mobarak hossain
@mobarakhossain.net
Assistant Professor at LSE. Formerly at Nuffield College and Oxford Social Policy and Intervention.
www.mobarakhossain.net
www.mobarakhossain.net
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📢 New publication by Dr Mobarak Hossain (LSE) and Martina Beretta:
"Community involvement and socioeconomic achievement gap in 14 sub-Saharan African countries"
The article examines the role of community engagement in addressing educational inequalities.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0142...
"Community involvement and socioeconomic achievement gap in 14 sub-Saharan African countries"
The article examines the role of community engagement in addressing educational inequalities.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0142...
Community involvement and socioeconomic achievement gap in 14 sub-Saharan African countries
As a global trend, sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have increasingly received reforms from international organizations (IOs) to improve learning achievements for marginalized groups by promotin...
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August 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
📢 New publication by Dr Mobarak Hossain (LSE) and Martina Beretta:
"Community involvement and socioeconomic achievement gap in 14 sub-Saharan African countries"
The article examines the role of community engagement in addressing educational inequalities.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0142...
"Community involvement and socioeconomic achievement gap in 14 sub-Saharan African countries"
The article examines the role of community engagement in addressing educational inequalities.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0142...
New article in Population and Development Review. We look at how intergenerational educational mobility shifted across the 20th century, drawing on data from 92 countries, predominantly LMICs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
New article in Population and Development Review. We look at how intergenerational educational mobility shifted across the 20th century, drawing on data from 92 countries, predominantly LMICs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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ISI has a new website.
Yes, one that works.
Yes, also on your phone.
No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim.
Visit www.isi-munich.de/en
Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.
Yes, one that works.
Yes, also on your phone.
No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim.
Visit www.isi-munich.de/en
Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.
July 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
ISI has a new website.
Yes, one that works.
Yes, also on your phone.
No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim.
Visit www.isi-munich.de/en
Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.
Yes, one that works.
Yes, also on your phone.
No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim.
Visit www.isi-munich.de/en
Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.
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We are delighted to announce that Dr Clara Fontdevila from the University of Glasgow will present our final seminar for the academic year this coming Monday, 16th June. Email or DM for the weblink, and please also feel free to join our growing community for future seminar updates: bit.ly/3v0vgaO.
June 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
We are delighted to announce that Dr Clara Fontdevila from the University of Glasgow will present our final seminar for the academic year this coming Monday, 16th June. Email or DM for the weblink, and please also feel free to join our growing community for future seminar updates: bit.ly/3v0vgaO.
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A Nuffield College shaped cake! 🎂 Made by the College's catering team in 1994, for the Senior Clerk of Works' 80th birthday. From Nuffield College Archives, NCP A11. #isitcake #cakesky @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A Nuffield College shaped cake! 🎂 Made by the College's catering team in 1994, for the Senior Clerk of Works' 80th birthday. From Nuffield College Archives, NCP A11. #isitcake #cakesky @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
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We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP
Deadline: 9 June
Please repost- thanks!
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Deadline: 9 June
Please repost- thanks!
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Job Details
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May 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP
Deadline: 9 June
Please repost- thanks!
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Deadline: 9 June
Please repost- thanks!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Ever wondered whether #modernisation 🏭💸 truly drives #EducationalMobility🎓?
Join us tomorrow for a talk with @mobarakhossain.net, who uses data from 91 countries to show how mobility trends from the 1930s–1990s developed 👇
What if countries had done similarly without modernisation?🧐
Join us tomorrow for a talk with @mobarakhossain.net, who uses data from 91 countries to show how mobility trends from the 1930s–1990s developed 👇
What if countries had done similarly without modernisation?🧐
May 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Ever wondered whether #modernisation 🏭💸 truly drives #EducationalMobility🎓?
