The next FORS Lunch Seminar will take place on Tuesday February 14, 2023 from 12:45 to 13:45 in Room 5899. 

Presenters:

Jonathan Jubin^a, Emilie Antille^b, Vladimir Jolidon^b, Léonard Roth^b and Isabelle Peytremann Bridevaux^b will present the following project:

^a La Source School of Nursing, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, 1004 Lausanne

^b Epidemiology and Health Systems, Center for Primary Care and Public Health, 1010 Lausanne

The Swiss COhort of Healthcare Professionals and Informal CAregivers (SCOHPICA): Career trajectories, intent to stay/leave the profession, wellbeing, and their determinants

Abstract 

To address the shortage of qualified personnel and prepare for the future, the Swiss healthcare system needs reliable data on its professionals, their employment trajectory and the reasons why they leave or stay in their profession. However, such data is scarce in Switzerland. Therefore, the SCOHPICA open cohort has started surveying in autumn 2022 professionals working with patients from all sectors of healthcare regardless of their status and practice settings. The longitudinal study design is mixed, consisting of a yearly online questionnaire and biennial focus groups. Additionally, SCOHPICA aims to launch in 2024 a cohort of informal caregivers, who are key yet often forgotten actors of the health system. Raw data and results will be made available to decision-makers and researchers through a repository and an interactive online platform.

There will be coffee and tea as well as a little dessert. Please bring your cup and join us a few minutes before the start of the seminar to get your drink!

To stay up to date concerning the FORS Lunch Seminars, check our website: https://forscenter.ch/events-training/fors-lunch-seminars/

Register for the free online webinar

Introduction to LaRS-SWISSUbase for the Linguistics Community”, that takes place on February 14, 2023 from 15:00-16:00 (CET).

In this webinar, you will learn about the SWISSUbase archiving platform for the linguistics community and the services provided to researchers including data curation, archiving and publishing of your linguistics data.

The session will include a demonstration of the platform and time for questions and answers.

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The 12th International Conference of Panel Data Users in Switzerland will take place on June 14-15, 2023 at the University of Lausanne.

This edition will include thematic sessions as well as a poster session. The thematic sessions cover a wide variety of topics, such as health and well-being, education and labour market, socio-economic inequality and mobility, families, gender, ethnic minorities and migration, politics and attitudes, survey methodology, and longitudinal methods. We also offer the possibility to propose complete sessions on other themes.

We welcome all contributions based on longitudinal data, such as the “Swiss Household Panel” (SHP), the “LIVES-FORS Cohort”, the “Transition from Education to Employment” (TREE), the “Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe” (SHARE), and the “Swiss Survey of Children and Youth” (COCON). As the SHP is a member of the Cross National Equivalent File (CNEF), we especially welcome presentations or posters comparing Switzerland with other countries participating in the CNEF. Please note that the language of the conference is English.

Deadline for abstracts and session proposals is February 17, 2023.

The conference is interdisciplinary, and we welcome participants from all areas of the social sciences. Please submit your session proposal or your abstract for a presentation or a poster to swisspanel@fors.unil.ch.

Abstracts for presentations and posters

Please include in the abstract:

• The names and affiliations of all authors;
• The name(s) and e-mail addresses of the attending author(s);
• The session to which the abstract belongs. Please indicate poster session or one of the thematic sessions listed above. It is possible to suggest more than one suitable session;
• The title of the presentation or the poster;
• An abstract of around 250 words (max. 500).

Session proposals

We can only accept complete session proposals that include at least three presentations. Please include in the proposal:

• Name, affiliation and e-mail address of the chair;
• Title of the session;
• Titles and abstracts (250-500 words each) of the presentations in the session;
• Names, affiliations and e-mail addresses of the presenters.

The PDF of the call

Registration for the 27th edition of the Summer School is OPEN NOW and will remain open until all places are filled or until the 14th of July – whichever is sooner.

This year, once again, we are looking forward to welcoming you for two weeks of learning in August at the beautiful campus of Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano!

The meeting will take place on Tuesday January, 31, 2023, Room 5799, Géopolis, UNIL, 12:15-13:30.

The “Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Research Infrastructures in Switzerland” initiative is piloted by a coordination group consisting of the directors of national research infrastructures (RIs) in the SSH, the national coordinators of international SSH RIs with Swiss participation (CESSDA, CLARIN, DARIAH, ESS, SHARE, GGP) and one representative of the Swiss Academy for the Swiss Academy for Social and Human Sciences (SAGW).

As a follow up to the first event (31 May 2022) and of the position paper (November 2022), the coordination group of this initiative invites the members of the Swiss SSH scientific community interested in research infrastructures to a second event on 18 January 2023.

