Using History to Heal
- Appareil respiratoire pour mineurs. Crédits : Pierre-Henry Muller
What if we could improve diagnosis and treatment of a disease by revisiting how our understanding of it—or lack of—evolved over time? This strategy is at the heart of the SILICOSIS project, which by combining medicine and history has already improved the monitoring of patients exposed to specific types of dust particles.
Give recovery a chance
- credits : StockMonkeys.com
By OFCE (Sciences Po) in cooperation with IMK (Germany), ECLM (Denmark) and AK Wien (Austria)
The independent Annual Growth Survey (iAGS) brings together a group of internationally competitive economists to provide an independent alternative to the Annual Growth Survey (AGS) published by the European Commission. The iAGS is published simultaneously with the Annual Growth Survey of the European Commission at the start of the European semester.
The Climate Negotiations Browser:
- The Climate Negotiations Browser
In continuation of the EMAPS project, the médialab of Sciences Po, the Laboratoire de Systèmes d'Information Répartis (Switzerland) and the Atelier Iceberg of Nantes have developed a climate change debate exploration platform focusing on deliberations at the highest level of the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The platform aims to assist climate negotiation actors and observers, providing them with the tools required to navigate through the last twenty years of international discussions on climate change:
SOWELL, a new ERC
- Yann Algan
Yann Algan, Professor at the Department of Economics, has been awarded for the second time a grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
Yann Algan was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his research project TRUST - Culture, Cooperation and Economics at the end of which he was awarded a second grant in the ERC’s « Consolidator » category.
With this new innovative research project, Yann Algan will explore the foundations of our social preferences and well-being through Big Data. In a context in which social cooperation and well-being have become new priorities for our societies alongside that of economic growth, it has become urgent to evaluate their determinants as well as public policies that can develop them.
Based on three main axes, the SOWELL project - Social Preferences, Well-Being and Policy - in its first stage, will seek to rethink the theory and measurement of well-being by calling upon Big Data compiled from Google enquiries, Twitter exchanges, Facebook and other forums. These Big Data indicators of well-being should allow us to, literally, take the pulse of our societies in real-time and at a geographical scale infinitely richer than traditional enquiries that ask a handful of citizens to evaluate their personal life satisfaction on a scale of 0 to 10.
Welcome to Sciences Po's 15 new faculty members
- © Blocquaux Vincent / Sciences Po
This year Sciences Po once again continued its ambitious efforts to strengthen its research community.
Fifteen researchers and professors joined our research units and teaching staff: Loïc Azoulai, Carlo Barone, Philippe Bezes, Alain Chatriot, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel, Marco Cremaschi, Sabine Dullin, Emanuele Ferragina, Denis Fougère, Sukriti Issar, Hélène Le Bail, Florian Oswald, Jérôme Pélisse, Sébastien Pimont, and Hélène Thiollet.
Beyond preconceived ideas on children of immigrants...
- Mathieu Ichou
After a visitor scholarship at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Mathieu Ichou passed successfully his PHD in 2014. He studied sociology at OSC Sciences Po, under the supervision of Agnès van Zanten. The young sociologist combines both traditional sociological method and adaptability to describe a debated multi-faceted reality.
Credit Constraints and Growth in a Global Economy
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Credit Constraints and Growth in a Global Economy
A paper by Nicolas Coeurdacier, Stéphane Guibaud, and Keyu Jin published in the American Economic Review, 105 (9): 2838-2881
Jenny Andersson
- Jenny Andersson, Crédits Photo : Astrid Dünkelmann/MPIfG
Jenny Andersson is the new co-director at the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo) in Paris. Taking up her work in November 2015, she succeeds former co-director Cornelia Woll and will direct the Center together with Olivier Godechot. Jenny Andersson is an economic historian and CNRS Research Professor at the Center for European Studies (CEE), Paris. She is an ERC Principal Investigator of FUTUREPOL, a Sciences Po project on the political history of the future, knowledge production and future governance in the post-war period.
QS 2015: Sciences Po maintains its status as a university of excellence
- QS World University Rankings
Bureaucracy Without Borders
- By Harald Groven
Who hasn’t grumbled about red tape? Yet while complaining about bureaucracy is easy, understanding its processes, remits and many facets is less so. From the observation that bureaucratization is a continuous process, Béatrice Hibou, CNRS senior researcher and political economy specialist at CERI Sciences Po, questions the logic behind this development and its political signification. What is bureaucratization? Why and how does it interfere in every aspect of our lives? Can we resist?