What happens when knowledge production is no longer confined to researchers alone?
CIVIS Connect is the new podcast series dedicated to participatory research, an approach that is profoundly transforming how universities collaborate with society. Through stories, voices and concrete examples from across the alliance’s universities and territories, the podcast highlights how researchers and citizens can work together to better understand today’s challenges and co-create solutions grounded in real life.
Each episode showcases inspiring projects from within the CIVIS network and beyond, and illustrates how these approaches strengthen inclusion, build connections and generate concrete and applicable knowledge. The series also explores the challenges, ethics and impacts of these collaborations between universities and society.
Hosted by Christèle Aubry and Robin Lebrun, the first episode of CIVIS Connect focuses on air‑quality initiatives. The episode explores how citizens and researchers join forces to generate data, question their surroundings and make science more accessible, grounded and democratic. This approach—where research is done with people rather than on them—captures one of the most significant evolutions in the role of universities today
CIVIS Connect is available in French on all major podcast platforms.
Listen here: https://podcast.ausha.co/civis-waves/civis-connect