The Institut Catholique de Lille and the Université Polytechnique des Hauts de France: partners for doctoral excellence
The Université Catholique de Lille and the Université Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France (UPHF) have established a strategic alliance of projects, including research, at the convergence of disciplines and research units to collaborate in addressing the crucial challenges of the modern world, especially those related to artificial intelligence, mobility and transport, creative industries, and population aging.
This strategic and historical alliance enabled the integration of 5 ICL research units within the École Doctorale (Doctoral School) PHF (École Doctorale n° 635):
- C3RD (Research Center on the Relations Between Risks and Law; Faculty of Law)
- ESPOL-LAB (ESPOL)
- LITL (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Lille Transitions; Faculty of Management, Economics and Sciences and JUNIA)
- MUSE ( Communication, Society, Environment; Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences)
- ETHICS EA 7446, several teams of which are carried or co-carried by the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine, Maieutics and Health Sciences, the École des Sciences de la Société (ESSLIL – School of Society Sciences) and the ISTC
Thanks to its interdisciplinarity approach, the teacher-researchers and the PhD students of the ICL are engaged in the “Sciences and Technologies” and the “Societies and Humanities” poles of the École Doctorale Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France (Polytechnic Doctoral School of Hauts-de-France). This doctoral school promotes interdisciplinarity not only within disciplines of the same pole but also between the disciplines of two different poles (poly-scientific confluences) in the perspective of conducting bi-disciplinary dissertations.
At the ICL, 100% of PhD dissertations are defended in less than 4 years for successful professional integration.
The ICL has a clear and ambitious doctoral policy. It aims to support the realization of mono and bi-disciplinary dissertations at the ED PHF with a high standard of quality, thereby strengthening the academic research activities of the ICL and research training through research while promoting the professional integration of the PhDs.
The ICL’s doctoral ambitions are supported by a strategy of increasing the number of teacher-researchers and researchers accredited to supervise research (10 “HDRs” were accredited in 2023).
The ICL also manifests its desire to help the candidates prepare their dissertations and their supervisors to offer the best conditions for doctoral registration, both in the elaboration of the scientific project and in the search for funding (approximately 50 PhD students in 2023-24).
Research topics of the laboratories:
- Law, Legal, and Political Sciences: ESPOL LAB and C3RD
- Ethics and Deontology: ETHICS EA7446
- Automatic, Mechanical, Computer Sciences, Biomechanical: LAMIH
- Ultrasounds, Telecommunications, Acoustic Microsystems: IEMN-DOAE
- Ceramic Materials and Related Procedures: CERAMATHS, LMCPA department
- Mathematics and Applications: CERAMATHS, LAMAV and LMI departments
- Law, Economics, Legal and Political Sciences, History, Geography: LARSH, CRISS department, LITL
- Information, Communication, Civil Engineering: LARSH, DeVisu department
- Cultures, Arts, Literatures, History, Imaginaries, Society: LARSH, DeScripto department, MUSE
Contacts:
Nicolas VAILLANT, Vice-President, Vice-Rector for Research nicolas.vaillant@univ-catholille.fr
Agathe REYNAERT, Secretary-General, Vice-Rector for Research, ETHICS EA 7446 agathe.reynaert@univ-catholille.fr
Blandine MALLEVAEY, Professor, Head of ICL 2030 for Doctoral Policy blandine.mallevaey@univ-catholille.fr
For more information:
Scientific Domains (Mentions) and Disciplines (Specialties) offered by the ED PHF
ADUM, the internet portal for information, services, and communication, dedicated to PhD students and PhDs
Online documentation :
The ADICL, the Association of Doctors of the Institut Catholique de Lille
A space for education, meeting people, and supporting junior researchers. The ADICL, the Association of Doctors of the Institut Catholique de Lille, was created in March 2024. It unites most PhD students currently registered in ICL faculties, laboratories, and research units. Most of them are registered in the ED PHF.
It aims to support the interests of the PhD students and PhDs of the ICL and their affiliates. It helps to foster relationships between PhD students, to initiate scientific events, and to highlight their research works.
The association provides group cohesion and offers a support space for dissertation work, especially by organizing meetings between junior researchers.
The association is a free and independent structure with scientific, ethical, and humanistic values.
The members of the ADICL office are:
Co-Chairs: Emma MIQUEL and Anastasia CONROUX
Secretary: Héloïse MICHELON
Vice-Secretary: Irène LABEE-LAVIGNE
Treasurer: Caroline DELABRE
Vice-Treasurer: Cassandre DEGRANDE
Contact: association.doctorants.icl@gmail.com
