Laura
Heiskala
Senior Researcher, INVEST Research Flagship Centre
VTT / D.Soc.Sc.
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Areas of expertise
social inequality
educational inequality
intergenerational inequality
quantitative methods
register data
sustainability transformation
Biography
I work as a senior researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre. I successfully defended my PhD thesis in December 2024, focusing on intergenerational inequality in higher education in Finland.
My current research focuses particularly on social mobility within the limits of planetary boundaries. I am a researcher in the SISU project (Sufficiency solutions for a resilient, green, and just Finland). More information about the project is available at https://sisu-stn.fi/en/
In the academic year 2025–2026, I am involved in teaching the Panel Regression methods course in the Master’s Degree Programme in Inequalities, Interventions, and the New Welfare State.
Publications
INVEST Pitkittäistutkimus hyvinvoinnista 2024 -kyselyn tutkimusseloste (2025)
(D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti tai -selvitys )The Compensatory Role of Diverse Workplaces: Parental Workplace Educational Composition and Children's Higher Education Enrolment (2025)
British Journal of Sociology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Economic circumstances of children living in higher and lower educated families and the contribution of household structure: Comparison of 11 European countries (2024)
(D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti tai -selvitys )Change in human capital of the immediate family (2024)
(D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti tai -selvitys )Opportunity, choice, and barriers: A Register-based study on social stratification in higher education in Finland (2024)
(G5 Artikkeliväitöskirja)Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes: Six countries in comparison (2024)
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes: Six countries in comparison (2023)
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes: Six countries in comparison (2023)
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Persistent university intentions: Social origin differences in stopping applying to university after educational rejection(s) (2023)
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )