Olivia Frigo-Charles

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

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

www.zhaw.ch/de/sozialearbeit/institute-zentren/ivgt/

Expertise and research interests

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

Educational background

2022 - today: PhD candidate, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich
Dissertation project: "Left behind? Formations of crisis and community in deindustrialised South Wales"

2019-2021: Master of Arts in Social Sciences, University of Zurich (Major Empirical Cultural Studies; Minor Gender Studies).

09.2020-12.2020: term abroad during the master's program at the University of Cambridge (MPhil in Social Anthropology with a focus on "Gender, Kinship and Care")

2016-2019: Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences, University of Zurich (Major Empirical Cultural Studies; Minor Educational Studies)

Professional milestones

09.2021-present: Research assistant, Institute of Diversity and Social Integration, ZHAW Social Work

09.2021-12.2021: Teaching Assistant: tutorage for the Bachelor module "Everyday Cultures: Histories, Theories, Fields" (Prof. Dr. Moritz Ege), Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich

02.2021-06.2021: Teaching Assistant: tutorage for the Bachelor module "Popular Literatures and Media: History, Theories, Fields" (Prof. Dr. Christine Lötscher), Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich

02.2021-06.2021: Conception and realisiation of a student colloquium entitled "Compatibility of family and work from a cultural studies perspective", Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich

09.2019-08.2020: Intern Events and Communication, Karl der Grosse, City of Zurich

2016-2020: Various part-time jobs

08.2015-11.2015: Internship at a children's home in Sicily, Italy

Membership of networks

• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, Sektion Zürich
• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung SGGF
• ORCID (Portraitseite)

Projects

• Pandemic-resilient Space for Sustainable Cities - Urban Places for the Pandemic Resilience of Young People. / Team member / Project ongoing
• Accompanying evaluation of the Disability Rights Action Plan / Team member / Project ongoing
• Niederschwellige Partizipation von Kindern und Jugendlichen / Team member / Project ongoing
• Institutional prevention of sexual violence in socio-educational institutions / Team member / Project ongoing
• Gewaltprävention bei (potenziellen) Tatpersonen / Team member / Project completed
• Politische Partizipationsformen und Motivation von Jugendlichen sich zu engagieren / Team member / Project completed
• Gewaltprävention bei besonders vulnerablen Betroffenengruppen häuslicher Gewalt (GbvG) / Team member / Project completed
• Partizipatives Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekt: Stärkung der Partizipation von Jugendlichen / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• 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

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