Angela Christen is a PhD candidate at the GenFam-Project. Her research interests include the desire to have children and to remain childfree, and how these orientations are shaped by social norms, resources, and life course trajectories in Switzerland. Her PhD project examines parenthood decisions in the Swiss context, with an additional focus on ART and its significance for family formation, life course planning, and social inequality.
Within GenFam Angela Christen works on fertility behaviour and reproductive decision-making.