Associate MEMBERS

Specialization: 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

Major productions:

Bresson, J., 2023. “Discrimination and the Emotions of Doormen 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: The Emotions Behind the Researcher’s Performance,” in Héas, S., and Zanna, O. (Eds.), Emotions in Humanities Research, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

Bresson, 2018. Doctoral dissertation (Advisors: S. Héas, sociologist; E. Péchillon, legal scholar). “Conflict: From Face-to-Face to Hand-to-Hand—An Undercover Experience as a Security Guard in Nightclubs,” 711 pp.

Doctor of Human Movement Science

Contract Faculty Member – STAPS Department, University of Toulon

Email: geoffrey.lassalle@univ-tln.fr

Research Topics

The Evolution of Sports and Traditional Games in Their Social and Historical Contexts
Body Standards and the Role of Disability in Physical Activities
Living Conditions and Economic Realities of So-Called “Sub-Top” Athletes
Athletic Careers, Performance, and Support Needs

This work builds on my doctoral research on social transformations in sports practices and the dynamics of competition.

Keywords

Traditional Games, Sports, Disability, Body Standards, Sociohistory, Non-Elite 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

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IdHAL:geoffrey-lassalle

1. Roles and Mission

            After serving successively as an agrégé in physical education, a preparatory course instructor in the STAPS department at ULCO (Calais), a member of the administrative leadership team, an IA-IPR for physical education, DAASEN of the Hauts-de-Seine department, DASEN of the Ardèche department, and then of the Hérault department, I currently hold the position of DASEN of the Gard department. As Deputy to the Regional Academic Rector and the Montpellier Academy, I am responsible for implementing national and regional educational policies at the departmental level in elementary and secondary schools.

2. Research Topics

            My research focuses on the process of constructing professional identity and inclusive schools, though I approach these topics from the perspective of leadership. In this regard, leadership is the central focus of my analysis, as it is being called into question within the public education system and from a pluralistic sociological perspective.

3. Keywords

            Professional Identities – Leadership – Inclusive Education – Pragmatic Sociology

4. Major Publications

“Being a Professional Handball Player: The Hidden Dimensions of a Multifaceted Identity.” Brussels: EME Intercommunications, Proximités Sociologiques series. (2009) – ISBN: 978-2-87525-000-8.

"Leadership in School Organizations: A Pragmatic Approach to Collaboration." (Submitted)

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

“Leadership: ‘Letting Go’ to Enable Collective Productivity” (with Adeline Frantz).*Éducation et Francophonie* XLVI, no. 1, Spring 2018, Quebec City, pp. 50–66.

“The Educational Integration Unit: Tensions, Conflicts, and Compromises.”Reliance No. 27– April 2008, Paris, pp. 68–74.

“‘Wild’Soccer: From a Different Kind of Play to a Different Way of Playing”(in collaboration with C. Gibout).Science et Motricité No. 63, 2008, pp. 53–61.

Associate Researcher

Field of Study: Ph.D. in 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

Associate Professor (University of Pau)

Major: ManagementSciences

Email:camille.ricaud@hotmail.com

Research Topics: Treatmentof Disabilities 

• Care Policies

• Treatment Techniques

• Organizational Ethnography

Keywords: management, disability, body, organizational behavior

Publications:

IdHAL: camille-ricaud

Qualifications: Ph.D. in 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

His research focuses in particular on street sports, examining their various participant groups and their relationship(s) to urban space. However, since defending his dissertation (June 2017), he has broadened his area 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, Sport Management, History of Sport, CAPEPS Training

5. Major Publications

Riffaud, T., Lapeyronie, B. (2023).Self-Organization in Sports: Issues and Methods. Voiron: Presses universitaires du sport.

Riffaud, T., Le Roux, N., Perera, E. (2022).Sports Tourism, Regions, 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.”*Loisir et Société/Society and Leisure*. DOI: 10.1080/07053436.2020.1681786

Riffaud, T. (2018). Sociological Strolling: An Adogmatic Methodology.SociologieS,[online]. https://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/8673

– Book chapter:

• Riffaud, T. (2017). Sterilization or Petri Dish? Public Policy on Spaces Dedicated to “Graffiti” and “Roule” Practices. In Gibout (ed.), Recreation and Territorial Development? pp. 171–181. Paris: Edilivre

– Communications:

• Riffaud, T. (2018). Cultural and Sports Tourism: When “Street Art” Meets Hiking in Nature. What Kind of Sports Tourism? Creating a Contemporary Experience of the “Elsewhere.” International Conference, SanteSiH and CERCE, Montpellier.
• Riffaud, T. (2018). From Animation to the Right to the City: *The King and the Bird*. “Imagination and Daily Life” Conference, CeaQ and IRSA, Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3.
• 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: Spaces of the Collective? What Do Art and Sports Tell Us?, Collective Action: Practices and Spaces of the Collective, Pacte (University of Grenoble Alpes) and TVES (University of Lille 1, University of the Littoral Côte d’Opale) Symposium, 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 as an Intermediary in a Dance with Urban Space. Livability in Street Sports and Contemporary Dance. Symposium on “Recreational Transition and Bodily Ecology,” GDRI-ECAPAS and the PACTE Laboratory (UMR CNRS 5194), Le Pradel, France.

