Gauthier Jacques-Antoine
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Research areas
Sociologie du parcours de vie
Approches longitudinale et séquentielle des trajectoires individuelles (par ex.: scolaires, familiales, professionnelles, résidentielles)
Dépendances
Statistiques nationales de la prise en charge ambulatoire et résidentielle des problèmes de dépendances. Projets SAMBAD et SAKRAM/CIRSA en collaboration avec l'OFS et l'OFSP
Santé
Partcipation à l'élaboration et à l'exécution de la première Enquête suisse sur la santé (ESS) menée par l'OFS dès 1990
Projects
Projets FNS
NCCR LIVES IP6 : Genre, mobilité et vulnérabilités
2019 - 2022
Applicant: Nicky Le Feuvre, Eric Davoine
Our research group explores the effects of spatial mobility on the reconfiguration of gender vulnerabilities, from a multidimensional, multilevel and multidirectional perspective. It proposes to study and compare different forms of spatial mobility (expatriation, migration, residential change, educational mobility) in order to establish their links to vulnerability processes.
In Phase III, we will work on three research questions: 1) Are there meso-level patterns of accumulated gender dis/advantages over the life course? 2) How does transnational mobility influence spillover effects between life domains, particularly when individuals are confronted with potentially competing gender norms at different points in their trajectory? This research question will enable us to further explore the importance of "mobility skills" or "motility" - defined as a disposition or immaterial form of capital - for resisting vulnerability processes. 3) What is the interrelation between spatial mobility and the accumulation, conversion and reactivation of reserves across time, gender and generations?
Swiss longitudinal retrospective cohort study of nurses' career paths and retention
2013 - 2015
Applicant: Véronique Addor (HES-SO), Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, René Schwendimann (Univ. Bâle)
Le projet de recherche fournira aux directeurs/trices de soins, aux décideurs de politique sanitaire et aux scientifiques, des informations objectives sur les parcours professionnels, la durée en emploi et la fidélisation dans les soins, des infirmières ayant obtenu leur diplôme en Suisse au cours des 30 dernières années. Les ressources humaines en santé représentent un élément central des systèmes de santé, et les infirmières en sont une composante cruciale pour atteindre les objectifs sanitaires. La recherche montre qu'une dotation insuffisante en infirmières augmente la morbidité et la mortalité des patients hospitalisés. La pénurie globale d'infirmières touche également la Suisse, et est appelée à se péjorer en raison de l'augmentation de la demande en soins infirmiers (vieillissement de la population, pathologies multiples, baisse du bénévolat) et de la diminution du nombre d'infirmières formées en Suisse disponibles et/ou acceptant les conditions de travail actuelles.
Les infirmières et infirmiers ayant reçu leur diplôme de base dans une école de soins infirmiers suisse depuis 1983 seront invité-e-s à remplir un questionnaire sur internet (dans les trois langues nationales) concernant leurs emplois successifs, qu'ils soient dans le domaine des soins ou dans d'autres secteurs économiques. Celles et ceux qui ne travaillent plus nous intéressent particulièrement, et sont difficiles à retrouver. C'est l'une des raisons pour lesquelles une campagne de presse auprès du grand public est prévue, afin d'assurer le taux de participation le plus élevé possible et une large palette de parcours professionnels. Les motivations personnelles et institutionnelles liées à chaque changement de travail seront investiguées auprès de plusieurs générations d'infirmières encore potentiellement actives, afin de proposer des stratégies de fidélisation des infirmières basées sur des avis et des faits provenant d'une population représentative des infirmières.
Trajectoires familiales et réseaux sociaux: une perspective configurationnelle sur le parcours de vie
2011 - 2014
Applicant: Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Eric Widmer (UNIGE), Dominique Joye
Other collaborators: Gaelle Aeby
La modernité avancée en Europe est caractérisée à la fois par des liens communautaires plus lâches que par le passé et une flexibilité plus importante des insertions sociales. Cela se traduit par une diversification progressive des trajectoires familiales et professionnelles individuelles et des configurations sociales dans lesquelles elles se déroulent. Des progrès conceptuels et méthodologiques récents offrent à l'analyse longitudinale des parcours de vie et des réseaux sociaux de nouvelles potentialités. Ces progrès permettent de mieux comprendre la dynamique cumulative des relations entre événements et structures des trajectoires individuelles dans un espace de positionnement social complexe, puisque ce dernier est abordé dans une perspective intersectionnelle prenant en compte les effets de classe sociale et ceux de genre. Cela permet en outre de mesurer le lien qui existe entre ces parcours et les représentations que les individus se font d'eux-mêmes dans un tel contexte. La dimension à la fois historique et politique du processus de la modernisation prend tout son sens à la lumière de comparaisons entre différentes cohortes et différents pays. A partir d'un échantillon de 800 personnes représentatif pour la Suisse romande, alémanique et italienne - associé à des collectifs identiques interrogés selon le même dessein au Portugal et en Finlande - ce projet entend révéler les mécanismes qui sous-tendent la production des identités et du positionnement social au cours du temps en fonction, du genre et des capitaux culturels et sociaux à disposition dans des contextes étatiques et historiques spécifiques.
NCCR LIVES IP208: Configurations familiales et parcours de vie
2011 - 2018
Applicant: Clémentine Rossier
La famille nucléaire, en particulier au sein du mariage, est considérée depuis longtemps comme un groupe solide par rapport aux attentes, aux contraintes et aux risques découlant du contexte social. La pluralisation des parcours de vie a, cependant, transformé les familles, les rendant plus diversifiées et moins prévisibles. Lors de la première phase du PRN LIVES, l'IP8 se concentrait sur l'impact des événements non normatifs sur la qualité et la permanence de la vie conjugale.
Au cours de la deuxième phase (2015-2018), l'IP208 élargit les questions étudiées par des recherches sur l'ambivalence de la famille et les conflits familiaux en tant que facteurs de stress de la vie courante, et en tenant compte de modèles familiaux autres que les couples traditionnels élevant ensemble leurs enfants. L'IP208 soutient le développement de nouveaux outils d'analyse et la collecte de données à travers le monde, afin de mieux comprendre la diversité des configurations familiales et personnelles dans une perspective comparative.
L'IP208 utilise les données de l'Enquête sur les familles et les générations (EFG), menée en 2013 par l'Office fédéral de la Statistique, pour analyser les formes de famille non standards et leurs liens avec la vulnérabilité.
NCCR LIVES IP201 : Trajectoires en contexte
2011 - 2018
Applicant: Félix Bühlmann
L'IP201 a pour objectif le développement d'un modèle multidimensionnel, dynamique et contextualisé de la vulnérabilité, définie comme un manque de ressources individuelles ou collectives exposant les individus ou les groupes à un risque élevé de connaître (1) des conséquences négatives liées à des sources de stress; (2) une incapacité à faire face de manière efficace à un facteur de stress; et (3) une incapacité à se remettre d'un facteur de stress ou de tirer parti d'occasions dans une période donnée. Cet IP recueille des données conjointement au troisième échantillon du Panel suisse de ménages (PSM-III) géré par FORS: l'enquête relative à la cohorte LIVES et le panel vaudois LIVES-FORS.
