Organisation: Department of Social Sciences

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    Join us

    Since September 2013, SEMILUX has been the inter institutional interdisciplinary seminar on social inequality in Luxembourg. The University, LIS Datacenter and LISER invite you for in-person or remote monthly sessions on innovative and diverse approaches to inequality.

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    Research

    Measuring inequalities, modelling dynamics, creating new methods, revolutionizing concepts, are our way to analyze societal transformations with deep investments in health science, education change, longitudinal approach of ageing and even artificial-intelligence based research processes, to identify socioeconomic problems and their potential solutions through comparison, experiments and big data.

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    Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality

    In a world of escalating inequalities (income, wealth, health, gender, age, etc.) we decipher facts and find solutions for better, sustainable societies.

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    We seek to attract researchers, experts and specialists with a passion for excellent and state-of-the-art research (qualitative or quantitative) with a background in sociology, psychology, or educational sciences to help us develop knowledge about young people and their contexts of growing up in Luxembourg and beyond. Make sure to monitor this page to apply for…

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    Research

    We examine conditions and opportunity structures of growing up against the backdrop of social change and inequalities. A range of theoretical perspectives and multi-methodological designs serve to research links between policies, education and welfare systems, and social and personal resources for citizenship, identity, health, migration, participation, school-to-work transitions, and well-being.

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    Centre for Childhood and Youth Research (CCY)

    Interdisciplinary & multi-method research centre on young people from childhood via adolescence into early adulthood, offering doctoral training.

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    Outreach

    Once childhood days are over, young people’s lives tick up in pace, almost as if in fast-forward mode. The older they get, the more own responsibilities they must take on: Make new friends, leave familiar environments behind, and make first steps on the way to personal independence. For many, this path is littered with obstacles.…

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  • Study Programmes

    Master in Social Sciences and Educational Sciences

    The Master’s programme is designed for students with strong interests in education and society with a special focus on social inequality and the comparison of education and science systems embedded in societies.

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    Master en Études parlementaires

    The Master in Legislative Studies provides students with an in-depth knowledge about the functioning of contemporary decision-making processes at regional, national, European and international levels.

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    Master in European Governance

    The Master in European Governance educates experts in European public policy, providing an advanced-level training in political science complemented by a wider interdisciplinarity.

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