Philippe Saner

Philippe Saner is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at University of Lucerne and member of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Lucerne (GSL). His dissertation project investigates the methods and skills necessary in the emerging field of data science. Analytical focus is on how methods and skills structure and shape the professional field as well as the practices of data scientists.

After studies in Sociology, Political Science and Media Studies at the Universities of Bern (BA), Ljubljana and Lucerne (MA), Philippe graduated in 2014 with a thesis on the reproduction of social inequalities by and through the Swiss higher education field. Since October 2013, he was a research associate and co-leader of Art.School.Differences: Research Inequalities and Normativities in the Field of Higher Art Education (together with Sophie Voegele) at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He taught qualitative research methods in the Master Art Education at ZHdK. Together with Catrin Seefranz, he co-authored “Making Differences: Schweizer Kunsthochschulen” in 2012, a preliminary study founding the basis for Art.School.Differences. His research interests and publications include the following areas: Social studies of science and technology, sociology of education, sociology of culture, economic sociology, qualitative methods and text analysis.