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Dr Gil Viry

Post-doctoral Fellow

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe)

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Research Interests

Dr Gil Viry is post-doctoral fellow at department of sociology at Lancaster University. He obtained a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. His fields of research are: links between spatial mobility and family, social and family networks, spatial mobility over the life course.

Dr Gil Viry is currently working on the second wave of the European project "Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe" (http://www.jobmob-and-famlives.eu/) about the interactions between job-related spatial mobility and the private sphere. His research at Lancaster University falls into two areas: (1) ways individual practices of spatial mobility are experienced over the family life course; (2) changes in family networks in relation to spatial mobility trajectories.

Additional Information

Already holder of a master degree of physics (2000), he was awarded a PhD in sociology by the University of Geneva in 2011. He has been invited scholar at Federal Institute for Population Research in Wiesbaden, Germany (Prof. Norbert Schneider) (2011), lecturer at Geneva University (Prof. Eric Widmer) (2007-2011) and research fellow at LaSUR (Laboratory of Urban Sociology) at Swiss federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) (Prof. Vincent Kaufmann) (2007-2010).

Recent Publications

Viry, G. (2011). Residential mobility and the spatial dispersion of personal networks: effects on social support. Social Networks (full text: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2011.07.003).

Viry, G. Widmer, E. D. Kaufmann, V. (2010). Does it matter for us that my partner or I commute? Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 22. Jahrg., Heft 2, pp. 149-170.

Viry, G. Hoffmeister, H. Widmer, E. D. (2010). Early life course relocation: Effects on motility, mobility, and social Integration. In: Collet,B. Schneider, N. Mobile Living across Europe, Volume II. Causes and consequences of job-related spatial mobility in cross-national perspective. Leverkusen-Opladen: Barbara Budrich.

Lüscher, K. Liegle, L. Lange, A. Hoff, A. Stoffel, M. Viry, G. Widmer, E. (2010). Generations, intergenerational relationships, generational policy: A trilingual compendium. Bern: Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.

Vincent, S. Viry, G. Kaufmann, V. (2010). Carrières académiques: comment concilier mobilités spatiales et vie de famille ?. Revue Synergies. Pays Riverains de la Baltique, n°7. GERFLINT, pp. 77-94.

Viry, G. Kaufmann, V. Widmer, Eric D. (2009). La grande mobilité géographique pour des raisons professionnelles en Suisse: une étape de vie pré-familiale ? Revue Recherches familiales, 6, pp. 67-80.

Viry, G. Kaufmann, V. Widmer, E. D. (2009). Relational anchorings faced with commuting. In: Bergman, M. Maksim, H. Ohnmacht, T. (eds.).Mobilities and Inequality, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 121-143.

Viry, G. Kaufmann, V. Widmer, E. D. (2008). Switzerland - Mobility: a life stage issue? In: Meil, G. Schneider, N. Mobile Living across Europe, Volume I. Relevance and diversity of job-related spatial mobility in six European countries. Leverkusen-Opladen: Barbara Budrich.

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