Associate Professor, Ethics Department, Lille Catholic University, France; Head, Engineering Ethics
Contact: christelle.didier[at]icl-lille.fr
Curriculum
2005 – till now: Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Lille Economie&Management (LEM, UMR 8179)
2002 – till now: Associate Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Centre Maurice Halbwachs, Paris (CMH, UMR 8097)
2002 – till now: Associate Professor/Faculty Fellow, Ethics Department, Catholic university Lille
2002: PhD in Sociology, EHESS, Paris
1995: MA Education, Lille University (France)
1993-2002: Lecturer/Faculty Fellow, Ethics Department, Catholic University Lille (France)
Academic & professional profile
2009-2012: Ingénieurs pour le monde: Sociology of career of socially responsible engineers (research project funded by a private company); Extensive survey (27 000 answers) on graduate engineers on ethics (research in collaboration of the National Council of French Engineers, CNISF)
2006-2007: Engineering design in Context: Philosophy of Engineering (European-American consortium of research)
2005-2006: The Cultured Engineer: Philosophy of Engineering (Socrates Program, European Commission)
2004-2006: Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in Engineering and Business Higher Education: project involving institutions of Higher education in the UK, USA, Canada and India (survey financed by private companies and the Regional Council of Nord Pas de Calais)
1997-2000: Technology and Ethics: Science and Technology Studies, (Socrates Program “European Ethics Network”, European Commission)
Recent publications
2010: « Professional ethics without a Profession. A French view of Engineering ethics”, in David Goldberg, Ibo van de Poel, eds., Philosophy and Engineering. An emerging Agenda, Springer, pp 161-174
2009: « Chapitre 74. Engineering Ethics », in Olsen J-K Berg, Pedersen Stig Andur, Hendricks Vincent F, 2009, A Companion to Philosophy of Technology, Blackwell publishing company, Oxford, pp 427-43
2009: « Religious and political values and the engineering ethos », in Steen Hylgaard Christensen, Martin Meganck, Bernard Delahousse, eds., Engineering in context, Academia, Aarhus, pp 417-434
2008 : Les ingénieurs et l’éthique. Pour un regard sociologique, Hermès Sciences Publications, Paris
2008 : Penser l’éthique des ingénieurs, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris
Awards & distinctions
2010: “Ingénieurs pour le monde”, laureate of the 2nd ethics research project award by the Ostad Elahi Foundation
2010: Les ingénieurs et l’éthique (2008), selected for the 24th Roberval Price (international competition of academic books written in French enabling a better understanding of science and technology)