Family Times
2010 - 2013 (36 months)
Applicant: Jacques-Antoine Gauthier
Other collaborators: Dominique Joye, Eric Widmer, Gaëlle Aeby, Pierre-Alain Roch
Trajectoires familiales et réseaux sociaux : une perspective configurationnelle sur le parcours de vie
L'enquête Family tiMes (www.unil.ch/times) s'intéresse aux changements importants, mais aussi aux continuités qui caractérisent les parcours de vie familiaux, relationnels et professionnels d'un échantillon représentatif (N=800) de deux cohortes d'individus résidant en Suisse, nés respectivement en 1950-1955 et 1970-1975. Des analyses de réseaux et des analyses de séquences seront réalisées. Cette recherche a été développée en collaboration avec Karin Wall et ses collègues (université de Lisbonne). Le même dessein de recherche a été appliqué en 2010 à une population identique au Portugal et permettra d'entreprendre des comparaisons internationales.
Aspirations et orientations professionnelles des filles et garçons en fin de scolarité obligatoire: quels déterminants pour plus d'égalité?
2010 - 2013
Applicant: Dominique Joye, Lavinia Gianettoni, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Karin Müller (SRED), Edith Guilley (SRED), Dominique Gros (SRED)
Other collaborators: Carolina Carvalho Arruda
En Suisse, filles et garçons choisissent leur orientation professionnelle de manière différenciée. À l'heure actuelle les mesures favorisant la diversification des orientations scolaires et professionnelles des filles et garçons n'ont pas atteint l'effet attendu.
Ce projet est né de la collaboration entre un service de l'instruction publique et une équipe universitaire. Il vise à mieux comprendre l'origine et la persistance des différences entre filles et garçons dans l'orientation et le choix professionnel à la fin de la scolarité obligatoire. Il a pour but d'acquérir de nouvelles connaissances sur l'efficacité des mesures prises pour que filles et garçons choisissent une formation et une profession indépendamment des normes et des représentations sociales. Dans cinq cantons suisses, des élèves de la formation secondaire I s'exprimeront sur leurs aspirations professionnelles, sur leurs identités de genre et leurs représentations des rapports sociaux entre hommes et femmes. Des questions similaires seront adressées à leurs parents ainsi qu'à leurs enseignantes et enseignants. Les résultats de cette enquête, mis en relation avec des analyses secondaires de grandes enquêtes nationales, donneront des éléments essentiels sur ce qui induit des choix stéréotypés pour la formation et la profession dès la fin de la scolarité obligatoire. En collaboration avec les professionnels de l'égalité, cette recherche identifiera aussi les freins et les défis des mesures actuelles visant des orientations et choix professionnels égalitaires.
Les recommandations que cette recherche formulera permettront à l'ensemble des acteurs concernés d'agir pour tendre vers plus d'égalité entre filles et garçons dans leurs aspirations, orientations et choix professionnels.
Autres projets
Mosaich 2019 : Inégalités sociales
2018 - 2019
Applicant: Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Eric Widmer (UNIGE), Vincent Kaufmann (EPFL), Guillaume Drevon (EPFL), Gil Viry (Univ. Edinburgh)
MOSAiCH is a programme for cross-sectional general social surveys conducted in Switzerland under this name since 2005. It integrates the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP, see www.issp.org) - with Swiss data going back as far as 1987. The survey is conducted with at least 1,200 respondents randomly drawn from a register-based individual sampling frame of adults residing in Switzerland.
The first wave of the 2019 edition of MOSAiCH will be mainly composed of the ISSP 2019 Social Inequality V questionnaire and a socio-demographic part that focuses on usual survey dimensions. The ISSP Social Inequality module has already been conducted in 1987, 1992, 1999 and 2009, containing thus several long time series that cover highly relevant topics, with Swiss data available for the editions of 1987, 1999* and 2009. Please note that the 2019 questionnaire is still in preparation by the ISSP drafting group. The topics and items listed on pages 3 to 5 are provisional and subject to change. The final ISSP 2019 questionnaire will be available in September 2018. The main dimensions will though focus on occupational earnings, pay criteria and important factors in getting ahead. Issues such as perception and concerns about inequality, fairness of income inequality, social policy and redistribution will also be covered. Additional questions measure the subjective social class mobility, perceived social conflict or economic insecurity. The socio-demographic part will be designed to meet the ISSP requirements for the 2019 Social Inequality module. Standard variables on household composition, education, occupational situation, income, perceived social status, as well as social origin will be measured.
Collaborations and networks
Interuniversitaires
UNIGE, Département de sociologie
- publications
- projets de recherche dans le cadre du NCCR LIVES notamment
Contact : Eric Widmer
Suisse
Haute Ecole Pédagogique, Vaud
- co-supervision de mémoires de Master
Suisse
EPFL, Laboratoire de sociologie urbaine
- publications
- projets de recherche
Suisse
University of Edinburgh, School for Social and Political Sciences & Centre for Family Relationships
- chercheur invité
- publications
- projets de recherche
Grande-Bretagne
Membres associés
Nom | Fonction(s) |
Aeby Gaëlle | Chargée de cours, UNIFR / collaboratrice de recherche, UNIGE |
Alves Barbeiro Ana | Assistante diplômée |
Bolano Danilo | Senior researcher, NCCR LIVES |
Cavalli Stefano | Maître assistant, Centre Interfacultaire de Gérontologie, UNIGE |
Clémence Alain | Professeur associé |
Dasoki Nora | Chargée de recherche, FORS |
Falcon Julie | Collaboratrice scientifique externe |
Fasel Hunziker Rachel | Coordinatrice de recherche, LIVES |
Fassa Recrosio Farinaz | Professeure assistante |
Giudici Francesco | Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University in the city of New York |
Hanappi Doris | Chercheuse Senior SNF |
Hummel Cornelia | Maître d'enseignement et de recherche, Département de sociologie, UNIGE |
Korber Maïlys | Collaboratrice scientifique externe |
Kradolfer Morales Sabine | Chargée de cours |
Labouvie-Vief Gisela | Professeure, Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation, UNIGE |
Lefeuvre Nicky | Professeure, Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques |
Leresche Jean-Philippe | Directeur, Observatoire, Science, Politique, Société |
Levy René | Professeur honoraire |
Lutz Georg | Chef de section de recherche, FORS |
Maggiori Christian | Chercheur FNS senior 1ère année |
Marquis Lionel | Maître d'enseignement et de recherche, Institut d'études politiques et internationales |
Mc Kenzie Tsering | Doctorante FNS |
Oris Michel | Professeur ordinaire, Département d'histoire économique, UNIGE |
Passy Florence | Professeure associée, Institut d'études politiques et internationales |
Rauschenbach Mina | Post-doctoral researcher, Leuven institute for criminology (LINC) |
Roch Pierre-Alain | Public Policy Evaluator, Cour des comptes de Genève |
Roux Patricia | Professeure associée |
Ryser Valérie-Anne | Cheffe de projet de recherche, FORS |
Professeure assistante, Unine | |
Spini Dario | Professeur ordinaire |
Staerklé Christian | Professeur associée |
Vacchiano Mattia | Post-doc Researcher, NCCR LIVES |
Valarino Isabel | Chargée de missions, Bureau de l'égalité |
Vandenplas Caroline | Post-Doctorante, KU Leuven, Belgique |
Wernli Boris | Chef de section de recherche, FORS |
Widmer Eric | Professeur ordinaire, Département de sociologie, UNIGE |
Secrétariat
Nom | Adresse |
Chappuis Anne-Sophie | Bâtiment Géopolis, bureau 5105 |
Teachers