This meeting has three main objectives.

• First, to raise awareness on the importance of research infrastructure in the SSH domain and how prioritisation and funding works (national and ESFRI roadmap process).
• Second, to share experiences from other countries and the European level on how collaborations between projects and infrastructures work.
• Third, to give a platform to potential new Swiss RIs in the SSH domain in order to reflect on needs of the SSH community and how to create synergies and join forces.

To reach these objectives, we will welcome four invited speakers from abroad (see the updated Programme), who will share their experience of how collaboration and clustering happened successfully in other countries and at the European level. In addition, the floor will also be given to several Swiss projects of RIs in the SSH field with the aim to reflect on user needs and possible synergies. Finally, the day will end with a Round Table with an open discussion, in which invited guests from the SNSF, the SERI, swissuniversities, the SAGW and all members of the audience will have the opportunity to express themselves.

Organizing committee

Prof. Dr. Georg Lutz (FORS)

Dr. Cristina Grisot (DARIAH-CH & CLARIN-CH)

Dr. Elena Chestnova (USI)

Dr. Claire Clivaz (SIB)

Dr. Beat Immenhauser (SAGW)

Further information and registration: https://www.dariah.ch/post/ssh-research-infrastructures-in-switzerland-initiative

The registration for this event is now closed.

The next FORS Lunch Seminar will take place on Thursday, December 8, from 12:45 to 13:45 in room 2879 (Géopolis).

The BUNAVIA-team (Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development, UZH) will present the following project:

BUNAVIA: Development and Learning in Context

Presenters: Prof. Dr. Laura Bernardi, Prof. Dr. Moritz Daum, Dr. Doris Hanappi, Dr. Martin Kindschi, Prof. Dr. Michael Shanahan

Abstract
Rising social inequality and diminishing returns to education make early investment in children’s different living environments (contexte de vie) – their learning, leisure, and school – increasingly important for their development and well-being. BUNAVIA, a project funded by the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development (UZH), and conducted in collaboration with University of Lausanne and the Department of Education Planning of the Canton of Zurich, investigates the impact of context on child development by studying social networks and the development of identity. It pays particular attention to the perception of autonomy, self-efficacy, and self-regulation during transitional phases, for example, starting school, changes within and between schools. Since Spring 2022, BUNAVIA is part of the Zurich Learning Progress Study (Zürcher Lernverlaufserhebung). Data will be collected via web-based surveys from parents and in-class assessments from the focal child (age 4-5 entering premier cycle primaire/kindergarten,) in the Canton Zurich in Fall 2023. As BUNAVIA plans to propose a parallel study in the canton Vaud, the presentation will give an overview of the project and a summary of its main concepts, research priorities, and data collection design.

Important: There will be coffee and tea as well as a little dessert. Please bring your cup and join us a few minutes before the start of the seminar to get your drink!

Kind regards,

Marieke

Défis éthiques de la numérisation des données – Cours public

Quels sont les enjeux éthiques et légaux de la collecte des données personnelles ?

Ce cours public aborde les enjeux de la protection de la personne et des données personnelles, ainsi que les impacts qui en résultent pour la recherche en sciences sociales.

Plus d’informations :

https://www.eprouvette-unil.ch/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/10/2022-flyer-cours-public-defis-ethiques-numerisation.pdf

Ce cours est gratuit et sans inscriptions.

 

Mercredi 7 décembre 2022, 18h – 19h30 | Pôle Sud, Lausanne

Dear all,

We are pleased to invite you to the next Methods and Research Meeting organized by FORS and SSP/UNIL. It will take place in room 5779 at Géopolis building, University of Lausanne on Tuesday 29th of November 2022 from 12:15 to 13:30.

We welcome Marc Asensio Manjon from the University of Lausanne.

He will give a presentation on the following topic:

The feasibility of using data donations to measure mobile media usage

Abstract

Self-reports collected from survey responses have been the most common method to measure online behaviors. However, self-reports on online behaviors, and especially, when such behaviors are fragmented across situations, devices and platforms, are known to contain error due to its cognitively challenging nature. A proposed alternative to these self-reports is the use of direct observations of individuals’ online behaviors. We focus on the ‘Data donations’ approach, a process in which respondents willingly share with researchers data that already has been collected by their devices or platforms they use. Thereby, establishing a transparent and self-administrable dynamic that tracking software procedures do not have.

