Nadia Okbani, PhD and Professor of political science at the Jean Jaures University of Toulouse and at the technological university institute of Figeac in the department of social work (France), member of CERTOP (Center of study and research, work, organization, power).
With a sociology of public action approach, my research focuses on the transformations of social policies and the reconfiguration of local social action, in terms of policy making, experimentation, implementation, reception and evaluation. I have devoted myself to questioning the experimentation of basic social benefits (Revenu de solidarité active) and their evaluation methodology, but also the non-reception and non-use of these social subsidies. My doctoral research dealt with the institutionalization of social policy evaluation in an organization, its stakes, practices and uses in the social security organization dedicated to social and family aids and allowances in France. Then, I studied the changes induced by territorial reforms and more specifically by the reinforced power of the intercommunal government, on the fight against poverty and the reconfiguration of multi-level social action. I am currently working on the digitization and electronic social administration of administrative procedures including requests for basic needs subsidies to analyze the mutations of the implementation of social policies at national and local level. I am also trying to study its consequences on the organization of work, on the transformation of social work and on the relationship of the service with the recipients and its impact on the access to social benefits and public services for the most vulnerable. With the INCASI program, I will work on the comparison of policies to fight poverty in France, Chile, Uruguay and Spain.