André Berchtold
André Berchtold is Associate Professor in Statistics in the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne. He teaches courses on quantitative methodology and statistics, as well as on substance use, for the BA and MA programs in social sciences. He has a PhD in economic and social sciences, with a specialization in econometrics and statistics, from the University of Geneva. He is also member of the National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES: Overcoming vulnerability, life course perspectives.
Research interests André Berchtold is an expert in statistics applied to the social sciences, and he is developing new methods for the treatment of missing data and for the modeling of longitudinal data using Markovian models. He also has special interest in data collection using life history calendars. In addition to theoretical developments, he also published many articles in the field of health, especially regarding adolescent health and substance use.

Laura Bernardi
Laura Bernardi is Full Professor of sociology and demography of the life course at the Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (LINES) of the University of Lausanne. She is member of the Swiss National Research Council and of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is also co-Editor in Chief of the journal Advances in Life Course Research (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/advances-in-life-course-research) and President of the Scientific Council of the French Institut national d’études démographiques (INED). She teaches on migration, family and social policies, and life course theory. Before arriving to Lausanne, she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, at the Brown University and at the University of Rome.
Laura Bernardi has extensively worked on fertility and family diversity in a life course perspective. She has directed and been involved in several projects on fertility and family, nationally and internationally, studying reproductive choices, intergenerational relationships, family norms, family structures and their consequences on wellbeing and vulnerability.

