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Jessica
Nisén

Docent, Department of Social Research
University Research Fellow, INVEST Research Flagship Centre
D.Soc.Sc., Docent in Sociology (especially Demography, University of Turku) and Demography (University of Helsinki)
Fertility and family formation; Family demography; Quantitative sociology; Life course, gender, and stratification; Comparative research

Contact

+358 29 450 2629
+358 50 532 5030
Assistentinkatu 7
20500
Turku

Areas of expertise

Fertility and family formation
Family demography
Quantitative sociology

Teaching

I teach Social Inequalities (INWS0014) as part of the MPInvest Master's Degree Programme in Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State.

Research

I am affiliated with the INVEST Research Flagship Centre at the University of Turku. I am currently working on two research projects. The first, funded by the Strategic Research Council (Academy of Finland), is titled Family Formation in Flux – Causes, Consequences and Possible Futures (FLUX). As part of the consortium, I am investigating the demographic, social and economic determinants of changing fertility and family dynamics in my role as work package leader. The second research project is a Nordic collaboration funded by the Danish ROCKWOOL Foundation. The project is titled Determinants of later and forgone parenthood in the Nordic countries'. Examining the Role of Housing and Labour Market Careers (NORDPARENT), for which I am the lead researcher in Finland.. I am also a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki in Finland and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany.

Publications

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