Teaching & courses - Lionel Villard

Teaching

Courses, seminars & training

ESIEE Paris · Télécom Paris · Workshops & summer schools

Teaching & training activities

Core courses at ESIEE Paris

  • 2018–present
    Mapping controversies (1st year of engineering school)
    Introduction to science and technology studies and digital methods for exploring controversies.
  • 2017–present
    Social Network Analysis (5th year / Master in sociology)
    Network theory, metrics and visualisation applied to social and techno-scientific networks.
  • 2012–2025
    Relational Database Management Systems (3rd year of engineering school)
    Design and implementation of relational databases, SQL practice and data modelling.

Previous teaching

  • 2018–2019
    Sessions on mapping controversies (3th year of engineering school)
    Télécom Paris – sessions focusing on scientific and press corpora.
  • 2011–2018
    Student tutoring in a mapping controversies course (1th year of engineering school)
    ESIEE Paris.
  • 2013–2018
    Development of web applications (4th year of engineering school)
    Introduction to web application development and interactive services.
  • 2013–2017
    Processing geospatial information (4th year of engineering school)
    Methods and tools for processing, analysing and visualising geospatial data.
  • 2010–2013
    Data analysis for business school students (2nd year, business school)
    Introduction to quantitative data analysis for management and business applications.
  • 2010–2012
    Development of web applications (2nd year, business school)
    Basics of web development for business school students.

Selected courses, seminars & lectures

I regularly give courses and training sessions on CorText Manager, socio-semantic analysis and the mapping of science dynamics in various contexts. Below is a selection from recent years.

  • 2025
    Journée d’étude “Espace & Interactions”
    Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris – 1-day seminar.
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  • 2025
    Positioning a research project within its scientific domain with CorText Manager
    Graduate Program DIGIS (Digital Studies and Innovation for Smart-Cities) – 3-day course.
  • 2025
    Information extraction and socio-semantic analysis for the social sciences and humanities
    EconomIA 2025, Paris – 3-hour lecture.
  • 2025
    Investigating science dynamics on climate change adaptation using CorText Manager
    Bureau d'Analyses Macro Économiques (BAME), Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA), Dakar – 3-day training.
  • 2024
    Master Class CorText
    M2 DEIPM (Development Economics & International Project Management), Université Paris-Est Créteil – 3-day course.
  • 2024
    CorText Manager training sessions
    LISIS – 3-day training sessions.
  • 2023
    L’identification des communautés épistémiques et le bon usage de CorText Manager
    LISIS, study day on epistemic communities and expert networks – 1-hour lecture.
  • 2023
    Plateforme CorText : extraction d’information et analyse en SHS pour comprendre les territoires
    Matinée Scientifique Paris-Est – 1-hour lecture.
  • 2023
    L’intelligence artificielle au service de l’analyse de corpus textuels
    Inter-ligere – 1-hour lecture.
  • 2023
    CorText Manager : extraction d’information et analyse socio-sémantique…
    Consortium Couperin (TDM GTSO), Digital Humanities Summer School (BSE), Tuto@Mate (CNRS) – several lectures and workshops.
  • 2021–2022
    Introductory and advanced CorText Manager trainings
    Eu-SPRI early-career event, RISIS training sessions, UniLaSalle InTerACT, CNRS ANF-TDM, ODYCEE–INRAE, CWTS, etc.
  • 2016
    Geocoding and clustering analysis of large ST&I corpuses
    RISIS Summer School – 1-week training.
  • 2014
    Research seminar on Data, Digital Methods and Mapping Social Complexity
    ENSCI – seminar co-organiser, 8 sessions bringing together tool developers and users in digital methods.
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