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Since its creation, the SantESiH laboratory has been developing a coherent line of research, focusing on the analysis of the processes involved in producing and reducing situations of disability and vulnerability, in different contexts such as educational, health, sports or leisure contexts.

The six elements selected in this portfolio illustrate the company's dynamic scientific continuity, its scientific and institutional recognition, its ability to adapt to the social context, its commitment to promoting research results and its support for young researchers.

The first element is an article published in the journal Social Inclusion, co-authored by several members of the laboratory and international colleagues. It offers a critical reading of the inclusive ambitions of the Paris Paralympic Games, based on a historical analysis of their institutionalization. The article is in line with the laboratory's founding themes and its ability to contribute to the most topical international debates.

The second element, the exhibition "Histoires paralympiques. De l'intégration sportive à l'inclusion sociale (1948-2024)", presented at the Panthéon in Paris, illustrates the scope of the unit's research in the public arena. Two SantESiH members acted as scientific curators for this exhibition, organized as part of the Cultural Olympiad. The project is the fruit of over ten years' work by the laboratory on disability policies, the careers of Paralympic athletes and representations of the body. It testifies to the laboratory's ability to build recognition over a long period of time, and to its capacity to integrate its research into ambitious promotional formats.

The third element is a short video produced as part of the ANR Paraperf project, and widely distributed during the Paris 2024 Games, notably in Club France spaces and on social networks. This production presents in an animated and accessible way the results of a survey from work package 3 on the preparation conditions of Paralympic athletes. It illustrates the unit's ability to develop original and highly visible mediation formats.

The fourth is an article published in Communication & Sport, a leading international journal in the STAPS field. It is signed in the first name by a post-doctoral student from the laboratory, recruited as part of the ANR PARAPERF project. The article analyzes the forms of inequality in Paralympic athletes' access to sponsorship, in relation to media representations of their bodies. By conceptualizing the figures of the "cyborg", the "supercrip" and the logics of "inspiration porn", it proposes an innovative theoretical framework for disability studies. The text also bears witness to SantESiH's commitment to supporting young researchers on the road to top-level publication, and to its critical, international positioning.

The fifth element is a special issue of Téoros magazine, focusing on outdoor sports for people with disabilities. Published in 2021, this issue brings together eight articles exploring forms of accessibility, organizational adaptations and the social uses of natural spaces. It testifies to the unit's recognition of its historical objects, but also to its desire to open up new perspectives, by articulating the challenges of inclusion with those of ecology, mobility and tourism. This dossier anticipates one of the development axes (on social participation and ecological transition issues, see Part 4 "unit trajectory") of the next five-year project.

Finally, the sixth piece highlights the link between research and training. It consists of an article published in Le Touriste Scientifique, a journal run since 2021 by students in the Sport Tourism Management master's program at the University of Montpellier and hosted on the Sport Management Department website, with methodological and scientific support from SantESiH members. Anna Siegel's article analyzes the limits of "Tourism & Disability" public policy, based on a qualitative field survey in the Hautes-Pyrénées. This work illustrates the laboratory's ability to provide training in and through research, to integrate students into the dynamics of knowledge production, and to integrate its themes into pedagogical projects.

Through these six elements, the SantESiH laboratory demonstrates the coherence of its orientations, the diversity of its dissemination formats, its commitment to young researchers and its ability to engage in dialogue with professional, cultural and civic circles.