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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.