Felix Bühlmann
Felix Bühlmann studied sociology and political sciences at the University of Geneva, the Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Lausanne. After his PhD at the University of Lausanne (2008), he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Manchester and headed the Swiss social report at FORS. He has been assistant professor (2011) and then associate professor (2017) at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lausanne.
Felix Bühlmann is particularly interested in the sociology of the life course and in economic sociology. His research is about occupational careers, careers of vulnerability and about Swiss and international elites. He has published in the British Journal of Sociology, the European Sociological Review, Sociology and Economy and Society.
Jacques-Antoine Gauthier
Jacques-Antoine Gauthier is sociologist and a senior lecturer at the university of Lausanne (Unil). He teaches an introduction to social sciences research at the bachelor degree and a quantitative approach to the life course perspective at the master degree. Before working at Unil he was a scientific collaborator successively at the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and at Addiction suisse. He was also a Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh from 2017 to 2018.
Research interests His research focuses on the ways in which life trajectories of women and men are shaped, in particular when experiencing transitions such as from school to work, to parentality or to retirement. He aims at uncovering the processes by which social institutions such as school, the family or the labor market anticipate and reproduce the systems of roles and values that form the frame for specific gender relationships. To do so, he is follwing a life course perspective that shows that individual trajectories are multidimensional, strongly interdependent and sensitive to the timing of events as well as to the context in which they take place.

