PhD Projects
Ongoing Ph.D. Theses
Keller, Marisol |
How digital labour platforms reshape spatio-temporal patterns of work |
Balaguer Rasillo, Xavier | Emerging forms of ‘Commoning’ in Spain: Theoretical and practical grounds for new worlds |
Steiner, Jennifer | Decent Care Work? Negotiating Transnational Home Care Arrangements |
Stingl, Isabella | Subjected through work? Refugees’ experiences in accessing labor markets in Switzerland |
Wirth, Manuel | Impact investing and the shift towards measurement and behaviorism in the United Kingdom’s social policy making |
Completed Ph.D. Theses
Bernhold, Christin |
Upgrading, competitive strategies, and uneven development: Embedding upgrading of Argentinian soft commodity chains in its political-economic environment (2019) |
Herrigel, Johanna |
Making global markets for the poor. Shifting the frontier of global agroexport markets in Tanzania’s horticulture industry. (2019) |
Noori, Simon |
Managing borders and mobilities in a globalizing world. On private companies, socio-material technologies and managerial rationalities in the governing of cross-border movements. (2018) |
Chau, Huey Shy |
Brokering Labour Migration. The Role of Home Care Agencies in the Migration of Live-in Care Workers in Switzerland. (2017) |
Bodies That Work, Discourses That Care: Powerful Narratives of Elder Care on the Move. (2017) |
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Robin, Catherine |
Facetten der kreativen Arbeit: Eine empirische Untersuchung von kreativen Arbeitspraktiken im Spannungsfeld von sozialen Feldern und Wertewelten. (2016) |
Latzke, Peter |
Wert(e) der Drecksarbeit: Eine netzwerktheoretische Betrachtung der Qualifizierung und Marketization von Arbeit in arbeitsintensiven Dienstleistungen am Beispiel der Gebäudereinigung. (2015) |
Kaspar, Heidi |
Erlebnis Stadtpark. Alltägliche Raumkonstruktionen am Beispiel städtischer Grünräume. (2011) |
Schwiter, Karin |
Lebensentwürfe. Junge Erwachsene im Spannungsfeld zwischen Individualität und Geschlechternormen. (Life Plans. Young Adults caught between Individuality and Gender Norms), submitted to the University of Basel. (2010) |