Angela Christen is a PhD candidate in the URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded │ H2R Data Centre.

Angela’s research interests include the desire to have children and to remain childfree, and how these orientations are shaped by social norms, resources, and life course trajectories in Switzerland. Her PhD project examines parenthood decisions in the Swiss context, with an additional focus on ART and its significance for family formation, life course planning, and social inequality.

Education

• PhD candidate, University of Zurich
• Master of Arts in Sociology with Minor Education in the life course, University of Zurich (2022-2025)
• Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with Minor Educational sciences, University of Zurich (2018-2022)

Work and research experience

• Student Assistant, at the Empirical and Normative Knowledge and Data Centre of the URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R at the University of Zurich (2023-2025)
• Tutor for the bachelor's thesis module at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Zurich (2023-2025).