Head, Haute Ecole de Travail social et de la Santé,
EESP-Lausanne
Abeilles 14, CH 1010 Lausanne (Switzerland), www.eesp.ch, pdepaolis@eesp.ch
Studies:
1971-1975
Faculty of Pedagogy, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy, Subjects: Social psychology, Pedagogy, Sociology; Research final Master work in Social Psychology;
1975
Conferring of the University degree: laurea (Master of Arts)
1981
Summerschool of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology. Aix-en-Provence (France). Supervisor: Prof. Dr Jean-Jacques Leyens, University of Louvain-la-Neuve
1982-1986:
Doctorate in Social Psychology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris Supervisor of doctorate thesis: Prof. Dr. Serge Moscovici
1987
Conferring of the Doctorate degree (Ph.D): docteur en psychologie
Present position:
Since 1988
- Head of the Ecole d’études sociales et pédagogiques, Haute Ecole de Travail social et de la Santé, EESP- Lausanne (HES-SO = University of Applied Sciences of West-Switzerland,)
- Founder of the Unity Research of the EESP, 1989
- Co-founder and member of the Board of the Master of Applied Sciences in Social Work, Diplôme de formation continue en Travail social, University of Neuchâtel (since 1994)
- Member of the SASSA Rektoren Konferenz, Conference of the heads of Swiss Higher Education Faculties of Social Work (1988-2006; member of the SASSA Committee 1997-2006
- Member of the CUSO& HES-SO commission (Politics of research, teaching and development coordination between Universities, Federal Polytechnics and HES/Universities of Applied Sciences), since 2000
- Président of the Conférence romande des Hautes Ecoles en Travail Social (2003-2006)
Previous Positions:
1975 - 1980
Scientific assistant at the Istituto di Scienze dell’Educazione, Università di Bologna and for the CNR (Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerca, Roma) in Italy:
Teaching, experimental research and publications in the field of social care, social psychology of the inter-professionals relations, social representations;
1980 - 1988
Scientific assistant at the Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l’Education, University of Geneva, Switzerland Scientific assistant for the FNRS, Swiss National Founds for Research:Teaching, experimental research and publications in the field of socio-cognitive development, prototypes and social representations of professionalization, migrations;
Specific international positions:
Since 1987
Member of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology - EAESP
Since 1999
Member of the Board of FESET ((European Association of Schools of Socio-Educational Care) Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Social Education 2001-2008
Since 2007:
Co-Founder and Member of the Board of the ENSACT European Network for Social Action (umbrella federation of AIEJI, EASSW, FESET, FICE, IASSW, ICSW)
2004-2008
President of FESET (European Association of Schools of Socio-Educational Care)