PROFESSORS AND RESEARCHERS

Associate Professor

Specialization: Sociology of sports, labor, and public policy

Email:nathalie.le-roux@umontpellier.fr

Research Topics 

• Outdoor Sports and Recreation and Vulnerabilities in the Context of Climate Change
• Access to outdoor sports and recreation and the participation of people with disabilities
• Sports, Outdoor Recreation, and Aging

Keywords

outdoor sports and recreation – climate change – accessibility – inequality – health – disability – aging

Publications

ORCID:0000-0001-9540-235X

IDREF:https://www.idref.fr/066887674

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalie-le-roux-16211745/

Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PdB14_UAAAAJ&hl=fr

University Professor

Specialization: Sociology of sports and adapted physical activities; Visual and film sociology

Email: anne.marcellini@umontpellier.fr

Research topics:

• Depictions and representations of the disabled body in images and the media 
• Inclusion through sports, the process of destigmatization, and an inclusive society
• Sports categories and disability categories: interdependencies and reciprocal transformations
• Visual Approaches in the Social Sciences

Keywords:

Body, Sports, Images, Social representations, Media, Social integration, Inclusion, Social environments, Social movements, Activism, Social categorization

Publications and research:

ORCID: 0000-0003-1755-2314

Scopus Author

ID Ref: 07823641X

IdHAL: Anne Marcellini

Google Scholar

Course topics:

• The Sociology of Associations in the Sports and Health Sector
• Images of the Disabled Body and Society
• Research Methodology

MCU HDR

Field of expertise: Sociology, social history
Email: christelle.marsault(at)umontpellier.fr

Role and mission:

Director of the MEEF 2 Master's Program

Director of the STAPS Doctoral Programs atDS

Prevention Assistants at the Santesih Laboratory

Research topics:

• Inclusive education for students with special educational needs in physical education
• Inclusivity: capabilities and an enabling environment for students with special educational needs and disabilities
• Programs for implementing prescription-based health and fitness initiatives.

Keywords:

Physical education and sports, health and fitness, capability, an enabling environment, students with special educational needs

Recent Productions

 – Construction projects and project management:

• Marsault, C., & Cornus, S. (Eds.). (2014). Health and Physical Education: A Pretext, Realities. Paris: L’harmattan .

• Marsault, C. (2009). A Social History of Physical Education. Paris: PUF.

– Editorial Board

• Lefevre, L., & Marsault, C. (2022). “Physical Presence.” Recherches & éducations, 24 (online)

 – Key articles published in recent years:

• Knobé, S., & Marsault, C. (2025). “The Singularization of Public Health Policy: The Case of Prescription-Based Sports-Health Programs in Strasbourg and Mulhouse.” In Social and Solidarity Economy, Well-Being, and Global Health. Reims: Presses universitaires de Reims (Epure). Forthcoming.

• Lefevre, L., & Marsault, C. (2022). “The Role of Objects as Tools for Envisioning an Empowering Situation.” *Recherches & éducations*, 23, CAPAS Special Issue (online).

• Marsault, C., & Lefevre, L. (2022). “The Physical Presence of Teachers.” Professional Knowledge to Be Built Through Forum Theater. *Recherches & éducations*, 24 (online).

• Lefevre, L., & Marsault, C. (2021). “The Silent Withdrawal of Obese Adolescents in the Face of Body Standards in Physical Education and Sports.” SociologieS (online).

Marsault, C. (2021). “Health and Sport: A New Category of Public Policy?” in Gasparini, W. & Knobé, S. (eds.). Health and Sport: From Public Policy to Social Actors, Strasbourg: PUS.

• Marsault, C. (2019). “Does Teamwork Promote Innovation? A Look at the Collective Decision-Making Process in Physical Education and Sports.” Recherches & Educations. Varia (online)

• Lefèvre, L., & Marsault, C. (2018). “The BEP: A Moment of Educational Excellence: Perspectives from Primary and Secondary School Teachers.” *La nouvelle revue de l’adaptation et de la scolarisation*, 81, Special Issue on Inclusive Education and Society, 1–11 .

