Dr. Sarah Berit Schilliger
Dr. Sarah Berit Schilliger
Staff of Professorship for Spatial Development and Urban Policy
ETH Zürich
Raumentwicklung und Stadtpolitik
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Research area
(Urban) Social Infrastructures, Urban Migration Regimes, Care Work & Social Reproduction, Urban Social Movements & Solidarity Initiatives, Intersectional and Participatory Research Approaches
Sarah Schilliger is a sociologist and works on intersectional inequalities in the city and politics of social transformation. As a senior researcher in the project ‘Urban Essential Workers’ (NRP-80 of Swiss National Science Foundation), she investigates the working realities and politics of regulation in the sectors of cleaning, urban transport, childcare and food retailing.
She studied political science, sociology and philosophy at the University of Zürich and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Basel in 2014 with an ethnographic study on live-in care workers from Eastern Europe. As a postdoc, she was a guest researcher at the University of Vienna, York University in Toronto and University of Osnabrück.
From 2021 to 2025, Sarah Schilliger is a Principal Investigator of the international research project ‘Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity from Below’, which examines local policies and movements in ten European cities in response to crises of care & housing.
Besides her part-time position at ETH Zurich (50%), Sarah Schilliger is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Bern and teaches in Social Work at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. She is a founding member of the LABORIS labor research network and is part of the scientific advisory board of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
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Academic Positions
Since 9/2024: ETH Zürich, Senior Researcher
Since 1/2022: Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies, University of Bern, Senior Researcher and Lecturer
2020 – 2021: Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, Research Fellow
2019 – 2020: University of Basel and Fribourg, Lecturer
2017 – 2018: Postdoc.Mobility Fellow of Swiss National Science Foundation (2017: University of Osnabrück, 2018: York University/Toronto)
2014 – 2017: University of Basel, Postdoctoral Researcher (Oberassistentin) (4-7/2015: University of Vienna, Visiting Fellow)
2006 – 2014: University of Basel, Scientific Assistant (2009-2014: Doctoral Student)
2004 – 2006: University of Zurich, Office for Gender Equality, Scientific Assistant
Education
2014: PhD in Sociology, University of Basel
2005: MA in Political Sciences, Sociology and Philosophy, University of Zurich