During my year as a delegate at Mesopolhis, I am working on higher education and research, trying to identify and understand the effects of research governance on academic work.

In crisis situations (attacks, pandemics, etc.), universities and academics are often mobilised to provide responses. These mobilisations are accompanied by earmarked funding (grants for theses, opening of posts), calls for projects (budgets enabling research teams to be set up), or specific measures designed to encourage academics to redouble their efforts in this area.

During my time at the laboratory, I am focusing on the issue of 'radicalisation prevention' and 'radicalisation', trying to understand how the world of higher education and research has adapted to political addresses. By examining the incentives (funding for theses, posts, research programmes) I aim to understand the extent to which scientific work on these issues has been transformed.

As well as looking at developments in the university and academic work, I also want to use quantitative studies of scientific productions to look at the way in which the humanities and social sciences have approached, transformed and redefined the concept of radicalisation. To this end, I am working with Jean-Baptiste Bertrandan engineer in the laboratory.

Loïc Le Pape