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Characterization of professional practices that promote autonomy for people with disabilities

Project overview The issue of autonomy affects everyone, regardless of our individual abilities. In the field of personal support, this takes the form of a relational mode and a favourable environment that must allow autonomy to flourish, requiring interventions that researchers consider "autonomy-oriented". Thus, the project intends to explore these interventions based on the hypothesis that they are based on three characteristics:
- a specific professional disposition ;
- a work environment that facilitates the professional disposition; and
- an evaluation of autonomy that takes into account the positions of the persons concerned in relation to autonomy.
The research aims to produce recommendations that can be implemented in the field and that take into account the constraints of the actors, as well as the expectations of the persons concerned.

Collaboration The CRDMS : Lyon 3
The CREF: Paris-Nanterre
The CEReSS : Aix-Marseille University

Research team

Olivia GROSS

Olivia GROSS

Directrice adjointe du LEPS ; Maître de conférence (HDR) en sciences de l'éducation et de la formation ; Titulaire de la chaire Chaire de recherche sur l’Engagement des patients et des usagers du système de santé

Olivia Gross is a senior lecturer in education and training. She holds the Research Chair in Patient Engagement at Sorbonne Paris Nord University. She conducts her research at the Laboratoire Éducations et Promotion de la Santé (LEPS-UR3412), where she has spent her entire academic career, after many years working with associations in the field of rare diseases.

Activités récentes : O. Gross has just published a book (Doin) on the autonomy of people in care or receiving support (Vers une modélisation de l'autonomie : pratiques, discours et aspirations dans les soins et les accompagnances). She presented the main points of this book at a conference organized by PPR Autonomie (see below):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAw7EWIGlgw
She co-coordinates various programs with patient-teachers from the UFR SMBH, programs which have won 6 national awards, including the PRESCRIRE en 2025 prize.
She runs the "peer health mediators" course in the Health and Social Sciences bachelor's degree program, in partnership with the CCOMS and IRIS.

Publications récentes : Ouvrages principaux
Gross, O. (2024) Vers une modélisation de l’autonomie : pratiques, discours et aspirations dans les soins et les accompagnements, Doin.
Gross, O. (2017) L’engagement des patients au service du système de santé, Doin.

Articles principaux
GROSS, O. et RUELLE, Y. (2025) The pedagogical liminality of patient and public involvement in initial healthcare professional education: An umbrella review, Research Involvement and Engagement, DOI: 10.1186/s40900-025-00756-6
GROSS, O. (2022). Conditions d’une démocratie en santé d’ordre maximaliste, Dialogue/ Revue Canadienne de Philosophie, 61(1), pp. 17-32, doi:10.1017/S0012217322000130

GROSS, O. GAGNAYRE, R. (2021). Diminuer les injustices épistémiques au moyen d’enseignements par et avec les patients : l’expérience pragmatiste de la faculté de médecine de Bobigny, Canadian Journal of Bioethics / Revue canadienne de bioéthique, 4(1), 70–78. https://doi.org/10.7202/1077628ar

GROSS, O., GAGNAYRE, R. (2018). L’éducation salutogénique basée sur les capabilités des patients : contribution à une nouvelle composante de l’éducation thérapeutique, Education thérapeutique, 10, 10501,
https://doi.org/10.1051/tpe/2018003

GROSS, O., GAGNAYRE, R. (2017). Caractéristiques des savoirs des patients et liens avec leur pouvoir d’action : implication pour la formation médicale, Revue Française de Pédagogie, n°201, pp. 71-82, DOI : 10.4000/rfp.7266.

Email : olivia.gross@univ-paris13.fr

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Eleonore SEGARD

Eleonore SEGARD

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Research themes

Individual and collective skills to support empowerment
Health Promoting Environments
Reorientation of health services and professional training

Technical data

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Funding
No
Period of realization
In preparation