I have been a research engineer at INRAE (Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) since 2006, specialising in the social geography of the environment and livestock farming. I work at the CESAER research laboratory (Centre d'économie et de sociologie appliquées à l'agriculture et aux espaces ruraux - UMR 1041) in Dijon (France).

Since my thesis, I have been looking at the relationship between farmers and the environment, paying particular attention to the representations, practices and knowledge of farmers. I believe it is important to make this knowledge visible in a context where scientific knowledge and technical expertise take precedence. I studied the relationship between farmers (suckler cow system) and the preservation of water quality in Saône-et-Loire. I continued the investigation by looking at the knowledge that farmers develop to “work with” animals in increasingly large herds, in suckler cow and dairy farming in the Comté PDO zone. This knowledge is not inherited, but built up and renewed by today's working situations and farming conditions. While little is known about farmers' attachments to their animals, societal concerns about animal welfare and prescriptive injunctions are affecting the core and intimate aspects of the profession. A study of calf rearing practices, whether with the calf's nurse or with its mother, has shown the diversity of these relationships and the role played by emotions in day-to-day work.

I looked at the environment and agricultural work from a climate change perspective. With colleagues from a variety of disciplines, we worked on the impact of climate change on water resources as part of the HYCCARE project (Hydrology, Climate Change, Adaptation, Water Resources in Burgundy; 2012-16). This project provided an opportunity to look at water management in shortage situations. The analysis carried out focused on the building of communities around climate change issues. We experimented with new participatory methodologies based on creativity. Bringing together local and global knowledge seems to us to be a way of reclaiming action at local level and acting without delay.

Today, I'm looking at the impact of climate change on the work of livestock farmers (including their health and well-being at work) as part of the TRAVERSER project - Livestock work, trials and resources in the face of drought in Burgundy-Franche-Comté, which I'm co-coordinating (project funded by the MSA 2024-2025).

Research themes
- Situated knowledge (peasant, technical, scientific)
- Practices, changes in practices and work
- Animal husbandry
- Climate change and water management
- Action research.