ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

Specialty: Sociology of the body and emotions
Email:  jonathan.bresson@yahoo.fr

Research topics:  Physical and symbolic violence; emotion and emotional expression; Goffmanian sociology

Keywords: Body; emotions; violence; martial arts and combat sports; ethnography; Goffman

Main productions:

Bresson J, 2023. Discrimination and emotions of bouncers in bars and nightclubs, Les cahiers de la Lutte Contre les Discriminations (LCD), 18.

Bresson, 2021. "Confessions of weakness 1. Fights and brawls, investigating the limits of social order in situ," in Perera, E, Beldame, Y (Eds.), In Situ Vol. 2, Paris: l'Harmattan.

Bresson, 2021. "Confessions of weakness 2. Behind the researcher's staging, emotions," in Héas, S., Zanna, O. (Eds.), Emotions in humanities research, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

Bresson, 2018. Doctoral thesis (Supervised by S. Héas, sociologist, E. Péchillon, lawyer. "Conflict, from face-to-face to hand-to-hand, an immersion as a security guard in nightclubs," 711p.

Doctor of Human Movement Science

Contractual instructor – UFR STAPS (Faculty of Sports Science) in Toulon

Email: geoffrey.lassalle@univ-tln.fr

Research topics

Evolution of sports and traditional games in their social and historical contexts
Body standards and the place of disability in physical activities
Living conditions and economic realities of so-called "sub-top" athletes
Athletic careers, performance, and support needs

This work is a continuation of my doctoral research on social transformations in sports practices and the logic of competition.

Keywords

Traditional games, Sport, Disability, Body standards, Social history, Sub-top athletes, Precariousness, Performance, Sports careers

Publications

ORCID: 0000-0002-2063-5279

Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=s0EhaJEAAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao

ResearchGate:Geoffrey Lassalle

IdRef:235601179

IdHAL:Geoffrey Lassalle

1. Roles and mission

            After working successively as a certified physical education teacher, exam trainer in the STAPS department at ULCO (Calais), management staff, IA-IPR EPS, DAASEN in Hauts-de-Seine, DASEN in Ardèche, then in Hérault, I currently hold the position of DASEN in Gard. As deputy to the regional education authority and the Montpellier education authority, I am responsible for implementing national and regional education policies at primary and secondary level across the department.

2. Research topics

            My research focuses on the process of building professional identity and inclusive schools, approached from the perspective of leadership. In this regard, leadership is the main focus of my work, which is examined within the context of public education and from a pluralistic sociological perspective.

3. Keywords

            Professional identities – Leadership – Inclusive schools – Pragmatic sociology

4. Main publications

"Being a professional handball player. The hidden dimensions of a plural identity." Brussels, EME Intercommunications, coll. Sociological Proximities. (2009) – ISBN: 978-2-87525-000-8.

"Leadership in school organizations: a pragmatic approach to interaction." (Submitted)

Education and Francophonie LII No. 2, Fall 2024, Quebec City.

"Leadership: 'letting go' to allow collective productive action to flourish" (with Adeline Frantz).Éducation et Francophonie XLVI No. 1, Spring 2018, Quebec City, pp. 50-66.

"The Educational Integration Unit: tensions, conflicts, and transactions."Reliance No. 27– April 2008, Paris, pp. 68–74.

"Wild"soccer: from one practice to another (in collaboration with C. Gibout).Science et Motricité No. 63, 2008, pp. 53-61.

Research Associate

Specialty: Doctor of Sports Science

Email:maude.noel@umontpellier.fr/maude_noel@hotmail.com

Research topics and keywords:

sociology / aging / physical activity / prevention / digital technology

Publications:
ORCID: 0009-0003-2543-7110
IdHAL: maude-noel
ResearchGate: Maude_Noel

Lecturer (University of Pau)

Specialty: ManagementSciences

Email:camille.ricaud@hotmail.com

Research topics: Disability treatment 

• Care Policies

• Management techniques

• Ethnography of organizations

Keywords: management, disability, body, organizational behavior

Publications:

IdHAL: camille-ricaud

Qualification: Doctor of Sociology and Physical Education Teacher

Email: riffaud.socio@gmail.com

Cell phone: 0626111822

1. Roles and mission

Participation in various ongoing research projects related to my research topics

2. Research topics

These focus in particular on street sports across their various audiences and their relationship(s) with urban space. However, since defending his thesis (June 2017), he has broadened his field of expertise to include school sports and physical education, as well as sports facilities in general and sports tourism.

3. Keywords

Physical education, street sports, sports facilities, sports tourism, public policy

4. Teaching topics

Sociology of Sport, Sports Management, History of Sport, CAPEPS Training

5. Main publications

Riffaud, T., Lapeyronie, B. (2023).Self-organization in sports: challenges and methods. Voiron, Presses universitaires du sport.

Riffaud, T., Le Roux N., Perera, E. (2022).Sports tourism, territories, and societies. Grenoble, Elya Editions.

