Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience
- 1999 - 2026 Professor at the FHNW School of Social Work
- Dr. phil., Sociology (University of Zurich)
- Studies in sociology and cultural anthropology (University of Zurich)
Main focus
Research
- Social policy and social security
- Unemployment and labour market inclusion
- Labour market (precarious employment, employability)
- Ethnography (institutional ethnography, ethnography of the welfare state and social work practice)
- Organisation and profession
- Gender
Teaching
- Qualitative research methods
- Unemployment, labour market inclusion, precarious employment
Further information
Curriculum vitae
Memberships, review & commission activities
- Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation and scientific journals (Swiss Journal of Sociology , Symbolic Interaction, Ethnography and Education, Sozialer Sinn, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziale Arbeit)
- Co-founder and co-editor of the book series “Schriften zur Sozialen Frage”, Seismo Verlag, Zurich
- Advisory Board of the journal “Sozialer Sinn”