Olivia Frigo-Charles

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research associate, Institute of Diversity and Social Integration, ZHAW Social Work

Focus

Intersectionality, ethnographic methods, (youth) participation, deindustrialisation, postindustrialism, community studies, gender relations in private and public spheres; masculinities and femininities from a cultural studies perspective

Experience

• PhD candidate (dissertation project: "Left behind? Formations of crisis and community in deindustrialised South Wales")
  Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich
  01 / 2022 - today
• Research Associate
  Institute of Diversity and Social Integration, ZHAW Social Work
  09 / 2021 - today
• Teaching assistant & conception and realisiation of a student colloquium
  Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich
  02 / 2021 - 06 / 2021
• Internship Events and Communication
  Karl der Grosse, City of Zurich
  09 / 2019 - 08 / 2020

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Master of Arts in Social Sciences / Major Cultural Studies; Minor Gender Studies
  University of Zurich
  09 / 2019 - 12 / 2021
• Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences / Major Empirical Cultural Studies; Minor Educational Studies
  University of Zurich
  09 / 2016 - 06 / 2019

Network

Membership of networks

Swiss Association for Gender Studies (SAGS)

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0051-8075

Social media

LinkedIn profile of Olivia Frigo-Charles

Projects

• Domestic workers and Covid-19 / Team member / ongoing
• Pandemic-resilient Space for Sustainable Cities - Urban Places for the Pandemic Resilience of Young People. / Team member / ongoing
• Accompanying evaluation of the Disability Rights Action Plan / Team member / ongoing
• Institutional prevention of sexual violence in socio-educational institutions / Team member / ongoing

Publications

• Brandenberg, Elias; Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Kaschlik, Anke; Nägeli, Tobias,

  2025.

  Zwischen Anpassung und Innovation : jugendliche Räume während der Pandemie und die Herausforderungen für die Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit.

  Sozial Extra.

  49(1), pp. 22-26.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12054-025-00745-9

• Frigo-Charles, Olivia,

  2023.

  Narrative der Vereinbarkeit : Väter im Spannungsfeld zwischen Familien- und Erwerbsarbeit.

  Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde.

  119(1), pp. 67-82.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-1042242

• Brandenberg, Elias; Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Kaschlik, Anke; Nägeli, Tobias,

  2024.

  Urban space(s) for young people : a focus for resilient and sustainable cities[paper].

  In:

  Lastman, Robert, ed.,

  Livable Cities – London : a critique of issues affecting life in cities.

  Livable Cities – London, AMPS Conference, London, United Kingdom, 26-28 June 2024.

  AMPS.

  pp. 372-379.

  AMPS Proceedings Series ; 39.1.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-32724

• Frigo-Charles, Olivia,

  2025.

  Forged from the earth : how subterranean resources shaped the lives and culture of South Wales.

  GeoAgenda.

  2025(1), pp. 10-12.

  Available from: https://scnat.ch/de/uuid/i/33b692c9-2b24-5030-bea3-80c776e7b2f3-GeoAgenda_No._12025

• Frigo-Charles, Olivia,

  2024.

  «As Long as We Beat the English» : Rugby als Form des Widerstandes in Wales.

  das bulletin.

  Available from: https://www.ekws.ch/de/bulletin/post/as-long-as-we-beat-the-english

• Frigo-Charles, Olivia,

  2024.

  Navigating crises in deindustrialised South Wales[poster].

  In:

  Decisions, Assessment, Risk and Evidence in Social Work (DARE), Zurich, Switzerland, 20- 21 June 2024.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30983

• Kaschlik, Anke; Hollenbacher, Pia; Brandenberg, Elias; Nägeli, Tobias; Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Mey, Eva,

  2024.

  Young people and space - pandemic-resilient spaces for sustainable cities, urban places for the pandemic resilience of young people : a transformative research project[poster].

  In:

  Annual Conference Programme of NRP 80: Covid-19 in Society, Weggis, Schweiz, 7-8 March 2024.

  ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30799

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara; Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Pizzera, Michele; Muri Koller, Gabriela; Kehl, Konstantin; Nef, Susanne,

  2023.

  Wie kann die Kinder- und Jugendpolitik der Kantone die niederschwellige Partizipation von Kindern und Jugendlichen unterstützen?.

  Zürich:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28772

• Frigo-Charles, Olivia,

  2023.

