year off

2015-2016
Masters degree (1st year) in "Public Affairs" at Sciences Po Lyon

2013-2014
University of Kent (UK), Erasmus (3rd year Sciences Po Lille):
Diploma in Social Sciences

2012-2013
Sciences Po Lille, 2nd year of general track

2011-2012
University of Paris-Nanterre, 1st year of LLCE German, specialization in English 
Admission to the direct admission exam for the 2nd year of Sciences Po Lille

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