Lavinia Gianettoni
Lavinia Gianettoni is a social psychologist. Her research focuses on gender inequalities and their intertwining with other hierarchical social relationships (class, sexuality, nationality, religion, etc.). In her recent research, she has more precisely analysed how the gender, institutional and ideological system influences the career aspirations of young people at the end of their schooling. She is currently conducting longitudinal research to assess how the experience of sexist or homophobic discrimination impacts vocational training trajectories and the risks of disruption or drop-out that can result from it.

Michael Grätz
Michael Grätz joined LINES at UNIL with an Ambizione grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. In addition, he is a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. Before, he worked at Nuffield College, University of Oxford and at Bielefeld University. He received his PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute (EUI) in 2015.
His research aims at understanding the intergenerational transmission of advantage. For this purpose, he conducts both descriptive studies estimating differences in social mobility across countries, over time, and between groups within societies as well as causal studies that identify the effects of institutions on social mobility. A particular emphasis of his work is on socioeconomic differences in the impact of demographic factors, such as parental separation, and differences between siblings on children. Furthermore, his research explores which mechanisms underlie the intergenerational transmission of advantage, in particular the contribution of parenting to this process.
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René Knüsel
René Knüsel has been an ordinary professor of sociology of social policies and social problems since 2004. After training in political science at the University of Lausanne, he taught, among other things, social policies at the University of Fribourg; he has collaborated with various health and social schools in French-speaking Switzerland. Among the approaches it has relied on is intervention research.
Her research focuses on a variety of social issues, including the issue of child abuse, career end-of-career issues, self-help groups. He has also developed research on the social and solidarity economy. His work also focuses on social and political minorities.

