Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental SystemsOrganisation: Department of Social Sciences
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Research Groups
Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality
Learn moreIn 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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Research Groups
Join us
Learn moreWe 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 Groups
Research
Learn moreWe 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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Research Groups
Centre for Childhood and Youth Research (CCY)
Learn moreInterdisciplinary & multi-method research centre on young people from childhood via adolescence into early adulthood, offering doctoral training.
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Research Groups
Outreach
Learn moreOnce 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
Learn moreThe 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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Study Programmes
Master in Legislative Studies
Learn moreThe 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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Study Programmes
Master in European Governance
Learn moreThe 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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Events
DSOC Seminar – Book launch: “Motherhood, Childhood and Parenting in an Age of Education”
Learn moreMotherhood, as a celebrated yet underappreciated role, is often thought of as a natural process, something instinctive that we refine by watching our own mothers and others in our community. We rarely think of motherhood as something that is time and culturally specific, yet, like culture itself, it is socially constructed, and both motherhood and…
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Events
Insights from the “Health in All Policies” agenda, The politics of health promotion in the European Union
Learn moreMuch has been written about policy efforts to achieve “Health in All Policies”: an ambitious attempt to improve population health and reduce health inequalities by ensuring multiple policy areas are more attuned to their health impacts. However, most accounts focus on technical challenges, such as implementing impact assessments. In contrast, and focusing on the European Union, this book argues that…