In this study, we asked members of an online panel (N = 872) to take part in a data donation process by using their own smartphones to access their ‘Digital Wellbeing (Android) / Screentime (IOS)’ tool and share that information with us. The tool allows respondents to check the amount of time they have spent using their smartphone on a daily basis and more specifically, in which apps. Moreover, the tool also displays information on the amount of times the device has been unlocked and the number of notifications received – total and by app.  Respondents were randomly assigned to one of the three treatment groups; in each of them, we asked respondents to share the same information from their ‘Digital Wellbeing / Screentime’ tool through a different method: 1) taking screenshots; (2) recording a screen video and; (3) checking and reporting the information. We present the challenges associated with the measures’ comparability across devices and operating systems and the preliminary results on task completion and engagement.

We look forward to your participation.

The organizing committee:

Stephanie Steinmetz

Jacques-Antoine Gauthier 

Oliver Lipps

Davide Morselli

The one-day workshop “Safe Access to Sensitive Research Data”, organised by FORS and the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (FHGR), took place in Bern and assembled relevant actors and stakeholders in Switzerland concerned by the dissemination of sensitive data for research purposes. The goal was to identify interesting models, key issues, and barriers regarding the building of national infrastructure for sensitive data, and to discuss and initiate forms of collaboration and concerted action.

The programme and all the presentations can be consulted on the workshop’s dedicated webpage: https://forscenter.ch/workshop-safe-access-to-sensitive-research-data/

Co-organised by:

The webinar on qualitative data anonymisation is given by Alexandra Stam. It will introduce you to the key principles of qualitative data anonymization and guide you through the different techniques for anonymising your data, as well as file handling procedures. It will also address some common concerns expressed by researchers, and how to possibly overcome them.

This webinar is part of the FORS Data Management Webinar series. All webinars are given by experts in the field at FORS. The participation is free, yet registration is required.

They all last an hour from 1 to 2 pm.

Further information and registration: https://forscenter.ch/data-management-webinar-series/

The next FORS Lunch Seminar will take place on Tuesday, November 15, from 12:45 to 13:45 in Room 5899.

Robert Reinecke (FORS) will present the following project:

Cognitive Abilities and Attitudes/Behaviors towards End-of-Life Care

Robert Reinecke¹, Sarah Vilpert^1,2, Gian Domenico Borasio³, Jürgen Maurer²

¹Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS), University of Lausanne, Switzerland
²Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), University of Lausanne, Switzerland

³Palliative and Supportive Care Service, Geriatric Palliative Care, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Abstract 

Individuals tend to wait until the last moment to plan their end-of-life (EOL) care. Yet decision-making abilities and understanding of medical situations decrease with age, which could compromise the writing of advance directives (ADs). Little is known concerning the association between cognitive competence and attitudes/behaviors towards end-of-life (EOL) care planning in older adults. The present study aims to better understand the association of cognitive competence – measured via verbal fluency, immediate and delayed memory, basic calculation skills, and temporal orientation – with attitudes and behaviors towards EOL care planning in a nationally representative sample of older adults in Switzerland. We analyzed data of 1’936 respondents aged 55+ from a paper-and-pencil self-completion questionnaire that was administered as part of wave 6 (2015) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) in Switzerland using logistic regression models. Respondents with reduced global cognitive competence are less likely (i) to have discussed their EOL preferences with others and (ii) to have a living will. Impairment in verbal fluency is negatively associated to attitudes and behaviors towards EOL care planning. Our findings highlight that intact cognitive abilities have a positive impact on EOL care planning.

Important: There will be coffee and tea as well as a little dessert. Please bring your cup and join us a few minutes before the start of the seminar to get your drink!

Summary

The availability of research data underlying articles published in journals is becoming a common practice in scientific communication. The European Commission and other funders of scientific research have set high expectations for scientists towards openness and availability of scientific work and results. Scientific publishers, through journals and scholarly publications are the main point of realising open science in practice.

Description

The availability of research data underlying articles published in journals is becoming a common practice in scientific communication. The European Commission and other funders of scientific research have set high expectations for scientists towards openness and availability of scientific work and results. Scientific publishers, through journals and scholarly publications are the main point of realising open science in practice.

This event is part of the continuous Journals Outreach initiative (https://www.cessda.eu/Training/Journals-outreach), bringing together CESSDA service providers (SPs) with Social Science & Humanities Journals. The target audience is publishers, editors, researchers, and CESSDA Service providers. The event will also be an opportunity for publishers/journals to highlight new initiatives in research data services linked to scientific publications.

Programme

14:00-14:20  Activities of the CESSDA Journals Outreach group; Profiles of CESSDA Service Providers related to accepting data linked to journals

14:20-14:40  Data showcases: the data journal in a multimodal world / Peter Doorn

14:40-15:00  An Introduction to Open Research Europe / Amy Doffegnies

15:00-15:10 Break

15:10-15:30  FAIRsharing platform / Allyson Lister

15:30-15:50  Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences / Ulbe Bosma

15:50-16:10  CURE consortium / Limor Peer

16:10-16:30 General discussion

Register here for the event.

