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If the research community is also concerned by sexist and sexual violence, denunciations of abuse struggle to be heard. This is the subject of Talk franceinfo. Every evening, from 6 p.m., Manon Mella and her guests debate with Internet users on the franceinfo Twitch channel.
On March 4, young French scientists made public a forum titled “Silences that sicken us” via social networks. Together, they denounce the sexual scandals and harassment affecting the research community in French universities. Indeed, according to a study by the L’Oréal Foundation, one out of two female scientists has been confronted with a situation of sexual harassment. However, speech is struggling to break free in the field of research despite the MeToo movement.
Manon Mella receives Adele Combesdoctor in neurobiology and author of the book How the university grinds young researchers published by Otherwise and Stephane Pairjournalist for franceinfo.
The distress of doctoral students
In his work How the university grinds young researchers, published in January 2022, Adèle Combes, herself a doctor of neurobiology, reveals the violent dynamics of the university between abuse of power, harassment and psychological violence. The researcher sheds light on the many hierarchical and economic dysfunctions that make young scientists precarious and expose them to excesses.
Indeed, the issues of network, contact and hierarchy often maintain abusive power relations between doctoral students and their supervisors. According to the author, the context of underfunding of research maintains the excesses.
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