Education
PhD in social sciences, 07.2017, University of Lausanne
Title of dissertation:
« Giving voice before giving birth. Temporality in psychosocial counselling for pregnant women (Mettre en mots avant de mettre au monde. Modalités temporelles dans l’accompagnement psychosocial des femmes enceintes) »
PhD advisor: prof. Véronique Mottier (University of Lausanne and Jesus College, Cambridge)
Dissertation committee: prof. Irene Maffi (University of Lausanne), prof. Claudine Burton-Jeangros (University of Geneva), prof. Bruno Perreau (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA)
MA in sociology of religions, 09.2010, University of Lausanne
Title of dissertation:
« Saint-Maurice, Africa. Constructions of collective identities around the African pilgrimage in Saint-Maurice, Switzerland (Saint-Maurice, Afrique. Constructions d’identités collectives autour du Pèlerinage aux Saintes et Saints d’Afrique à Saint-Maurice) ».
MA advisor: prof. Jörg Stolz (University of Lausanne)
BA in History of religions, social sciences and history, 06.2008, University of Lausanne
Positions
05.2022-10.2023
Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellow
Postdoc Mobility Grant for research project « Milk wars: Gender, class and nation in contemporary parenting culture »
See project on this page / on SNSF website
Honorary Research Fellow
Thomas Coram Research Unit (Dr. Charlotte Faircloth & Dr. Rebecca O’Connell), University College London
11.2020-04.2022
Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellow
Early.Postdoc Mobility Grant for research project « The “problem” of the vegan child: An analysis of food politics and parenting culture in Switzerland »
See project on this page / on SNSF website
Visiting scholar
Reproductive Sociology Research Group (prof. Sarah Franklin), University of Cambridge
Visiting scholar
Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (prof. Ellie Lee), University of Kent
09.2019-10.2020
Senior researcher (chercheuse FNS senior)
Centre for Gender Studies (prof. Véronique Mottier), Institute of social sciences, Université de Lausanne
Research project: « Victim narratives, ‘memory work’ and the remaking of Swiss national identity: a discourse analysis of the memorialisation of compulsory social measures and placements in Switzerland in comparative perspective », led by prof. Véronique Mottier.
See project on SNSF website / on National Research Program 76 website
01.2018 – 08.2020
Senior research fellow (adjointe scientifique)
Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud, Haute Ecole de Suisse Occidentale,
Research project: « Interprofessional collaboration in hospital settings »
02.2019 – 07.2019
Academic lecturer (chargée de cours)
Institute of social sciences, Université de Lausanne
09.2017 – 01.2018
Junior lecturer (première assistante)
Institute of social sciences, Université de Lausanne
03.2015 – 08.2017
Teaching assistant (assistante diplômée)
Institute of social sciences, Université de Lausanne
09.2013 – 02.2015
Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellow
Doc.Mobility grant for research project « Les enjeux des politiques de la grossesse. Discours institutionnels, représentations subjectives et genre dans l’accompagnement des grossesses »
See project on SNSF website
Visiting scholar
Department of Sociology and Anthropology (prof. Laura Frader), Northeastern University
Visiting scholar
Foreign Languages and Literature (prof. Bruno Perreau), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visiting scholar
Anthropology Department (prof. Heather Paxson), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10.2010 – 08.2013
Teaching assistant (assistante diplômée)
Institute of social sciences, Université de Lausanne
09.2008 – 09.2010
Research assistant (assistante étudiante)
Institute of social sciences of contemporary religions (prof. Jörg Stolz), Université de Lausanne
09.2006 – 06.2007
Visiting student
Georg-August Universität Göttingen
Grants and Awards
06.2021
11.2019
05.2014
05.2013
10.2012
09.2011
09.2006
Postdoc.Mobility grant, Swiss National Science Foundation (129’383.- CHF)
Early Postdoc.Mobility grant, Swiss National Science Foundation (151’900.- CHF)
Gender Equality grant for registration fees, University of Lausanne (775.- CHF)
Doc.Mobility scholarship, Swiss National Science Foundation (75’060.- CHF)
Gender Equality grant for interview transcriptions, University of Lausanne (3’100.- CHF)
Award for the best master thesis, Faculté de théologie et de sciences des religions, University of Lausanne
Scholarship from the Theologische Fakultät, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany (€4000)
Edmée Ballif 