Christine Musselin - Curriculum vitae#

CV

Education - Degrees

• Research director accreditation, under the direction of Catherine Paradeise, Université Paris X Nanterre (April 2000).
• Doctorate from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Political Studies Institute) in Paris, under the direction of Michel Crozier (October 1987).
• Postgraduate certificate from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Political Studies Institute) in sociology (1982).
• Bachelor’s Degree from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Paris (1980).

Research

For many years, Christine Musselin has directed a comparative research program of higher education systems at the CSO.

Three overarching research orientations have developed, each one corresponds to a larger theoretical framework :

• university management is incorporated in a larger debate about organization and decision theories;
• education systems that are managed by public authorities lead to an analysis of public policies;
• studies of the higher education labor market fit into the rubric of labor economics and sociology, and also that of judgment.

Over the past decade, Christine Musselin has explored these three areas of research with a group of doctoral students who are participating in the program. She has been particularly involved in the third area of research, which led to publication, in October 2005, of a book called Le marché des universitaires. France, Allemagne, Etats-Unis (The Academic Market, France, Germany, USA), published by Presses de Sciences Po, and in 2008 a book published by La Découverte, in the Repères collection, called Les universitaires (Academics).

She broadened her research perspectives through participation in the PRIME network, which facilitated an exchange of ideas between research on higher education and research on innovation and research systems.

Related Professional Activities

• Rapporteur for the “Blanc” and “Jeunes chercheurs” (“Young Researchers”) programs of the ANR (2007).
• President of the Consortium for Higher Education Research (CHER) (2007).
• President of RESUP, Higher Education Research Network (since 2007).
• Member of section 40 of the CNRS (since 2008).

Editorial Activities

• Member of the Editorial Board of Sociologie du travail (Sociology of Work) since 1991 and president of the Association pour le développement de la sociologie du travail (Association for the Development of Labor Sociology) (from December 1995 to June 2004).
• Member of the Editorial Board of the OECD review Politiques et gestion de l’enseignement supérieur (Higher Education Policy and Management) (since November 2000).
• Member of the Editorial Board for the European Journal of Education (since November 2000).
• Member of the Editorial Board for the international review Minerva (since July 2007).
• Reviewer for the Higher Education review.

Membership in research groups and teaching activities for members of the higher education system

• Member of the Schwartz Commission on L'avenir des personnels de l'enseignement Supérieur (The Future of Higher Education Personnel) (Dec. 2007-Jul. 2008).
• Active involvement in training programs at the Ecole Supérieure de l’Education Nationale (ESEN) (since 2005).
• Member of the workshop Les parcours professionnels (Career Paths) in the context of a CNRS project “Attractivité et politique de ressources humaines” (“Attractiveness and HR policy”) (spring 2005).
• Member of the task group Docteurs (Doctors) for FUTURIS (January-June 2005).
• Member of the working group Mobilité internationale des chercheurs et des ingénieurs et attractivité de la France (International Mobility of Researchers and Engineers and the appeal of France) of the Commissariat Général du Plan (2003-2005).
• Member of the decision-making body for evaluation of contract policy between universities and the state, organized by the Commissariat Général du Plan (January 2002-November 2003).
• Member of the think tank on pedagogical innovation chaired by Alain Renaut and created at the behest of the National Education Ministry (2002-2003).