• Marsault, C. (2017). “Health-Promoting Physical Activity: A Medical, Social, or Sporting Issue? The Strasbourg ‘Prescription for Health-Promoting Physical Activity’ Program as a Cross-Cutting Policy Issue.” *Social Sciences and Sport*, No. 10 , May, pp. 21–49.

• Marsault, C. (2016). “Prescription Exercise: A Shift Away from Medicine: The Strasbourg Program as Seen by Its Instructors.” Public Health, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 163–167.

Master’s Thesis: Professional Knowledge: Formatting and Standardization. Defended in Strasbourg on January 20, 2023.

Course topics:

• History of sports

• The Social History and Epistemology of Physical Education

• Introduction to Research

• Methodology of the CAPEPS Written Exams

• Teaching in Physical Education Methodology and Pedagogy

University Professor

Email:eric.perera@umontpellier.fr

Phone: 04 11 75 90 91

Roles and responsibilities:

• Director of the SantESiH Laboratory (UR_UM211)
• Head of the Sports Management Department
• Director of the Master's Program in Sports Tourism Management
• Teacher for Students with Disabilities (STAPS)

Research topics:

His work focuses primarily on the body and its transformations, exploring social issues ranging from the stigmatized body (particularly obesity and bariatric surgery) to the non-conforming body (through the study of ascetic discipline in bodybuilding). More recently, his research has expanded to include the accessibility of outdoor recreational activities for people with disabilities (examples: All-Terrain Wheelchairs, handiski). He is also developing expertise in field research and alternative writing in the social sciences, which he coordinates within the “In Situ” series published by Effigi: https://santesih.edu.umontpellier.fr/collection-in-situ/.

Keywords:

Accessibility, sports and recreation, the body, and disability.

ORCID: 0000-0001-8151-3809

IdHAL: eric-perera

IdRef: 149554613

ResearchGate: Eric_Perera

MCU HDR

Email:robin.recours@umontpellier.fr

Role and mission:

Research Professor – Qualified to Supervise Research (Associate Professor with Research Qualifications) in Sports Science, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Research topics:

• Popular Culture: Sports, Music, Video Games
• Adolescence
• Imaginary

Keywords:

Culture, Adolescence, Sports.

Major works:

Articles:

• Fiteni, T., Lassalle, G., & Recours, R. (2021). Alcohol consumption among young soccer players (ages 14–19): the effects of age, gender, and skill level. Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, 5(1), 1–16.
• Lassalle, G., Recours, R., & Griffet, J. (2018). The Role of Family Members in the Motivation, Involvement, and Expertise of Track and Field Athletes in France. Journal of Comparative Family Studies.
• Riffaud, T., Recours, R., & Gibout, C. (2015). Street Sports and Arts: A Different Way of Being Urban. Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, 39(1), 1–13.
• Recours, R., Aussaguel, F., & Trujillo, N. (2009). Metal Music and Mental Health in France. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 33(3), 473–488.

Book chapters:

• Recours, R. (2015). Myopia and Presbyopia in the Sports Business, in Lapeyronie & Roussel: Regional Sports Management and Marketing. Dardilly: Les Éditions de Bionnay, pp. 62–71.
• Recours, R. (2013). “You can fly. You belong to the sky.” The Dream of Flight as Motivation in Winter Sports, in Monneyron, F. (ed.): Sport and the Imagination. Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée.

Course topics:

• Anthropology of the Body and Sport
• Communication

MCU-HDR

Email: remi.richard@umontpellier.fr

Role and mission:

After defending his doctoral dissertation in 2013 on the physical experience of sports for people with disabilities, Rémi Richard was hired in 2015 by the Department of Sports Science and Physical Education at the University of Montpellier. He is the program director for the Master’s 2 in PESAP (Prevention, Health Education, and Physical Activity).

