Multimodal, visual and public anthropology, urban anthropology, medical anthropology, gender studies, social movements, migration

Europe, Southeast Asia

Lynn Kohli is a PhD candidate in the URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded. Her research explores the declining fertility rates in Singapore, with a particular focus on the evolving attitudes of Generation Z toward family planning. Centering on their motivations and the reasons behind voluntary childlessness, the study adopts an ethnographic and holistic approach to investigate how sociopolitical, social, and religious conditions intersect to shape Gen Z’s shifting perceptions of gender roles, family, and kinship — and how these factors influence decisions to remain child-free or to engage in alternative forms of kin-making.

Previously, she completed an MA in Social Anthropology at the University of Zurich, including a semester at the University of Vienna. Before her Master’s studies Lynn studied Ethnology and Political Science at the University of Zurich. Lynn is committed to bringing social anthropology into broader sociopolitical debates beyond academia. To this end, she works as a filmmaker as well as curator and moderator.

Photo: © Anita Affentranger