Join us tomorrow for a talk with @mobarakhossain.net, who uses data from 91 countries to show how mobility trends from the 1930s–1990s developed 👇
What if countries had done similarly without modernisation?🧐
Join us tomorrow for a talk with @mobarakhossain.net, who uses data from 91 countries to show how mobility trends from the 1930s–1990s developed 👇
What if countries had done similarly without modernisation?🧐
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📣Patterns of #intergenerational_educational_mobility from the 1930s to the 1990s across 91 countries 🌏
Join the QSS-CLS Seminar by @mobarakhossain.net
Mobarak Hossain: Modernisation and educational mobility: A counterfactual approach
🗓️ Tomorrow
🕐 13:00–14:00 BST
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
Join the QSS-CLS Seminar by @mobarakhossain.net
Mobarak Hossain: Modernisation and educational mobility: A counterfactual approach
🗓️ Tomorrow
🕐 13:00–14:00 BST
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
Modernisation and educational mobility: A counterfactual approach
Mobarak Hossain examines the patterns of intergenerational educational mobility from the 1930s to the 1990s across 91 countries, including 76 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
📣Patterns of #intergenerational_educational_mobility from the 1930s to the 1990s across 91 countries 🌏
Join the QSS-CLS Seminar by @mobarakhossain.net
Mobarak Hossain: Modernisation and educational mobility: A counterfactual approach
🗓️ Tomorrow
🕐 13:00–14:00 BST
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
Join the QSS-CLS Seminar by @mobarakhossain.net
Mobarak Hossain: Modernisation and educational mobility: A counterfactual approach
🗓️ Tomorrow
🕐 13:00–14:00 BST
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
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Very exited to share the amazing 🚀line-up for our QSS and CLS Seminar series @sriucl.bsky.social🎓
Weekly talks on #SocialScience topics like #Inequality, #Protests, #Migration, #EducationalMobility, #Ethnicity, and #Eugenics 📊
Wednesdays, 1–2pm (hybrid). Register: forms.microsoft.com/e/fHEP73Jdmz
Weekly talks on #SocialScience topics like #Inequality, #Protests, #Migration, #EducationalMobility, #Ethnicity, and #Eugenics 📊
Wednesdays, 1–2pm (hybrid). Register: forms.microsoft.com/e/fHEP73Jdmz
April 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Very exited to share the amazing 🚀line-up for our QSS and CLS Seminar series @sriucl.bsky.social🎓
Weekly talks on #SocialScience topics like #Inequality, #Protests, #Migration, #EducationalMobility, #Ethnicity, and #Eugenics 📊
Wednesdays, 1–2pm (hybrid). Register: forms.microsoft.com/e/fHEP73Jdmz
Weekly talks on #SocialScience topics like #Inequality, #Protests, #Migration, #EducationalMobility, #Ethnicity, and #Eugenics 📊
Wednesdays, 1–2pm (hybrid). Register: forms.microsoft.com/e/fHEP73Jdmz
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📢 Great #internship opportunity in a wonderful team in @oecdsocial.bsky.social for students interested in #affordablehousing, #socialhousing and #homelessness 🏠
🙏 Please circulate and apply!
@alibargu.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/mariss...
🙏 Please circulate and apply!
@alibargu.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/mariss...
OECD housing internship_Summer-Fall 2025 | Marissa (Ellis) Plouin
We're looking for a top-notch #intern to join the housing team in OECD Social, ideally based in Paris from summer through fall 2025. We're looking for someone who is:
🏠 interested in #afforda...
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April 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📢 Great #internship opportunity in a wonderful team in @oecdsocial.bsky.social for students interested in #affordablehousing, #socialhousing and #homelessness 🏠
🙏 Please circulate and apply!
@alibargu.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/mariss...
🙏 Please circulate and apply!
@alibargu.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/mariss...
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I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social!
German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf
English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf
Please share
German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf
English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf
Please share
April 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social!
German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf
English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf
Please share
German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf
English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf
Please share
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Hey postdocs, here’s an opportunity to develop your research plan with us - and eventually relocate to Turku with your own grant!
📢 Planning to apply for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025? We offer a fully funded short-term visit to co-develop your MSCA proposal with top researchers in social & behavioral sciences at the INVEST Research Flagship in @utu.fi.
Read more & apply by 18 May👉
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
Read more & apply by 18 May👉
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
Call for MSCA PF Candidates for INVEST Research Flagship of Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State (HORIZON-MSCA-2025-PF-01-01)
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
April 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hey postdocs, here’s an opportunity to develop your research plan with us - and eventually relocate to Turku with your own grant!
