Valérie BeaudouinVisiting Professor

Valérie Beaudouin is a graduate of the École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE 1991), and then prepares a doctorate in language sciences at the EHESS, which she obtained in 2000. She holds an HDR in sociology (Université Paris Descartes, 2018).

After ENSAE, while preparing her thesis, she worked at the Centre de recherche pour l’observation des conditions de vie (Crédoc) in the 1990s. She initially specialized in methods and tools for the automatic analysis of texts (textmining). Then, until 2008, she was in charge of the « Uses, Creativity, Ergonomics » laboratory at France Telecom R&D, which became Orange Labs’ Sense laboratory, dedicated to the application of human sciences to innovation. Her research now focuses on the written word in digital usage, on digital-related changes (sociability, cultural practices, new forms of writing and reading), on information overload and on the analysis of contemporary forms of innovation.