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 2025.
The LIVES Centre offers several types of grants to support innovation in life course research. These funds are addressed to the members of the LIVES Centre as well as to the extended network of researchers studying the life course and vulnerability.
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I am an Associate Professor at the Hospital del Mar Nursing School (Universitat Pompeu Fabra-affiliated, Barcelona, Spain) and a public health researcher at the Social Determinants and Health Education Research Group of the same institution. My main field of research is precarious employment and its impact on the health of workers and their families, with a particular emphasis on mental health. Within this field, I am focused on understanding how precarious employment manifests in dynamic labor markets and intersects with the axes of social inequalities to produce health inequities, acknowledging the fact that it is rarely experienced isolated from other adverse life-course events. In addition to my research activities, I teach undergraduate courses in public and occupational health, as well as research methodologies, within the nursing bachelor's degree. I am also the coordinator of a forthcoming master's program on research methodologies for healthcare professionals and researchers, set to launch in the 2025/26 academic year. |  |
I am a PhD candidate at Erasmus University of Rotterdam (2023-27) and am interested in looking at the interactions of social policy and the life course in a comparative perspective, using household and individual level data. I received my MA in Public Policy and Social Change from the University of Tübingen. In my main project, I am looking to tease out between and within country differences in how leave policy and childcare usage structure parental employment in the period around childbirth. This has me grappling with the EU-SILC and experimenting with Sequence Analysis. In Geneva, I will be working with Matthias Studer and his Lab on longitudinal imputation. |  |
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PhD student in the "Life Course Research" national PhD programme at the University of Florence and the University of Siena. Her research focuses on educational inequalities from a life course perspective, with particular attention to gender dynamics and the intersection of various life domains, including family structures, social contexts, and the influence of gender norms on family and career aspirations. |  |
I'm Aitor García a PhD student of Sociology in Carlos III University in Madrid and a research assistant at the Spanish National Research Council. I'll be working alongside Alicia García-Sierra and Michael Grätz. My main topics of interest are those related with delayed outcomes of childhood experiences, mostly in terms of health, cognition, skill-formation and behavior. Looking forward getting to know you all and your work. |  |
Lena Hassani-Nezhad is an Assistant Professor of Economics at City St George's, University of London. Her research interests include Applied Microeconomics, Labour Economics, and the Economics of the Family. She earned her PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2018. Her work focuses on understanding how policies influence employment outcomes and the work-life balance of families. |  |
İrem Karaçay is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Mannheim. She holds a master’s degree in social sciences from the Carlos III University of Madrid. Her research focuses on migration, perceived discrimination, sociolinguistics, survey methodology, and sociology of education. |  |
Anne-Cécile Ott has a PhD in geography and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in sociology at the Centre Émile Durkheim at the University of Bordeaux, where she is working on the social construction of children's sense of justice. She previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher on the construction of cultural preferences and family socialisation to music listening practices, as part of the MAMA project and the ANR RECORDS programme. Her research work focuses more generally on socialisation to practices and representations of space, particularly during childhood and youth. |  |
Nino Zhghenti is an Associate Professor of Sociology specializing in social movements, social research methodology, and social mechanisms, currently affiliated with Free University of Tbilisi. At the University, she is a member of the Memory and Anxiety Research Lab, where her research examines affective polarization and the role of emotions in social protests. Her MSc research at the University of Oxford and her PhD research at the University of Milan explored the cultural aspects of social protest participation. During her visit as a LIVES Visiting Scholar at the University of Lausanne, Nino will be working on a case study of how polarized opinions evolve around elections over a specific time span. The project will examine personal life-course events and vulnerabilities and how these connect to markers of social and political identity at the individual and media levels. |  |