APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN – PROPOSAL FOR A PhD CONTRACT

Thesis co-directors:

• Karine Gros, MCF HDR Humanities/Life Sciences
• Catherine Tourette-Turgis, University Professor, Education Sciences section 70, Founder of the University of Patients, Sorbonne University

Digital co-supervisor: Gérard Uzan (Research engineer, ergonomist, sociologist of work, expert in Human-Computer Interface, University of Paris 8 Saint Denis, Chart-THIM Laboratory)

This thesis is part of the CookiNUM project, winner of the DEFFINUM (Innovative Digital Training Devices in France).
CookiNUM is a project of operational research and training in order to set up an innovative system of transformation and digitalization of the training (initial and continuous) for the jobs in tension of the collective, traditional or fast food industry.

To support training centers towards digital transformation, CookiNUM implements 3 innovations:
1^st innovation: a digital pedagogical and professionalizing toolbox for training centers to hybridize training and share resources by meeting the needs of the targeted mixed public consisting of:

• a collaborative and educational mobile application (CookiMobil)
• a web TV (web CookiProgram)
• immersive capsules to develop life skills (softskills)

2^nd innovation: a progressive digital networking of the training centers (via connected cameras) in order to pool resources and make training accessible to the target audience.

3^rd innovation: Open source of the 3 digital tools (mobile application, web TV, immersive capsules partly in open source) to train/inform a wider public.

The target audience consist of: people in initial professional training or continuing education
and/or far from employment, and/or undergoing professional reconversion, and/or in transition from a protected environment to an ordinary environment, and/or in transition from a prison environment to an ordinary environment, and/or in transition from a military environment to a civilian professional environment, and/or undergoing self-training, and/or planning an apprenticeship or work-study

The mix of target populations is important:
People with disabilities, and/or people with language barriers, and/or people who are geographically distant from training sites, and/or prisoners or “ex-prisoners”, and/or war-wounded or military personnel undergoing reconversion, and/or young people aged 12-25 who are planning to go into apprenticeship or work-study training, and/or former family careers returning to work. Regardless of the level of qualification.

The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness and relevance of the digital transformation of vocational training based on the case of training centers for the catering industry, both traditional and fast food.

• The impacts of the digital transformation of training on target populations in terms of skills development and professional reintegration
• The pedagogical impacts of the project’s digital tools (in the professional sector of the catering trade)
• The impacts of these digital and pedagogical transformations on training organizations

The methodology will be based on a double analysis:

• Micro-analysis based on a series of person-centered interviews and biographical follow-ups to assess the impacts of the digital transformation of training on the target populations in terms of skills development and professional reintegration (the indicators will be chosen to facilitate the implementation of a PCA / Principal Component Analysis type of treatment).
• Macro-analysis (on the territory) of the aggregated data of the evolution of the cohorts allowing the evaluation of the pedagogical impacts of the digital tools in the trainings of the professional sector of the catering trades. (Statistical approaches to cohort data; chrono-descriptive approaches).

A statistical approach in 2 ways:

• A classical approach by analysis of aggregated data
• Principal component analysis (creation of antinomy directions)

Thesis:
Double section CNU 91 (re-education/rehabilitation sciences) and 70 (educational sciences)

The candidate must have a master’s degree in pedagogical innovations or in the sciences of rehabilitation and professional and societal insertion/reinsertion.

Master’s degree related to CNU Sections 91 / or 70 and possibly 16

Schedule and compensation:

• PhD Contract: 36 months from the beginning of the academic year 2023
• Compensation: 1866 € / month

Submission of applications
CV + cover letter (word format) to Karine Gros (karine.gros@u-pec.fr) and Gérard Uzan (gerard.uzan@univ-paris8.fr)