Biography
Lea Sgier spends part of her time teaching qualitative methods at the Department of Political Science of the University of Geneva (Switzerland). In the remaining time, she works as a research methods and research ethics consultant (for various European and Swiss research projects; the Luxemburg Institute of Socio-Economic Research LISER, and for the European Evaluation Academy). She is also an instructor for qualitative methodology and academic writing for a number of graduate programmes (the CUSO Doctoral Programmes in Switzerland, the Polytechnical University of Lausanne EPFL, ENS-PLS in Paris; the KiND Institute in Montreal, etc.). She has also worked in capacity building functions (for LISER in Luxemburg and in international research cooperation with the Western Balkans and the South Caucasus). From 2010-17, she was an assistant professor in qualitative methodology at (US accredited) Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. Research wise, she has completed a project (with Barbara Lucas, HETS Genève) on institutionalised elderly people’s relation to politics and voting in French-speaking Switzerland, a project that involved small-scale ethnographic observation, qualitative interviews, an institutional survey and a legal analysis. She has also worked on gender issues in politics and on comparative old age and dementia policy. She was a member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Methodology from 2013-19.
