[Portrait] Corinne Estrata, Head of the Billing Unit at the Accounting Agency

What is your job?

I joined the Ministry of Education in 1990.
After 16 years spent between the academic direction in Avignon and secondary schools as a manager and secretary of direction, I turned to higher education, more precisely, Avignon University. Today, I am, I am in charge of the accounting agency's billing department. With my team of five people and under the authority of the accounting officer, I control and take charge of all the university's expenditure, particularly that related to research.
 

What is its link with Research?

My job is part of the university's support functions. My tasks are related to all administrative, financial and accounting management activities. My role is first and foremost to enable teacher-researchers to devote themselves fully to their teaching mission and their research work.
 

What does it mean to you to work at a university?

I deeply believe that for each child and each young person, social fatality must no longer have a place in our country. Education must therefore, more than ever, be the main engine of the social lift. Working at the University of Avignon, I feel and believe that I am taking part inno matter how modestly, to the construction of a fairer society which must be equal to the return of hope for young people.
 

What advice would you give to people who want to work in research support?

More than ever and in this context of a global pandemic, I can easily imagine that all activities that contribute to supporting our researchers give meaning to our work. It is by helping research to be ever more innovative and permanently capable of adapting to changes in our society that we will be able to collectively overcome the major crises of our time. It is in this sense that research needs youth and that young people should be encouraged to follow this path.

What object or image from your business best illustrates you?

My daily routine: Being available and always with a smile.