Research department
From my arrival in Lille in 1995, I accompanied the successive directors of GREMARS, Laurence Broze (until 2001) and Frédéric Jouneau (until 2005), in the creation of the laboratory , especially at the administrative level. For example, I wrote the CPER contract (Contrat Plan État Région) for the laboratory's own part as well as its report. The GREMARS (GRoupe d'Études en Modélisation Appliqué à la Recherche en Sciences sociales) was first recognized as the 'own center of the University of Lille 3' in 1994, then as a 'Équipe d'Accueil' in 1998 (EA 2459). Subsequently, I followed the successive regroupings of this laboratory: in 2006 the EQUIPPE, 'Économie Quantitative, Intégration, Politiques Publiques et Économétrie' (EA 4018) and in 2015 the LEM Lille Économie Management (UMR 9221) which owns now a LEM-Artois component.
Main theme of my research: the economy of art and culture
I defended my thesis at the University Aix-Marseille 2, in 1993 under the title: « La demande de biens culturels, application au cas de la télévision » in front of a jury composed of: LA Gérard Varet, W. Pommerhene, M. Sollogoub, A. Soubeyran, and R. Teboul (supervisor). The economics of culture is a recent theoretical field (Z1 Cultural Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology in the nomenclature of the Journal of Economic Literature). The ACEI (Association for Cultural Economics International) and its specialized journal the JCE (Journal of Cultural Economics) represents this field by maintaining an eclecticism of approaches and a acceptable degree of generality of the topics treated and methodologies. My methodological approach relates to modeling quantitative economics. An important focus of my work has been to integrate culture as a main variable in macroeconomic growth models. I also contributed to a theoretical debate specializing in microeconomics on a sub-theme of the labor market with the modeling of superstars. I had the opportunity to implement various approaches, both theoretical and statistical : cooperative game theory, data analysis and network statistics, among others. The economics of culture is an area that tends to be marginalized and it remains difficult to publish research on this theme in general journals, which accept it in a trickle way. In my opinion, approaches to the economics of culture must remain generalist, cultural objects remaining standard economic topics. Specialized teaching manuals are starting to appear and I participated in the entry "superstars" in a publication of 2020, intended for teaching the economics of culture.
Interdisciplinarity is highly valued in this field, which is one of the charms of cultural economists and I have been led to work in collaboration with researchers from different disciplines: in Art History and Archeology, in particular, where I published the results of researches using quantitative methods, which are rarely used in both disciplines.
Projects manager
From the 2000s, I got heavily involved in leading research by developing several projects in Cultural Economics at the University of Lille3. The Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Institut International Erasmus, ERASME in Lille), which later became MESHS (USR 3185), funded projects favoring interdisciplinarity. I have been the bearer of many projects on various funding supports (MSH, Ministry of Culture, ACEI, Regions, ...) which involved fifteen researchers in the economy of culture, inside and outside of the laboratory, in France and internationally. I have contributed to promoting interdisciplinarity by integrating researchers from different disciplines in joint projects with economists (Sociology, History of Art, Archeology, ...). This has contributed to the funding of young researchers on transversal themes which have given rise to publications.
In July 2018, my application to the International Association of Cultural Economists (ACEI) was selected to host the ACEI2020 in Lille for the 21st edition of the biannual conference of the association. So I then led the local organizing committee of ACEI2020 for three years (two years planned + one for the postponement). The original course of the conference was abruptly interrupted by the COVID crisis during the registration period. In March 2020, we were expecting registrations from 240 researchers from 57 countries from 5 continents. A hybrid version of the postponed conference was then scheduled and finally fully switched online only a few weeks ago at the end of January 2021. It will take place from July 7 to 9, 2021.
Position at IUT* de Lens TC department
The teaching axes of the DUT TC are given by the National Pedagogical Program PPN which sets the main themes to be tackled. The recruitment of students mixes a large number of pathways of the baccalaureate, of which 45% of technical courses, and 8% of professional bins. The S and especially ES sectors are also well represented. I regularly develop original and varied pedagogical tools, to make this numerous public (180 TC1 + 130 TC2) heterogeneous (from the baccalaureate to the S baccalaureate) adhere to a common project of reading and appropriation of economic news by the concepts basic theory of economics: the equilibrium, the market, the strategic approach and the growth factors.
Responsibility of internships at IUT* Lens since 2008.
The end-of-study internship is a major step in training, a vehicle for hiring, a lever for integration and a key articulation of the diploma with the job market. The rise of the internship stage is a development axis for a large number of university courses. At IUT* TC the weighting of the stage in the coefficients is very important in TC1 and TC2. When I was given the responsibility for internships in 2008, it was a creation. It gave me a lot of leeway. There are two objectives, 1) to respect the regulatory framework aimed at protecting the coherence of the training project, the level of qualification and the concrete missions to be carried out, 2) to preserve the recruitment potential at the end of the study with a possible orientation towards the alternately. It's an 'in-between' of the training. On the one hand, the recruitment by the company and on the other, the evaluation by the IUT*, place the material Or a double-criterion: that of the economic performance of the company and that of the valorization of training. There are 130 students in TC2, 170 in TC1, and I provide an individual accompaniment service for all TC2 students. I developed my action to improve the effectiveness of the department in the following five steps: 1) prospecting the company, 2) negotiating missions, 3) completing the internship, 4) writing the report internship, 5) defense.1) To alleviate the weak professional network of young adults and to facilitate their prospection, I publish a guide of internships updated corporate files. 2) I defend the student in a position of negotiator of his own missions from the first contact with the company. For this purpose, I organize an individual exchange by mail and validation days of the missions where each student comes to me individually to present his internship project and I assist him in the definition and the formulation of his missions. 3) I also manage tutoring internships done by the teaching team in the form of visits by the tutors on the places of training. The goal is to exercise a partial control of the smooth running of missions in the company. 4) and 5) I helped to increase transparency by communicating widely about our evaluation criteria to students and businesses. The responsibility therefore includes: - The updated internship guide of the business register, 10 annual editions (2008-2018), - the individualized support of the missions to be negotiated, the reformulation by key-words and the follow-up of the TC2 conventions ( 130 annual conventions), - the management of tutoring of internships (individual pairings tutor-student of a rotating team of 20 teachers with 130 stages) for the follow-ups, - the responsibility of the soutenances.
Specialized training in cultural professions
I participated in the editing of many educational projects involving the economics of culture at a time when the universities have emphasized the professionalization of courses including: 1) the Master 1 Master Expo Museography of Artois University, 2) the Pro Tourism License of the IUT* of Lens. I have valued an accumulated experience just after the thesis at the University of Avignon (DESS arts) and at the Université Lille3 (UFR Arts et Culture).
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(*) IUT* TC=Institut Universitaire de Technologie Technique de Commercialisation. These are institutes offering short courses of "business school" type in the French system (delivering DUT TC, diploma bac + 2). TC1 and TC2 are respectively the two levels of the two years.