Sofiane Yousfi
Sofiane Yousfi
ZHAW
School of Social Work
Institute of Childhood, Youth and Family
Pfingstweidstrasse 96
8037 Zürich
Work at ZHAW
Position
Research Assistant
Focus
- Early childhood education, care and upbringing
- Open youth work
- Parent cooperation
- Gender & Queer Studies
- Qualitative research methods
Teaching
- Module 10.2: Methods workshop
- S1: Queer Theory and Social Work
- Module 20: Bachelor thesis (accompaniment and second reading)
Experience
- Research Assistant
Zurich University of Applied Sciences / Institute Childhood, Youth and Family
09 / 2024 - today - Socio-cultural specialist (e.g. Open youth work)
Socioculture Illnau-Effretikon
09 / 2023 - 08 / 2024 - Research Assistant
Zurich University of Applied Sciences / Institute Childhood, Youth and Family
09 / 2021 - 08 / 2024 - Early childhood educator
Verein KITAWAS Kindertagesstätte
02 / 2020 - 12 / 2020 - Internship Department of Social Work (Teaching)
University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen
08 / 2019 - 01 / 2020 - Internship Boarding Group
Sprachheilschule St. Gallen
07 / 2018 - 12 / 2018 - Early childhood educator
Verein KITAWAS Kindertagesstätte
08 / 2014 - 06 / 2018 - Apprenticeship as Early childhood educator
Verein für Kindertagesstätten Liechtenstein
08 / 2012 - 07 / 2014 - Internship Early childhood educator
Verein für Kindertagesstätten Liechtenstein
08 / 2011 - 07 / 2012 - Volunteer assignment
India
10 / 2010 - 04 / 2011
Education and Continuing education
Education
- Master of Science ZHAW in Social Work / Specialisation: Transitions and Interventions / Social Work
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
09 / 2020 - 02 / 2023 - Bachelor of Science FHO in Social Work / Specialisation: Social Pedagogy / Social Work
University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen
09 / 2016 - 02 / 2020
Network
Membership of networks
Projects
- Multilingualism makes a difference. On early language education’s multiple impacts on the construction of inequality in childhood / Team member / ongoing
- Preliminary Study on Developing Services for Children, Adolescents, and Families of the St. Stephanus Foundation / Team member / completed
- Psychosocial factors in the everyday life of refugee children in collective centers - an explorative analysis / Team member / completed
- Quality in Day care centers in Zurich: Further education and support / Team member / completed
- Institutional prevention of sexual violence in socio-educational institutions / Team member / completed
- Adoption in forced situations / Team member / completed
- EuSARF 2021: International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents / Team member / completed
Publications
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Yousfi, S., Knoll, A. and Scholian, A. (2026) 'Multilingualism makes a difference : language practices and dealing with multilingualism in early childhood institutions: ethnographic insights', in 7th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Early Childhood Research (SSECR), Fribourg, Switzerland, 2 - 3 February 2026.
- Tausendfreund, T., Yousfi, S. and Gabriel, T. (2023) 'Experiences of violence, abuse, and safety in child and youth care institutions - how safe is safe? : international learnings on experiences of safety, abuse and neglect in care institutions', in 17th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Brighton, United Kingdom, 12-15 September 2023.