Research

The Disability, Employment and Health at work Research Chair is an operational research and training chair. The research is structured around 3 themes: “training for people with disabilities and the work team”, “maintaining employment, preventing professional displacement, securing career paths”, and “health and quality of life at work”.

RESEARCH

The Disability, Employment and Health at work Research Chair is an operational research and training chair. The research is structured around 3 themes: “training for people with disabilities and the work team”, “maintaining employment, preventing professional displacement, securing career paths”, and “health and quality of life at work”.

This Research Chair aims to advance highly operational research-action by producing methods, recommendations and tools based on social, technological and digital innovations and artificial intelligence.

Theme 1: training for people with disabilities and the work team

The objective of the Research Chair is to develop research projects focused on the pedagogical and digital transformation of vocational training with a view to the accessibility of training and the development of the skills of people with disabilities, of the work group and of those involved in support.

Theme 2: maintaining employment, preventing professional displacement, securing career paths

The aim of the research Chair is to develop operational research projects on the issue of professional integration of people with disabilities, job retention, securing career paths and preventing professional disintegration in order to contribute to the evolution of forms of work and to guarantee access to a real career path, combining continuity, evolution and progression in the careers of employees and agents with disabilities.

Theme 3: health and quality of life at work

Through its research work, particularly in the field of mental disability, the Research Chair promotes health and well-being at work in the perspective of a more dignified and inclusive society.

Research-Action

The Cookinum project

CookiNUM is a project of operational research and pedagogical innovations that aims to support training centers in the catering industry towards the digital transformation of training by meeting accessibility requirements.

Funding

The research project carried out within the framework of this scholarship of excellence is centered on the understanding of the verification phenomena with a functional brain imaging exploration of obsessive behavioral disorders and on the impact of the pathology on their professional adaptation with the aim of facilitating the access to employment and the maintenance in employment.

Research on proper self-identification and job retention

This randomized controlled study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of autobiographical rewriting workshops, in addition to third-wave Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), in patients suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder.

Embracing forms of self-narration in a cancer-sensitive skills assessment center and job retention

Cancer often leads to professional disorientation. This thesis is part of a national experimentation aimed at creating a cancer-sensitive skills assessment.

4 PhD contracts

Thesis: Autism and job retention in SMEs

Even more so than large groups, SMEs find themselves at a disadvantage when it comes to setting up the necessary devices and tools and gathering the relevant internal and external resources to prevent the professional displacement of people with an autistic disorder and to secure their continued employment. This thesis aims to respond to the methodological needs of SMEs and individuals.

Thesis: CookiNUM

The objective of this thesis 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.

Thesis: PREVEN-TI@

PREVEN-TI@ is an exploratory qualitative research project on the prevention of professional disintegration of disabled workers and on well-being at work using digital tools in order to consolidate sustainable job retention.

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Symposiums

Resolutely multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary, the colloquia bring together academic experts and actors in the field to discuss current issues, professionalization or research-action topics.