Dr. Lea Sgier

Dr. Sgier teaches qualitative data analysis, discourse analysis, qualitative interviewing and academic writing for political and social scientists. She is an instructor at a number of graduate programs, such as the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, MethodsNET and ENS (Paris). She is also a member of the institutional Research Ethics Committee of LISER (Luxemburg Institute of  Socio-Economic Research), that she has been chairing since 2021.

Her fields of interest are qualitative-interpretive methodology, gender and politics, and social policy (old age, dementia and youth policy in particular). She recently completed a project on voting and political participation of older people in nursing homes in Switzerland, based on interviews, ethnographic fieldwork and an organizational survey.