What started out at the Minerva-funded workshop on „Social Networks and Health Inequalities in Ageing Societies“, has now resulted in a published paper: „When Parents Grieve: Adult Child Support and Depressive Symptoms Among Men and Women After Widowhood“
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Just 10% of European older adults are disconnected from their kids. These tenuous ties can amplify the mental health consequences of gray divorce & silver splits. @lisajessee.bsky.social @geronmedia.bsky.social @asasmh.bsky.social @nacda-icpsr.bsky.social www.niussp.org/family-and-h...
12.01.2026 22:49 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0New Research on Aging paper on a key question: which types of support from adult children actually help widowed parents cope? Check it out here: lnkd.in/ecrMscJS
05.12.2025 14:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our new JMF paper on “silver splits” uses 18 years of dyadic data. We find that:
💡 When a partner was more depressed pre-separation, the other often feels better after.
👫 This effect appears only among men — highlighting gendered effects of later-life separations.
Open access: lnkd.in/eWaZcxM6
The ECSR workshop “Understanding Kin Relations” will take place on 2–3 March 2026 in Cologne. We invite early-career researchers to submit abstracts (<500 words) by 21 Nov 2025. The event is funded by the ECSR and free of charge. More information can be found here. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/46e2d...
16.10.2025 11:54 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
And that’s a wrap! 🎉
My final dissertation chapter (with @carrds723.bsky.social) is out in European Journal of Population:
After later-life divorce, only parents disconnected from a child show higher depression—others show stable symptoms
👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🗓️ Save the date: on October 10th, the final event of the project KinHealth will take place in Padova @unipd.bsky.social
🧑🧑🧒 We will discuss kinship structure, ties, and obligations and their health implications with a wonderful team of scholars.
⚡️Spots are limited, get in touch!
#ECSR2025 is a wrap! Three days of inspiring research, great talks, reconnecting with old friends & meeting new ones, plus a memorable conference dinner. Huge thanks to everyone who made it possible – we’re happy & exhausted!
05.09.2025 15:04 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Thrilled to share I successfully defended my dissertation yesterday! 🎓 This milestone wouldn’t have been possible without the exceptional guidance of my supervisors, K. Hank and L. Ellwardt, and the support of family, friends, colleagues, and co‑authors. I’m excited for what’s next!
19.03.2025 12:13 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🆕 3-Year PhD in Quantitative Social Sciences on "Adolescent Social Media, Mental Health & Inequalities"! 🎯
Deadline: March 31
Supervisors: @pablogracia.bsky.social [@uab.cat @cedemografia.bsky.social] & @alinacosma.bsky.social [@tcddublin.bsky.social]
Apply & Share!👇
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Having children doesn't guarantee happiness for older adults. Learn how parent-child disconnectedness undermines mental health, esp. for married women. @geronmedia.bsky.social @buciss.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @nacda-icpsr.bsky.social @lisajessee.bsky.social
19.02.2025 21:57 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to share my paper w/ Debby Carr has been published in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B! We find disconnectedness is highest among never-married/divorced men and linked to depressive symptoms, especially for women in first marriages.
🔗 Find out more here:
academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
Thank you!!!
22.01.2025 07:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m excited to share that I was awarded the Junior Teaching Award by the Wiso-faculty for my seminar on Challenges and Opportunities in Aging Populations. Being recognized for the very first seminar I taught means so much to me and motivates me to keep delivering engaging and meaningful teaching!
21.01.2025 15:07 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Are you going to #PAA2025 and work with sequence analysis? Then submit your paper to our pre-PAA sequence analysis workshop, happening right before #PAA2025, same venue, on April 9 - free of charge! You only need a 200-word abstract 🚀 and can also just register for attendance.
See y'all there! 🤗
📢 Stellenausschreibung: Senior Lecturer (wiss. Lehre) @univie.ac.at. Inhaltlicher Fokus: Methoden quantitativer Sozialforschung (z.B. Einführung in Sozialforschung, Statistik, Datenerhebung, Datenauswertung).
⏰ Bewerbungsfrist: 26.01.2025
👉 alle Infos (job description in EN): tinyurl.com/3ejr4c25
1️⃣7️⃣ days left to hand in your extended abstracts!
14.01.2025 07:53 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows the University of Southampton campus and sights from around Southampton. Text advertises 'The British Society for Population Studies presents PopFest2025! 6-8 July, University of Southampton. Open to all PhD students. Accessible registration fee and bursaries available. Call for papers opens in now OPEN' Logos featured are BSPS, CPC, NCRM, University of Southampton, Connecting Generations and Population Geography Research Group.
📢Calling all #postgraduate students - the call for papers for #PopFest25 is now open!
Join us for the annual postgraduate #population studies conference, this year taking place @unisouthampton.bsky.social, 6-8 July.
📨Find out more and submit: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...
🎉ECSR Conference 2025 is coming to Cologne!🎉
📅 3-5 September 2025
📅 Abstract deadline: Jan 31st
ℹ️ Details: ecsr2025.eu
I'm happy to be on the organizing team.
Theme: "Demography & Social Inequality" – but submissions from *all* sociology fields, methodical approaches etc. are welcome.
#ECSR2025
Excited to be in Boston for 5 months! Ready to collaborate with @DeborahCarr on my final dissertation project on gray divorce, parent-child relationships, and mental health at @BU_CISS. If you're in the area, let's meet up for coffee and share insights! 📚☕ #Boston
16.02.2024 09:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Really enjoyed attending this year’s Herbsttagung of the section family sociology of the @DGS 👩👧👧👨👨👦 🔬
Thanks Karsten Hank & Anja Steinbach for organising!
Do you love planning ahead? Then this is for you: The call for papers for the IUSSP's International Population Conference (13-18 July 2025, Brisbane, Australia) is out now! I'll chair the session "Family Networks Beyond the Household: An International Perspective" ipc2025.iussp.org/ipc-2025-con...
20.11.2023 08:38 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Two 3-year PhD fellowships are available within the remit of my ERC project on the risks and vulnerability of widowhood across ageing societies!!!
Deadline for applications - December 10
Start date - September 1
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