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:
It's possible to tackle the causes of social inequality with students in the classroom or at UNIL!
The Young Scholar grant of the LIVES Centre is a support for young researchers - doctoral or post-doctoral researchers - who plan to do innovative research on the life course.
Around 150 researchers had the opportunity to exchange ideas and establish connections on November 9th and 10th, 2023, during the annual international conference of the LIVES Center held at the University of Lausanne.
In the 36th issue of the Social Change in Switzerland series, Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi and his colleagues assess the regularization of undocumented immigrants in the canton of Geneva.
On Thursday 26 October 2023, Gianvito Laera defended his thesis entitled "Strategic Monitoring and Time Perception in Time-based Prospective Memory" under the supervision of Prof. Matthias Kliegel.