PhD Projects
Ongoing Ph.D. Theses
| Merlin Hebecker | Realities that count: Going beyond numbers of short-term labour migration in Zurich's hospitality sector |
| Harry Parfitt | An Ethnography of Care Home Labour: (Re/De)Compositions in the Context of AI and Organised Struggle |
| Barfuss, Reta | "I Need More Hours." Experiences of Underemployment in Switzerland’s Cleaning Sector |
| Meyer-Habighorst, Christiane | Care Platforms as Ambivalent Responses to the Crisis of Care Platform Narratives and Workers’ Experiences |
| Schneck, Jason | Nursing the organisation, not the resident? A critical perspective on the labour process in Swiss nursing homes |
Completed Ph.D. Theses
| Ettarfi, Khaoula | Bridge Over Troubled Water: Working Realities on Carework Platforms in Geneva (2025) Zora |
| Keller, Marisol | Living the Platform Economy – Exploring Digital Labour Geographies by Doing Autoethnographic Research (2024) Zora |
| Steiner, Jennifer |
Decent Care Work? Negotiating Transnational Home Care Arrangements (2021) Zora |
| Stingl, Isabella | (Im)possible Selves: Exploring Refugees' Experiences of Work and Migration in Switzerland (2021) Zora |