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.
The LIVES Centre offers three types of grants to support innovation in life course research: the "Seed money", the "Young scholar grant" and the "Visitor grant". 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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Fiacre BAZIE is a doctoral student/research assistant at “Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population” (ISSP) of the University Joseph KI-Zerbo of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where he works in the Population and Health Research Unit. For nearly ten (10) years, Mr. BAZIE has worked on various projects dealing with different themes including reproductive health and family planning, abortion, adolescent health, etc. His doctoral research focuses on empowerment and sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and young women in Burkina Faso. |
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Christoph Henking is a second year PhD candidate at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford University. His research focuses on the social determinants of mental health throughout the life course and identifying social policies that can reduce mental health inequalities. In Oxford, he works with Professor Aaron Reeves and Dr Ben Chrisinger who are experts in researching health inequalities and the political economy of health. His previous academic training is in Social Psychology with an MSc from The London School of Economics (LSE) and a BSc from the University of Konstanz in Germany. |
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Miika Kekki is a doctoral researcher in social and public policy at the University of Eastern Finland. His doctoral dissertation focuses on the career counselling of adult, unemployed migrants studying in a national integration training programme. His particular interest is in looking at how the career counsellors as street-level integrators use different power-related practices and approaches in their work. Before his doctoral studies, he has done a master’s degree in political science and French. He has also worked as a self-employed career and guidance practitioner and trainer for several years both in Finland and abroad. |
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Anna Manzoni is Associate Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University (USA). Current research interests include youth transition to adulthood, intergenerational support, inequalities in college access and returns and social mobility more broadly. Her work has been published in Advances in Life Course Research, Journal of Family Research, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Higher Education, PLOS one, Research in Higher Education, Social Social Forces, Sociological Methodology, among other journals. |
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Paulina Pankowska is an Assistant Professor at the Sociology department of Utrecht University. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Sociology and Communication Science Departments of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the topics of data and methods quality. She is the task leader of the ODISSEI benchmarking task, which aims to organize an algorithm benchmark for the social sciences. She is also involved in a project in the field of climate change sociology which focuses on the problem of overconsumption. |
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Roujman Shahbazian received his Ph.D. in sociology at Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University in 2018. Currently, he works at the University of Munich. His research interests are in the field of social stratification, and development studies. Shahbazian has worked on several interdisciplinary projects, focusing on income and careers from a life-course perspective. His publications include studies on; empirical aspects of measuring class for social mobility, career patterns across cohorts, and how the family of origin shapes risk attitudes. He has published in e.g. European Sociological Review, Social Science Research, Journal of Economic Inequality, and Empirical Economics. |
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Natalie Sisson is a PhD student from the University of Toronto, Canada, studying under the supervision of Dr. Emily Impett. Her primary research interest is in close relationships, interpersonal regulation, and well-being. She utilizes multiple methods (e.g., experimental, dyadic, longitudinal, qualitative) to investigate the goals that people pursue for their close others (e.g., romantic partners, children) and the benefits and costs of these pursuits for personal and interpersonal outcomes. |
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Antonina Zhelenkova is a 3rd-year PhD student in Economic Sociology and Labour studies at the University of Milan. Her PhD thesis is dedicated to gender inequalities in education and labour outcomes examined from a multidimensional perspective. The study focuses on both vertical (school enrolment) and horizontal (the field/track choice) educational inequalities, explores how different sources of vulnerability, such as gender, family status and social origin, interact and amplify each other, as well as analyses the outcomes of interest not only at a point in time but also in a mid- and long-term period. |
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