Barbara Waldis is full professor of social work (50%) since February 2022, date of the creation of the Transdisciplinary Institute of Social Work at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Neuchâtel. An anthropologist by training, she obtained her PhD from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Fribourg (CH). Her thematic expertise is based on several SNSF-funded projects on binational families in Switzerland, Tunisia and Bulgaria, on support for senior citizens in trans-European families, and on postcolonial education policies in Mauritius and Réunion. She has conducted several research projects on art and social work and on digitalization in social work.

Her professional career includes research fellowships at EHESS in Paris, at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, as well as Visiting Fellowships at the Mauritius Institute of Education, at the University of Reunion Island and at the Max-Planck-Institut für Ethnologische Forschung in Halle (Saale, Germany). Barbara Waldis was head of the scientific commissions of the Swiss Society of Ethnology and of the Social Work Department of the HES-SO.

As a professor at the School of Social Work of the HES-SO Valais-Wallis, as lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology of the University of Neuchâtel and at the Seminar of Social Anthropology of the University of Fribourg, Barbara Waldis has proven teaching experience in qualitative research methodology at BA, MA and postgraduate level.

Ageing persons in Trans-European Families (Southeast Europe – Switzerland); Decolonial Social Work.

Théories du travail social, travail social décoloniale,

Méthodes qualitatives et mixtes de recherche en travail social et sciences sociales

Ecriture scientifique

• Publications : ResearchGate