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This project investigates social interaction in personnel selection interviews enhanced by digital technology. We will create a database of applicants participating in video interviews (applicants receive a list of interview questions from a recruiter online and then record themselves answering those questions), which are a newly emerging...
The project will study the relationship between how people imagine the future and how social change transpires. We will explore the proposition that social change is guided by people’s imaginings of what the collective future could be like; by the visions of what is possible and anxieties about what should not happen. The aim is to construct a...
Our recent study on families in repeated mobility —i.e. families who move internationally more than once because of the professional expertise of one or both adults—shows that an increasing proportion of such families living in Switzerland are choosing to send their children to local and public schools rather than to private and international...