I am a postdoc researcher. I am a specialist of sexual health politics both at the international and Swiss levels. I was awarded a Postdoc Mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for a research fellowship at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam (2022-2024).

My host professors are Jeannette Pols and Rachel Spronk. My current postdoc research focuses on women’s experiences of late term abortion in Switzerland from an ethnographic and feminist perspective.

I hold a PhD in sociology from the University of Geneva (La santé sexuelle à l’épreuve du local. Une ethnographie féministe en Suisse romande, 2022). I also worked as a teaching assistant from 2016 until 2022 at the University of Geneva where I taught ethnographic methods and feminist studies. My doctoral research aimed at questioning the notion of sexual health, by analyzing how this international notion was put into practice in two sexual health centers, located in the Western part of Switzerland. 

Since 2019, I am a member of the editorial board of the Swiss and French scientific journal: Nouvelles Questions Feministes.

Expertise and research fields

• Sexual health
• Abortion
• Swiss politics and context
• Health and medical sociology and anthropology
• Ethnography
• Feminist studies

Research methods

• Ethnographic observation
• In-depth interviews
• Qualitative documents (institutional and activist archives, newspapers, web)
• Thematic analysis

Current research projects

Studying women’s experiences of late term abortion in Switzerland from an ethnographic and feminist perspective.

Research grants & honours

• 2022-2024 Postdoc.Mobility fellowship funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the project on “Avortement tardif: ethnographie du vécu de femmes en Suisse romande/ Late-term abortion: an ethnography of women’s experiences in French-speaking Switzerland”. Host Professors: Jeannette Pols and Rachel Spronk, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 
• 2019-2020 Doc.Mobility fellowship funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the project “Santé sexuelle: ethnographie des mises en pratique plurielles d’un universel/ An Ethnography on Sexual Health: From Universality to Local Practices”. Host Professor: Sarah Franklin, Reproductive Sociology Research Group, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
   

•             2023

• Debergh, Marlyse. Forth. 2023 “Ethnographier la santé sexuelle en Suisse romande”. Dossier intimité(s). Revue Reiso.org. Revue d’information sociale.
• Topini*, Carolina and Debergh*, Marlyse. Forth. 2023 “Rosangela Gramoni: entretien parcours d’une militante du Mouvement de libération des femmes de Genève”. Nouvelles Questions Féministes.
• Debergh, Marlyse. Forth. 2023 « Aurore Koechlin: La norme gynécologique. Ce que la médecine fait au corps des femmes (Paris, Amsterdam éditions, 2022) ». [Book Review]. Nouvelles Questions Féministes.            

•          2022

• Schwendener Corina L.*, Kiener Laura M.*, Jafflin Kristen*, Rouached Sarah*, Juillerat Anna, Meier Vincent, Schärli Susanna, Muggli Franco, Gültekin Nejla, Bauman Aron, Debergh Marlyse, Gruillot Catherine, Huber  Benedikt M., Merten Sonja, Buhl Andrea, Deml Michael J.*, Tarr Philip E*. « HPV Vaccine Awareness, Knowledge and Information Sources among Youth in Switzerland: A Mixed Methodes Study ». BMJ Open. 12 e054419. URL: doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054419

_{•          2021}

• Debergh, Marlyse. 2021. « Négocier pour accéder au terrain et conduire l'enquête – Une analyse comparative de processus contrastés entre deux institutions de santé sexuelle de Suisse romande ». Revue Cambouis, La Revue Des Sciences Sociales Aux Mains Sales. Rubrique Négocier un terrain d'enquête. URL: https://doi.org/10.52983/crev.vi0.81.
• Ruault Lucile, Hertz Ellen, Debergh Marlyse, Hélène Martin & Bachmann Laurence. 2021 . L’Androcène : domination patriarcale, capitalisme et changement climatique. Nouvelles Questions féministes, vol. 2, N° 40. URL: https://www.cairn.info/revue-nouvelles-questions-feministes-2021-2.htm

•             2020

• Debergh, Marlyse & Sophie Torrent. 2020. ««C'est une pièce qui rentre dans une autre pièce »: Normer les corps par l'éducation à la santé sexuelle en Suisse romande ». Revue Genre, sexualité & société. Genre, sexualité & société [En ligne], 24 | Automne 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/gss/6248 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/gss.6248
• Debergh, Marlyse. 2020. « Producing bodies at risk in sexual health – an ethnographic comparative analysis between the combined oral contraceptive pill and pre-exposure prophylaxis in Switzerland ». Special issue Techn, Sex and Health : The Place of New Technologies in Sex, Sexual Health, and Human Intimacy. Health Sociology Review, vol.29, n°3. URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14461242.2020.1823870
• Debergh, Marlyse. 2020. « Adam Adeline, Duplan Karine, Gallot Fanny, Gonzalez-Quijano Lola, Roucoux Guillaume, et Valzema Marie-Sherley (Eds): La production de la santé sexuelle (Cahiers du Genre, vol.1, n°60) ». [Book Review]. Nouvelles Questions Féministes, vol. 1, n°39. URL: https://www.cairn.info/revue-nouvelles-questions-feministes-2020-1-page-153.htm

•             2019

• Debergh, Marlyse. 2019. « Sara R. Farris : In the Name of Women’s rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke University Press, 207) ».[Book Review]. Cahiers du Genre, vol. 1, n°66. URL: https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-du-genre-2019-1.htm