Prof. Dr. Isabelle Zinn

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Prof. Dr. Isabelle Zinn Dozentin

2023–2024: Strategic HRM Practices in New Work Environments (SHR2)
2023–2024: New Organizational Forms and Human Resource Management (SHR3)
Since 2023: Sustainable HRM: The Role of Human Resource Management in the Transition towards Sustainable Organizations (SHR4)
Since 2025: Research Methods: Research Design, Planning, and Analysis (Qualitative Methods) (DR2/RM2, DR3/RM3)

I focus my research on the intersection of work, occupations, and gender, with a particular emphasis on qualitative methods such as ethnography. My broader interests include exploring the relationship between life spheres, work-family arrangements, the transformation of work, and resulting inequalities. I earned a joint PhD in social sciences from the University of Lausanne and EHESS, Paris.
I currently co-chair the Swiss Sociological Association’s Gender Studies Committee. I am a founding and board member of LABORIS, the newly created Swiss Labor Research Network. Between 2018 and 2022, I served as co-editor-in-chief of SJSCA (formerly known as tsantsa), the Swiss Journal of Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Since 2023, I am a member of the editorial board of the journal "Nouvelles questions féministes".
Since 2023 I have been a professor (tenure track) at the Bern University of Applied Sciences - Business School and got tenure as Full Professor in 2026

2003-2010 Master Master of Arts in Sociology, Social Anthropology, and Religious Studies University of Fribourg
2010-2017 PhD in Social Sciences/Sociology (joint degree) University of Lausanne & EHESS, Paris