Research topics:

• Sociology of Disability
• Gender Sociology
• Disabilities and Technology

Publications:

ORCID:0000-0002-6170-367X

ResearchGate:Remi-Richard

Course topics:

• General Sociology
• Sociology of Disability, Health and Physical Education, and Gender
• Research Methodology

Other responsibilities:

• Reviewer:
  • Physical Adapted Activity Quarterly
  • International Review of the Sociology of Sport
  • Research & Education
  • STAPS

Position: Associate Professor

Major: Sociology

Phone (business):

Email:laurent.solini@umontpellier.fr

Role and Mission

In October 2012, Laurent Solini defended his doctoral dissertation in sociology, which focused on the experiences of adolescents incarcerated in juvenile detention centers. In September 2013, he was hired as an associate professor at the University of Montpellier and joined the Santesih laboratory, where he primarily teaches in the Master’s program in “Prevention, Health Education, and Physical Activity” (PESAP) as well as sociology at the undergraduate level. 

Scientific and Administrative Responsibilities

2018–2020 – Research Director for “From One Care Institution to Another: An Exploratory Study of the Institutional Socialization of Minors in the Juvenile Justice System,” funded by the Law and Justice Research Mission

2014–2016 – Research Director for “Constructing the Prison: A Study of ‘Spatialities’ in Five Belgian and French Prisons,” funded by the Law and Justice Research Mission

Since 2020 – Head of the Adapted Physical Activity and Health Program at the STAPS Department in Montpellier

Since 2015 – Head of the Sociology Program in the Bachelor’s Degree at the UFR STAPS in Montpellier

Since 2014 – Program Director for the Master’s 1 program in “Prevention, Health Education, and Physical Activity” at the Department of Sports Science and Physical Education (STAPS) in Montpellier

2016–2018 – Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the UFR STAPS in Montpellier

Research Topics

Incarceration: Individual and Collective Experiences in Detention

Criminal Justice and Correctional Policies

Prison architecture

Pathways for Juveniles in the Juvenile Justice System

Sociology of Juvenile Delinquency and Youth in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Major Publications

Solini, L., 2022, “‘Libérable’: The Common Term for Release from Juvenile Detention,”*Ethnologie française*, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 199–213

Solini, L., Yeghicheyan, J., & Mennesson, C. (eds.), 2022,*The Displaced: Portraits of the Journeys of Young People in the Criminal Justice System*, Nîmes: Champ Social, “Questions de société”

Solini, L., Yeghicheyan, J., and Ferez, S. (eds.), 2019,Prisons: Uses and Appropriations of Prison Spaces, Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, “Locus Solus”

Solini L., 2017,Serving a Sentence at the Lavaur Juvenile Detention Center, Nîmes, Champ Social, “Social Issues” (the subject of a Senate hearing held by the working group on “Reintegration of Incarcerated Minors” on May 16, 2018)

Solini, L., and Basson, J.-C., 2017, “Leaving the Cell / Staying in the Cell: A Sociology of the Paradoxical Experiences of Detention in Juvenile Correctional Facilities,”Agora débats / Jeunesses, vol. 77, no. 3, pp. 67–79

Jaspart, A., and Solini, L., 2016, “‘Promenade’: A Study of a Juvenile Detention Center Through Its Courtyard,”Champ Pénal/Penal Field,vol. 13, [http://champpenal.revues.org/9431]

Solini L., Scheer D., Yeghicheyan J., 2016, “An Open Window to the Outside”? The Ecology of Two Prison Environments,Sociology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 225–242, [https://sociologie.revues.org/2851]

Solini, L., and Basson, J.-C., 2012, “Forced Hyperactivity: A Method of Managing Incarcerated Minors,”inBodin, R. (ed.),The Metamorphoses of Social Control, Paris: La Dispute, “Mouvements de société” series, pp. 167–177

Solini L., Neyrand G., Basson J.-C., 2011, “Gendered Overcoding in Juvenile Detention Facilities. A socialization in progress,”Déviance et société, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 195–215 (mentioned in issue 232 of the journal Sciences Humaines, December 2011)

Curriculum Topics

Confinement in mental institutions and prisons

The Production of Norms and Mechanisms of Power

Sociology of Education and Socialization

Sociology of the Working Class

Research Methods in the Social Sciences

MCU HDR

Specialization: Sociology, social history
Work phone: 04 11 75 90 88
Email: sylvain.ferez(at)umontpellier.fr

Role and mission:

Sylvain Ferez has been director of the SANTESIH laboratory since 2015 and associate director of the “Education” scientific department at the University of Montpellier since 2017. At SANTESIH, he has been leading two research programs for the past decade that focus on the socio-historical issues surrounding sports for people with disabilities and the impact of an HIV-positive diagnosis on access to physical and sports activities. As part of these programs, he also directs several comparative studies between mainland France and Guadeloupe.

