Student research
A major scheme to promote student research was set up in 2016 by the ISIT Paris-Panthéon-Assas-University research laboratory. The objectives are to:
- generate interest in research among Master’s students
- enable them to acquire analytical skills within a rigorous methodological and conceptual framework
- enrich, publicize and promote the work carried out by students in research workshops, both within the establishment (students, teaching and permanent staff, alumni) and outside (academic partners, institutions, businesses, experts).
- to enrich, publicize and promote the work of students, both within the establishment (students, teaching and permanent staff, alumni) and outside it (academic partners, institutions, businesses, experts).
Promoting student research
Based on the work carried out in the research workshops included in the curriculum, our Master’s students are accompanied by lecturer-researchers to take part in the four components of the ValRec program:
- Study days
- Scientific posters
- Mini-seminar “Pitching intercultural dissertations”
- Publication of research dissertations.
Study days
ISIT organizes two study days for Master 1 students in two fields:
- LIC Day (Language and Intercultural Communication), for students in Intercultural Communication & Translation and in Intercultural Digital Strategy
- IMIR day (Intercultural Management and International Relations), for students in Change Management & Diversity (Intercultural Management) and International Strategies & Diplomacy
During these days, students present the progress of their dissertation (theme, state of the art, hypotheses, objectives, methodology etc.) and discuss any difficulties encountered.
Scientific posters
Halfway between the start of the research workshops and the finished dissertation, Master 2 students present the progress of their research in the form of scientific posters.
The themes are varied: digital strategies and culture; intercultural marketing and communication strategies; words, discourse and cultures; translation: cultures, organizations, technologies; intercultural issues in geopolitics and international relations; intercultural issues in economics and business management.
A jury representing various functions at ISIT selects the winning posters according to four criteria: clarity of presentation; quality of written expression; originality of graphic presentation; scientific approach and effort.
The selected posters are printed and displayed at ISIT, and the most deserving receive a prize.
Mini-seminar “Pitching intercultural dissertations”
After presenting their dissertation, Master 2 students present their research work at a public session in the form of a 5-minute pitch.
These short presentations are representative of ISIT’s various research angles (translation studies, terminology, discourse analysis, digital anthropology and AI, international intercultural communication, geopolitical crises and conflicts, prospective issues in sustainable development, economic intelligence, intercultural marketing and consumer sociology), with interculturality and multilingualism – ISIT’s DNA – as their common denominator.
Publication of research dissertations
The choice of dissertations to be published is made by the Academic Directors and the teams of lecturer-researchers who are responsible for the courses, on the basis of the opinions expressed by the members of the dissertation juries. Selected student volunteers rework their research dissertations according to specific publishing standards. These are then extended by the scientific management team and revised again, before being published by ISIT on the DUMAS platform (Dépôt universitaire de mémoires après soutenance – repository of research dissertations published after submission) in the dedicated collection (self-publishing prohibited).
Once the best dissertations have been identified, volunteer alumni, accompanied by their research supervisor, rework their manuscript for publication on the multi-disciplinary open archive HAL. To date, ISIT has published 19 dissertations online, which can be consulted on the DUMAS portal hosted by HAL, the multidisciplinary open archive.