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Research Interests
I am a human geographer with research interests in geographies of education and youth, education policy and governance, urban inequalities, educational transitions, and qualitative methods.
My Ph.D. project draws on ethnographic research to study the relations between education policy and urban socioeconomic inequalities by focusing on the lives of young people at educational transitions. My project is part of the SNSF-funded study on Young people's transition to Gymnasium and the role of private and public supplementary learning programs.
I am part of the research group Geographies of Young People and Education.
Education
Since 2021: Ph.D. Candidate in Human Geography, University of Zurich
10/2023-12/2023: Visiting scholar at Loyola University Chicago (supported with a GRC Travel Grant)
2021: Master of Science in Geography, University of Zurich
2019: Bachelor of Science in Geography (Major, University of Zurich) and Cartography (Minor, ETH Zurich)
Talks
Using Spatial Analysis to Explore the Role of Urban Inequalities in Adolescent Students’ Elite Identity Formation (11/2023). Visiting scholar lecture co-hosted by the Schools of Social Work, Education and Sociology at Loyola University Chicago, Chicago/US.
Public Secondary Schools as Unintentional Drivers of Educational Injustice at the Transition to Gymnasium (08/2023). Poster presentation at the Conference of the Academy of Sociology, Bern/CH.
#DON’T GIVE UP – Techniken der Selbstführung Jugendlicher am Bildungsübertritt ans Zürcher Kurzzeitgymnasium (06/2023). Vortrag am Jahreskongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaften für Bildungsforschung und Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung, Zürich/CH.
Der Übertritt Jugendlicher ans Gymnasium und die Rolle privater und öffentlicher Prüfungsvorbereitungsprogramme (03/2023). Vortrag und Leitung Workshop mit I. Bauer, S. Landolt, C. Reh, H. Sommer. Schulleitungskonferenz Schulkreis Uto, Zürich/CH.
Technologien des Selbst unter Jugendlichen: Eine gouvernementalitätstheoretische Betrachtung des Bildungsübertritts ans Gymnasium in Zürich (01/2023). Vortrag an der Tagung Neue Kulturgeographien, Halle/DE.
Of Aspirations, Discipline and Solidarity: an Ethnography of a Highly Selective Educational Transition in Zurich (09/2022). Presentation at the Humangeographische Sommerschule, Bernau/DE.
Methodenvielfalt entdecken, Praxisbeispiele austauschen: Qualitative Sozialforschung mit Jugendlichen in Bildungskontexten (09/2022). Leitung Forschungswerkstatt mit I. Bauer. Humangeographische Sommerschule, Bernau/DE.
Teaching
Human Geography II: Societal and natural resources (Spring 2023). Course Catalogue
Grundkurs Geographie II: Internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (Spring 2022/23). Course Catalogue
Small Group Teaching (Fall 2021/22). Course Catalogue
Publications
Landolt, L. & Bauer, I. (2023). Children’s technologies of the self within neoliberal governmentality at the educational transition to Gymnasium in Zurich. Children’s Geographies, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2023.2237925