C: Gender, Work and Family

Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research / University of Louvain

Bernard Fusulier

Bernard Fusulier is a Research Director at the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain, where he works at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Socialisation, Education and Training (GIRSEF) and at the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Families and Sexualities (CIRFASE). His main research interests include the relationship between gender, work and family; life course; sociology of work; sociology of organisation; and theoretical sociology (social transaction approach in particular). Of his involvement in SASE, he says: “In SASE I found an intellectual space highly complementary to the other sociological meetings I normally attend. SASE provides an opportunity to meet colleagues from a wide variety of disciplines, and to learn more about current research in areas of interest to me.”

Centro Universitário FEI

Pedro Jaime

Pedro Jaime has a PhD degree in Social Anthropology (Universidade de São Paulo / Brazil) and in Sociology & Anthropology (Université Lumière Lyon 2 / France). He has been dedicated to teaching and researching since 1997, working within various Brazilian universities. Currently he is an Associate Professor at Centro Universitário FEI (Brazil), where he teaches Organisation Studies (undergraduate program of business administration), Organisational Analyses (master’s program in management studies) and Epistemology of Management Studies (PhD program in management studies). His main research topics include issues of race and gender in organizations, in their connections to broader sociopolitical arenas. Of his involvement in Sase, he says: Sase allows me to meet researchers from different countries around the world and learn from their experiences and research.

Télé-Université of the University of Quebec

Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay

Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay is Canada Research Chair on the Knowledge Economy and professor of labor economics, innovation, and human resources at the Télé-Université of the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. Her research interests include employment policies, clusters (multimedia, IT, and film sectors) working time and work-life balance, telework, self-employment, work organization, teamwork, and communities of practice. Professor Tremblay has been an active member of SASE for over twenty years, participating in all aspects of the organization. In addition to her work as a network organizer, she has also been a member of the Executive Council and the Local Organizing Committee for Montreal in 1997. “What I appreciate in SASE,” says Tremblay, “is the diversity of issues that are discussed, and the interdisciplinary nature of the debates.”

Over the years, she has been an invited professor at Université de Paris I Sorbonne, Université de Lille I, Université d’Angers, Université de Toulouse, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, HEC, Université de Liège in Belgium, the University of Social Sciences of Hanoi (Vietnam) and at the European School of Management.

Prof. Tremblay has published articles in many global peer-reviewed journals: Cities, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Personnel Review, New Technology, Work and Employment, Innovations, International Journal of Enterprise and Innovation Management, International Journal of Technology Management, Journal of Innovation Economics, International Journal of Innovation and Learning, International Journal of Human Resources Management,Canadian Journal of Urban Research, etc. She has written many books on working time, parental leave, as well as textbooks in labour economics, sociology of work, and work organization.