Riffaud, T. (2021). Street sports and urban tourism.Téoros, 40(1)

Riffaud, T. (2019). Third places for sports? DIY spots in the face of the sportification of street sports.Leisure and Society/Society and Leisure. DOI: 10.1080/07053436.2020.1681786

Riffaud, T. (2018). Sociological flânerie: an adogmatic methodology.SociologieS,[online]. https://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/8673

– Chapter of the work:

• Riffaud, T. (2017). Sterilization or Petri dish? Public policy on spaces dedicated to graffiti and skateboarding. In Gibout (ed.). Recreation and territorial development? P.171-181 Paris: Edilivre.

– Communications:

• Riffaud, T. (2018). Cultural and sports tourism: When street art meets nature hiking. What kind of sports tourism? Creating a contemporary experience of elsewhere. International conference, SanteSiH and CERCE, Montpellier.
• Riffaud, T. (2018). From cartoons to the right to the city; The King and the Bird. Imagination and Everyday Life Symposium, CeaQ and IRSA, Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University.
• Riffaud, T. (2018). When site-specific dance challenges research. International symposium Representing Territories, CIST- International College of Territorial Sciences, Rouen.
• Riffaud, T. (2017). Public spaces, collective spaces? What do art and sport tell us? Collective action: collective practices and places, Pacte study day (University of Grenoble Alpes) and TVES (University of Lille 1, University of Littoral Côte d’Opale), Grenoble.
• Riffaud, T. (2017). From emergence to disappearance: the totemic spaces of "street sports." International symposium: the city and sport, UBO Brest, France.
• Riffaud, T. (2016). The body, intermediary in a dance with urban space. Habitability in street sports and contemporary dance. Recreational Transition and Body Ecology Symposium, GDRI-ECAPAS and the PACTE laboratory (UMR CNRS 5194), Le Pradel, France.

Other responsibilities:

• Organization of seminars for young researchers at the laboratory

Ph.D. in Sociology

Email: mag.rouvarel@gmail.com / maguelone.rouvarel@umpv.fr 

 Phone: 033 6 88 17 90 59

Roles and Responsibilities

Associate member of the Santésih UR UM 211 laboratory

Website Manager for the Santésih Laboratory

Member of the Executive Committee of CR13 (Health Sociology) of the International Association of French-Speaking Sociologists (AISLF)

Research topic

Building on my sociology dissertation, which I defended in 2025 and which focused on the decision to undergo bariatric surgery (or obesity surgery) for weight loss, my research focuses, at the intersection of health and disease (chronic disease), on the body—and specifically the body that deviates from the norm (particularly in the case of obesity)—as well as on the identity-related and bodily strategies and social processes that individuals employ within the context of their therapeutic care.

Keywords

Health, body, chronic illness, bodily changes, decision-making, obesity, medical care

Publications

ORCID: 0000-0001-9706-3785

IdhAL: Maguelone Rouvarel

Ref. No.: 268428522

Teaching topics

Sociology of health

Sociology of the Body

Research methodology

Email: laura.silvestri@umontpellier.fr

Role and mission:

Doctor of Social Anthropology and Ethnology.

Participation in the laboratory's research programs:

• Becoming an adult with a developmental disorder (Devadulte-AD)
• Measuring the quality of school and work environments for adolescents and young adults with cystic fibrosis (MQESP-Muco)

Research topic:

• Construction and circulation of knowledge and representations of the body and health.

Keywords:

Physical practices, traditional medicines, chromosomal abnormalities, genetic diseases, disability.

Main productions:

Publications:

• "Between greetings and acts of worship: redefining interactions in a martial arts school in Kerala (India)," Transverse journal. Care/health, thematic volume Interactions and dynamics of asymmetries, edited by Géraldine Rix-Lièvre and Serge Thomazet, 2018, pp. 93-106.
• "On the heuristic value of misunderstanding: a return to the field in Kerala," Civilisations, Figures of Misunderstanding, no. 65, 2017, pp. 107-126. Online: http://journals.openedition.org/civilisations/4067; DOI: 10.4000/civilisations.4067
• "Finding the right balance through voice," Proceedings of the AFEA (French Association of Ethnologists and Anthropologists) Congress 2015, Démesure, Toulouse, June 29-July 2, 2015. Online:https://demesure.sciencesconf.org/browse/speaker?authorid=283848
• "Science and Religion in Traditional Indian Medicine: The Laws of Nature and the Individual in Western Ayurvedic Practice," Quaderns-e. Journal of the Catalan Institute of Anthropology, January 19, 2014 (first published in 2008), pp. 235–248, online:http://www.antropologia.cat/quaderns-e-278.

