This session will focus on "Producing, mobilizing, and publishing data in the context of partnership theses" and more broadly concerns any field research approach.
The management of data produced during a partnership thesis is a major concern. In particular, it raises the issue of intellectual property, which is shared between the funding organization and the doctoral student. The use of this data is generally governed by the collaboration agreement, based on often standard clauses defined in advance. However, as with any contractual arrangement, these clauses do not cover all possible scenarios, and the use of the knowledge produced is subject to ongoing negotiations with the organization (managers, colleagues, respondents, etc.), raising multiple issues of creation, appropriation, and promotion in scientific and professional settings (management of certain sensitive or confidential information, freedom of publication and communication, etc.).
Again, these questions are certainly not specific to so-called partnership theses. Indeed, at LATTS at least, it is rare for doctoral students, who most often work on contemporary subjects, not to also ask themselves the question of how to use the data produced in the context of their research. How do these doctoral students deal with this issue? Do they feel equipped to deal with it? What can they learn from the experience of their colleagues who are writing a thesis in partnership?