Valérie Golaz

Research director
valerie.golaz@ined.fr 33 (0) 6 43 08 47 86 +33(0) 1 56 06 21 99
Secretariat : Nicoleta-Adriana Banta 33(0) 1 56 06 21 57

Research field(s)

My current focus is on family dynamics and the population-environment nexus. I approach it through localised case studies in East Africa and Madagascar and national as well as international data. Connecting classical demographic sources to remote sensing data, I look at population growth, migration and environmental change. My work deals with family dynamics, in particular in relation to resource accessibility and environmental change.
Globally, the link between quantitative indicators, their political use and the possible gap between these measures and what actually goes on interests me.

See the Population, Climate and Environment website

Current Grants
-2023-2027: SNF, FamilEA The remaking of the family in East Africa
-2022-2023: AFD, L’Afrique face au vieillissement annoncé de sa population : enjeux pour les politiques publiques
-2019-2022: ANR/ FNS, SALMEA project Self-accomplishment and local moralities in East Africa
-2019-2022: ANR MARGES Des marges aux normes. Regards croisés sur les transformations des liens familiaux en Afrique

Research teams

Biographical and multi-level research group

International Perspectives research group

Old Age and Ageing research group

Mobility, Trajectories and territories

DEMOSUD - Demography of the Global South

More information about his·her Research

Population, Climate and Environment

Territorial dynamics and reconfiguration of public and private solidarity

DemoStAf (DEMOgraphy-Statistics-for-AFrica)

Liens

Bibliography

A word by

Valérie Golaz about the Manuel pratique d’analyse multiniveau

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Some publications

ROSSIER C., GOLAZ V., GEZ Y et DROZ Y., 2023, « An interdisciplinary approach of the family in East Africa: insights from past and current research», Recherches familiales, n°20 / 1, 1a-13a.

SIKARWAR A., RANI R., DUTHE V. et GOLAZ V., 2022, « Association of greenness with COVID-19 deaths: an ecological study of Indian districts », Environmental Research, 217 (January 2023), p. 114906 (1-10), DOI 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114906

DOS SANTOS S., GASTINEAU B., GOLAZ V., 2022, "Population and Water Issues: Going Beyond Scarcity", in Lori M. Hunter, Clark Gray, Jacques Véron (eds), International Handbook of Population and Environment, Springer, p.263-282.

BRINGE A., GOLAZ V., 2022.- Multilevel Analysis. A Pratical Introduction, Méthodes et savoirs n°9,Paris, Ined editions, 118p.

BARAL A., GOLAZ V., KIERERI N. et SCHNEIDERMANN N., 2021, "Marriage as a Connector: A Conversation about Spatial and Temporal Scales of Partnership and Self-accomplishment in Kenya and Uganda", Les Cahiers d'Afrique de l'Est, 1-20.

ADJAMAGBO A., GASTINEAU B., GOLAZ V., OUATTARA F. (eds), 2020, La vulnérabilité à l’encontre des idées reçues, Les Impromptus du LPED, Marseille, LPED, 130p.

GASTINEAU B., GOLAZ V., DOS SANTOS S., 2018, "Modes d’adaptation des sociétés rurales à la croissance démographique : les cas de Madagascar et du Kenya", Espace, Populations et Sociétés, 2018-3, Special issue Population, production et alimentation en Afrique subsaharienne published on line 30 Jan. 2019.

Teaching activities, other functions, titles

I co-head the research unit Demosud and I am in charge of Knowledge sharing with the global South at Ined.

PhD Supervision:
2023- : Pierre Schlegel, Aix-Marseille University
2023- : Julie Maestri, Aix-Marseille University (co-supervision with Henri Médard, AMU)
2022- : Narovana Andriamanantena, Aix-Marseille University (cosupervision with Anne-Elisabeth Laques, IRD)
2022- : Emile Duflot, Aix-Marseille University (cosupervision with Vincent Laperrière, Aix-Marseille University)
2021- : Léo Lipovac, Aix-Marseille University (cosupervision with Nicolas Pech, Aix-Marseille University)
2021- : Basile Rousse, University of Paris (cosupervision with Laurent Wendling, LIPADE)
2019-: Lily Njuguna, Aix-Marseille University (cosupervision with Claire Médard, IRD)
2019-: Faith Atuhumuze, Aix-Marseille University (cosupervision with Claire Médard, IRD)
2019-:Tina Razafinimanana, Université Catholique de Madagascar (cosupervision with Frédérique Andriamaro, UCM)

PhDs completed:
2019-2023: Norah Kiereri, Aix-Marseille University (cosupervision with Yvan Droz, IHEID)
2019-2023: Uacitissa Mandamule, Aix-Marseille University (cosupervision with Stéphanie Duvail, IRD)

I lecture at Aix-Marseille University since 2013 (Master MASS)
-2013-...: "Démographie: source et analyse des données", M1(30h)
-2018-2019: "Démarche quantitative en SHS", M1 (15/45h)

Other charges:
I am a member of the Conseil Scientifique Afrique / UMIFRE (2022-2025).