Severine Gojard is research director at INRAE, where she was recruited in 1998.
She works on social determinants of food practices in contemporary France, with a special focus on how people implement different norms on food (healthy, nutritional, environmental…). Those questions require to examine the whole arrangements of domestic life according to life cycle position and social trajectories.
Most of her researches are based on both statistics and interviews.
She has been a member of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs since January 2017. Before, she belonged to the Consumption Research Laboratory (Corela) (1998-2007), then to Aliss (Alimentation et Sciences sociales) (2008-2016), both Inra departements focused on a social sciences analysis of food. She has been CMH's deputy director from January 2019 to March 2024 and director from April to December 2024.
She is affiliated to the RN5 (sociology of consumption) of the European Sociological Association.
She is asssociate editor of the Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies RAFE, and belongs to the editorial board of Sociologie     Key Words : Sociology of food and eating ; breastfeeding and food in infancy ; food and ageing ; food waste ; cooking.
Main Research Topics :  Sociology of food - Social determinants of eating habits - Acceptance and application of standards - Meal preparation and management of food leftovers; food waste in households Food in early childhood - Social determinants of breastfeeding - Complementary feeding and dietary diversification - Relationships between parents and early childhood care institutions Food and ageing - Diet changes in ageing - Managing food and loss of autonomy     Selection of Publications