Séverine LOUVEL
University professor
Sociology
Laboratory(ies): PACTE
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Keywords
- Public health
- Professional knowledge
- Biomedicine
Biography
Séverine Louvel has been a professor of sociology at Sciences Po Grenoble – UGA since 2024 and an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France (class of 2019). She is a researcher at Pacte and has led the Regulations team since September 2022. Her research focuses on the social studies of science and the sociology of health. She teaches general sociology, controversies in environmental health, and the sociology of digital health.
Current Projects
ATHLETE Advancing Tools for Human Early Lifecourse Exposome Research and Translation
TraGeninnov
AlgoCare
The growing hype surrounding AI innovations in the healthcare sector calls for empirical studies to understand the motivations and experiences of healthcare professionals and patients in the design, adoption, or rejection of these technologies. The Algorithmic Care Chair, funded by the MIAI—AI cluster, analyzes the deployment of AI in the healthcare system by coordinating sociological studies on the trajectories of algorithmic innovation across different specialties (emergency medicine, geriatrics, sleep disorders, physiology, environmental health) and institutions (nursing homes, private medicine, hospitals) and across the various purposes of algorithms (diagnostic assistance, prediction of patient pathways, monitoring, support for therapeutic strategies, public health surveillance). See the full presentation on the MIAI - AI Cluster website https://miai-cluster.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/fr/recherche/chaires/algocare-algorithmic-care-sociology-of-artificial-intelligence-innovation-in-healthcare-trajectories-1652905.kjsp
Socio-SAS: Sociological determinants of compliance in the management of sleep apnea syndrome
See the presentation on the project website: https://chaire-esante.fr/projet/projet-socio-sas/#points-cles
Publications
From Routine to Agency: An Intervention to Enhance Consumer Empowerment in Cosmetic Health Choices. A Socio-Ecological Perspective
Gwladys Berenguel , Agnès Helme-Guizon , Maria-Belen Ojeda Trujillo , Séverine Louvel
European Social Marketing Conference (ESMC) 2026, July 2026, Montpellier, France
Empowerment and Breaking Habits: A Qualitative Study on the Shift Toward Healthier Cosmetics
Gwladys Berenguel , Maria-Belen Ojeda Trujillo , Agnès Helme-Guizon , Séverine Louvel , Claire Philippat
42nd International Congress of the AFM (French Marketing Association), May 2026, Angers, France
From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics
Julien Larregue , Séverine Louvel
Science, Technology, and Human Values, 2025, 10.1177/01622439251378192
Barriers and Enablers to Eliminating Harmful Personal Care Products: A Cross-Cultural Qualitative Study
Gwladys Berenguel , Tiffany C Yang , Maria-Belen Ojeda Trujillo , Agnès Helme-Guizon , Séverine Louvel , Rosemary Mceachan , Sarah Lyon-Caen , Claire Philippat
4th International Conference on Behavioral Public Policy (IBPPC) 2025, September 2025, London, United Kingdom
Epigenetics and Society: Epigenetics in the French Press
Michel Dubois , Séverine Louvel , Catherine Guaspare
Christoph Grunau; Stéphane Maury. Epigenetics in Ecology and Evolution, Wiley-ISTE, 2025, 978-1-789-45216-7
Thesis supervision
Lola AUROY
Making Sense of Data: The Case of Epigenetic Research.
Thibault PONCHON
The Challenges of Science-Industry Collaboration: The Case of Quantum Technologies
Guillaume LE LAY
Learning Artificial Intelligence: The Social Production of Algorithmic Knowledge
Olivier LEROY
Patients on CPAP. The Sociology of Digitalization in Healthcare Pathways: The Treatment of Sleep Apnea with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure.