Sophie Quinton

Researcher at INRIA Grenoble, France, studying the environmental and social impacts of ICT
Sophie Quinton is a researcher at INRIA Grenoble, France. She was a graduate research assistant at the Verimag laboratory and a postdoc at the Institute of Computer and Network Engineering at TU Braunschweig. Until recently, her research mostly focused on real-time systems, computer-assisted proofs and contract theories. She has now switched topics and studies the environmental and social impacts of ICT.

  • SICT 2024: SEnS Workshop

    The ongoing environmental disaster (loss of biodiversity, climate change...) and the warnings by the scientific community about the need to rethink our models of production and consumption make it impossible to ignore the issue, whatever the context. So, what about scientific research? Beyond the direct environmental footprint of research (for example due to flying to conferences), what role does it play in the destructive behavior of our societies, and how would it fit in a mid- or long-term trajectory toward sustainability? This question opens up a wider discussion that scientists rarely have: Does our research contribute to building a world that corresponds to our values?

    To tackle this question, we must learn to make explicit the values that shape how we work, and understand the complex relationships between our research, the environment and the societies in which we or others live. This requires some understanding of the history, economics, law, philosophy, sociology, politics, and ethics of our disciplines, for which many of us have received no training.

    The SEnS workshop has been designed to provide tools and resources for this purpose.

    https://sens-gra.gitlabpages.inria.fr/atelier-impacts-recherche/en_home.html

SICT 2023: Scientific research in the Anthropocene: What freedom? What responsibilities? And how to navigate these questions collectively in academia

Beyond its direct environmental footprint (for example due to flying to conferences), what role does scientific research play in the destructive behavior of our societies, and how would it fit in a mid- or long-term trajectory toward strong sustainability? This question opens up a wider discussion that scientists rarely have: Does our research contribute to building a world that corresponds to our values? In this talk, we will report on grassroot as well as institutional initiatives in France to tackle this question and support change towards a more responsible research.

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