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Sciences Po’s academic community pays homage to Richard Descoings

It is with immense sadness that Sciences Po’s research community learned of the untimely death of Richard Descoings.

He worked continually throughout his 16 years at the head of the FNSP and IEP to consolidate, enlarge and internationalise our community, which now numbers more than 200.

Today we pay homage to Richard Descoings, who helped to transform Sciences Po into a university of true international stature. We salute the very high ambitions that he had for research at Sciences Po and the profound innovations that he introduced regarding the recruitment of students and the working conditions of the academic community, as well as his courage and perseverance in fully implementing these reforms. The full extent of his accomplishments will become clear in time. For now, we - the heads of Sciences Po’s departments and research centres – wish to express our gratitude for his work and to mark our deep attachment to his achievements.


The directors of the research centres and departments at Sciences Po :

Alain Chenu, Renaud Dehousse, Alain Dieckhoff, Christophe Jamin, Marc Lazar, Christian Lequesne, Laurent Lesnard, Philippe Martin, Christine Musselin, Marco Oberti, Pascal Perrineau, Jean-François Sirinelli and Philippe Weil.

Elections 2012 - Keep up with Sciences Po’s research in real time
Check out Sciences Po’s «Elections 2012» website and Facebook page, which pull together all the election-year analysis, studies and tools developed by our researchers, including discussion of the key issues, polls and many other items.
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It offers quick access to your interests, whether they are specific topics or an entire discipline. You’ll also be able to explore all the publications of our researchers.

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Patrick Galès is elected member
of the British Academy

Patrick Le Galès, CNRS Director of Research at Sciences Po’s Centre d’Etudes Européennes and professor at Sciences Po has been elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Political Science section of the British Academy.
He is the first French to be elected as member of the Political Science section. Founded in 1902, the British Academy is the humanities/social sciences counterpart of the Royal Society (which is devoted to the “hard” sciences). The election of Patrick Le Galès will cement the international recognition of his work.elected member of the prestigious British Academy - More ...

The Stanley Hoffmann Prize for Best Article on French Politics is awarded to Bruno Palier (CEE) and Kathleen Thelen (MIT)

Inaugurated in 2004, this award is awarded to the best English-language article on French Politics published in a peer-reviewed journal during the previous two years. This year, 301 articles were considered. More...

 

Since its creation in 1945, Sciences Po’s mission has been to act as a driving force in the development of research in the political sciences, i.e. History, Economics, Sociology, Law and Political Science.

Bruno Latour, Vice President for Research, about Sciences Po Research units

Research units from Sciences Po on Vimeo.

 The contributions made by Sciences Po to public debate are well-known. Our research is characterised by a desire to share the knowledge it engenders. The work carried out at our research centres has provided and continues to provide keys for an understanding of change in a world which is increasingly difficult to predict, making the need for reliable points of reference and rigorous methodology more pressing than ever.