Dr. Carole Ammann joins the SPUR team

As of February 2023, Dr. Carole Ammann joins the Spatial Development and Urban Policy (SPUR) group at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development (IRL) at ETH Zurich. Together with Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann, she will conduct research in the project ‘The COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for urban essential workers' (SNSF funded, 2023-2025). The project will retrospectively examine the experiences, struggles, and policy demands of non-healthcare urban essential workers (such as public transportation drivers, day care personnel, cleaning workers, and shop clerks) during the pandemic in Swiss cities. This focus allows us not only to examine the often precarious working conditions of urban essential workers, but also the potential mismatch between their received policy support and their provision of key labour in difficult conditions. As a social anthropologist with an interdisciplinary background, Carole Ammann has extensive experience in conducting qualitative research. In different projects, she has investigated the topics of politics, urbanity, gender, labour, and parenting in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Guinea, West Africa. In her research, Carole Ammann uses an intersectional approach and explores, for example, how gender identity, sexual orientation, origin, race, and class affect situations in the everyday.