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Areas of Research

The Geography Teacher Training Unit (GTT) is an interdisciplinary group with three main research areas:

  • Geographies of Young People and Education (Link)
  • Climate and Glacier Change in Communication (Link)
  • Hazards and Risks in Mountains (Link)

Ongoing Research Projects

 

Institutional conditions for racially and/or socio-economically minoritized students at highly selective secondary schools in Switzerland
SNSF-project (10/2026-09/2030) 

Contact: Dr. Sara Landolt

Proyecto Glaciares+

Contact: Dr. Holger Frey

Jugendliche auf dem Weg ins Gymnasium. Wie wirken Bildungsaspirationen, Übergänge und Marketisierungsprozesse in Bildungskontexten zusammen? Abstract (PDF, 88 KB)

Contact: Dr. Itta Bauer, Dr. Sara Landolt

Soziomaterielle Geographiedidaktik 

Contact: Dr. Itta Bauer

Geographies of Education (Link, "Research Interests" )

Contact: Dr. Itta Bauer

Young People migrating at the end of compulsory school - Starting a new life, new networks and new job prospects in a transnational social space

Contact: Dr. Sara Landolt

Completed Research Projects

 

Young people’s transition to Gymnasium and the role of private and public supplementary learning programsLink

  • Contact: Dr. Sara Landolt & Dr. Itta Bauer

Home as a Space of Youth Nightlife - Characterizations and Conceptualizations of Home

(in Projektpartnerschaft zu Dusk2Dawn: Charachterizing Youth Nightlife Spaces, Activities, and Drinks)

  • Contact: Dr. Sara Landolt

Living in uncertain situations: Everyday lives of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Switzerland

  • Contact: Dr. Sara Landolt

Youth@Night - A multi-disciplinary multi-method study of young people's going out and drinking behaviors

  • Contact: Dr. Sara Landolt

Unemployment as crisis - youth in crisis? Insights from recent labour migration from southern Europe to Switzerland

Contact: Dr. Sara Landolt

Jugendgeographien: Ein subjekt- und handlungsorientierter Ansatz in Theorie und Praxis 

  • Contact: Dr. Itta Bauer

Südstadtkids

  • Contact: Dr. Itta Bauer

Trinkräume und Treffpunkte Jugendlicher. Aushandlungsprozesse im öffentlichen Raum der Stadt Zürich.

  • Contact: Dr. Sara Landolt

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