An interesting research position in our neighbouring team at THL (Helsinki, Finland). Have a look, apply, and join the wonderful INVEST research group. 🤓🎯
#postdoc #research #AI
05.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake.
#research #hiring
27.08.2025 13:05 — 👍 21 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 1
Policies supporting adult education and work-family balance can help mothers overcome barriers to pursuing their learning goals. For the Finnish economy to maintain a sustainable labour force, the opportunities to adapt to changing work and family situations should be guaranteed to everyone.
02.12.2024 14:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mothers miss out – Limited adult education opportunities in the context of scarce public support
Heta Pöyliö & Patricia McMullin Formal adult education can advance gender equality by boosting female employment and addressing women's labor market disadvantages. Policies supporting adult education ...
Mothers are missing out on adult education(AE)📚.Our study shows single moms & those w/young kids face steeper barriers. Recent cuts to AE support in Finland 🇫🇮 risk widening gaps as in Britain🇬🇧. Policies must promote gender equality & support all families #Adultlearning @invest-flagship.bsky.social
02.12.2024 14:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
New tool enables exploring and visualising inequalities across Europe - INVEST
Researchers have developed a new interactive tool to view inequality indicators. It allows journalists, policymakers, researchers, and data scientists to...
Explore Europe's inequalities with ease 🌍💻 The #Mapineq project has launched a groundbreaking tool to visualize and compare #inequality indicators across countries.
Webinar introducing the tool in December.
@unigroningen.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky
👉 invest.utu.fi/news/new-too...
27.11.2024 13:32 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
It is finally alive!
The almighty database of our mapineq.eu -Horizon Europe project. Design and implementation by @melindacmills.bsky.social and Doug Leisure, hosted at University of Groningen.
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22.11.2024 08:49 — 👍 33 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0
Hello #EconSky 👋 excited to share my JMP!
❓What are the impacts of offering student finance as a grant or a loan?
In the paper, I...
🎓 Study individual university enrolment, subject choice & career motivations
❗️Explore aggregate outcomes e.g. access to university & the occupational structure
🧵👇
19.11.2024 18:28 — 👍 41 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 5
It will happen again in May!
So make sure to submit, if there are sufficiently many of you I *promise* there will be a sauna pre-conf experience
#sociology
#socialpolicy
#socialwork
#statistics
#economics
#polsky
#psychology
#childpsychiatry
#demography
#epidemiology
#socialpharmacy
20.11.2024 11:16 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Does educational expansion promote social mobility? In my latest study on 40 countries, that just came out in the American Sociological Review, it looks like it does. Integrating decomposition techniques with a comparative framework, 1/n
19.11.2024 10:24 — 👍 210 🔁 77 💬 8 📌 7
INVEST Conference 2025 - INVEST
Uncertainty and Resilience in Changing Societies 14-16 May 2025 Turku, Finland The INVEST Conference is an interdisciplinary, international and high-level...
Save the date! 📅
Uncertainty and Resilience in Changing Societies Conference 14-16 May 2025 in Turku, Finland.
Keynote speakers Mary Daly @universityofoxford.bsky.social & Michael Ungar (Dalhousie University).
#AcadmicSky #reslience #conference
Read more 👉 invest.utu.fi/conference/
04.10.2024 08:57 — 👍 20 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
INVEST Fellowship Programme - INVEST
INVEST Fellowship Programme Autumn Call is open 4.11.-29.11.2024. What is an INVEST fellowship? INVEST fellowships are 1-3 (or up to...
Now is the time to apply for our Fellowship❗
✔️1–3 (or up to 6) months visit
✔️collaborate with our researchers and projects organised under the research themes
✔️ primarily targeted to researcher from post-doctoral studies onwards
#AcademicSky
Read more & apply👉 invest.utu.fi/fellowships/
04.11.2024 07:29 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
ERC-funded Project exploring spatial mobility from early life into adulthood, and its impact on individuals and societies.
Hosted by UAB Barcelona and Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics.
PI @svidal.bsky.social
https://webs.uab.cat/lifelongmove
Chief researcher at Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Research interests: inequality, intergenerational mechanisms, poverty, mental health and social sustainability. Leader of SustAgeable consortium.
Demographer and economist.
population dynamics | mortality | population ageing | fertility | public policy
https://sites.google.com/view/tothgcs
The Network of Europe's Leading Demographic Research Centres: https://population-europe.eu
Family Formation in Flux – Causes, Consequences and Possible Futures. Research project that seeks evidence-based solutions for influencing and adapting to changes in fertility dynamics that accelerate population ageing.
https://fluxconsortium.fi/
Sociologist | Senior researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) | Interested in poverty, inequality and migration 🍉
“Is this how hope is lost, […] by becoming indifferent to the truth?” L.Y.
👨🏻💻 https://me.eui.eu/albert-arcarons
Social Scientist. Senior researcher at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne.
www.sewenz.com
Social scientist (economist/survey methodologist/ social policy analyst). #firstgen #happiness #wellbeing. From🦉💙 #soep #paneldata #spatialdata #rural_areas #portugal. Formerly DIW Berlin, LSE, Bristol and ISER; now Thünen-Institute of Rural Studies
Assistant Professor @ Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping U.
| Dynamics of segregation
selcanmutgan.com
Senior researcher ROA (Maastricht Univ.) &
BIBB (Bonn)
spatial/institutional context effects |
educational/occupational aspirations | transitions | employment trajectories
can't fold maps🗺️
weiß wie viele ⚽felder ins Saarland passen
www.kwessling.net
Professor of Social and Public Policy @NYU AD; @LSE
Sociologist at @gesis.org working with EU-SILC in @fdzgml.bsky.social. Research interests: econometrics, survey methodology, sociology of wealth, family sociology, integration/migration, ethnic segregation. Typos galore🌻🏴🚩
The International Sociological Association's Research Committee 28 (abbreviated RC28) on Social Stratification and Mobility.
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/research-networks/research-committees/rc28-social-stratification/
Professor in human geography at Stockholm University. Neighbourhood effects, migration, segregation.
We produce cutting-edge research on social inequality, train the next generation of scholars, build data infrastructure, and increase data accessibility at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Learn more at inequality.umich.edu.
IRP is a national center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. We are part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Illuminating the debate through data-driven research #inequalitydata✨
Hosting the World Inequality Database🌐 https://wid.world/
https://inequalitylab.world/en/
The International Inequalities Institute drives integrated research and teaching on inequality at LSE. Home of @afsee-lse.bsky.social.
Advancing social equity via research, education, and policy.
https://samuelduboiscookcenter.org/
