Dr.ⁱⁿ Elisa Thevenot

• Doing Youth by Making Space (DYMS)
• Collective Learning around Sustainable Spaces (CLASS)

Promotionsprojekt im Rahmen des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs ‘Doing Transitions’: Working Out Sustainability in Transitions – Empirical reconstruction of work life trajectories within the sustainability context

• Thevenot, E. (i. E.). Learning from Rhythms: Navigating Personal Life Transitions at the Intersection of Work and Sustainability. In M. Bernhard, S. Billett, C. Hof, K. Kraus, V. J. Marsick, & P. H. Sawchuk (Eds.), Adult Education in Changing Times: Learning at the Nexus of Life, Work, and Transitions. Routledge.
• Thevenot, E. (2025). Biographical Learning in the Context of Sustainability Transitions: Conceptual Reflections and Methodological Insights. Studies in Adult Education and Learning, 31(2), 117-134. https://doi.org/10.4312/as/19722
• Schmeiduch, L., & Thevenot, E. (2025). Lifelong learning in sustainability-led initiatives: Exploring their learning potential along the reworked four pillars of education. International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-024-10122-5
• Thevenot, E., & Hof, C. (2024). Den Widersprüchen einen Sinn geben: Biografisches Lernen berufstätiger Erwachsener im Kontext der Anforderung von Nachhaltigkeit. Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung, 47(3), 533-549. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40955-024-00295-9
• Thevenot, E. (2022). Quand le développement durable devient un projet professionnel : reconstruction des pratiques d’acteurs abordant la transition écologique par le travail, Le Monde du travail face aux défis de la transition écologique, Chroniques du Travail, 12, 175-197.

• (2022) Cultivating Equitable Education Systems for the 21st Century. Tagungsbericht: WERA Focal Meeting, 21. bis 26. April 2022 (San Diego, USA). In: Erziehungswissenschaft 33(2), S. 119-120 (gemeinsam mit Flora Petrik, Kevin Stützel, Lukas Kammerlander und Natascha Shalutkevich).

• 09/2025 – “Using rhythmanalysis to understand the temporal disharmony of environmental transitions issues faced by adult learners” presentation for the Symposium Temporalities in dialogue: a stake for education in environmental transitions, in ESREA Triennial Conference, Prague.
• 03/2024 “Life Course and Transitions” in the ESREA STREAM Network research Symposium “Spaces and Times of Transitions”. Online. Recording: www.youtube.com/channel/UCXAsOkeInX4OQdzWhOjoTcA
• 02/2024 – « Vivre avec les contradictions du développement durable : étude empirique au prisme des parcours de vie dans le contexte de la transition écologique » in franco-german Symposium ‘Gesellschaftliche Transformationen auf dem Weg zu einer Nachhaltigen Entwicklung’, University of Tübingen
• 09/2023 “Time to combine work and sustainability: learning to accommodate rhythms.” presentation for the event ‘Adult Learning at the Nexus of Life Course, Work & Transitions’, Goethe University Frankfurt (https://adult-learning.de/)
• 08/2023 “When sustainability becomes something professional: Diverse ways of learning between Work & Sustainable Development” in symposium ‘Understanding Transitions to and Through Working Life: Concepts, Methods and Procedural Imperatives’ at the ECER (European Conference on Educational Research) Glasgow
• 07/2023 – « Conjuguer travail et développement durable : « bifurquer » pour réagencer les rythmes qui structurent les parcours de vie », in RT38 Sociologie de l'environnement et des risques & « #bifurquer » pour concilier travail et valeurs socio-écologiques » in the RT22 Parcours de Vie at Association Française de Sociologie congress, Université de Lyon
• 05/2023 – “Emerging Transitions in the context of sustainability” in panel: ‘Emerging transitions in and out of work in contemporary social change’, at the Doing Transitions International conference, Goethe University Frankfurt
• 04/2023 – “Life Course transitions in the midst of sustainability: theoretical and methodological reflections”, at conference: “Neue (theoretische) Entwicklungen in der Übergangsforschung – Deutsch Schweizer Perspektiven”, Technical University of St. Gallen
• 11/2022 – “Transitions, Transformations, Trajectories – Life Course Transitions through the lens of Pierre Bourdieu”, with Maria Keil & Flora Petrik, 20 years with(out) Pierre Bourdieu
  studying crisis and social change today, University of Cagliari
• 09/2022 – “Sustainable communities - a time for resonance in older age“ with Lena Schmeiduch, Symposium “Gerontologie und Weltbeziehung – Das Resonanzkonzept nach Hartmut Rosa und seine Anknüpfungspunkte für die Alternsforschung” at DGGG Conference, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
• 09/2022 - “Becoming a sustainability professional: the practice of arranging competences” at DGfE ESD Commission Conference, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
• 04/2022 - “Becoming more sustainable? Doing Sustainability by Doing Difference” in the symposium ‘Doing transitions - on making and becoming across the life course.”, AERA & WERA annual conferences, San Diego, USA
• 03/2022 - “The messy crossings of career and national boundaries in adulthood“ in the Symposium „Doing Transitions: Herstellung und Verhandlung von Grenzen und Zugehörigkeiten an Übergängen 28th. DGfE-Kongress, University of Bremen, Online
• 11/2021 - „Nischen“ als Unterstützer für berufliche Übergänge im Kontext der nachhaltigen
  Entwicklung“, at conference: Reiz der Nische – Zeit.Räume der Nachhaltigkeit, Online
• 07/2021 - « Le développement durable au cœur des transitions de carrières », presentation for RT22 Life course and social dynamics research, Association Française de Sociologie (AFS), Congrès de Lille, Online
• 07/2021 - “Un(re)markable retirement: Career transitions in the context of Sustainability”,
  presentation in the “Linking Ages” Symposium, World Education Research Association
  (WERA), Online
• 03/2021 - « Linking Ages : présentation théorique et mise en pratique dans les cas de transitions de carrières », at Journées d’Études (JE), Travailler les âges en professionel.le, Online