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Hurrah: write-up of my Ruggles Lecture (with @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social and @nyecominetti.bsky.social) now out in Review of Income and Wealth, Open Access at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....
ICYMI: our companion report at www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
ICYMI: our companion report at www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
April 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Hurrah: write-up of my Ruggles Lecture (with @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social and @nyecominetti.bsky.social) now out in Review of Income and Wealth, Open Access at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....
ICYMI: our companion report at www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
ICYMI: our companion report at www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
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Postdoc position at U Michigan Center on Inequality Dynamics, ISR, start Sept 2025. Work w/ Tali Kristal (Haifa) and Pablo Mitnik (U Mich) on ERC grant on Income Distribution in US Manufacuturing, 1961-22. Quant skills important. Info here: cid-haifa-postdoc.tiiny.site.
CID-Haifa-Postdoctoral-Research-Fellow-Posting
CID-Haifa-Postdoctoral-Research-Fellow-Posting
cid-haifa-postdoc.tiiny.site
April 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Postdoc position at U Michigan Center on Inequality Dynamics, ISR, start Sept 2025. Work w/ Tali Kristal (Haifa) and Pablo Mitnik (U Mich) on ERC grant on Income Distribution in US Manufacuturing, 1961-22. Quant skills important. Info here: cid-haifa-postdoc.tiiny.site.
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PhD Position in Public Administration / Political Science at University of Bern on “Public Administration under Pressure": ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Uni Bern: PhD Position in Public Administration / Political Science
The KPM Center for Public Management at the University of Bern is seeking a doctoral candidate as of September 1, 2025 or by arrangement. The position is limited to 4 years.
ohws.prospective.ch
April 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
PhD Position in Public Administration / Political Science at University of Bern on “Public Administration under Pressure": ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
We are very excited to share an open call for contributions to the World Yearbook of Education 2028.
Please consider submitting your proposal, and feel free to circulate the call within your networks.
reformedproject.eu/wp-content/u...
About the Yearbook: www.routledge.com/World-Yearbo...
Please consider submitting your proposal, and feel free to circulate the call within your networks.
reformedproject.eu/wp-content/u...
About the Yearbook: www.routledge.com/World-Yearbo...
reformedproject.eu
April 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We are very excited to share an open call for contributions to the World Yearbook of Education 2028.
Please consider submitting your proposal, and feel free to circulate the call within your networks.
reformedproject.eu/wp-content/u...
About the Yearbook: www.routledge.com/World-Yearbo...
Please consider submitting your proposal, and feel free to circulate the call within your networks.
reformedproject.eu/wp-content/u...
About the Yearbook: www.routledge.com/World-Yearbo...
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Our visiting fellow call is open again, have a look if you want to stay with us for a while!
🔍 Interested in #inequality, #interventions, or the future of the #WelfareState? The Spring 2025 call our #Fellowship Programme is open! Check out our five research themes — is there a good match with your own work.
✈️ Travel covered, grant provided, housing arranged
👉 invest.utu.fi/fellowships/
✈️ Travel covered, grant provided, housing arranged
👉 invest.utu.fi/fellowships/
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Our visiting fellow call is open again, have a look if you want to stay with us for a while!
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New paper in International Migration Review! 📝📈
Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants.
with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants.
with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration? - Dirk Witteveen, Mobarak Hossain, 2025
This article examines the association between modernization and career growth of American men and European immigrants, focusing on heterogeneity along ancestry,...
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March 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
New paper in International Migration Review! 📝📈
Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants.
with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants.
with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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WE ARE HIRING!! Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science (Associate/Full Professor) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social
See: lnkd.in/e_Gw84JN
#demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk
Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4...
DM or reach out
*PLEASE RE-POST*
See: lnkd.in/e_Gw84JN
#demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk
Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4...
DM or reach out
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March 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
WE ARE HIRING!! Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science (Associate/Full Professor) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social
See: lnkd.in/e_Gw84JN
#demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk
Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4...
