Kerstin Duemmler, Dr.

Portrait Kerstin Duemmler

Kerstin Duemmler is a sociologist and holds a doctorate in humanities and social sciences. At SFUVET she works as a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the MSc for Vocational Education and Training and as a Senior Researcher in the research field of Occupational Identity and Diversity. Her areas of interest are occupational identity development, working and training conditions of apprentices, social inequality, migration and gender. She has many years of experience in planning and conducting qualitative and quantitative research and in transferring research findings into practice.

Work experience
  • Since 2017: Senior Lecturer Sociology, MSc in Vocational Education and Training, SFUVET, Zollikofen
  • Since 2013: Senior Researcher, research field of Occupational Identity and Diversity, SFUVET, Lausanne
  • 2012-2013: Senior Researcher, Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences (FORS), University of Lausanne
  • 2011: Visiting Research fellow, Center for research on nationalism, ethnicity and multiculturalism (CRONEM), University of Roehampton, London
  • 2007-2010: Research fellow (SNF, NRP 58), Center for the Understanding of Social Processes (MAPS), University of Neuchâtel
  • 2006-2007: Research fellow and teaching associate, Faculty of Education and Social Science, University of Technology Dresden, Germany
Education
  • 2012: Dr in human and social sciences – transnational studies (summa cum laude), Faculty of Humanities, University of Neuchâtel
  • 2000-2006: Diploma in Sociology (Master), Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, University of Technology Dresden (Germany)
Teaching experience
  • Since 2017: Senior Lecturer Sociology, MSc in Vocational Education and Training, SFUVET, Zollikofen
  • 2015-2021: Module « Relations between schools and the world of work» FORDIF, SFUVET Lausanne  (with Lorenzo Bonoli)
  • 2014-2017: Specific intervention, MSc in Vocational Education and Training, SFUVET, Issues: qualitative methods, migration
  •  2007-2017: Specific interventions in the courses of Prof. Janine Dahinden (University of Neuchâtel), Issues: qualitative methods, migration
  • 2006-2007: Seminar: ‘Introduction to theories of socialisation’ (educational science BA level, teacher education upper secondary education), Faculty of Education and Social Science, University of Technology Dresden, Germany
Area of expertise
  • Occupationl Identity and Socialisation
  • Occupational Prestige
  • Vocational Training and Work Conditions
  • Migration and Ethnicity
  • Stigmatisation
  • Social Inequality
Projects
Publications
Transfer into practice
Presentations
Mandates/Memberships
  • Member of the Swiss Sociological Association (SSS)
  • Member of the Board for the Sociology of Education Research Network (Swiss Sociological Association)