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The Prix Planète are awarded to INRS professors who have made outstanding contributions to the development and transfer of scientific knowledge.
Since 2015, the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has been presenting its Prix Planète to members of its community during its annual award ceremony.
This year’s Prix Planète in the Bâtisseur (Builder) category was awarded to INRS honorary professor Madeleine Gauthier. This prize, awarded on an exceptional basis to an honorary, emeritus, or retired faculty member, recognizes the achievements of individuals who have helped build INRS and left a lasting mark on the institution’s history.
A pillar of the former Institut québécois de la recherche sur la culture before it became part of INRS, Professor Gauthier has worked throughout her career at the Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre. A pioneer in the sociology of youth in Quebec, she has established herself as an international reference in the field.
“I fought to keep the Institut québécois de recherche alive until, much to my delight, it joined the ranks of INRS. I knew how essential it was to keep this organization specifically focused on youth issues.”
Madeleine Gauthier, Honorary INRS Professor
The transition to adulthood, migration, culture, and social issues are just some of the themes that Madeleine Gauthier has explored in her research. Having helped make youth a real research topic, she leaves an impressive scientific legacy to Quebec and the scientific world as a whole.
Driven by a desire to expand research on these themes that are important to her, Madeleine Gauthier founded the Observatoire Jeunes et Société in 1998, a group of researchers from various universities who are interested in young people, and more specifically their transition to adult life, their distinctive features as social actors, and their diversity. Analyses, reports, articles, conferences, and documentary monitoring: this infrastructure also aims to effectively disseminate the results of her research to a wide audience.
Always keen to promote the work of researchers in the sociology of youth, Madeleine Gauthier is also at the origin of the international journal Jeunes et Société and the collection Regards sur la jeunesse du monde from Presses de l’Université Laval.
Professor Gauthier was a member of the INRS board of directors for several years, as well as chair of the Sociologie de la jeunesse committee of the Association internationale des sociologues de langue française, in addition to participating in numerous scientific committees for various journals.