We spoke to Doriana Tinello, a doctoral student at CIGEV (UNIGE's Centre interfacultaire en gérontologie et d'étude des vulnérabilités) and a member of the LIVES Centre. She shares with us what led her to start a doctorate and the challenges of her research.
In the UK, it takes young people with lower secondary qualifications 1 month longer to find employment of any sort and 7 months longer to find secure, full-time employment if they are located in a place of low labour demand.
Personal income after retirement comes from financial reserves, the build-up of which depends on initial social characteristics (positional factors, such as gender or age), career paths (processual factors) and institutional arrangements rela
Adults continue to learn throughout their lives, particularly at times of transition or novelty. However, the social sciences have done little to investigate the nature of what is learned, and have so far focused mainly on the professional domain.
On Wednesday 31 January 2024, Liliane Efinger defended her thesis under the supervision of Prof. Valentino Pomini.
On 4 September 2023, Robin Casse defended his thesis entitled "Travailler dans la technique de spectacle : entre rationalisation et artification. Ethnographie des métiers technico-artistique en Suisse romande", co-supervised by Marc Perrenoud and Pierre-Emmanuel Sorignet.
On Wednesday 13 December 2023, Clément Meier defended his thesis and was awarded a doctorate in the human and social sciences of medicine and health from the University of Lausanne. The entire LIVES Centre team congratulates him on this great achievement!
This grant is aimed at foreign researchers who wish to visit the LIVES Centre in Lausanne or Geneva for a period of at least two months and covers travel and/or accommodation expenses. Ten researchers will visit us in 2024.
In 2024, the LIVES Centre awarded seed money funding to two teams. The aim of this funding is to obtain funds from another donor for the preparation of new projects on the life course and vulnerability. The two winning projects are the following: