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Research in all its forms

Passing on - inheritance

Responsible: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines

Description:

What are we leaving to future generations? Will this legacy be accepted? Is a choice even possible? Innate or acquired, reactionary or dominant, burden or sorrow, fatality or freedom, so many dichotomies for so many situations that all the sciences have to remind us of the entanglement, the complication and even the dilemma. At the heart of this complexity is succession, the relationship that develops between the person who transmits and the person who inherits. This is where medicine, law and institutions come into play in practice, as well as where political and philosophical positions come into being.

Conference details 2024

Schedules:

Version 1.5 for biology:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, 5.15pm-6.45pm, Géopolis, Room 1620, 7 sessions during the semester

3 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, 5.15pm-6.45pm, Géopolis, Room 1620

6 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 16h15 à 18h45, Géopolis, Room 1620
  • Spring: Wednesdays, from 16h15 à 18h45, EPFL, Salle INM 10 throughout the semester (occasional meetings for checking the progress of practical work)

Registration:

This workshop is offered to master students at the University and EPFL
Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties in which teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Nursing Sciences, EPFL viale SHS programme)
For any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop manager by email:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch

Objectives:

To know, compare and discuss different research methods and techniques used in the faculties of Unil and EPFL
Initiating the topic covered in the lecture series
Synthesising and comparing information from different disciplines on the theme of the lecture cycle through practical work, entering into an interdisciplinary process (which involves learning about a scientific method with which we are not very familiar)

Course:

This workshop includes different types of sequences:

  • Framing sessions (introduction, summary) given by Delphine Preissmann
  • Lecture sessions with guest speakers from various faculties; sessions open to all researchers and teachers interested in the topic under discussion
  • Practical work sessions during which students experience interdisciplinarity by carrying out a small project at the interface between different sciences. The project is designed to give them an introduction to a scientific method or technique with which they are unfamiliar.

Rhythm and Cycles

Responsable: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines

Description:

Conference details 2023

Schedules:

PLEASE NOTE: The course and lecture on 15 November 2023 will take place in room CUB II 

https://planete.unil.ch/?local=CUB-234

1.5 credits version for biology:

  • Fall: Wednesdays, from 17:15  to 18:45, Amphimax, Room 412, 7 meetings during the semester 

3 credits version :

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17:15  to 18:45, Amphimax, Room 412

6 credits version :

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17:15  to 18:45, Amphimax, Room 412 
  • Spring: Wednesdays, from 17:15  to 18:45, EPFL, Room INM 10 throughout the semester (occasional séances pour vérification de l’progrès&e e des travaux pratiques)

Registration:

This workshop is offered to étudiants·e·s de master de l39;Université et de l39;EPFL. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties in which the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Sciences infirmières, EPFL via the SHS programme)

For any further information, please do not hesitate to email the workshop manager:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch

Objectives:

  • To know, compare and discuss different research methods and techniques used in the faculties of Unil and EPFL
  • Learn about the topics covered in the lecture series
  • Synthesise and compare information from different disciplines on the topic of the lecture cycle through practical work, enter into an interdisciplinary process (which involves learning about a scientific method with which we are not very familiar)

Course:

This workshop includes different types of sequences:

  • Framing sessions (introduction, summary) given by Delphine Preissmann
  • Lecture sessions with guest speakers from various faculties; sessions open to all researchers and teachers interested in the topic under discussion
  • Practical work sessions during which students experience interdisciplinarity by carrying out a small project at the interface between different sciences. The project is designed to give them an introduction to a scientific method or technique with which they are unfamiliar.

Participatory research, action research: towards a new contract between science and society ?

Responsable: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines

Description:

Relations between the world of research and the public are usually limited to scientific mediation or ‘dialogue’ approaches. In addition to these now classic approaches, there is an arsenal of methods and procedures for involving citizens directly in the production of knowledge: crowdsourcing, participatory, collaborative or partnership research, action research.... How can these methods be used to produce scientifically relevant results? What are their advantages and pitfalls? 

Schedules:

1.5 credits version for biology:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412, 7 meetings during the semester 

3 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412, throughout the semester

6 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 16h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412 throughout the semester
  • Spring: Wednesdays, from 16h15 to 18h45, EPFL, Room INM 10 throughout the semester (occasional séances for vérification of the progress of practical work)

Registration:

This workshop is offered to UNIL and EPFL master students. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties where the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Nursing Sciences, EPFL via the SHS programme).

