Internationalisation of research Internationalisation of research: A Franco-Quebec experiment ; Internationalisation de la recherche Internationalisation de la recherche: Une expérience franco-québécoise
All academics know this ancient: in order to be a completed researcher, it is necessary to be "internationalised". In universities and research organisations, several services and programmes promote this internationalisation, which is becoming increasingly important in evaluation procedures, but does not provide a consensual definition. Should priority be given to the movement of individuals between countries, to research on foreign 'cases' or to publications in international media? But does this internationalisation not tend to strengthen the hegemony of Anglo-American research — English becoming the lingua franca science — at the risk of abandoning the study of our own societies and restricting even more encouraged exchanges with non-academic actors? This short text proposes to shed light on some of the challenges arising from a personal experience of internationalisation, which is still infrequent in French social sciences: born and trained in France (up to a doctorate obtained in 2008 at the School Normal Superior and the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences), I was for four years a deputy professor at the Department of Political Science of Laval University, in the city of Québec, Canada. In 2014, I returned to France as a lecturer at Rennes 2 University while continuing to carry out research and mentoring overseas doctoral candidates. [First lines] ; Tous les universitaires connaissent cette antienne : pour être un chercheur ou une chercheuse accomplie, il faut être « internationalisée ». Dans les universités et les organismes de recherche, plusieurs serviceset programmes promeuvent cette internationalisation, à laquelle les procédures d'évaluation accordent une place croissante, sans pour autant en donner une définition consensuelle. Faut-il donner la priorité aux circulations des individus entre pays, aux recherches sur des « cas » étrangers, ou encore aux publications dans des supports internationaux? Mais cette internationalisation ne tend-elle pas à renforcer l'hégémonie des recherches ...