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05/01/2021

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.

12/10/2020

Boys have higher career aspirations than girls

Young men have higher career aspirations than young women. By the age of 15, young people are already adjusting their career aspirations to what they consider to be realistic possibilities in relation to their educational background. Various factors seem to influence vocational aspirations: social status of the occupation, type of post-compulsory education, level of parental education.
07/07/2022

Celebrate with us LIVES first 12 years!

To celebrate the hard work of the 450 researchers and administrative staff who have collaborated with LIVES during its first 12 years, numerous research activities and dissemination of results to scientists, authorities, professionals and the general public have been

06/02/2024

End-of-life healthcare skills - Thesis by Clément Meier

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!

01/07/2022

Exhibition - LIVES. Art Brut and Life courses

The LIVES Centre is collaborating with the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne to organise an exhibition bringing together 7 authors of art brut. From 10 June to 27 November 2022, the works of these Swiss artists or artists who have lived in Switzerland will be exhibited in Lausanne.

13/04/2022

ICSG Deputy Director Awarded LIVES - Fellowship

ICSG's Deputy Director, Dr. Áine Ní Léime has been awarded a 1-year research fellowship from the LIVES Swiss Centre of Expertise on Life Course Research. During this period, Áine will be leading a work programme in conjunction with Prof.

11/12/2020

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).

20/05/2020

LIVES call for research projects

The LIVES Centre invites advanced researchers to submit a research project proposition with an international collaboration until June 30, 2020.

The funding will start as of January 2021 at the earliest and will finish at the end of 2022 at the latest.

19/10/2020

LIVES international call for projects - Congratulations to the 4 winning projects

Four research projects won the international call for proposals launched in May. In total, 21 proposals were submitted and reviewed by a LIVES Board Committee and one external reviewer. They were ranked on the following criteria: expertise, originality, feasibility, interdisciplinarity, output potential, international collaboration as well as the correspondence to LIVES major research goals.
21/09/2023

LIVES Science and Admin team

These past few months several changes occurred within the LIVES Admin and Support team. We said goodbye to Christelle Burri (Secretery), Pascal Maeder (Knowledge transfer Officer) and Sabrina Roduit (Doctoral programme) and welcomed Caroline Jeanneret as LIVES new secretary!

27/10/2020

New overview thanks to the "Swiss Social Policy Dictionary".

The 251 contributions collected in this dictionary illustrate the great diversity and breadth of social policies. Although they are little valued in public opinion, they seem self-evident, operating, so to speak, in the background and on the margins of society, as Stéphane Rossini, Director of the Federal Social Insurance Office (FSIO), points out in the preface to the dictionary. The new edition of the dictionary makes visible both the contents and the historical references of social policies, their relationship and links with other political fields, Swiss specificities and current and future challenges.
20/07/2020

Persistent gender wage gaps in Switzerland

In his thesis, Dr Patrick McDonald observed that for men, marriage is associated with a wage premium, while for women, having children is associated with a wage penalty, especially for young mothers.
10/05/2023

Portrait of Clément Meier

We met Clément Meier, PhD student at the University of Lausanne and member of the LIVES Centre. He tells us about his background, his research and his recent participation in the UNIL final of "Ma thèse en 180 secondes". 

27/02/2024

Portrait of Doriana Tinello

We spoke to Doriana Tinello, a doctoral student at CIGEV (UNIGE's Centre interfacultaire en gérontologie et d'étude des vulnérabilités) and a member of the LIVES Centre. She shares with us what led her to start a doctorate and the challenges of her research.

23/03/2020

Press release - Brain or muscles, what do we lose first?

Researchers from NCCR LIVES and the Swiss Centre for Affectives Sciences (CISA, UNIGE) have shown that the decline in cognitive abilities after 50 years of age results ina decline in physical activity, and that – contrary to what has been suggested by the literature to date – the inverse relationship is much weaker.
22/06/2020

Press release - Less spatial segregation in cantons with many foreigners

In the 22nd issue of the journal Social Change in Switzerland, Jonathan Zufferey and Philippe Wanner (University of Geneva) examine the spatial distribution of the foreign population in Switzerland. Spatial segregation is strongest in the cantons of Bern and Valais and weakest in Geneva, Vaud and Ticino. With regard to nationalities, the highest segregation is observed for nationals from Turkey and North America. 
31/03/2020

Press release - Reducing energy consumption: The inconsistent intentions of the Swiss population

While consumption of fossil fuels is increasing and global awareness of global warming is growing, the intentions of households to reduce their own consumption are not keeping pace. The new issue of the journal Social Change in Switzerland shows with the help of a survey of 5,000 households that only one third of individuals say they want to reduce their carbon footprint. Moreover, among the latter, this intention is hardly translated into concrete intentions in terms of car use, electricity or heating.
26/01/2023

Season's greatings!

What a year!

After an explosive program in 2022, the LIVES Center wishes you a year 2023 full of projects and satisfactions.

We look forward to seeing you again!

The LIVES Centre team

24/01/2023

The LIVES Centre as seen by its members

On 22 June 2022, the LIVES Centre invited its members and alumni at the Olympic museum in Lausanne to party together on LIVES Day... and Night!

On this event, some people had the courage to answer the questions of our cameramen. (videos are in French)