For any further information, please do not hesitate to send an email to the person in charge of the workshop:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch

Objectives:

  • To know, compare and discuss different research methods and techniques used in the faculties of Unil and EPFL
  • Learn about the topics covered in the lecture series
  • Synthesise and compare information from different disciplines on the topic of the lecture cycle through practical work, enter into an interdisciplinary process (which involves learning about a scientific method with which we are not very familiar)

Course:

This workshop includes different types of sequences:

  • Framing sessions (introduction, summary) given by Delphine Preissmann
  • Lecture sessions with guest speakers from various faculties; sessions open to all researchers and teachers interested in the topic under discussion
  • Practical work sessions during which students experience interdisciplinarity by carrying out a small project at the interface between different sciences. The project is designed to give them an introduction to a scientific method or technique with which they are unfamiliar.

The course is also available online at the following link:https://moodle.unil.ch/course/view.php?id=22510

The proof

Responsable: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)

Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines

Description:

How are hypotheses verified in different fields? This series of conferences will address this question by combining the views of specialists from different disciplines.

Timetable:

1.5 credits version for Biology:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412, 7 meetings during the semester 

3 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412, throughout the semester

6 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 16h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412 throughout the semester
  • Spring: Wednesdays, from 16h15 to 18h45, EPFL, Room INM 10 throughout the semester (occasional séances for vérification of the progress of practical work)

Registration:

This workshop is offered to UNIL and EPFL students. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties where the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Nursing Sciences, EPFL via the SHS programme).

For any further information, please do not hesitate to send an email to the person in charge of the workshop:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch

Objectives:

  • To know, compare and discuss different research methods and techniques practised in the faculties of Unil and EPFL.
  • Learn about the topics covered in the lecture series
  • Synthesise and compare information from different disciplines on the topic of the lecture cycle through practical work, enter into an interdisciplinary process (which involves learning about a scientific method with which we are not very familiar)

Course:

This workshop includes different types of sequences:

  • Framing sessions (introduction, summary) given by Delphine Preissmann
  • Lecture sessions with guest speakers from various faculties; sessions open to all researchers and teachers interested in the topic under discussion
  • Practical work sessions during which students experience interdisciplinarity by carrying out a small project at the interface between different sciences. The project is designed to give them an introduction to a scientific method or technique with which they are unfamiliar.

The 2020-2021 workshop does not take place and will resume in autumn 2021

Decision making

Responsable: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines

Description:

We make decisions every day, but what factors influence our choices ? Are they really made in complete freedom?

During this series of conferences, we will look at how major (or minor) decisions are made, both individually and within organisations, by combining the views of specialists from different disciplines. How is the decision-making process formalised, represented and communicated? Is it possible to model it mathematically? Is artificial intelligence likely to replace or contribute to a human decision?

 

Schedules:

1.5 credits version for biology:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412,  7 meetings during the semester 

3 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 àto18h45, Amphimax, Room 412, throughout the semester
  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 16h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412 throughout the semester
  • Spring: Wednesdays, from 4.15pm to 6.45pm, EPFL, Room CM 011 throughout the semester (occasional sessions to check on the progress of practical work)

Registration:

This workshop is offered to UNIL and EPFL students. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties in which the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Sciences infirmières, EPFL via  the SHS programme).

For any further information, please do not hesitate to email the workshop manager:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch

Objectives:

  • To know, compare and discuss different research methods and techniques used in the faculties of Unil and EPFL.
  • Learn about the topics covered in the lecture series
  • Synthesise and compare information from different disciplines on the topic of the lecture cycle through practical work, enter into an interdisciplinary process (which involves learning about a scientific method with which we are not very familiar)

Course:

This workshop includes different types of sequences:

  • Framing sessions (introduction, summary) given by Delphine Preissmann
  • Lecture sessions with guest speakers from various faculties; sessions open to all researchers and teachers interested in the topic under discussion
  • Practical work sessions during which students experience interdisciplinarity by carrying out a small project at the interface between different sciences. The project is designed to give them an introduction to a scientific method or technique with which they are unfamiliar.

 

Workshop 2018

Responsable: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines

Description:

How can the observation scale of a phase influence research? &Under what conditions is it possible to move from one scale to another?What role do instrumentation, modelling and digital tools play in these different levels of analysis? The same questions then arise with regard to the results obtained. The change of scale acts within the operations of interpretation and extrapolation.

This series of conferences will bring together specialists from disciplines such as law, medicine, literature, physics and the social sciences to discuss this issue.

Beyond the particular subject, this workshop is an opportunity to take a look at the plurality of disciplines taught at the university and EPFL, and what distinguishes them and brings them together in terms of curiosity and investigation. Over the course of the sessions, speakers from various faculties will shed light on their own ways of practising scientific research.