Communications:

• With Yann Beldame: "The educational and professional experiences of young people with rare chromosomal abnormalities through their stories and those of their families," ALTER Conference (European Society for Disability Research) 2017, Disability, Recognition, and "Living Together." Diversity of Practices and Plurality of Values, Lausanne, July 6-7, 2017.
• With Yann Beldame: "Collecting statements from minors or protected individuals with communication difficulties: a few cases from a survey of young people with chromosomal abnormalities and their parents," Study day on the methodological challenges of collecting statements from people with intellectual disabilities or behavioral disorders, organized by the Santesih and Lirdef laboratories, University of Montpellier, December 15, 2017.
• With the Devadulte-AD research collective: "Becoming an adult with a developmental anomaly: exclusion and social participation (n.2)," Paper presented at the "Rare 2017" Congress, Rare Diseases Foundation, Paris, November 20 and 21, 2017.
• With the Devadulte-AD research collective: "Becoming an adult with a developmental anomaly: exclusion and social participation," Paper presented at the "Social Sciences and Humanities Research in Rare Diseases" conference, Paris, October 20, 2016.

Role and mission:

Co-director and postdoctoral research coordinator for the study that will result in the bookPrisons withLaurent Solini and Sylvain Ferez, Jennifer Yeghicheyan then became a temporary teaching and research assistant at the Santesih laboratory. She continues her work by co-directing, with Laurent Solini and Jean-Charles Basson, the project "From one care institution to another. An exploratory study of the institutional socialization of young people in the justice system," under the dual supervision of Cresco (Center for Research in Social Sciences, Body, and Sport – EA 4719) and Santesih.

University life (since 2016):

• 2016–2018 Organizer of seminars for young researchers and research, Santesih, University of Montpellier

Elected representative of contract staff on the Scientific Education Department Council, University of Montpellier

Research topics:

All of his work is based on ethnographic research. It focuses on institutional care that oscillates between security and support (social, educational), targeting populations described as both "dangerous" and "vulnerable."

In her thesis, she focuses on the prison periphery: the reception of visitors to prisons by volunteers and service providers when they visit their loved ones in prison. She then analyzes the prison care process through a spatial lens. She continues to study the application of public security/support policies aimed at juvenile offenders.

Keywords:ethnography; vulnerabilities; institutions; caregivers; spatialities; youth in difficulty; volunteering; public policies

Main publications:

Peer-reviewed articles

Yeghicheyan J., 2020, "A beehive! The uses of a roundabout as a detention center,"Champ pénal/Penal Field, prison architecture dossier, Milhaud O., Scheer D. (coord.).

Yeghicheyan J. & Jaspart A., 2018, "Collective research: a bulwark against 'ethnographic discomfort'? The case of shared fieldwork in prison,"Ethnologie française, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 539-576.

Yeghicheyan J., 2018, "The place of families: mixed recognition,"Métropolitiques, Gayet-Viaud C. & Icard V. (eds.), dossier "Prison architecture and the meaning of punishment: contemporary forms and uses of prisons."

Solini L., Scheer D., andYeghicheyan J., 2016, "A window to the outside world?" Ecology of two prison spaces,Sociologie, No. 3, Vol. 7, pp. 225-242.

Project management

Solini L.,Yeghicheyan J.& Ferez S., 2019,Prisons. Uses and Appropriations of Prison Spaces, Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, "Locus Solus."

Chapter of a book

Yeghicheyan J., 2016, "An ethnologist on the prison periphery. Looking back on an ethnographic commitment,"in PereraE. & Beldame Y.,In situ. Situations, interactions, and research narratives, Paris, L'Harmattan, "Mouvements des savoirs" pp. 121-132.

Thesis

Yeghicheyan J., 2015,Welcoming and Containing:"Families" Between Volunteering and the Market. Investigation of a Prison Periphery, Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Ethnology at Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier 3.

Highest honors with unanimous congratulations from the jury

Jury:

– Vincent Dubois (jury president and rapporteur), Professor, University of Strasbourg

– Geneviève Zoïa (rapporteur), Professor, Montpellier 2 University

– Arnauld Chandivert, Senior Lecturer, Montpellier 3 University

– Didier Fassin, Director of Studies, EHESS Paris/Professor of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

– Corinne Rostaing, Senior Lecturer, University of Lyon 2

– Caroline Touraut, Doctor of Sociology, Research Officer at the Prison Administration Department and Associate Researcher at ISP Cachan

Teaching topics:

• Fundamental theoretical courses in sociology and ethnology
• Method in sociology and ethnology
• Social construction of inequalities

Statuses and durations (596 hours of tutorials):

2018–2016: Assistant Professor in Social Sciences, full-time, University of Montpellier

384 hours of tutorials, including 20 hours of lectures. Bachelor's and Master's students

Supervision of theses for Master's 1 and 2 PESAP (Prevention, Health Education, Physical Activity) and Master's 1 MSTS (Sports Tourism Services Management)

2011–2014: Teaching and temporary work as part of a doctoral contract, Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier 3

164 hours of tutorials, including 72 hours of seminars. Bachelor's degree students