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Launched in 2011, at the beginning of the NCCR LIVES, the Doctoral programme trains and supports the next generation of researchers on life-course studies.

These past few months several changes occurred within the LIVES Admin and Support team. We said goodbye to Christelle Burri (Secretery), Pascal Maeder (Knowledge transfer Officer) and Sabrina Roduit (Doctoral programme) and welcomed Caroline Jeanneret as LIVES new secretary!

Meet Michael Grätz, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Lausanne, who has been awarded a Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

In the 34th issue of the journal Social Change in Switzerland, Anke Tresch, Line Rennwald and Lukas Lauener show that the proportion of people who do not feel close to any party has risen sharply in Switzerland since the 1970s.

La gouvernance participative vise à impliquer les citoyen·ne·s, le pouvoir politique, les professionnel·le·s du travail social et les associations dans les décisions politiques locales ainsi que dans les projets associatifs ou institutionnels.

On Monday 8 May 2023, more than 50 professionals and experts met to discuss the subject of divorced or separated families.

We met Clément Meier, PhD student at the University of Lausanne and member of the LIVES Centre. He tells us about his background, his research and his recent participation in the UNIL final of "Ma thèse en 180 secondes". 

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. Eight researchers will visit us in 2023.

In the 33rd issue of the series Social Change in Switzerland, Dominique Joye and colleagues report the results of a new survey that asks the Swiss to rate the prestige of a range of professions.

What a year!

After an explosive program in 2022, the LIVES Center wishes you a year 2023 full of projects and satisfactions.

We look forward to seeing you again!

The LIVES Centre team