Virginie is an Senior Lecturer in Management. Since 2025, she is working with Markus Hällgren on a project called 'Saying no in extreme contexts' funded by VR.
My research interests are in the continuity of my PhD thesis titled "Emergence of collective competence in extreme contexts. The case of French mountain rescue teams".
I like exploring and questionning the underlying or the taken for granted assumptions supporting daily practices of organizations operating in risky and emergency contexts (where people may be hurt or killed due to their activity and their ecological embededdness). I use different theoretical perspectives such as custodianship work, time and temporaility, sensemaking, or embodiment.
I use qualitative methods (organizational ethnography, interviews, and archival data) and adopt various theoretical perspective (practice-based studies, sensemaking, strong processual approach) to contribute to the development of the research fields I am invested in.
I teach in both English and French in various disciplines: organisation theory, research methodology, project management, and human resources management.
Through the lectures and seminars that I provide, I strive to impart knowledge, skills and attitudes to students to support their rise in competence and autonomy. I like to promote active learning and I design my courses so that the students are fully part of the teaching-learning process. I consider that higher education aims to prepare them to enter working life by promoting actionable knowledge in the field. The first part of my professional career as consultant in entrepreneurship showed me how important it is to bring academic work closer to actual managerial reality. This is what drives me during thesis supervisions and groupwork tutorials. In addition, I try to integrate knowledge built through research into my courses. This feels part of a collaborative and incremental logic with other researchers from the scientific community to which I belong.