Country: Switzerland

DAISIE 

DAISIE investigates the gendered impacts of policies aimed at extending working life (EWL). The project has four research objectives:

  1. Analyse EWL policies from a gender-sensitive perspective;
  2. Trace intra-national continuities and change in gendered employment and family formation patterns over time;
  3. Assess the current working conditions of the 50+ group;
  4. Explore the wellbeing and health issues faced by male and female 50+ workers in three contrasting occupations.

Final Conference – Call for papers

Organiser: Karlstad University, Sweden and Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this event will take place exclusively on-line
Dates: May 25–26, 2021

See here for more information on the conference

PremLife

PremLife investigates what factors provide protection and increase resilience for preterm children’s life course outcomes. Preterm birth is an increasingly important cause of inequality in Europe.

Incidence rates and survival after preterm birth have increased while rates of adverse outcomes across the lifespan remain. The project considers protective/resiliency factors at the individual, micro-system (family and peers) and macro-system (countries) levels.

GEIGHEI

GEIGHEI examines how Genes and the Environment (GxE) interact to generate inequalities in education and health over the life course. We test two novel hypotheses:

  1. Children born into advantaged environments are better able to reach their genetically conditioned education potential;
  2. A privileged environment protects against genetic susceptibility to risky health behaviour.

Both hypotheses propose a GxE interplay that influences the transition from early childhood to adulthood in periods that are critical to the generation of inequalities.

CRITEVENTS

CRITEVENTS studies the impact of two critical life events – job loss and union dissolution – on the life trajectories of adults and their children.

The main objectives are to understand:

  1. How job loss and union dissolution contribute to the accumulation of (dis)advantage over the life course;
  2. What mechanisms explain the (unequal) impact of these events;
  3. Which work and family policies are effective in targeting these mechanisms in order to reduce inequality.