  A leap of faith : Erfahrungsbericht über einen Forschungsaufenthalt in Wales.

  das bulletin.

  Available from: https://www.dasbulletin.ch/post/a-leap-of-faith-erfahrungsbericht-%C3%BCber-einen-forschungsaufenthalt-in-wales

• Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Adili, Kushtrim; Sager, Daniela,

  2023.

  Interdisziplinäre Gewaltprävention bei vulnerablen Betroffenengruppen.

  SozialAktuell.

  2023(4), pp. 24-25.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29578

• Frigo-Charles, Olivia,

  2023.

  «Ich will nicht Kinder haben, ich will Papa sein.» : zur Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf in der Schweizer Privatwirtschaft mit einem Fokus auf männliche Teilzeitarbeit und Vaterschaftsurlaub.

  1. Auflage.

  Zürich:

  Universität Zürich, Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaft – Populäre Kulturen.

  Werkstücke ; 13.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27682

• Kaschlik, Anke; Brandenberg, Elias; Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Nägeli, Tobias; Mey, Eva; Hollenbach, Pia,

  2023.

  Pandemic-resilient spaces for sustainable cities - urban places for the pandemic resilience of young people : transformative research project[poster].

  In:

  SNSF Corona Research Conference, Thun, Switzerland, 21-23 March 2023.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27770

• Nef, Susanne; Baier, Dirk; Adili, Kushtrim; Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Sager, Daniela; Wardak, Sabera,

  2022.

  Projektbericht Gewaltprävention bei besonders vulnerablen Betroffenengruppen häuslicher Gewalt (GbvG).

  Zürich:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27129

• Nef, Susanne; Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Pizzera, Michele; Streckeisen, Peter; Gisiger, Jasmin; Gertel, Ethan; Suppa, Anna,

  2022.

  Politische Partizipationsformen und Motivation von Jugendlichen sich zu engagieren.

  Beiträge zur Sozialen Sicherheit

  ; 15/22.

  Bern:

  Bundesamt für Sozialversicherungen BSV.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26268

• Kaschlik, Anke; Brandenberg, Elias; Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Koller, Michael Alexander; Nägeli, Tobias,

  2025.

  Jugendliche und ihre urbanen Räume : wie partizipativ und demokratiefördernd kann Forschung mit Jugendlichen sein?.

  In:

  Vierter Trinationaler Workshop Partizipative Forschung in der Sozialen Arbeit, Muttenz, Schweiz, 2.-4. April 2025.

• Frigo-Charles, Olivia,

  2024.

  From steel to screen : industrial decline in South Wales and Michael Sheen’s TV-series The Way.

  In:

  Pop History of Deindustrialization: Narratives, Economies, Identities. “The West” in Global Perspective, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 14-16 November 2024.

• Nägeli, Tobias; Brandenberg, Elias; Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Hollenbach, Pia; Kaschlik, Anke; Mey, Eva,

  2024.

  Urban space(s) for young people : a focus for resilient and sustainable cities.

  In:

  Livable Cities – London, AMPS Conference, London, United Kingdom, 26-28 June 2024.

• Hollenbach, Pia; Frigo-Charles, Olivia,

  2024.

  Social work and disaster governance : exploring ignorance, sense-making, and reflective practice (World Café).

  In:

  Decisions, Assessment, Risk and Evidence in Social Work (DARE), Zurich, Switzerland, 20- 21 June 2024.

• Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Hollenbach, Pia; Kaschlik, Anke; Brandenberg, Elias; Nägeli, Tobias; Mey, Eva,

  2024.

  Urban spaces and youth resilience : youth participation in research and decision making processes.

  In:

  Decisions, Assessment, Risk and Evidence in Social Work (DARE), Zurich, Switzerland, 20- 21 June 2024.

• Nägeli, Tobias; Kaschlik, Anke; Brandenberg, Elias; Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Hollenbach, Pia; Mey, Eva,

  2023.

  Resilience – space – youth.

  In:

  Symposium "From pandemic to polycrisis – learning from Covid-19", Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 November 2023.

• Sager, Daniela; Frigo-Charles, Olivia,

  2023.

  Stärkung der Partizipation von Jugendlichen.

  In:

  Dritter Trinationaler Workshop Partizipative Forschung in der Sozialen Arbeit «Empowerment in der partizipativen Forschung», FH Salzburg, Österreich, 14.-16. Juni 2023.

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