Die Eidgenössischen Jugendbefragungen ch-x sind eine Institution des Eidgenössischen Departements für Verteidigung, Bevölkerungsschutz und Sport (VBS). Sie geben seit 1971 in wissenschaftlicher Form Aufschluss über die Lage der jungen Erwachsenen in der Schweiz hinsichtlich

• Bildung, Ausbildung, Berufseinstieg,
• Wertvorstellungen, Lebensziele, allgemeine Lebensbedingungen sowie politische Kompetenzen und Einstellungen,
• Gesundheit und Sport.

Die ch-x führen jedes Jahr schweizweit repräsentative Erhebungen bei jungen Erwachsenen beiderlei Geschlechts durch. Ihre Erhebungen werden in der Regel von Hochschulinstitutionen durchgeführt. Die Projekte erstrecken sich über zwei Jahre und erfassen alle stellungspflichtigen jungen Männer der Schweiz (Alter: überwiegend 19) sowie eine grosse Frauenstichprobe (ca. 12’000 Frauen pro Jahr) von nichtdienstpflichtigen 19-jährigen Frauen, zusammen bis zu 80’000 Personen pro Zyklus.

Für die Zyklen 2024/25 und 2028/29 suchen die ch-x eine Projektverantwortliche bzw. einen Projektverantwortlichen, die/der das Projekt auf der Grundlage eines von ihr/ihm entwickelten Konzeptes innerhalb der Vorgaben der ch-x weiterführt.

Eingabefrist: 6. November 2022

Detaillierte Informationen zum Projekt und zur Einreichung

Call for abstracts for the LIVES workshop on “Cognition, decisions and wellbeing in later life” taking place in Lausanne on December 15-16 2022.

We welcome papers on cognition, decisions and wellbeing – or their interaction. We will particularly give emphasis to works using data from the international family of health and retirement studies such as SHARE, the HRS, ELSA, TILDA and other sister surveys.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the workshop “Cognition, decisions and wellbeing in later life”, which will take place on December 15th and 16th, 2022 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The overall aim of this workshop will be to assemble cross-disciplinary perspectives on cognition, decisions and wellbeing and their interplay in later life with invited speakers, contributed talks, and posters.

We welcome papers concerning at least one of the topics of the workshop – cognition, decisions and wellbeing – or their interaction. We will particularly give emphasis to works using data from the international family of health and retirement studies such as SHARE, the HRS, ELSA, TILDA and other sister surveys.

All submissions must include an abstract of maximum of 300 words providing details about the research question, the methodological approach, and the preliminary results.

Abstracts should be submitted until November 4th, 2022 via
https://www.centre-lives.ch/fr/agenda/call-communications-workshop-cognition-decisions-and-wellbeing-later-life

The organising committee:

Prof. Jürgen Maurer, Full Professor of Health Economics and Management, HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Prof. Matthias Kliegel, Full Professor of Psychology, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Maud Wieczorek, Post-doctoral researcher, Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES -Overcoming vulnerability: Life course perspectives, Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland

PDF of the call

Does your research involve data collection in a social science discipline or involve human participants? Do you want to learn more about key data management practices throughout the research process?
If so, this series of four free online webinars is for you.

Upcoming free webinars:

• Data documentation (11.10.2022)
• Quantitative data anonymisation  (1.11.2022)
• Qualitative data anonymisation (22.11.2022)

The first webinar on “Informed consent” took place on 27.09.2022.

The webinars are given by experts in the field at FORS. The participation is free, yet registration is required.

They all last an hour from 1 to 2 pm.

Further information and registration: https://forscenter.ch/data-management-webinar-series/

Quality of Life in Europe at Risk? Effects of the pandemic, climate change and green transition.

This is the theme of the 16th Conference “Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe” at Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy.

The conference „Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe“ addresses current and potential future effects of the pandemic and climate change – inclusive effects of related policy measures – on citizens‘ quality of life in European societies. 

For information on previous conferences see: http://www.tarki.hu/villa-vigoni-conferences

Supported by:

Does your research involve data collection in a social science discipline or involve human participants? Do you want to learn more about key data management practices throughout the research process?
If so, this series of four free webinars is for you. The first webinar is on “Informed consent”:

• Informed consent (27.09.2022)

Followed by the following webinars:

• Data documentation (11.10.2022)
• Quantitative data anonymisation  (1.11.2022)
• Qualitative data anonymisation (22.11.2022)

The webinars are given by experts in the field at FORS. The participation is free, yet registration is required.

Further information and registration: https://forscenter.ch/data-management-webinar-series/