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Pablo Gracia
@pablogracia.bsky.social
Research Professor of Sociology at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and Centre for Demographic Studies (CED). Families / Inequalities / Gender / Child & Adolescent Well-Being / Life Course / Digital Media https://www.pablogracia-sociology.com
🔝 1-Year Research Position in ERC 'DIGINEQ' project at @uab.cat & @cedemografia.bsky.social

💡 Excellent Quant or Mixed-Methods Skills + Fluency in English & Spanish (Catalan a plus).

- 20 h/week; ~€21.5K gross/year; Barcelona area
- Deadline: Dec 1 2025, 13:00 CET

🎯 Link: ced.cat/wp-content/u...
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🌍 EAPS Child & Adolescent Development Autumn Seminar
🗓 Nov 17 | 14:00–15:00 CET |Online

Theme: Climate Change, Inequalities & Youth
Speakers: @mariarubiocab.bsky.social & Raya Muttarak
Zoom link: unil.zoom.us/j/99171418150

Open to researchers/students!

cc: @eaps.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🆕 Paper in @actasociologica.bsky.social!!

How did school/childcare reopening during COVID-19 impact mothers’ time use & well-being in 🇩🇰?

- Care work time declined / Paid work time increased
- Less stress, worry & loneliness during care work

🔗 Read our #openaccess study: doi.org/10.1177/0001...
October 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I deeply appreciate so many friends & colleagues from @isa-rc28.bsky.social.

Yet, the recent RC28-community statement condemning @isa-sociology.org suspension of ISS –without apparent similar statement on RSS suspension in years– seems biased & contradictory.

I share my email to RC28 Board [1]
July 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
🆕 NEW Paper with K. Bobrowicz (lead), Z. Teuber & S. Greiff in @plosone.org!

Early Childhood Education (ECE) Stakeholders push Competition & Achievement over Solidarity & Cohesion

#Meritocracy #Trap

🌍 53 countries
📊 Thematic Analysis
🕰️ 1999–2023

Open Access 👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
July 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🆕 Paper with @metzgers.bsky.social (lead) at Journal of Marriage and Family!

We study how #Parenthood impacts #Gendered #Time.Use & #Mental.Health and how #Paid & #Unpaid #Work shape gendered mental health during parenthood transitions.

Open access link 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Thrilled that our #Adolescent #Sleep paper is among the 2024 IPUMS Research Awards Winners! 🪇 🥳

Thanks @ipums.bsky.social! See here the awardees details 👇
www.ipums.org/2024-award-w...

Read our paper with @jgarciaroman.bsky.social & Giulia Zerbini #OpenAccess 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🆕 New Paper with Ilaria Pietropoli (lead) in "Research in Social Stratification and Mobility"!

🎯 We show how Home Learning Environment (HLE) & Early Childhood Education (ECE) interact in shaping and equalising Child Development across SES groups.

Paper Link! 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🆕 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!👇
webs.uab.cat/touch/jobs/s...
February 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Check all the book chapter details here (cc: @elgarpublishing.bsky.social) too!
February 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🎯 NEW book out "Families with Children in a Turbulent Era" in @elgarpublishing.bsky.social!

With our chapter on "Parental Nonstandard Work in 29 Countries" with Wen Jui-Han & Jianghong Li (Eds: Katja Repo, Mia Tammelin & Petteri Eerola).

Link to buy & read it! 👉 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/fam...
February 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🆕 Check our paper on Mental Health Inequalities between Lone and Partnered Mothers in "Frontiers in Sociology"!

Paper with Cadhla McDonnell (cc: @cedemografia.bsky.social @tcdsociology.bsky.social).

Read the paper #openacces here!👇

www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
February 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Congratulations Dr Mattia Messena @mattiamessena.bsky.social on successfully defending your PhD last week at UCD!!! 🎉🥳

It was great to learn more about your research on child well-being and digital media as external examiner🔝

Hope next time we can meet in Dublin in person!
December 5, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Congratulations Dr Sandrine Metzger @metzgers.bsky.social!! 🥳🎉🪇

Sandrine passed her viva today with an excellent PhD thesis on Parenthood, Gender, Life Course & Mental Health at the Dept. of Sociology of TCD!

Great panel!: Alice Goisis (external), Jan Skopek (internal) & Elaine Moriarty (chair)
November 29, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Did you miss the @demresjournal.bsky.social deadline for the exciting Special Collection on "Families' Resilience, Socioeconomic Crises & Child Well-Being"?

We have good news! 🙂

New deadline: January 15th, 2025

Submit & share! 👇👇

www.demographic-research.org/files/202411...
November 28, 2024 at 6:43 AM
POSITION 2 👇

An equally amazing 3-year Postdoc on “Adolescent Well-Being, Digital Lives and Social Inequalities: Computational Social Science Approaches”

Link to this Postdoc position: ced.cat/recursos/Pos...

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October 23, 2024 at 10:48 AM
POSITION 1 👇

An amazing 4-year PhD position on “Adolescent Well-Being, Digital Media and Social Inequalities”

Link to this PhD position:
ced.cat/recursos/PhD...

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October 23, 2024 at 10:47 AM
🆕 2 JOBS at the ERC-funded DIGINEQ project!

* Join my team at CED/UAB in Barcelona!

* 1 PhD & 1 Postdoc

* Topics: Adolescent Wellbeing; Social Inequalities; Digital Media; Computational Social Sciences

* Deadline: December 3, 2024

Link: pablogracia-sociology.com/jobs

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October 23, 2024 at 10:46 AM
I am very excited to start today as Research Professor of Sociology at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), affiliated with the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED). Looking forward to this new chapter!! 🥳
October 2, 2024 at 6:56 AM
🎯 Call for Papers: Special Collection in Demographic Research!!

-Topic: Family Resilience, Child/Youth Well-Being & Global Socioeconomic Crises
-Editors: Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Wiebke Schulz & me
-Deadline: October 31, 2024
-Link: www.demographic-research.org/files/202407...

Submit & share!! 😀😊
July 5, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Work with me at Centre for Demographic Studies & Department of Sociology of UAB (Barcelona)!

Postdoc in "Quantitative Sociology & Population" in ERC "DIGINEQ" on Social Stratification, Adolescent Well-Being & Digital Inequality.

Deadline (in 4 days!): Monday 17 June

Link: ced.cat/recursos/DIG...
June 14, 2024 at 10:51 AM
🆕 3-year Postdoc in Quantitative Sociology & Population!!

- Topics: Social Stratification, Adolescent Wellbeing, Digitalisation, Life Course.
- Place: Centre for Demographic Studies & Department of Sociology at UAB, Barcelona.
-Deadline: June 17th.

Share & apply!! 😃👇
Link: ced.cat/recursos/DIG...
May 27, 2024 at 3:33 PM
I am thrilled to announce that this new academic year 2024/25 I will return to Barcelona to be part of the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) and Department of Sociology from Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)!

Stay tuned for coming Postdoc openings within my ERC DIGINEQ project at UAB 🥳
May 21, 2024 at 9:25 AM
🆕 How do Adolescent Sleep Patterns differ across Countries?

Find the answer in our new #openaccess paper at the "International Journal of Adolescence and Youth"!

Work with Joan Garcia-Roman & Giulia Zerbini.

🎯 Read the paper here!: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 15, 2024 at 11:29 AM
🔝🎯 Please SPREAD the voice &/or apply!

2 excellent PhD opportunities on Quantitative Sociology & Inequalities

Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin

At excellent & vibrant department, school, institute & university!

Deadline: April 5th, 2024

call: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
March 20, 2024 at 5:43 PM