Timetable:

1.5 credits version for biology:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412,  7 meetings during the semester 

3 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412, throughout the semester

6 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 16h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412 throughout the semester
  • Spring: Wednesdays, from 16h15 to 18h45, EPFL, Room CM 011 throughout the semester (occasional séances for vérification of practical work progress)

Registration:

This workshop is offered to UNIL and EPFL students. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties where the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Nursing Sciences, EPFL via the SHS programme).

This workshop is offered to Masters students at the University and EPFL.

For any further information, please do not hesitate to email the workshop manager:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch

Objectives:

  • To know, compare and discuss different research methods and techniques used in the faculties of Unil and EPFL
  • Learn about the topics covered in the lecture series
  • Synthesise and compare information from different disciplines on the topic of the lecture cycle through practical work, enter into an interdisciplinary process (which involves learning about a scientific method with which we are not very familiar)

Course:

This workshop includes different types of sequences:

  • Framing sessions (introduction, summary) given by Delphine Preissmann
  • Lecture sessions with guest speakers from various faculties; sessions open to all researchers and teachers interested in the topic under discussion
  • Practical work sessions during which students experience interdisciplinarity by carrying out a small project at the interface between different sciences. The project is designed to give them an introduction to a scientific method or technique with which they are unfamiliar.

 

Workshop 2017

The creativity

Responsable: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines

Description:

Creativity is a term that, from its original artistic domain, has invaded many other fields : scientific, social, political, économic. Be creative" sometimes sounds like a contradictory injunction. What are the conditions that favour the emergence of new ideas? Can invention be collective? What happens to an idea when it enters the realisation phase? This series of conferences looks at a number of dimensions of creativity and how it is used today.

Beyond the particular subject, this workshop is an opportunity to take a look at the plurality of disciplines taught at the university and EPFL, and at what distinguishes and brings them together in terms of curiosity and investigation. Over the course of the sessions, speakers from various faculties will shed light on their own ways of practising scientific research.

Schedules:

1.5 credits version for biology:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17:15 à 18:45, Amphimax, Room 412,  7 meetings during the semester (from 27 September to 8 November 2017)

3 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 à 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412, throughout the semester

6 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 16h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412 throughout the semester
  • Spring: Wednesdays, from 16h15 to 18h45, EPFL, Room CM 011 throughout the semester (occasional séances for vérification of practical work progress)

Registration:

This workshop is offered to UNIL and EPFL students. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties where the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Nursing Sciences, EPFL via the SHS programme).

This workshop is offered to Masters students at the University and EPFL.

For any further information, please do not hesitate to email the workshop manager:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch

Objectives:

  • To know, compare and discuss different research methods and techniques practised in the faculties of Unil and EPFL
  • Learn about the topics covered in the lecture series
  • Synthesise and compare information from different disciplines on the topic of the lecture cycle through practical work, enter into an interdisciplinary process (which involves learning about a scientific method with which we are not very familiar)

Course:

This workshop includes different types of sequences:

  • Framing sessions (introduction, summary) given by Delphine Preissmann
  • Lecture sessions with guest speakers from various faculties; sessions open to all researchers and teachers interested in the topic under discussion
  • Practical work sessions during which students experience interdisciplinarity by carrying out a small project at the interface between different sciences. The project is designed to give them an introduction to a scientific method or technique with which they are unfamiliar.

Workshop 2016

The paradoxes of motion

Responsible: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speaker(s) from a variety of disciplines.

Description:

Motions are at the heart of our behaviour. Long judged to be naïve and opposed to reason, they are now the subject of a kind of empowerment but also of paradoxical injunctions. Inherent in cognitive processes, decision-making and social relations, they can also seriously disrupt them when they are not properly managed. How are motions considered by poets, judges, leaders and doctors?

Beyond the particular subject, this workshop is an opportunity to take a look at the plurality of disciplines taught at the university and EPFL, and at what sets them apart and brings them together in terms of curiosity and investigation. Over the course of the sessions, speakers from various faculties will shed light on their own ways of practising scientific research.

Timetable:

1.5 credits version for biology:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 5:15pm to 6:45pm, Amphimax, Room 412,  7 meetings during the semester: 

28 September, 5, 12,19 and 26 October, 2 and 9 November 2016

3 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 5:15pm to 6:45pm, Amphimax, Room 412, throughout the semester

6 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 5:15pm to 6:45pm, Amphimax, Room 412 throughout the semester
  • Spring: Wednesdays, from 5:15pm to 6:45pm, EPFL, Room CM 011 throughout the semester (occasional séances for vérification of the progress of practical work)

Registration:

This workshop is offered to UNIL and EPFL students. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties in which the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Sciences infirmières, EPFL via  the SHS programme).

