Laurence Godin

Laurence Godin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Consumer Sciences at Université Laval and a regular member of the Centre NUTRISS - Nutrition, Health and Society. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in sociology from Université Laval and a doctorate in sociology from Université du Québec à Montréal. Her research interests focus on food, consumer practices, sustainable consumption, daily life, social norms and inequalities. Through her work, she aims to develop a better understanding of consumption practices and how they can be transformed, so as to support a reduction in consumption and the implementation of lifestyles that respect the principles of sufficiency, environmental sustainability and social justice on a large scale. Before coming to Université Laval, she worked in Switzerland, at the Université de Lausanne and the Université de Genève, on two projects dealing with sustainable consumption. The first, entitled "Towards healthy and sustainable diets in Switzerland", took an interdisciplinary approach, mobilizing sociology, environmental engineering and health engineering, among others, to identify opportunities for a population-wide transition to healthier, more sustainable diets. The second project, named ENERGISE and funded under the HORIZON 2020 program, aimed to explore ways of reducing household energy consumption using experimental and participatory Living Lab methods. Her current work focuses on vegetarian food and alternative proteins, social inequalities in food consumption, and the relationship with objects in everyday life, with a view to reducing consumption and ensuring sustainability.