Eating Behaviors and Public Health M/F

Job Description

Summary of the scientific project

Food behaviours play a decisive role in public health, at both individual and collective levels. In many countries around the world, a growing proportion of healthy life years lost is due to factors related to diet: obesity, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, eating disorders, and so on. These issues are not limited to individual choices but are embedded in complex social, economic, and cultural dynamics, often marked by inequalities in access to healthy and sustainable food. The CPJ aims to better understand the determinants of dietary behav-iors, particularly those leading to pathologies (obesity, addictions, malnutrition), which can be examined through case studies, from a comparative perspective, or over the long term. It will enable the exploration of the interactions between dietary behaviors and public health.

Summary of the teaching project

Teaching will be discussed according to the site which the successful candidate is assigned to. He/She will be involved in teaching on existing courses at each site.

Potential host facilities

• INSHS - CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales
• UTOPI - Unité de recherche Transitions Organisations Politiques Inégalités
• CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management
• DCS - Droit et changement social
• PALOC - Patrimoines locaux, environnement et globalisation

Your Profil

Profile Required

Holders of a doctorate or a PhD or equivalent degree or applicants who have gained scientific qualifications or carried out scientific work deemed to be of an equivalent level.There is no restriction on the age or nationality of applicants. All CNRS positions are accessible to people with disabilities, with special arrangements for tests made necessary by the nature of the disability

Your Work Environment

Host Lab Strategy

The four potential host laboratories - CREM, DCS, PALOC and UTOPI - span various discipli-nary fields: law, political science, sociology, anthropology, economics and management. They have been selected based on: a) their key role in research on eating behaviors and/or public health; b) their multidisciplinary nature, which provides an ecosystem conducive to the imple-mentation of the proposed scientific project; and c) their integration into an academic environ-ment that is particularly promising in these fields.

Institution Strategy

Humanities and social sciences have long been interested in food, a multidisciplinary topic that sheds light on social life, from individual practices to public policy. In line with CNRS SHS 2026 prospective, which calls for making food a priority area, this CPJ aims to give new impetus to this field of research in CNRS. Precisely, the proposed CPJ seeks to better understand dietary behaviors by drawing on all disciplines within humanities and social sciences, while relying on interdisciplinary and innovative research to evaluate, inform, and guide public policy. This initiative is part of an effort to reduce social inequalities in health by identifying the most effective strategies for action.

International Strategy

The Chair holder will be expected to implement actions and set up partnerships in the given thematic field and particularly to commit to submitting a project in the framework of European calls for proposals like ERC, Horizon Europe Consortium, etc. during the 5 years of his/her contract.

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

Annual salary from 54 600 Euros to 57 800 Euros depending on professionnal experience.

Total funding

200k€

Annual leave and RTT

44 jours

Remote Working practice and compensation

Pratique et indemnisation du TT

Transport

Prise en charge à 75% du coût et forfait mobilité durable jusqu’à 300€

Research Policy

Open Science

The CNRS is developing a strong policy in favor of open science. Open science consists of making research results "as accessible as possible and closed as necessary". As such, the CNRS aims to make 100% of the texts of publications resulting from the work of its laboratories accessible , in particular through deposit in HAL. The data produced must also be made available and reusable, except for specific restrictions. In addition, the guiding principles of individual evaluation have been revised in accordance with the DORA declaration, to be more qualitative and to take into account all facets of the researcher's profession.

Science and society

The relationship between science and society is now recognized as a full dimension of scientific activity. The project will develop this dimension in synergy with all the partners. The resulting research work will contribute to informing public decision-making. Participatory science initiatives may be initiated with actors from the project’s socio-economic and cultural eco-system.

Scientific dissemination

The dissemination of the results will be done through world-class scientific productions: publications, patents, software... In addition, the results will be communicated to various targets such as scientific communities, media, decision makers, general public, schools, etc., with an adapted calendar. Specific tools may be developed such as websites, newsletters, meetings, international symposia, summer schools and conferences.

About the offer

About the CNRS

The CNRS is a major player in fundamental research on a global scale. The CNRS is the only French organization active in all scientific fields. Its unique position as a multi-specialist allows it to bring together different disciplines to address the most important challenges of the contemporary world, in connection with the actors of change.

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