Since 2015, Céline has supported eight cohorts of students from the Infocom department in Roubaix, a place she is particularly fond of.
Seeing our students evolve, grow and blossom in their academic and professional careers is a source of daily motivation
Céline Matuszak
‘A return to her roots’
After obtaining a doctorate in information and communication sciences in 2008, Céline first became a trainer-researcher at the l’Ecole nationale de protection judiciaire de la jeunesse (ENPJJ) inRoubaix.It wasn’t until 2015, in search of new challenges, that she returned to the Infocom department, her place of study, this time as a lecturer. I needed greater autonomy in my research projects. The opportunity to return to my roots presented itself and I seized it’, she says.
Today, Céline is in charge of the first year of the Information and Communication licence programme and provides day-to-day support for the 80 students on thecourse. ‘This role involves supervising students during this first year, which is a crucial period in their time at university’, she explains.
In addition to her teaching and supervising duties, Céline structures and coordinatesthe course programme.She also manages the Parcoursup platform while ensuring that students have contact with the world of work from their very first year. ‘We are committed to creating a network by putting our students in touch with the professional world through various professionalisation schemes’, she explains.
‘A profession that requires you to wear many different hats’
Céline explains that her work involves a wide range of duties other than teaching. ‘In the space of five minutes, we can change hats three times, especially when students are wondering about their career prospects, and I become their guidance counselor’, she confides.
Theorganisation,theadaptability,the listening,the attentiveness,the working together with the secretariat and the teaching staff, that’s what makes her job so lively.
In addition to providing this support, which involves an administrative aspect, Céline is a member of the teaching research staff at the GERiiCO laboratory: ‘You have to know how to strike the right balance between research and education – we’re juggling boththese things.However, she believes that these two aspects complement each other: ‘Research must feed into teaching content and enable rigorous monitoring of the major challenges that surround us’, and concludes that ‘It’s the university’s role to awaken students’ curiosity and critical thinking’.
‘I like to bring learning to life both within and outside of the university’.
What drives Céline in her job is the fact that she is helping to promote the courses offered by the university. ‘We need to be present wherever education is discussed: at trade fairs and conferences, when meeting future students and professionals’, she confides.
Through the various professionalisation schemes that are offered throughout the course, Céline is delighted to be able to follow the development of her students from their first year of undergraduate studies right through to their Master’s degree. ‘Seeing our students evolve, grow and blossom in their academic and professional careers is a source of daily pride and motivation’, she concludes enthusiastically.