Presentation:

I am Professor of Sociology at Institut Agro Dijon, where I teach the sociology of organizations, innovation, agricultural consulting and the greening of agriculture.

I was Director of INRAE's UR Listo from 2011 to 2013 and Deputy Director General of AgroSup Dijon from 2015 to 2021.

Since October 2021, I have been coordinating the Hercule 4.0 project (AMI DemoES), which focuses on the role of digital technology in training. This project brings together all the national public agronomic and veterinary higher education establishments that are members of the Agreenium Alliance. Since April 2024, I have also been coordinating the Agro Open Lab project (AMI CMA), which aims to enable learners to develop personal projects in Ateliers du Faire. This 5-year project relies on a mainly regional consortium of 22 partners.

My research focuses more specifically on farmers' practices and agricultural consultancy. On the one hand, I'm interested in the changes farmers make to implement environmentally-friendly practices. In particular, they analyze how these changes are linked to the structure of the professional dialogue networks to which these farmers belong, and to the positions they occupy within these networks.

On the other hand, this research deals with agricultural development organizations and the activities of the agents who work there. Attentive to the reconfigurations underway in the field of agricultural advice, they follow the organizational transformations of the Chambers of Agriculture, the emergence of advice from economic operators, and the reciprocal positioning of the various advisory players with farmers. In addition, they aim to show how advisors' activities take shape today, and how they experience them.