The "record crisis" has benefited mainly women and musicians with a secondary education
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Income of French-speaking Swiss musicians
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The Wellways project presented at the annual conference of the Population Association of America
Four researchers from the LIVES Centre will present the first results of the Wellways Project at the major annual international conference of the Population Association of America, May 5-8, 2021.
Gender equality in Switzerland: mothers' employment still not well accepted
In the 25th issue of the journal Social Change in Switzerland, Christina Bornatici and her two co-authors examine the changing attitudes in Switzerland towards gender equality.
Professor Laura Bernardi elected President of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the National Research Council SNSF
From January 2021, the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the National Research Council will have a new president, Professor Laura Bernardi, Professor of Demography, who has also been head of research projects at LIVES since 2011.
3 projects win the call "Seeds of LIVES"
The call for projects "Seeds of LIVES" supports projects that are in the process of being written, which may be then associated with the UNIL-LIVES Centre. Launched in June 2020, it encourages the emergence of interdisciplinary research projects on life courses and vulnerabilities.
Digitisation also reaches professions outside the IT sector
In the 24th issue of the journal Social Change in Switzerland, Marlis Buchmann, Helen Buchs & Ann-Sophie Gnehm from the University of Zurich report on the strong digitisation of the Swiss labour market.
LGBTIQ+ people continue to be discriminated against despite political developments.
In Switzerland, members of sexual and gender minorities are still victims of structural discrimination, social exclusion and physical violence. This was demonstrated by two psychologists from the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich in a survey of 1400 LGBTIQ+ persons.
Inauguration of LIVES Social Innovation
On 23 November, the LIVES Centre in collaboration with the Social work and Health department of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) inaugurated their joint platform for social innovation: LIVES Social Innovation (LSI).
Modelling vulnerability to better understand its mechanisms
On 9 December 2020, Dan Orsholits defended his thesis and obtained his doctorate, presenting two models for the analysis of life courses and transitions.