Postdoctoral Researcher Snsf in Sociology of The

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Lausanne, Schweiz Université de Lausanne Vollzeit

**Introduction**:
UNIL is a leading international teaching and research institution, with over 5,000 employees and 17,000 students split between its Dorigny campus, CHUV and Epalinges. As an employer, UNIL encourages excellence, individual recognition and responsibility.

**Presentation**:
**The Institute of Social Sciences of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences**

opens a position of

**Postdoctoral Researcher SNSF in sociology of the family**

funded by a Sinergia grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation

**Job information**:
**Starting date**: September 1, 2023

**Contract length**: 1 year, renewable 2 years, maximum 3 years

**Activity rate**: 100%

**Workplace**: University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Institute of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Geopolis building, Lausanne

**Job insertion**: The position is placed under the responsibility of Laura Bernardi, Full Professor, LIVES center, Institute of Social Sciences, UNIL

**Salary**:Based on the salary scale set out by the Canton of Vaud for postdoctoral researcher SNSF funded by grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation

**Your responsibilities**:

- You will coordinate the activities to conceive and implement the project original panel survey, under the supervision of Laura Bernardi and in collaboration with the projects principal investigators (PI) and in connection with the survey institute mandated to realize the data collection.
- You will focus your research on original data on children's post-separation custody trajectories and indicators of parents’ and children wellbeing
- You will present in international conferences and publish in scientific journals in collaboration with the PI.
- You will be involved in the collaboration with the societal stakeholders of the project and the with the international advisory board of the project

See job description here.

**Job description**:
You will work on a research project funded by a Sinergia grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (CRSII5_213601). The project is titled "FamyCH: Family Custody Arrangements and Child Well-Being in Switzerland”, and its grant applicants are: Prof. Joëlle Darwiche, main coordinator, University of Lausanne; Prof. Laura Bernardi, University of Lausanne; Prof. Sabrina Burgat, University of Neuchâtel; Prof. Elli Mosayebi, ETH Zurich.

The project focuses on post-separation custody arrangements and their impact on children and will contribute to the identification of risk and resilience factors for child well-being after parental union dissolution in Switzerland. Four interdisciplinary studies will be conducted: 1) a national panel survey to assess indicators of child well-being in three different living arrangements 2) a psychological study to assess daily relational dynamics of parents and children within the three family structures; 3) a housing study to assess the experience and practices of housing and mobility patterns using in-depth ethnographic observation; and 4) a legal study to assess the arguments defining the legal decisions about children’s physical custody in legal documents.

**Your qualifications**:

- You have a Doctoral degree in Demography, Sociology, Social Sciences or equivalent
- You have worked or are highly motivated to research on family structure, family dynamics and children wellbeing. Experience or Interest in institutional regulation of families is also an asset.
- You are well-trained in social statistics, panel data analyses and research methodology and willing to learn more advanced methods if necessary.
- Having participated to the conception and realisaton of a large survey is an asset
- You are organized, self-reliant, able to work independently, cooperative and with positive attitudes towards team work
- You master written and spoken English, fluency in written and spoken French and / or Italian is desirable

**What the position offers you**:

- You will have a chance to be a part of a project which aim at producing integrated empirical evidence to further theory, research, and practice on children living conditions and social inequalities among children related to family structure and dynamics.
- You will gain experience in working in an interdisciplinary team with both academic and non-academic experts in the field of child well-being following union dissolution.
- You can profit from the support for conference participation but also of the LIVES graduate school (doctoral and postdoctoral level courses)

**Contact for further information**:
**Additional information**:

- UNIL is committed to equal opportunities and diversity._
- UNIL supports early career researchers._



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