Research directors: new functions

From September 2016, the activities of the Research Centre of FTU in Namur are transferred to the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL), in the framework of a new Chair Labour-University, taking over the existing Chair Max Bastin. The Chair is integrated in the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Work, State and Society (CIRTES). The new offices are located in FOPES (Open faculty for economic and social policy), in Louvain-la-Neuve.

Patricia Vendramin (patricia.vendramin@uclouvain.be) becomes a full professor at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL), a director of FOPES and Chair holder. She has a PhD in sociology and a postgraduate in communication sciences and development studies. Until August 2016, she was a codirector of the Research Centre of FTU. Her research and publications address the evolution of the social bond at work, new flexible or atypical work practices, working time organisation, quality of working life, women's work, labour relations, as well as digital exclusion and inclusion and relations between technology and society.

• Detailed profile on www.uclouvain.be/patricia.vendramin

Gérard Valenduc (gvalenduc@etui.org) is retired since June 2017. He continues his collaboration with the European Trade Union Institute, as an associate researcher.