Julia Mikolai

Image shows person wearing headphones sitting at a desk attending a webinar on a computer screen. Text advertises: This CPC-CG webinar will take place on Thursday 6 November 2025 at 14:00 UK Time. Krista K. Westrick-Payne, Assistant Director at the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University will be delivering a presentation, entitled, "The context of connection: Linking partnership, place, and population data".

🧑‍🏫 NEXT WEEK - #CPCCGWebinar 6 Nov

Krista K. Westrick-Payne @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social will discuss how institutional, cultural, & policy contexts shape #marriage & #divorce in the #US, drawing on the Theory of Conjunctural Action.

Register to join: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @bspsuk.bsky.social

Postdoc (m/f/x) – Population Data and Projections OeAW - Discovering the futureAs a central non-university institution for science and research, the Austrian Academy of Sciences - OeAW has the task of "promoting science in every respect". F...

📢 Vienna Institute of Demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social is seeking a Postdoc Researcher in Population Data and Projections RG 📈 📊

I can't recommend enough working at VID, especially with Anne!

💯 friendly, supportive environment with world-class researchers.🤓
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New publication ✍️ Recent work by @jmikolai.bsky.social, Hill Kulu, and @ischiathere.bsky.social, together with Isaure Delaporte, unveils the interrelationship between fertility and employment changes among migrant populations across three major migrant recipient countries in Europe.

Health Decline and Residential Transitions Among Older Adults in Europe Residential mobility is a possible strategy to cope with health challenges in later life. However, little research has examined whether and how health decline triggers residential mobility and whethe...

Hot off the press 🔥 My first PhD chapter is now published as a research article in Population, Space and Place! @mpidr.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social

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Come along to this @cpc-cg.bsky.social webinar today at 1pm UK time if you are interested in #family #complexity and the #lifecourses of #children in #Europe

To find out more about the @childlives.bsky.social project, visit the website childlives.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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We are hiring a Posd-Doctoral Research Fellow @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social to work on #family and #housing #projections using #microsimulation. DL: 1 October. More info: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Image shows screen grab of publication information: Advances in Life Course Research Available online 29 August 2025, 100703 In Press, Journal Pre-proof Advances in Life Course Research Heterogeneity or disadvantage? Partnership, childbearing, and employment trajectories of the descendants of immigrants in the United Kingdom Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100703 Highlights • European/Western descendants and natives have similar trajectories. • Caribbeans have diverse family patterns, but similar employment to natives. • South Asians have conservative family patterns and low labour market attachment. • Heterogeneous family trajectories co-exist with low labour market participation.

📕 NEW @migrantlife.bsky.social paper by @jmikolai.bsky.social and Hill Kulu, published in Advances in Life Course Research

Investigates how #partnership, #fertility, and #employment changes interact in the lives of #immigrants’ descendants in the UK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna.

💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

Great day #BSPS2025, incl. @migrantlife.bsky.social's Baek on #fertility & #employment of UK women with #migrant backgrounds; Harrison & @maryabedalahad.bsky.social on migrants' life events in France & Sweden; @sarahchristison.bsky.social on UK family & housing transitions by migrant group & origin

Our PI, @jmikolai.bsky.social presented preliminary results at the @bspsuk.bsky.social annual conference.

Looking forward to seeing many of you tomorrow at my @bspsuk.bsky.social conference presentation tomorrow.

Thrilled that my new @childlives.bsky.social project now has a Bluesky account and website. Follow us and check out the website!

#ISPP2025 folks please share these 2 #postdoc opportunities with your networks

2 of 2 due this Friday 11July—>

Still a few days left to apply to this postdoc job 👇

Postdoc job opening! Come and work with us. DL: 8 July @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social

YouTube video by Centre for Population Change Connecting Gens Exploring pension reforms and public pension adequacy - Traute Meyer, Paul Bridgen, Lisa Davison

Check out this Centre for Population Change webinar on pension reforms & public pension adequacy.
Our Emerging Researchers in Ageing Chair, Dr Lisa Davison, presents on their work with colleagues from Southampton using Luxembourg Income Study data.

@cpc-cg.bsky.social @lisadavisonphd.bsky.social

Image shows front cover of the ESRC Centre for Population Change Report: Working from home: Impacts on residential mobility and spatial inequality The report cover has an image of Birmingham Centenary Square, Image credit istock.com/holgs 2022. With logos from the ESRC, CPC, Connecting Generations, University of Southampton, University of St Andrews, University of Birmingham, City-REDI, De Montfort University and UAL. Authors list: David McCollum (University of St Andrews, CPC-CG) Ian Taylor (University of the Arts London) Jonathan Payne (De Montfort University, Institute for Responsible Business and Social Justice) Anne Green (University of Birmingham, City-REDI) Jackline Wahba (University of Southampton, CPC-CG) Armine Ghazaryan (University of Southampton, CPC-CG) Published May 2025

🔖 #Workingfromhome has not meant greater geographical spread of talent to level up #economy

Findings from CPC-CG's @jackiewahba.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social & McCollum @standrewssgsd.bsky.social + @unibirmingham.bsky.social, @dmuleicester.bsky.social, UAL

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Delighted to have contributed a chapter on the #partnership context of #childbearing to this #OpenAccess book.

📢 Reminder: Submit your paper or extended abstract for the Comparative Population Studies special issue on “Migration Trajectories Over the Life Course”! 🧳
🗓️ Deadline: May 15
📄 Call for papers: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
#Migration #Lifecourse

This CPC-CG Scotland Webinar will take place on Thursday 1 May 2025 at 13:00 UK Time. CPC Member, Dr Traute Meyer, Dr Paul Bridgen and Lisa Davison will be presenting, "Retrenchment without effect: Exploring the link between pension reforms and public pension adequacy of new retirees in seven European countries (1993 - 2020)

👩‍💻 Come along to our next CPC-CG Scotland webinar on 1 May

Traute Meyer discusses research showing that, while #pension rules have changed, actual pension incomes have mostly stayed stable, esp. for women, suggesting other factors like employment trends also matter.

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RAND’s Postdoctoral Program in the Study of Aging will be recruiting for two new fellows this Spring. Outstanding opportunity for junior scholars in demographic and aging research. Deadline is May 23. www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-we...

Research Position (Postdoc) <div style="text-align: justify;">The Demography and Health Group is seeking to appoint a full-time post-doctoral researcher to join t...

New postdoc with @annaoksuzyan.bsky.social! Due May 15. Demography and Health Group, Bielefeld University. Project "Linked Lives: Consequences of Long Commuting for the Health of All Family Members (COMFAM)," funded by the ERC Consolidator Grant.

Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course Research Handbooks in Sociology series Edited by Dimitri Mortelmans, Centre for Population, Family and Health (CPFH), University of Antwerp, Belgium, Laura Bernardi, Swiss Center of Expertise in Life Course Research (LIVES), University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and Brienna Perelli-Harris, Department of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton, UK Publication Date: April 2025 ISBN: 978 1 80392 337 6 Extent: 394 pp This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com.

📚 NEW BOOK - open access!

Leading scholars explore how individual life trajectories, societal norms, and legal frameworks are shaping modern #relationships.

Co-edited by CPC member @briennaph.bsky.social

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