Some code in my PHD
METSEM's #24 session dedicated to the use of software coding in Social Sciences and Humanities doctoral thesis.
While methodological training encourages the use of existing software, the practice of computer development is spreading, and PhD students are increasingly called upon to develop their own research tools, reinforcing the intimate link between research, methods and tools.
On Thursday, September 19, 2019 (10am-12pm), the médialab contributes to METSEM in an attempt to shed light on the place of programming in doctoral work -and more generally in research- and the link between code, its author and his or her research. Both researchers and promoters of their own tools/methods, doctoral students, who are directly confronted with this fundamental question of methodological research, will be at the heart of this session.
Program
For this session, METSEM is inviting 3 doctoral students from different disciplines to present their computer development practices as part of their doctorate, before taking part in a discussion, which will put into perspective the dichotomy of engineer-researcher roles in research work (moderated by Paul Girard, research engineer at Sciences Po's médialab).
- Florence Ecormier-Nocca is a doctoral student at Sciences Po's Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE), working on a thesis in political science and machine learning under the supervision of Nicolas Sauger (CEE) and Mohamed Nadif (LIPADE, Université Paris Descartes). Her thesis explores the ideological diversity of MPs from the same political party, based on their Twitter activity in Spain, France and the UK.
- Robin de Mourat is a research designer at médialab and is preparing a PhD thesis in Arts & Design on publication formats in the humanities and social sciences at Université Rennes 2, under the supervision of Nicolas Thély and Donato Ricci.
- Guillaume Levrier is a doctoral student at CEVIPOF. His thesis focuses on the institutional challenges of genome editing, under the supervision of Virginie Tournay, and is part of the ANR ComIngGen project.
These three 30-minute presentations will be followed by a 30-minute discussion session.