Other responsibilities:

• Organization of the laboratory's seminars for young researchers

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) to lose weight, my research, situated at the intersection of health and disease (chronic disease), focuses 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, therapeutic care

Publications

ORCID: 0000-0001-9706-3785

IdhAL: Maguelone-Rouvarel

IdRef: 268428522

Educational Themes

Sociology of Health

Sociology of the Body

Research Methodology

Function 

Postdoctoral Researcher 

Specialty

Anthropology and sociology of health; anthropology and sociology of disability; anthropology of bodily practices

Contact Information

laura.silvestri@umontpellier.fr;laura.silvestri@univ-lyon1.fr

Research Topics: Inmy pre-doctoral and doctoral research, I focused on contemporary and transnational reinterpretations of a pan-Indian medical tradition (āyurveda), followed by a martial tradition (kaḷarippayaṛṛụ) from South India, as well as their practice. I am currently interested in the reconfigurations of social participation and disability among populations affected by chromosomal abnormalities or genetic disorders, particularly during the transition to adulthood or following major life events such as organ transplantation or the introduction of innovative treatments. 

Keywords 

Social participation, disability, genetic diseases, genetic syndromes, chronic diseases, cystic fibrosis, therapeutic innovation, transition to adulthood, aging, lung transplantation

Publications

ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2965-2128

IdHAL: laura-silvestri IdRef: 273929976

Role and Mission:

As co-director and postdoctoral research coordinator for the project that would lead to the book*Prisons* withLaurent Solini and Sylvain Ferez, Jennifer Yeghicheyan subsequently served as a Temporary Teaching and Research Associate at the Santesih laboratory. She continued 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 Youth in the Juvenile Justice System,” under the joint 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 seminars, Santesih, University of Montpellier

Elected as the representative for contract staff on the Council of the Department of Science and Education at the University of Montpellier

Research Topics:

All of his work is based on ethnographic research. It focuses on institutional care that balances security with (social and educational) support, aimed at populations described as both “dangerous” and “vulnerable.”

In her dissertation, she focuses on the prison periphery: the reception areas outside prisons where volunteers and service providers assist the families of inmates during visiting hours. She then analyzes prison management processes through a spatial lens. She continues to study the implementation of public policies—both security-oriented and support-oriented—aimed at juvenile offenders.

Keywords:ethnography; vulnerabilities; institutions; family caregivers; spatialities; at-risk youth; volunteerism; public policy

Major publications:

Peer-reviewed articles

Yeghicheyan, J., 2020, “‘An anthill!’ Uses of a Roundabout in a Detention Center,”*Champ pénal/Penal Field*, special issue on prison architecture, Milhaud, O., and Scheer, D. (eds.).

Yeghicheyan, J., & Jaspart, A., 2018, “Collective Research: A Bulwark Against ‘Ethnographic Discomfort’? The Case of a Shared Fieldsite in Prison,”*Ethnologie française*, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 539–576.

Yeghicheyan, J., 2018, “The Role of Families: A Mixed Response,”*Métropolitiques*, Gayet-Viaud, C. & Icard, V. (eds.), special issue “Prison Architecture and the Meaning of Punishment: Contemporary Forms and Uses of Prisons.”

Solini, L., Scheer, D., &Yeghicheyan, J., 2016, “‘A Window to the Outside’? The Ecology of Two Prison Environments,”*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.”

Book Chapter

Yeghicheyan, J., 2016, “An Ethnologist on the Outskirts of the Prison System: Reflections on an Ethnographic Engagement,”in Perera, E. & Beldame, Y.,*In situ: Situations, Interactions, and Research Narratives*, Paris: L’Harmattan, “Mouvements des savoirs” series, pp. 121–132.

Thesis

Yeghicheyan, J., 2015,“Welcoming and Supporting:‘Families’ Between Volunteering and the Market. A Study of a Prison Suburb,” Dissertation submitted to Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier 3, for the degree of Doctor of Ethnology.

Highest Honors with unanimous congratulations from the jury

Jury:

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

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

– Arnauld Chandivert, Associate Professor, University of Montpellier 3

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

– Corinne Rostaing, Associate Professor (HDR), University of Lyon 2

– Caroline Touraut, Ph.D. in Sociology, Research Officer at the Directorate of Correctional Services and Research Associate at the ISP Cachan

Course Topics:

• Fundamental Theoretical Courses in Sociology and Ethnology
• Methodology in Sociology and Ethnology
• The Social Construction of Inequality

Statutes and Time Periods (596 hours of lectures):

2018–2016: Assistant Professor in the 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 the PESAP (Prevention, Health Education, Physical Activity) Master's 1 and 2 programs and the MSTS (Sports Tourism Services Management) Master's 1 program

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

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