Home>Lucas Lam
Research Interest(s): Sociology of work, Political sociology, Worklife balance
Discipline(s): Sociology
Research Group(s): Work, Employment and Professions
Biography
Lucas Lam, who holds a bachelor's and master's degree in sociology from Sciences Po Paris, focuses his research on the conditions under which elected officials carry out their duties. As part of a doctoral thesis combining sociology and political science, he is interested in the consequences of the mayor's mandate on the professional and family life of elected officials.
Thesis topic
The triple shift of mayors from small cities: municipal, professional and family life
Teaching
2025-2026
Introduction to Sociology, Sciences Po, Reims Campus, 2x24 hours – Method seminar in French
2024-2025
Introduction to Political Science, Sciences Po, Le Havre Campus, 2x24 hours – Method seminar in English
RESPONSIBILITIES
Elected representative at the Laboratory Council and the Doctoral School Council.
Member of the board of the thematic network ‘Social time articulations’ (RT48) of the
French Sociological Association.
Member of the ANR-ELUSAN research project, Elected Officials and Health, coordinated by Didier Demazière. Contribution to the research note published in November 2024 by the Association of Mayors of France, ‘Being a mayor today: Committed, overwhelmed, mistreated: what are the effects on health?’
publications
COMMUNICATIONS
L. Lam, 2025, ‘Balancing political office and family life: the secret lives of French MPs’, 11th Congress of the French Sociological Association, Cross-session RT18-24-48, Toulouse Jean Jaurès University.
L. Lam, 2024, ‘Learning to manage time constraints among new French MPs’, 30th Anniversary Symposium of the Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, Catholic University of Lille.
