Consortium
France – Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Toulouse (IEP)
Brief description of the legal entity
As a state-owned college created in 1948, the main mission of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Toulouse (IEP) is the formation of senior executives in private and public organisations. IEP’s alumni aim for a career in the fields of public affairs, social relations, international relations, development, finance, management, media and communication. The IEP welcomes more than 1500 students in its several programmes. Within the last few years, the IEP has undertaken a reform of its academic programmes with the overall objective to increase international exchange through harmonisation of European university diplomas and international programmes. One of the main research interests of the IEP is the transformation of the journalistic and political fields, especially the transformation of the conditions and changes in production and political discourses.
Main tasks/previous experience relevant to those tasks
The French partner will prepare and conduct the workshop “Media Accountability” in the Arabic World. Furthermore, represented by Olivier Baisnée, the IEP develops and edits the final report in cooperation with the German Erich Brost Institute. Being a scientific manager of the French team in the EU funded research project “Adequate Information Management in Europe” (AIM), Baisnée is well familiar with the structures and workflows of international research projects. With regards to the objectives of the MediaAcT project, Baisnée contributes his expert knowledge on EU journalism and journalism cultures, as well as qualitative research methods.
Short profile of the staff member
Olivier Baisnée, PhD, works as an associate professor in political science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Toulouse. After a MA in Political Science (1998) he finished his PhD at the Centre de Recherches sur l'Action Politique en Europe (CNRS Research Centre in Rennes) in 2003. As a Post-Doctoral-Researcher he joined the Centre national de la recherché scientifique of the University of Lille before. His research interests are the political sociology of the EU including democracy theories and the sociology of journalism. He has published widely about the European Public Sphere, EU journalism in general, and the news production of EU correspondents in specific. Olivier Baisnée published articles in academic reviews and wrote several chapters in international publications.
Ludivine Balland, Phd in political science, works on social issues, French educational and training system and the public sphere. For her dissertation, using the main tools of sociology, she especially worked on the way the "school crisis" has been politicized in France, constructed as a social issue (considering both the claimsmakers and the rhetorics, the process of reformulation, etc.), and has been introduced in institutions: mostly at school, in the way this institution shows itself, and the teachers ' representations and practices of this supposed crisis. Most recently, she has been working on a collective research on cultural practices, about the reception of comedy shows and the sociology of humor.
