Lynn Kohli is a PhD candidate in the URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R, sub-project 3 Ethnography of Human Reproduction in Single Case Studies in Threshold Areas.

Lynn’s research explores the declining fertility rates in Singapore, with a particular focus on the evolving attitudes of Generation Z toward family planning. Centering on their motivations and the reasons behind voluntary childlessness, the study adopts an ethnographic and holistic approach to investigate how sociopolitical, social, and religious conditions intersect to shape Gen Z’s shifting perceptions of gender roles, family, and kinship — and how these factors influence decisions to remain child-free or to engage in alternative forms of kin-making.

Further, Lynn’s research interests span multimodal, visual, and public anthropology, anthropology of the urban, and science and technology studies.

Education 

• 2025: Master of Arts in Social Anthropology - University of Zurich (Excellence Scholarship Awardee)
• 2023: Bachelor of Arts in Ethnology - University of Zurich (Bachelor’s thesis awarded with the semester prize for outstanding scholarly work at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)

Academic internships and research experience

• 2024-2025: Ethnographic fieldwork with urban resistance movements and evicted tenants opposing the commodification of housing (University of Zurich)
• 2025: Ethnographic fieldwork on the relational knowledge production of pregnant chemists working in pregnancy-safe laboratories (University of Vienna)
• 2021: Summer School as part of „HumMingBird“, a EU Horizon 2020-project (University of Zurich)

Further projects and work experience: lynnkohli.com

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