Contemporary P@thways of Career, Life and Learning Research group

The social, economic and technological changes of the last few decades have led to an evolution in the norms pertaining to work, career and family. A job for life, a linear career, the two-parent family, these now co-exist with a wide variety of employer-employee relationships, career paths and family commitments. The Tr@jectories research group takes note of the non-linearity, the complexity and the unpredictability which are now features of professional and personal life and of relationships, between employee and employer or to other entities such as the family.

The group’s researchers posit that individual projects, trajectories and positioning in any given sphere of life, as well as professional identity or organisations, are social constructions produced by the pragmatic and symbolic interactions between individuals and their environment: families and personal networks at the micro-level, organisations, HR management, managers and teams at the meso-level, and the State, institutions and public policies at the macro-level.