Presentation and instances

Presentation and instances of the MSHE C. N. Ledoux

The Maison des sciences de l'homme et de l'environnement (MSHE) Claude Nicolas Ledoux is a support and research unit (UAR3124) under the supervision of the CNRS and the University Bourgogne Franche-Comté ; it is hosted by the University of Franche-Comté. Since January 1st 2012. It is also a research federation (FED 4209), recognised by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. It brings together the laboratories in Franche-Comté of the field of the human and social sciences (SHS) or comprising a SHS team in their centre.

The MSHE is part of the National Network of the Maisons des sciences de l’homme (RnMSH) and set up with the Maison des sciences de l’homme (MSH) of Dijon a Federation of the MSH of Bourgogne and Franche-Comté, to concretize the old collaborations developed between the two institutions.

The MSHE is present on the boards of four out of five UFC collegiums (SNET, SSS, SJEG and SHH) and in those of five thematic poles of the ComUE UBFC (DGEP, LLC and SHS in a primary capacity and SCS and SV2TEA in a secondary capacity).

The MSHE Ledoux is also part of the TRANSBIO Graduate School, set up within the framework of the ComUE UBFC; this is an MSc-PhD integrated curriculum to promote the transition towards the sustainable use of resources and for the protection of biodiversity.

Since January 2023, the director of the MSHE Ledoux is Boris Vannière. The Deputy Director is Vincent Bourdeau.

All the MSHE team

Missions and services of the MSHE Ledoux

The MSHE works to develop and valorize research in humanities and social sciences. She offers research support services (administrative and technological platforms) and specific scientific programming.

To promote interdisciplinarity with specific scientific programming

The MSHE promotes the interdisciplinarity in especifically through specific scientific programming, structured in five research poles.

Pole 1. Territorial dynamics

Pole 2. Human-environment interactions

Pole 3. Standards, practices and knowledge

Pole 4. Archive, databases, corpora

Pole 5. Behaviours, risks, health

Each pole of research accommodates actions carried out by researchers from the federated laboratories. Around a hundred local researchers are mobilized and a total of more than 200 researchers from French and foreign laboratories are involved in its research activities.

The MSHE accommodates doctoral and post-doctoral students involved in its research activities. It also receives researchers or professors invited for periods ranging from a month to a year, within the framework of research collaborations with researchers involved in its actions.

Support research projects and disseminate their results

Provide methodological and technical support for research

Offer workspaces

Opening up research to economic and social actors

The instances of the MSHE Ledoux

Steering committee

The composition of the Steering Committee is as follows:
with voting rights:
- the President of the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté or his representative
- the President of the University of Franche-Comté or his representative
- the Centre-Est regional delegate of the CNRS or his representative,
- the director of the Institut national des sciences humaines et sociales of the CNRS or his representative,
- a member of the Bureau of the Réseau national des Maisons des Sciences de l'Homme,
- the regional delegate for research and innovation or his representative,
with non deliberative vote:
- the director of the UAR,
- the deputy director of the UAR,
- the secretary general of the UAR,
- the coordinators of the UAR's research poles,
- the head of the UAR's technological platform.

The Steering Committee meets on the proposal of the director of the UAR or of the majority of the members of the committee, as necessary. It may include qualified persons in an advisory capacity. It decides on the general organisation and functioning of the PSU and decides on any modification of the statutes of the MSHE, of the perimeter of the partner laboratories, of the management of the UAR.

Scientific Council

The composition of the Scientific Council is as follows:

The scientific experts

		Michel AUDIFFREN, french, president of the scientific council of UAR3124, professor at the University of Poitiers, attached to the Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage (UMR CNRS 7295). [pole 5]
		Roberto ANDORNO, argentinian, doctor of law, associate professor of medical law and bioethics at the faculty of law of the University of Zurich. [poles 3 & 5]
		Jacques BAUDRY, french, research director at SAD-Paysage (INRA), Rennes. [pole 2]
		Andrew BEVAN, british, professor of space archaeology and comparative archaeology at the Institute of archaeology, University College London. [poles 1 & 2]
		Béatrice BOULU-RESHEF French, Professor of Economics, University of Orléans, Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans (FRE 2014) and IAE Orléans. [Poles 3 & 5]
		Anne-Sophie CHAMBOST, French, professor of legal history, Sciences Po Lyon, CERCRID UMR 5137 (director of the Science, Innovation and Democracy team). [pole 3]
		Sophie CHEVALIER, swiss, professor of anthropology, University of Picardy Jules Verne, director of the Habiter le monde unit (EA 4287). [poles 1, 2, 5]
		Philippe DE MAEYER, Belgian, geographer, professor at the University of Gent, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences. [pole 2]
		Pascal GYGAX, swiss, director of the Psycholinguistics and Psychology team applied social sciences, University of Fribourg. [pole 5]
		Elena PIERAZZO, Italian, professor of digital humanities, deputy director of the UFR-CESR Centre d'études supérieures de la renaissance (UMR 7323), University of Tours. [pole 4]
		Gérald PURNELLE, belgian, professor at the faculty of philosophy and literature of the University of Liège, member of the Laboratory for the Statistical Analysis of Ancient Languages of Liège. [pole 4]
		Jean-Yves TILLIETTE, french native, ordinary professor of medieval latin language and literature at the faculty of literature of the University of Geneva, member of the Institut de France. [pole 3]

The correspondent of the Scientific Council of the MSH National Network
		Francesca MERLIN, Doctor of philosophy, CNRS research fellow at the Institute of history and philosophy of science and technology. President of the french Society of Philosophy of Science (SPS) since 2018. Bronze Medal of the CNRS in 2019.

The director of USR 3124 and the deputy director
		Boris VANNIERE, Director of Research CNRS, UMR 6249 Chrono-environnement, director of the MSHE since January 2023.
		Vincent BOURDEAU, Associate Professor, UR 2274 Logiques de l'agir, UFC, deputy director of the MSHE. He also directs the collection Les Cahiers de la MSHE.

The Scientific Council decides on the scientific organisation of the MSHE and takes care of the articulation of his scientific policy with the institutions partners. It issues an opinion on

The choice of national and international institutional partners
The participation in national and international programs
The policy for the dissemination, communication and publication of research results
The valorization policy

Advisory council and management

Laboratory Council