Maeva Perrin

Maeva Perrin holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Management (IDHEAP, UNIL, USI) and a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and Human sciences, oriented in Sociology, Communications Studies and English Literature (UNINE). She is currently a doctoral student at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva. As a member of the NCCR-on the move, she contributes to the project titled: “Societal Crises and Personal Sense-Making: Transitions, Mobility and Imagination Across the Lifecourse” led by Nathalie Muller Mirza (UNIGE), Tania Zittoun (UNINE), Alex Gillespie (LSE) and Oliver Clifford Pedersen (UNINE).

Adopting a sociocultural approach in psychology and a longitudinal lens in life course research, Maeva explores individuals’ experiences of global crises - political, health-related, and environmental. She works with diaries spanning over 24 years, tracing how people live through crises, make sense of them, and how they evolve over time. Her current research focuses on four main areas: 

• How crisis experiences resonate over time
• How the climate crisis manifests in everyday life across 24 years, through the prism of imagination 
• How diary writing takes shape during sudden societal disruptions such as the Covid-19 pandemic  
• How people’s experience of “nature” or the non-human world take shape and become a source of refuge in times of crisis 

Maeva Perrin est doctorante à la Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l’éducation de l’Université de Genève, dans le cadre du projet du NCCR on the move, dirigé par Nathalie Muller Mirza, Tania Zittoun, Oliver Pedersen et Alex Gillespie. 

Ses recherches s’inscrivent dans une approche socioculturelle en psychologie et portent sur l’expérience des crises globales - politiques, sanitaires et environnementales - à partir de l’analyse de journaux personnels rédigés sur plus de 20 ans. Une enquête longitudinale qui lui permet d’explorer notamment la résonance des crises dans le temps, l’inscription de la crise climatique dans le quotidien et l’imagination, la pratique de l’écriture en contexte de ruptures soudaines, ainsi que le rapport au monde non-humain comme refuge en temps de crise.