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Isabelle Danic is a University Professor (PR) in Sociology at the University of Rennes 2, where she serves as Deputy Director of the ESO Unit (UMR6590) from 2024 to 2027, responsible for scientific animation. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Languages and Human Sciences and the Department of Sociology, working at the ESO Rennes - Villejean site. Her research is supervised by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI).
Her research interests center on the sociology of education, youth studies, and spatial dimensions of social inequality. She examines how adolescents' experiences are shaped by their living spaces, particularly focusing on educational trajectories, digital literacy, and socialization processes. Her work emphasizes the intersection of family, school, and neighborhood contexts in shaping young people's opportunities and experiences, with special attention to working-class neighborhoods and spatial dimensions of inequality.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a consistent focus on digital technologies in education, adolescent socialization, and spatial inequalities. Her work increasingly examines how digital tools both reinforce and potentially mitigate educational inequalities, with particular attention to teachers' relationships with technology and students' digital practices across different social contexts. She employs participatory and action research methodologies, often comparing urban, peri-urban, and rural settings across European contexts.
Professor Danic actively supervises doctoral students, including Aminata Michèle Diatta who is researching family relationships in Senegal through money circulation patterns. She has secured significant research funding, including European Horizon 2020 projects and French National Research Agency (ANR) grants, demonstrating her capacity to lead large-scale collaborative research initiatives.
She directs and participates in several major research projects including the EMILIE project (Education aux Médias et à l'Information et Littératies Informationnelles Enfantines, 2024-2026) and RAJE (Recherche-action Jeunes et Engagements, 2024-2025). Previously, she led the PARTISPACE project (2015-2017) on youth participation across European cities, contributed to the ELN project (2020-2023) on digital literacy, and participated in the IDEA project (2017-2021) examining digital educational cooperatives in Brittany.
Her research is conducted through the ESO (Espaces et Sociétés) research unit, a CNRS-affiliated laboratory (UMR6590) that brings together researchers from multiple universities across western France to study spatial dimensions of social phenomena. Within this framework, she collaborates with researchers across disciplines to examine how spatial contexts shape social experiences, particularly for young people navigating educational systems and urban environments.
