Florence Piron

Florence Piron is an anthropologist and ethicist, Full Professor in the Department of Information and Communication at Université Laval where she teaches critical thinking through courses on ethics, democracy and methodology. Founding president of the Association science et bien commun and the science shop Accès savoirs at Université Laval, director of the Éditions science et bien commun, which publish in open access, she is interested in the links between science, society and culture (ethics), both as a researcher and as an activist for a more open, inclusive, socially responsible science. She intervenes orally and in writing in a wide variety of settings, both within and outside the academic world. She is currently at the heart of several research-action projects aimed at promoting and disseminating academic knowledge from sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti and developing endogenous research capacity in these parts of the Global South. She is involved in several networks of action researchers in community health and epistemic injustices.