Reflexivity and action-research through a CIFRE contract, when field constraints become opportunities
This article proposes a feedback and a reflection on a critical research in human and social sciences, financed by its own field of research. The aim is to get a double point of view: academic and professional. It is a delicate position to adopt as it implies understanding and questioning the expectations and needs of both the professional and scientific worlds, within the framework of an «action-research» project. Participant observation is to be confronted with contradictory temporalities and diverse interests. We will see that the development of the research object, the obtaining of data and the methods of restitution, calls for the need to adopt a reflexive point of view, and for the researcher to transform constraints into opportunities.