Research topics:

• Experiences with HIV, body image, and access to physical and sports activities for people living with HIV;
• Disability, health, and community and civic engagement;
• Gender, sexuality, and discrimination in physical and sports activities;

Keywords:

Physical and sports activities, health, disability, HIV, gender, sexuality.

Major works:

 – Construction projects and project management:

• L. Solini, J. Yeghicheyan, S. Ferez (2019). Prisons: Uses and Appropriations of Prison Spaces. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, Locus Solus series.
• S. Ferez (2016). The Critical Corporation: Physical Management and Sports Mobilization of Marginalized Groups. Paris: L’Harmattan, Mouvements des savoirs series.
• S. Ferez & S. Ruffié (2015). The Body of Shame. A Social History of HIV/AIDS Care in Guadeloupe. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Epistémologie du corps series.
• S. Ruffié & S. Ferez (2013). Body, Sport, Disabilities (1): The Institutionalization of the Disabled Sports Movement (1954–2008). Paris: Téraèdre, Coll. Passage aux actes.
• S. Ferez & J. Thomas (2012). HIV & Sport: A Body Under Medical Constraint. Paris: Téraèdre, Coll. Passage aux actes.
• S. Ferez (2008). The Homosexual Body at Stake. Sociology of Gay and Lesbian Sport. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Coll. Epistémologie du corps.
• S. Ferez (2007). The Unstable Body. The Work of Claude Pujade-Renaud. Paris: L’Harmattan, Coll. The Body in Question.
• A., Elling & S. Ferez (2007). Fitness Centers as Transient Communities. Nieuwegein: Arko Sports Media.
• S. Ferez (2005). Lies and Truths of Bodies in Motion. The Work of Claude Pujade-Renaud. Paris: L’Harmattan, Coll. Spaces and Times of Sport.

 – Key articles published in recent years:

•    S. Ferez, Y. Moralès, C. Erard (2019, in press). Naissance d’une approche critique du sport et du corps. Le rôle de Michel Bernard (1927-2015) dans le « moment 68 » de l’éducation physique. STAPS.
•    R. Richard, A. Marcellini, A. S. Pappous, H. Joncheray, S. Ferez (2019). Construire et assurer l’héritage des Jeux olympiques et paralympiques. Pour une inclusion sportive durable des personnes vivant des situations de handicap. Movement & Sport Sciences/Science & Motricité, Published online : 27 Septembre 2019 [https://doi.org/10.1051/sm/2019031].
•    Y. Moralès, Y. Travaillot, S. Ferez (2019). Le GREC (1968-1976), une contestation « par corps » de la formation des enseignants d’éducation physique et sportive. Sciences Sociales et Sport, 13, 57-84.
•    A. Bergamaschi, F. D’Arripe-Longueville, L. Liora Gray, S. Colson, C. Goujard, S. Ferez, I. Rouanet, J. Durant, E. Rosenthal, C. Pradier, M. Duracinsky, L. Schuft (2019). Perceived HIV-related physical fatigue, sociodemographic characteristics and physical activity: a cross-sectional study. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 28(11-12), 2147-2156.
•    L. Schuft, E. Duval, J. Thomas, S. Ferez (2018). « To be or not to be sick and tired ». Managing the visibility of HIV and HIV-related fatigue. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 22(4), 317-336.
•    S. Ferez, S. Ruffié, S. Héas (2018). Recognizing geographic and cultural alterity through sport? Institutionalizing the Arctic Games (1967-2004). Diagoras: International Academic Journal on Olympic Studies, 2, 11-34. [http://diagorasjournal.com/index.php/diagoras/article/view/5] •    S. Ferez & E. Perera (2018). “To those who say that I am ill, I invite them to come and train with me.” Becoming a bodybuilder in the face of HIV. STAPS, 119, 95-116.
•    S. Ferez, S. Ruffié, S. Héas (2018). Sports and « Minorities »: Negotiating the Olympic Model. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 12(2), 177-193.
•    D. Issanchou, S. Ferez, E. de Léséleuc (2018). Technology at the service of natural performance: cross analysis of the Oscar Pistorius and Caster Semenya cases. Sport in Society, 21(4), 689-704.
•    S. Ferez, S. Ruffié, D. Issanchou, J. Cornaton (2018). The manager, the doctor and the technician. Political recognition and institutionalization of sport for the physically disabled in France (1968-1973). Sport in Society, 21(4), 622–634.
•    J. Cornaton, A. Schweizer, S. Ferez, N. Bancel (2018). The divisive origins of sports for physically disabled people in Switzerland (1956-1968). Sport in Society, 21(4), 591-609.
•    M. Perez, S. Ferez, S. Héas (2017). L’infection au VIH à l’ère de la maladie chronique : Les avatars du retour des refoulés de la mort et de la sexualité. SociologieS. Mis en ligne le 13 novembre 2017 [http://sociologies.revues.org/6371].
•    M. Perez & S. Ferez (2017). Sport et VIH-sida : de l’exclusion des séropositifs à l’accompagnement des « malades ». Sciences de la société, 101, 92-111.
•    S. Ferez & L. Solini (2017). Sports et politiques publiques. De la réciproque des relations ?. Sciences Sociales et Sport, 10, 13-19.
•    S. Ferez, S. Ruffié, N. Bancel (2016). From Sport as an instrument in Rehabilitation to the adoption of Competitive Sport: Genesis of a Delegatee Sports Federation in France for those with Physical Disabilities (1954-1972). Sport History Review, 47(2), 146-171.
•    A. Marcellini, E. Perera, A. Rodhain, S. Ferez (2016). Rapport au corps et engagement dans les activités physiques chez les personnes touchées par l’obésité. Comment penser les « histoires de corps » individuelles dans une « société obésogène » ?. Santé Publique, HS(S1). 117-125.
•    E. Duval, S. Ferez, J. Thomas, L. Schuft (2016). « Devenir » malade chronique par l’activité physique : le rôle des associations VIH. Santé Publique, HS(S1). 89-100.
•    G. Villoing, S. Ruffié, S. Ferez, S. (2016). Care en milieu postcolonial : émancipation et revendication identitaire des personnes handicapées en Guadeloupe. ALTER, European Journal of Disability Research, 10, 54-66.
•    S. Ferez, J. Thomas, S. Ruffié (2015). De l’auto-organisation des mutilés de guerre à la structuration d’une Fédération sportive pour handicapés physiques : la spécificité de la France (1954-1972). European Studies in Sports History, 8, 121-148.
•    S. Ruffié, S. Ferez, E. Lantz (2014). From the Institutionalization of “all disabilities” to Comprehensive Sports Integration: The Enrolment of France in the Paralympic Movement (1954-2012). The International Journal of the History of Sport, 31(17), 2245-2265.
•    S. Ferez, E. Duval, S. Héas, P. Fougeyrollas (2014). Continuer à s’engager dans des loisirs après avoir été infecté au VIH : entre quête de normalité et prescription sociale ?. Loisir & Société/Leisure and Society, 37(2), 205-223.
•    S. Ruffié, S. Ferez, E. Lantz (2014). From the Institutionalization of “all disabilities” to Comprehensive Sports Integration: The Enrolment of France in the Paralympic Movement (1954-2012). The International Journal of the History of Sport, 31(17), 2245-2265.
•    J. Thomas, E. Duval, S. Ferez (2014). La perception de l’activité physique comme mode de prise de charge du VIH : effets de la visibilité du corps sur les stratégies de gestion d’une  maladie chronique. Movement & Sport Sciences/Science & Motricité, 84, 99-110.
•    S. Ferez (2012). From Women’s Exclusion to Gender Institution: A Brief History of the Sexual Categorization Process within Sport. The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 29, n° 2, 272-285.

Course topics:

• Sociology and History of Sport
• Sociology and Anthropology of Health and Disability
• Research Methods in the Social Sciences