I am and have been active in the following networks and research ventures:

Current

The Colibex chair (France-Quebec Research Chair on Contemporary Issues of Freedom of Expression) is funded by the CNRS and the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) from 2022 to 2027. Its aim is to develop collaborative and international research and training on freedom of expression. It is structured around four research clusters: the first addresses the issue of regulating freedom of expression in relation to fundamental human rights and democracy (cluster 1); the other three deal more specifically with its relationship with religion (cluster 2), science and knowledge (cluster 3) and creation (cluster 4). As co-head of Cluster 3, I conduct and fund research on academic freedom and freedom of expression in the scientific and university fields.

I am an editorial board member of Zilsel, a French peer-reviewed journal focused on the sociology of sciences and techniques.

I am a board member of the Research Committee 33 of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), which I chaired from 2016 to 2021. RC33 is concerned with the history of political science as a discipline. It organises panels at IPSA world congresses and publishes books and edited special issues compiling the contributions to these panels. 

Past

The COST action PROSEPS (“Professionalization and Social Impact of European Political Science”) aimed to build a network of scholars studying the internationalisation and social impact of political science. It studied four processes: the transformation of the academic subject (size of the community, internal articulations, research areas, PhD programmes); the social and media visibility of the subject and its research outcomes; the social impact of the work of political scientists; and the impact of reforms on the rates of international mobility and international circulation of research outcomes. As a member of the network, I focused my work on the latter.

The INTERCO-SSH project (“International cooperation in the social sciences and humanities: comparative perspectives and future possibilities”) compared the process of institutionalisation of seven academic disciplines in Europe since 1945. Using quantitative and qualitative data, it investigated the transfer of knowledge between countries and disciplines, the geographical mobility of scholars and the circulation of ideas, in relation to political phenomena. It was coordinated by Prof. Gisèle Sapiro and funded by the European Seventh Research Programme (FP7) from 2013 to 2017. I took part in the writing of the original grant proposal and I was employed as a post-doctoral researcher in the framework of the project. The results of INTERCO-SSH have been published by Palgrave Macmillan in the form of three edited volumes, one of which coedited by myself.

From 2011 to 2019 I was a member of the executive committee of the 27th Research Network of the French Sociology Association (AFS), which studies the sociology of intellectuals and experts. This involved organising panels and conferences, and publishing their outcome. 

I was an Associate Editor of Serendipities, an international peer-reviewed online journal for the sociology and history of the social sciences, from 2016 to 2021.