DM or reach out
*PLEASE RE-POST*
See: lnkd.in/e_Gw84JN
#demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk
Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4...
DM or reach out
*PLEASE RE-POST*
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Does HE politicise today's students?
Come along to the launch of a new ESRC-funded project on students and politics
Online, 3 June, 2-4pm with @robfordmancs.bsky.social @janmcarthur.bsky.social @ralphscott.bsky.social & Gritt Nielsen
www.researchcghe.org/events/does-...
Come along to the launch of a new ESRC-funded project on students and politics
Online, 3 June, 2-4pm with @robfordmancs.bsky.social @janmcarthur.bsky.social @ralphscott.bsky.social & Gritt Nielsen
www.researchcghe.org/events/does-...
Does higher education politicise today’s students? | Centre for Global Higher Education
www.researchcghe.org
March 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Does HE politicise today's students?
Come along to the launch of a new ESRC-funded project on students and politics
Online, 3 June, 2-4pm with @robfordmancs.bsky.social @janmcarthur.bsky.social @ralphscott.bsky.social & Gritt Nielsen
www.researchcghe.org/events/does-...
Come along to the launch of a new ESRC-funded project on students and politics
Online, 3 June, 2-4pm with @robfordmancs.bsky.social @janmcarthur.bsky.social @ralphscott.bsky.social & Gritt Nielsen
www.researchcghe.org/events/does-...
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We're hiring! 📢 Lecturer in Sociology position now open. We seek a scholar with a strong foundation in sociology, a record of high-profile contributions, and the ability to engage students and colleagues across diverse methodological approaches.
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We're hiring! 📢 Lecturer in Sociology position now open. We seek a scholar with a strong foundation in sociology, a record of high-profile contributions, and the ability to engage students and colleagues across diverse methodological approaches.
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Call for papers on ‘Access and Geopolitics’ in higher education - for hybrid conference in Oxford on 3 June, jointly organised by @cghe.bsky.social
#equity #HE #geopolitics #wideningparticipation
www.researchcghe.org/news/access-...
#equity #HE #geopolitics #wideningparticipation
www.researchcghe.org/news/access-...
Access and geopolitics: Next steps in tackling the equity crisis in global Higher Education | Centre for Global Higher Education
www.researchcghe.org
February 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Call for papers on ‘Access and Geopolitics’ in higher education - for hybrid conference in Oxford on 3 June, jointly organised by @cghe.bsky.social
#equity #HE #geopolitics #wideningparticipation
www.researchcghe.org/news/access-...
#equity #HE #geopolitics #wideningparticipation
www.researchcghe.org/news/access-...
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⏰ Still time to register to watch (online) this afternoon's presentation of YL paper 'A sound methodology' (1pm-2.30pm) by YL Director @martafavara.bsky.social, @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social ⬇️
💻 Book via www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...
📖 Read the paper www.younglives.org.uk/publications...
💻 Book via www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...
📖 Read the paper www.younglives.org.uk/publications...
February 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
⏰ Still time to register to watch (online) this afternoon's presentation of YL paper 'A sound methodology' (1pm-2.30pm) by YL Director @martafavara.bsky.social, @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social ⬇️
💻 Book via www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...
📖 Read the paper www.younglives.org.uk/publications...
💻 Book via www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...
📖 Read the paper www.younglives.org.uk/publications...
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Parental death increases child labour in #Ethiopia, especially unpaid household tasks, with school enrolment suffering. Losing a mother has the greatest impact. Urgent policies needed to protect vulnerable children #ChildLabour
Read here - loom.ly/E8rbHBo
@yloxford.bsky.social @unicef.org
Read here - loom.ly/E8rbHBo
@yloxford.bsky.social @unicef.org
January 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Parental death increases child labour in #Ethiopia, especially unpaid household tasks, with school enrolment suffering. Losing a mother has the greatest impact. Urgent policies needed to protect vulnerable children #ChildLabour
Read here - loom.ly/E8rbHBo
@yloxford.bsky.social @unicef.org
Read here - loom.ly/E8rbHBo
@yloxford.bsky.social @unicef.org