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At the European Consortium of Sociological Research (ECSR) conference in Barcelona on 12-14 September 2024, two LIVES researchers won prizes for the excellence of their work.

Between April and July 2024, Chiara Ludovica Comolli, assistant professor of demography at the University of Bologna, visited the LIVES Centre at the University of Lausanne to work with Prof. Laura Bernardi.

In the 38th issue of Social Change in Switzerland, Baptiste Antoniazza and his colleagues trace the changing profile of left-wing elected officials in Switzerland's four largest cities since 1910.

On 17 April 2024, Prof. Michel Oris gave his farewell lecture at the University of Geneva in front of a packed audience with more than 50 people standing. It was not actually a farewell to research for Michel Oris, as he is joining the Spanish Research Council in Madrid.

In today's unstable and insecure working environment, developing and maintaining sustainable careers has become a major concern.

How does the closure of a factory affect the employment and well-being of displaced workers?

The cost of incompressible expenditure accentuates inequalities

Progressive municipalities and health inequalities - a Swiss paradox?

To the researchers' surprise, inequalities in health based on social status are greater in economically progressive locations in Switzerland.

On Thursday 15 February 2024, at the University of Geneva during the LIVES Doctoriales, the Centre's 24 doctoral students had the opportunity to present the progress of their thesis project to their peers and interdisciplinary experts.

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.