NCCR Guide 2013 - Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Topics
The phenomenon of vulnerability
in terms of social
exclusion or precariousness
threatens individual
life trajectories. The monetary
costs of stress among
the Swiss population are
estimated to amount 8 billion
Swiss francs in the year
2000. LIVES investigates
life trajectories of about
25000 people in Switzerland
across domains, such as
health, family, work, and institutions
in a comparative
and longitudinal perspective.
The overall objective is
to combine socio-economic,
psycho-social and sociopolitical
dimensions to capture
the complexity of vulnerability
dynamics in modern
society.
Members of the Advisory Board
Its interdisciplinary teams
are devoted to study individual
lives from early to
late adulthood and look at
critical events and life sequences
with respect to
three main issues. First,
the processes and states of
vulnerability are studied by
relating social structures,
institutions, and individual
life course, and policy interventions.
Second, the
debate on “new social risks”
such as growing instability
of personal relations, labour
market uncertainty,
and consequences of the
economic crises is linked
to the analysis of the life
course within various welfare-state
regimes. Third,
diffusion and accumulation
effects of critical events
and the efficacy of individual
resources to cope with
stress are examined.
The Universities of Lausanne
and Geneva build on
a ten-year collaboration
and experience in empirical
and methodological research
within the PaVie
Center. The NCCR LIVES
collaborates also with the
Swiss Centre of Expertise
in the Social Sciences
(FORS), the Swiss Federal
Statistical Office (FSO) and
with several renowned institutes
and outstanding
life course experts at international
level.
Prof. Billari Bocconi Francesco University, of Oxford, UK
Prof. honorary Lalive d’Epinay Christian University of Geneva, CH
Prof. de Ribaupierre Anik University of Geneva, CH
Prof. Kohli Martin
European University Institute, Florence, IT
Prof. honorary Levy René University of Lausanne, CH
Prof. Lindenberger Ulman MPI, Berlin, DE
Prof. Marshall Victor
University of North Carolina, US
Prof. Mayer Karl-Ulrich
Yale University, US
Prof. McMullin Julie
University of Western Ontario, CA
Prof. Settersten Richard
Oregon State University, US
Prof. Thompson Elizabeth Stockholm University, SE and University of Wisconsin, US
Third Party Cooperation
Programmes
• Population Europe – Network of
Europe’s leading demographic
research centres
Research Institutions
• Birkbeck Institute for Social
Research, Birkbeck College,
University of London, GB
• Population Change and Lifecourse:
Strategic Knowledge Cluster,
University of Western Ontario,
London, CA
• Center for Healthy Ageing
Research, Oregon State University,
Corvallis, US
• Center for Research on Inequalities
and the Life Course, Yale
University, New Haven, US
• Center on Ageing and the Life
Course, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, US
• Centre de Recherche et d’Etudes
en Gestion, Université de Pau
et des Pays de l’Adour, FR
• Centre d’étude de l’emploi,
Ministère du travail,
Noisy-le-Grand, FR
• Centre for Analysis of Social
Exclusion, London School of
Economics and Political Science, GB
• Centre of Gender Research,
University of Oslo, NO
• Department of Sociology,
Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, US
• Department of Sociology,
University of Western Ontario,
London, CA
• Dipartimento Sanita, Scuola
Universitaria Professionale della
Svizzera Italiana, Manno, CH
• Etudes sur le Genre et la Diversité
en Gestion, Université de Liège, BE
• Hallie Ford Center for Healthy
Children and Families, Oregon
State University, Corvallis, US
• Industrial Psychology & People
Management, University of
Johannesburg, ZA
• Institute of Longitudinal Studies in
Education, University of Bamberg, DE
• Laboratoire d’Economie et de
Sociologie du Travail, Centre
national de la recherche
scientifique, Aix-Marseille
Université, FR
• Mobilité, logement et entourage,
Institut National Etude
Démographiques, Paris, FR
• Organizational Behaviour and
Human Resources department,
ESCP Europe, Paris, FR
• Service Psychiatrie de Liaison,
Hôpitaux Universitaires de
Lausanne, CH
• Social Policy Research Unit,
University of York, GB
• Forum suisse pour l’étude des
migrations et de la population,
Université de Neuchâtel, CH
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