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.
In the 35th issue of the Social Change in Switzerland series, Richard Nennstiel and Rolf Becker compare the educational qualifications of half a million individuals with those of their parents.
Roujman Shahbazian is a researcher at the Department of Sociology at University of Munich and an affiliated researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research
On 4 September 2023, Ivan Leandro Canzio defended his thesis entitled "The Quality of Temporary Employment in Europe: an Assessment of the Individual and Institutional Determinants", under the supervision of Prof. Felix Bühlman and Prof. Jonas Masdonati.
Launched in 2011, at the beginning of the NCCR LIVES, the Doctoral programme trains and supports the next generation of researchers on life-course studies.