Jean-Marie Le Goff
Jean-Marie Le Goff is a socio-demographer and a senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences (Unil). He holds a PhD in demography from the University of Paris Panthéon Sorbonne (1995). His teaching in Lausanne focuses on research methods, particularly quantitative methods. His work focuses on life course transitions, notably the transition to parenthood and inequalities along family life courses. He is interested in longitudinal quantitative methods, particularly life course events and transitions analysis. Moreover, he follows since 2006 about twenty families living in French-speaking Switzerland that he regularly interviews about their family life.
Anne Marcellini
Anne Marcellini is Associate Professor in Sociology of Sport at the Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (LINES) of the University of Lausanne. She is in charge of the Master Degree in "Adapted Physical Activities and Health" of the Institute of Sport Sciences. She published Body, Sport, Handicaps. The handisport movement in the 21st century. Sociological readings (Téraèdre, 2014), and Disability, Recognition and "Community living". Diversity of practices and the benefits (Alter Review, European Journal of Disability Research, special issue, 2, 2018). Before coming to Lausanne, she headed the "Health, Education and Disabling Situations" research center of the University of Montpellier.
Expertise Anne Marcellini has worked since the 1990s on the process of social participation, social inclusion and identity construction of people with disabilities. She is a specialist in qualitative approaches of body practices and social uses of damaged bodies. Her research focuses since 2008 in the field of visual and filmic sociology.

Davide Morselli
Davide Morselli's main research focus is on the psychosocial dynamics of social change and the effects of context on individual world-views and attitudes. He has been studying the psychosocial adaptation to critical life events and has been involved in the implementation of retrospective methods in survey designs to collect biographical data.

Daniel Oesch
Daniel Oesch is associate professor at the Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (LINES) of the University of Lausanne and member of the NCCR LIVES. He teaches classes on social stratification and the life course, the labour market and employment policy. He is the author of two books: Occupational Change in Europe (2013, Oxford University Press) and Redrawing the Class Map (2006, Palgrave Macmillan). Before coming to Lausanne in 2010, he worked at the Universities of Geneva, Pompeu Fabra and Zurich. He has been involved in several large surveys on unemployment in Switzerland, studying the employment trajectories after mass displacement or the role of social contacts for the access to jobs.
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Caroline Roberts
Caroline Roberts is Assistant Professor in Survey Methodology. She is currently co-director of LINES, and is also in charge of the MA in Public Opinion and Survey Methodology, for which she teaches courses on survey research methods and questionnaire design. She also teaches quantitative methods for undergraduates. She has a PhD in Social Psychology and a MSc in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to working at UNIL, she worked at the LSE, the UK’s Office for National Statistics, City University London, and Stanford University, as a survey methodologist in the coordinating teams of a number of large-scale social surveys.
Research interests Caroline’s main areas of expertise are in survey methodology and the measurement of social attitudes. Her research interests concern the optimisation of survey data collection protocols, and the measurement and reduction of different types of survey error, with a particular focus on methods to assess nonresponse error, and the antecedents of response errors. Her current research investigates the potential for incorporating smartphone app-based data collection in the context of web surveys of the general population, focusing especially on ways to address public concerns about data privacy and reduce respondent burden.

Stephanie Steinmetz

Leen Vandecasteele
Leen Vandecasteele is an Associate Professor at the Life Course and Inequality Centre (LINES) of the University of Lausanne. She is also a member of the National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES. Having obtained her PhD from the University of Leuven, she continued her career as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manchester and visited the University of Harvard as a visiting fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy. She was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and from 2012 to 2017, she worked as a Junior Professor at the University of Tuebingen in Germany.
Research interests Leen Vandecasteele’s main areas of interest are social inequality, poverty and social policy in a life course perspective. She has a particular interest in uncovering processes of cumulative disadvantage at crucial life transitions and determining the individual, social network/family and social policy characteristics that help people cope with economic hardship. Her research examines differences between countries as well as within countries between smaller units of aggregation such as neighbourhoods and trends over time. She works with large-scale quantitative cross-national and longitudinal data sources. Leen Vandecasteele is currently conducting a research project financed by the SNSF on partner effects, in which she analyses the influence of one partner’s socio-economic characteristics on the other partner’s labour market transitions, taking into account different contextual factors. She is also involved in research of the NCCR LIVES on the question how the meso-level and policy context affects trajectories of economic vulnerability.

