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Patricia McMullin
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Academy of Finland flagship INVEST lecturer @INVEST_Flagship & Academy Research Fellow, PI: “Moving Matters” on family migration & intergenerational inequality
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Patricia McMullin @pmcmullin.bsky.social · Dec 2
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
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 ...
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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
October 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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invest-flagship.bsky.social
10 questions about the impact of moving on children, asked by Turun yliopisto - University of Turku, answered by our Academy Research Fellow Patricia McMullin &Doctoral Researcher Essi Tenhunen.

https://www.utu.fi/en/news/aurora-online-magazine/10-questions-about-the-impact-of-moving-on-children
10 questions about the impact of moving on children
The questions were answered by Academy Research Fellow, Dr Patricia McMullin and Doctoral Researcher Essi Tenhunen.
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October 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Tutkijamme Patricia McMullin ja Essi Tenhunen kertovat Turun yliopisto - University of Turku Aurorassa, millaisia vaikutuksia muuttamisella on lapsen elämään.

👉 https://www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohtaista/aurora/10-kysymysta-muuttamisen-vaikutuksesta-lapsiin

#muuttaminen #lapsuus #lapsi #INVESTResearch
10 kysymystä muuttamisen vaikutuksesta lapsiin
Kysymyksiin vastaavat akatemiatutkija Patricia McMullin ja väitöskirjatutkija Essi Tenhunen tutkimuskeskus ja lippulaiva INVESTistä.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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satuhelske.bsky.social
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
August 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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svidal.bsky.social
📢New Publication with A Bernard & @pmcmullin.bsky.social
Individuals who moved during childhood are more likely to feel often lonely—especially with repeated moves. Siblings help. Duration matters. The impact is stronger in individualist societies.🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Internal Migration and Loneliness in Childhood: The Moderating Role of Family Structure and Cultural Individualism - European Journal of Population
The negative impact of childhood internal migration on diverse life outcomes is well documented. The main hypothesis to explain this association is the severance of social ties. However, empirical evi...
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July 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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svidal.bsky.social
• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025)

Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are…
• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025)
Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming workshop Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course, organized by the LIFELONGMOVE team. Research increasingly shows that to fully understand patterns of spatial mobility, we need a life course perspective—one that draws on longitudinal data and methods.
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June 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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invest-flagship.bsky.social
"Are opportunities for adult education equally distributed? 🤔

A new study by Heta Pöyliö & @pmcmullin.bsky.social compares Finland 🇫🇮 and Great Britain 🇬🇧 and finds stark differences.

What are the differences? Read from INVEST blog 👉 blogit.utu.fi/invest/2024/...

#AcademicSky #AdultEducation
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 ...
blogit.utu.fi
December 10, 2024 at 6:51 AM
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Loistava tutkijamme @satuhelske.bsky.social kertoo isien perhevapaiden käytöstä - tai oikeastaan käyttämättä jättämisestä:

www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2...

@invest-flagship.bsky.social
Vanhemmuus | Tutkija selvitti, millaiset isät jäävät vauvan kanssa kotiin – paljastui iso tasa-arvo-ongelma
Perhevapaata on pidetty ennen kaikkea naisten ja miesten välisenä tasa-arvokysymyksenä. Tutkimus paljastaa, ketkä ovat kaikkein heikoimmassa asemassa.
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December 9, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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lauraheiskala.bsky.social
Link to the thesis: urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978...
Opportunity, choice, and barriers: A Register-based study on social stratification in higher education in Finland - UTUPub
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December 2, 2024 at 4:47 PM
pmcmullin.bsky.social
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
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 ...
blogit.utu.fi
December 2, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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invest-flagship.bsky.social
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...
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...
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November 27, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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aleksikarhula.bsky.social
Our new AJS article shows that high earning family and work life courses are remarkably similar in different countries, but differ much for low earners. This is related to country specific policies structuring especially the low-earning life courses.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Lives in Welfare States: Life Courses, Earnings Accumulation, and Relative Living Standards in Five European Countries1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2
How do work and family life courses differ in welfare states with varying emphasis on the state, market, and family for welfare provision? The authors compare life courses until midlife in Denmark, Fi...
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November 25, 2024 at 7:17 AM
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janierola.net
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.
1/3
November 22, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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cgergs.bsky.social
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
🧵👇
November 19, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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janierola.net
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
November 20, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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hermwerf.bsky.social
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
November 19, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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invest-flagship.bsky.social
Are you wondering what our international Master's Programme in Inequalities, Interventions, and the New Welfare State has to offer? If your answer is yes, welcome to our Zoom webinar introducing the programme 20.11. at 2:00 PM (Finnish time).

#MPInvest

👉 invest.utu.fi/events/inter...
Interactive webinar for an introduction to Inequalities, Interventions, and New Welfare State - INVEST
Time: 20 November at 14:00 – 15:00 (Finnish time) Place: https://utu.zoom.us/j/62875557046 Join this interactive webinar for an in-depth introduction to Inequalities, Interventions, and New...
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November 19, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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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/
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...
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October 4, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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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/
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...
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November 4, 2024 at 7:29 AM
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1 PhD Job (4 years) in ERC DIGINEQ project!

At Centre for Demographic Studies & Dept. of Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona

"Adolescent Well-Being; Inequalities; Digital Media; Computational Social Science"

Deadline: December 3

Apply & share!! 🔝🔥

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ730/p...
PhD Researcher in Adolescent Well-Being, Inequalities, Digital Media and Computational Social Sciences at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Explore the PhD Researcher in Adolescent Well-Being, Inequalities, Digital Media and Computational Social Sciences on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for higher education. Apply now.
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November 18, 2024 at 10:21 AM