Coline Soler

Doctoral student at IDHES Paris-Saclay, laboratory of ENS Paris-Saclay.

For my M2 dissertation, I worked on the Initiatives of Excellence (IDEX). Now, as part of my thesis, I’m interested in the construction of the French Research Programming Law (enacted in December 2020), to study the mechanisms of the elaboration of a “reforming common sense” on Higher Education and Research.

I’m interested in how different fields interacted and how the reform mobilized different actors; in the discourses that construct the policy, also taking into account the most critical discourses and the poles least close to power; in the spaces in which the law is constructed to understand how they articulate around this issue.

I use qualitative methods (interviews, observations) and quantitative methods (multiple correspondence analysis based on a prosopographic database).