Ajdacic Lena
Has a background in sociology and political sciences. She completed her dissertation at the University of Lausanne, where she studied the rise of top incomes and the gender patterns in corporate leadership. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Amsterdam where she was part of the CORPNET research group.
In November 2023 she joined the Institute of Social Sciences as a post-doctoral researcher in a project focusing on the financial sector in Switzerland. Her current work encompasses several key areas, including the career aspirations of recent generations of business graduates, the role of various types of networks structuring the industry and finally, the dynamics, and cleavages in the sector due to the expansion of the crypto valley.

Nursel Alkoç
is a graduate assistant at the Institute de social sciences and a PhD candidate in the framework of the FORS-SSP common scientific program since May 2021. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Boğaziçi University and a master’s degree in public opinion and survey methodology from the Universities of Lausanne, Lucerne, and Neuchatel. Her main research interests are social inequalities, political participation, intersectionality, and quantitative research methods.

Marc Asensio Manjon
Marc Asensio is a graduate assistant of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne since November 2019 and a PhD cancidate in the framework of the FORS-SSP collaboration program. Marc holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and a MSc in Survey methods for social research (University of Essex). Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Research and Expertize Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM) where he was mainly involved in projects related to the European Social Survey.
His main research interests are survey data quality, web surveys, questionnaire design & improvement and new tools for data collection.

Johanna Behr

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Flavien Bonelli
Flavien Bonelli holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a master’s degree in Socioeconomics, specializing in Demography and Quantitative Methods (University of Geneva). Since October 2024, he has been a graduate assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences and a doctoral candidate within the FORS-SSP collaborative program, the DReMSS platform (Developments in Research and Methods of the Social Sciences). His primary research interests include social inequalities and stratification, life course analysis, family dynamics, and longitudinal quantitative methods. His dissertation focuses on the balance between paid and unpaid work within dual-earner couples.

Guillaume Bornet
Guillaume Bornet is a graduate assistant and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Sciences since October 2023. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in psychology and a Master’s degree in social and intercultural psychology, both from the Université de Lausanne. His main research interests are political attitudes and their link with occupational class. He is also more broadly interested in educational sciences, science communication, and novel quantitative methods.

Alicia Garcia Sierra
Alicia is a postdoctoral researcher on the EQUALOPP (Liberal and Radical Equality of Opportunity) project. She was previously a doctoral candidate in sociology at Oxford-Nuffield College and holds a master's degree in social science research from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her research aims to understand how inequality emerges and is reproduced from one generation to the next, as well as the role that various institutional configurations, such as education systems, play in this context. She is also interested in the use of longitudinal household survey data and causal approache

Vasilena Lachkovska
Vasilena Lachkovska holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Affective Psychology from the University of Geneva. With a passion for national identities, group dynamics, globalization, migration, and culture, she delves into what fosters a sense of belonging in a diverse world. Trained in quantitative methods and multivariate analysis, she explores social cohesion with a methodical approach, sensitive to cultural and human nuances. Driven by the vision of a world where anyone can feel at home anywhere, keep their roots, and enjoy equal opportunities, she embarked on a thesis titled Social Cohesion and Belonging in a Multicultural Context – Switzerland and Beyond.

Claire Mariano
Claire Semaani holds a master’s degree in Public Opinion and Survey Methodology from the Universities of Lausanne, Neuchâtel and Lucerne. She is a graduate assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences since February 2023. Before starting her PhD, she worked on surveys linked to the health of the Swiss population. These experiences gave her the motivation to use her knowledge in Social Sciences for the health domain.
Claire’s main interests lie in quantitative methods, social inequalities and health. Her thesis focuses on the analysis of interrelationships between the family members’ mental health over time.

