About

Biography:
Christian Robitaille is a social scientist with a wide range of experience in research, teaching, and higher education administration. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Ottawa (2021), an M.A. in economics from the University of Toronto (2015), and a B.Sc. in mathematics and economics from the University of Montreal (2014). He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Greater Manchester Business School of the University of Greater Manchester. He teaches research methods, business research, and leadership and strategy. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Liverpool Hope University where he taught contemporary key thinkers, quantitative methods, and the question of rationality in the social sciences.

His research expertise is centred on theories of rationality in the social sciences and their applications to empirical problems such as entrepreneurship and radicalisation. In particular, he has studied and built on the Austrian School of economics’ and interpretive sociology’s rationalist frameworks. He has authored about twenty peer-reviewed articles or book chapters and is the editor of The Anthem Companion to Raymond Boudon. He currently works on a monograph detailing the historical and conceptual relationships between the Austrian School of economics and sociology since 1871 until now as well as on various other smaller projects linked to theories of rationality and their application.