Laboratories
Sciences Po Lyon is the supervisory body for two CNRS joint research units and a host team. The majority of the institution’s full professor-researchers are attached to these three laboratories, but others are also represented (LARHRA, LAET, etc.).
Sciences Po Lyon also supervises the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Lyon St-Etienne, which supports or initiates interdisciplinary research programmes and provides the scientific community with a range of resources and support services.




Triangle - Action, Discourse, Political and Economic Thought
UMR 5206
Supervisory bodies: CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Sciences Po Lyon, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne
Triangle is a laboratory dealing with three aspects of politics in the broadest sense of the term: action, discourse and political and economic thought. The multidisciplinary team is organised around four specialist areas and three cross-disciplinary projects.
Institute of East Asia
UMR 5062
Supervising bodies: CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Sciences Po Lyon, Université Lumière Lyon 2
The IAO is a research centre in the humanities and social sciences, bringing together researchers specialising in anthropology, law, economics, geography, history, literature, philosophy and political science, whose work focuses mainly on East and South-East Asia.


Lyon Research Team in Information and Communication
UR 4147
Supervising bodies: Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lumière Lyon 2, Jean Moulin Lyon 3, ENSSIB, Sciences Po Lyon.
The unit is directed by Françoise Paquienséguy (Professor, Sciences Po Lyon, Director) and Isabelle Hare (Associate Professor, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Deputy Director).
Elico brings together researchers in information and communication sciences around three cross-disciplinary themes: