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Prof. Dr. Lucia Lanfranconi

Profile

Prof. Dr. Lucia Lanfranconi Dozentin

Contact

Links

  • Contact hours Monday
    Tuesday
    Wednesday
    Thursday
    Friday morning
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Business School
    Institut New Work
    Brückenstrasse 73
    3005 Bern
You can find more information on the German profile page.

Activities

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

  • New Work

  • Inclusive Human Resource Management (Inclusive HRM)

  • Sustainable Human Resource Management (Sustainable HRM)

  • New Human Resource Management (New HRM)

  • Organization Development towards Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

  • Social Sustainability

Teaching

  • CAS Organization Development towards Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

  • SHR1 – Inclusive Human Resource Management (Inclusive HRM)

  • SHR4 – Sustainable Human Resource Management (Sustainable HRM)

  • Diagonal Modul – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

  • Inclusive Organizations and Diversity-Informed Leadership

  • Unconscious Bias

  • Pay Equity

Research

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

  • Gender Equality in the Workplace

  • Gender Equality in Social Assistance

  • Pay Equity

  • Unpaid Care Work

  • Gender, Race, and Class, Intersectionality

  • Social, Gender Equality, and Family Policy

  • Organization Development

  • Social Sustainability

CV

  • My passion is to inspire individuals, organizations, and policymakers to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As a professor of DEI and as the co-head of the center for DEI at the Berne University of Applied Sciences (BFH), I am deeply committed to this mission. I also serve as an external lecturer at HSLU and FHNW and work as an an indipendend organizational developer, consultant, and expert on social and gender equity.
    I bring a PhD in sociology (University of Fribourg CH and Hagen DE) focused on gender equality in Swiss policy and organizations, and training in organizational development. Beginning in 2025, I will lead a CAS at BFH titled "Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion through Organizational Development," aimed at empowering participants to lead successful DEI-focused change projects.
    I lecture on DEI, sustainability, new work in HRM, social policy, gender and diversity management, and equal pay, and I am passionate about supporting students in their development and guiding BA, MA, and PhD theses. My research interest include DEI in HRM, DEI in change management, gender equity, gender pay gap, family-friendly working conditions, unpaid care work and race, gender, and social equity in social assistance.
  • Since 2025 Co-Head of the BFH-Equal Opportunity Office Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • Since 2010 Independent Consultant and Expert in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Equal Opportunities and Gender Equality Self-employed
  • 2023-2026 Professor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Bern University of Applied Sciences, Business School
  • 2024-2025 Head of the Research Group Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Bern University of Applied Sciences, Business School
  • 2023-2025 Equal Opportunities Officer Bern University of Applied Sciences, Business School
  • 2021–2023 Head of the Competence Centre "Social Welfare Organizations and Social Participation" Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – School of Social Work
  • 2015–2024 Professor, Lecturer and Project Manager Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – School of Social Work
  • 2019–2020 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Research Fellow School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
  • 2014–2015 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer Chair of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, University of Fribourg
  • 2009–2010 University Intern Federal Commission for Women's Issues (FCWI), Switzerland
  • 2024 Short Advanced Study in Mindful Leadership (SAS) Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2022–2023 Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Organizational Development University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)
  • 2019–2020 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
  • 2010–2014 PhD in Sociology University of Fribourg and FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
  • 2011–2012 Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) in Higher Education Teaching and Learning University of Fribourg
  • 2010–2012 Certificate, ProDoc Graduate Programme "Gender: Prescripts and Transcripts" University of Bern and University of Fribourg
  • 2007–2009 M.A. in Social Work and Social Policy (Analyse des politiques sociales) University of Fribourg
  • 2003–2006 Studies in Social Work and Social Policy, and Law University of Fribourg

Projects

Publications

Awards

for the doctoral dissertation and the AGORA science communication project "No Gender Equalities at Work?", University of Fribourg (awarded 28 November 2015)

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • French - Professional working proficiency
  • Spanish - Professional working proficiency
  • Italian - Elementary proficiency
  • Jordan
  • United States of America
  • Sweden
  • Costa Rica
  • Peru