Martine Legris

Dr Martine Legris (f) is researcher at the Lille University, France (Centre for European Research on Administration, Politics and Society (CERAPS)). She holds a PhD from the University of Dauphine, Paris in Sociology and is contemporary historian of the University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne. Dr Martine Legris is an internationally well- known scholar in sociology, she is published in SHS and active across the fields of participatory sciences, participatory democracy, industrial democracy and critical research.
She has a long experience in coordinating research projects at a national and international level. She coordinated several research projects on participatory democracy and participatory action research.
She is member of the board of Lille University science shop.
She is member of the scientific board of the scientific group (CNRS) “National research group on Democracy and Participation” (http://www.participation-et-democratie.fr/en in Paris. The Group focuses on citizens' contribution, beyond their usual involvement in the institutional political life, to choices about society — sustainable development, social equality, redistribution and solidarity, public engagement with science, freedoms and civil rights, local and metropolitan issues, globalisation, etc.

She serves the academic community in a variety of roles. She is member of the Research Committee 10 of the International Association of Sociology. She evaluates research projects for the French Research Agency (ANR) and at the European Commission. She is reviewer in several scientific reviews.