Andres Martinez Torres
Andrés Martínez Torres holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours degree in International Politics by City University London as well as a Masters of Science in Crisis and Security Management from Leiden University, with a specialisation in the governance of crisis. During his studies, he focused on security studies and radicalisation, ranging from the study of Antifa groups in the UK to the analysis of the Christchurch massacre terrorist manifesto. Andrés also has experience working charities and NGOs both in Switzerland and in the UK, at the local and international levels. He joined LIVES in March 2022 as doctoral student working in the FNS project: "People-Opinion Networks: A study of polarization in word embeddings and social networks in Switzerland and Southern Africa", a multidisciplinary project in collaboration with universities in South Africa and Ireland.
Andrés' research interests revolve around political polarisation and radicalisation at the individual, group, and social levels — both from a political and socio-psychological perspectives. He is also interested in new methodologies to study opinion formation and group relations. His doctoral thesis studies polarization and radicalization in contemporary and historical contexts, using multidisciplinary and innovative methods to study personal relations and opinion formation and change under the supervision of Davide Morselli.

Benjamin Ménard

Benjamin Moles Kalt
Since October 2022, Benjamin Moles is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Sciences. He holds a degree in Sociology from the University of Barcelona and a master's degree in Social Policies, Work and Welfare from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Center of Sociological Studies for Everyday Life and Work (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and the LIVES Center (University of Lausanne).

Katy Morris

Sonia Petrini

Niels Rohrer

Magdalena Spasic
Magdalena Spasic is a PhD student in sociology at the ISS (SSP - UNIL) and the LIVES center. Her thesis is supervised by Laura Bernardi and co-supervised by Jöelle Darwiche. With a background in psychology, her interests focus on youth’s development and prevention. She particularly focuses in her thesis on the beneficial and detrimental dimensions influencing children’s well-being according to custody arrangements in Switzerland.

Gina-Julia Westenberger


Marion Beetschen
Marion Beetschen is editorial assistant for the Swiss Journal of Sociology.


Jeremy Kuhnle
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Horizon Europe project "EqualStrength" at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and an external research fellow at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim (Germany). Before moving to Lausanne, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Trento Center for Social Research Methods at the University of Trento (Italy).
I completed my doctoral studies at the University of Mannheim in September 2021, I also hold a M.A. from the University of Mannheim. Prior to Mannheim, I completed my undergraduate education in the Indiana University system.
My research investigates the role of work, occupations, and organizations on social inequality and discrimination, with a particular focus on gender and ethno-racial groups. I am interested in how inequality is created, maintained, and promoted through discrimination in different life domains e.g., employment, housing, and childcare.

Steven Piguet
Steven Piguet studied Political Science and History at UniL (MA 2009). Since 2007, he has been woriking on the SNSF research project “Swiss Elites in the 20th century”.
He is also associated with the Observatory of Swiss Elites (Obelis) founded in 2015 and the technical platform of LaDHUL (PlaTec) since 2019.
Currently, he contributes to data management for the FNS projects “Financial elite,” “Rockefeller fellows,” “Local power structures and transnational connections”. He is also a research assistant at Geneva University in an ERC project on “Citizen Sciences”.

Thierry Rossier
Thierry Rossier is a senior researcher at the University of Lausanne in the frame of the SNSF Sinergia FamyCH project, and a visiting fellow in the Department of Sociology at London School of Economics. He finished a PhD in political science at the same university in 2017. After that, he obtained three postdoctoral grants to stay at Copenhagen Business School, LSE, and the University of Fribourg. He is interested in inequality, stratification, precariousness, and the life course, and has published on topics related to the sociology of elites, the sociology of science, the social studies of economics, and the sociology of work and employment. He also is a specialist of descriptive quantitative methodologies, such as sequence analysis, geometric data analysis, and social network analysis. In the FamyCH project, he is co-responsible of the implementation of the project’s panel survey, and focuses specifically on the inequality determinants of children’s and parents’ health, well-being, and precariousness in the context of post-separation custody arrangements, using longitudinal and inferential methods.