For any further information, please do not hesitate to send an email to the workshop manager: delphine.preissmann@unil.ch

Objectives:

  • Know, compare and discuss different research methods and techniques practised in the faculties of Unil and EPFL
  • Learn about the topics covered in the lecture series
  • synthesise and compare information from different disciplines on the theme of the conference cycle
  • through practical work, enter into an interdisciplinary démarche (which implies getting to grips with à a scientific method with which we are unfamiliar)

Course:

This workshop includes different types of sequences:

  • Framing sessions (introduction, summary) given by Delphine Preissmann
  • Lecture sessions with guest speakers from various faculties; sessions open to all researchers and teachers interested in the topic under discussion
  • Practical work sessions during which students experience interdisciplinarity by carrying out a small project at the interface between different sciences. The project is designed to give them an introduction to a scientific method or technique with which they are unfamiliar.

Workshop 2015

Mémoires and traces

Responsible: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines

Description:

Memory is the foundation of our identity. The traces left by experiences and the way in which we interpret them are central questions for various disciplines such as biology, psychology, history and criminology, but also for literature, pedagogy and law. These questions can be transposed from the anthropological field to the cosmic field: what, for example, is the memory of the Earth and the reading of the traces of its past for geology, or that of the universe or the Big Bang for astronomers?

Beyond the particular subject, this workshop is an opportunity to take a look at the plurality of disciplines taught at the university and EPFL, and what sets them apart and brings them together in terms of curiosity and investigation. Over the course of the sessions, speakers from various faculties will shed light on their own ways of conducting scientific research.

Schedules:

1.5 credits version for biology:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 à 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412,  7 séances during the semester:
  • 16 September 2015
  • 23 September 2015
  • 30 September 2015
  • 14 October 2015
  • 28 October 2015
  • 18 November 2015
  • 25 November 2015

3 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412, throughout the semester

6 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 16h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412 throughout the semester
  • Spring: Wednesdays, from 16h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412 throughout the semester (occasional séances pour vérification de l’progrès&e e des travaux pratiques)

Workshop 2014

Cooperation and family networks: recirculating kinship ties

Responsible: Christine Clavien (christine.clavien@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Christine Clavien & speakers from various disciplines

Description:

Parental ties strongly influence social interactions and configurations. The phenomenon is well known to biologists who study cooperation between genetically related organisms. On a human scale, the work of historians, anthropologists and political scientists attests to the importance of family networks in various forms of ecological, economic, social and political organisation or community projects.

How are the notions of family networks or kinship ties defined by researchers from these different backgrounds? What are the assumptions and consequences of these definitions? What role do researchers attribute to parenthood in the dynamics of aid and cooperation? What methods and scientific criteria do they use when tackling these issues?

Looking beyond the particular subject, this workshop is an opportunity to take a look at the plurality of disciplines taught at university and EPFL, and at what distinguishes and brings them together in terms of curiosity and investigation. Over the course of the sessions, speakers from various faculties will shed light on their own ways of practising scientific research.

More info on the 2014 lecture series

Schedules:

1.5 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412 (exception for the course on 8 October: Batochimie, room 2218), 7 meetings during the semester

3 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 17h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412 (exception for the course on 8 October: Batochimie, room 2218), throughout the semester

6 credits version:

  • Autumn: Wednesdays, from 16h15 to 18h45, Amphimax, Room 412 (exception for the course on 8 October: Batochimie, room 2218), throughout the semester
  • Spring: occasional sessions to check on the progress of practical work.

Workshop 2013

La «tragédie des communs»: regards croisés sur le destin des biens publics et partagés

The « tragedy of the commons » is an expression that denotes a serious and ordinary problem. It refers to the difficulty of exploiting in a sustainable way a resource that is both limited and available to everyone. It manifests itself in all kinds of situations and at a variety of levels (management of community landscapes, alpine landscapes, cultural assets, social services, global climate). Its importance has prompted researchers from all walks of life to explore it.

The master's dissertation workshop provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on this theme of conflict between the common good and individual self-interest. How is it understood by sociologists, psychologists, biologists, geographers, anthropologists, historians, art historians, literary historians, political scientists, lawyers, economists, mathematicians, engineers, etc.? What methods and scientific criteria do all these researchers use when analysing the tragedy of the commons?

More info on the 2013 lecture series