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St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social · 2d

We are now live on LinkedIn as well! Follow us for updates 😀

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Dr Mengxing J @drmengxing.bsky.social · 2d

Event: Join community members, organisations & researchers to explore challenges & opportunities in ethnic minority ageing in Scotland
💬 Panel • Discussion • Collaboration
20 Oct 2025, University of Edinburgh
🔗 Register now: forms.office.com/e/aFbe4JX3pu
Funded by @britishgerontology.bsky.social

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 10d

‼️ Closing THIS WEDNESDAY - Apply: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Sep 4

📌 New opportunity to work with @migrantlife.bsky.social and CPC-CG @standrewssgsd.bsky.social

Post-doctoral #ResearchFellow to work on #family and #housing projections using #microsimulation

Apply by 1 October #poptwitter: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... @bspsuk.bsky.social

Image shows a hand holding a pen writing in a notebook with the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations logos. Text in the image advertises the job opportunity: Research Fellow or Research Assistant to work on family and housing projections using microsimulation. Based at the School of Geography and Sustainable Developmen, University of St Andrews.

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Julia Mikolai @jmikolai.bsky.social · 28d

We are hiring a Posd-Doctoral Research Fellow @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social to work on #family and #housing #projections using #microsimulation. DL: 1 October. More info: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Research Fellow (or Research Assistant*) – AR2690

Research Fellow (or Research Assistant*) – AR2690, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, Salary: £38,784 - £46,049 per annum, Start: As soon as possible, Fixed term until May 2027, <p st...

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Sep 9

📕 NEW @migrantlife.bsky.social paper by @jmikolai.bsky.social and Hill Kulu, published in Advances in Life Course Research

Investigates how #partnership, #fertility, and #employment changes interact in the lives of #immigrants’ descendants in the UK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Advances in Life Course Research
Available online 29 August 2025, 100703
In Press, Journal Pre-proof
Advances in Life Course Research
Heterogeneity or disadvantage? Partnership, childbearing, and employment trajectories of the descendants of immigrants in the United Kingdom
Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100703

Highlights
• European/Western descendants and natives have similar trajectories.
• Caribbeans have diverse family patterns, but similar employment to natives.
• South Asians have conservative family patterns and low labour market attachment.
• Heterogeneous family trajectories co-exist with low labour market participation.

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Dr Mary @maryabedalahad.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am so happy to have presented in two sessions at #BSPS2025 conference on Life course trajectories of descendants of immigrants in Sweden and on Life satisfaction, health and air pollution.
@bspsuk.bsky.social
@cpc-cg.bsky.social
@phrg-standrews.bsky.social
@migrantlife.bsky.social

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Sep 4

📌 New opportunity to work with @migrantlife.bsky.social and CPC-CG @standrewssgsd.bsky.social

Post-doctoral #ResearchFellow to work on #family and #housing projections using #microsimulation

Apply by 1 October #poptwitter: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... @bspsuk.bsky.social

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our previous team member @ischiathere.bsky.social & Nissa Finney contributed to a @bspsuk.bsky.social panel on future research on the #children of #immigrants! The panel discussed data gaps, specific themes/theories related to their unique societal status, methodologies & interdisciplinarity.

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great day #BSPS2025, incl. @migrantlife.bsky.social's Baek on #fertility & #employment of UK women with #migrant backgrounds; Harrison & @maryabedalahad.bsky.social on migrants' life events in France & Sweden; @sarahchristison.bsky.social on UK family & housing transitions by migrant group & origin

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · Sep 3

The final presentation was delivered by @sarahchristison.bsky.social who looked at #housing, #partnership & #fertility of immigrants & descendants in the #UK. Births were most likely for homeowners & homeownership entry is heterogenous regardless of partnership which may suggest disadvantage.

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · Sep 3

@maryabedalahad.bsky.social jumped from France to #Sweden to look at #homeownership, #marriage & #childbirth among #immigrants & their #descendants. She shows greater life event convergence to the Swedish natives across migrant generations & the importance of homeownership for other life events.

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · Sep 3

@jharrison37.bsky.social is next presenting his work on #births, #partnerships & residential #mobility of #immigrants & #descendants in #France! He shows that African immigrants exhibit higher event intensity, some fertility convergence across generations & that residential barriers persist.

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · Sep 3

@jiseonbaek.bsky.social presented her PhD work on the #fertility & #employment link for #immigrants & #descendants in the #UK. She shows with #multiprocess modelling that we underestimate #childbearing for various migrant groups & its implications on how we view their childbearing & #career paths.

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Sarah Christison @sarahchristison.bsky.social · Sep 3

Excited to be at #bsps2025 presenting some of the first results from the #We-id project exploring the social identities and political participation of migrants and their descendants in Europe

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Dr Mary @maryabedalahad.bsky.social · Sep 2

I had the priviledge of chairing the session on life course of Immigrants regarding education and employment with four wonderful presenters at the British Society for Population Studies conference
@bspsuk.bsky.social
@parthpandya.bsky.social
@secoyorke.bsky.social
@phrg-standrews.bsky.social

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · Sep 2

@parthpandya.bsky.social kicks off MigrantLife presentations at @bspsuk.bsky.social Conference 2025! They presented on #UK #residentialmobility and its link to #household characteristics specifically household #income and #partnership status.

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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Using an intersectional life course approach & multi-channel sequence analysis we show that family and employment are mutually supportive life domains among migrant men, whilst they are competing and often incompatible among migrant women." www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · Jul 15

Have a read to find out what comes first - homeownership, marriage or childbirth!
migrantlife.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2025/0...

migrantlife.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · Jul 15

💡New MigrantLife Working Paper!

Team members @maryabedalahad.bsky.social, Hill Kulu and Gunnar Andersson have published their new working paper exploring the timing of critical life events among descendants of immigrants in Sweden.

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Jul 11

As we mark #WorldPopulationDay2025, find out more about recent CPC-CG research providing insights and policy evidence under this year's UN theme:

"Empowering young people to create the #families they want in a fair and hopeful world"

➡️ www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_... @bspsuk.bsky.social #population

Image shows young office workers walking in the street on their lunch break next to a quote from Professor Jane Falkingham CBE, Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations (CPC-CG), who notes: "Fertility decline is not simply a matter of choice. It reflects economic uncertainty, unaffordable childcare, precarious housing, and a mismatch between fertility intentions and the means to realise them. If young adults are to have the families they desire, we must listen to them and address the barriers they face. CPC and CG research continues to provide the data and insight needed to shape those solutions.”

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Jul 8

To end #PopFest2025, this year's organising committee chair @parthpandya.bsky.social from @standrewssgsd.bsky.social gives the closing speech. Well done to all this year's committee: Clara Girault & Sai Joshi @unisouthampton.bsky.social, & Izzi Carter from LSE

Volunteer now for the next committee!

Parth Pandaya gives the closing speech at the #PopFest2025 conference.

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Julia Mikolai @jmikolai.bsky.social · Jul 4

Still a few days left to apply to this postdoc job 👇

Julia Mikolai @jmikolai.bsky.social · Jun 17

Postdoc job opening! Come and work with us. DL: 8 July @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social

Chia Liu @ischiathere.bsky.social · Jun 16

St Andrews SGSD @standrewssgsd.bsky.social seeks to appoint a Post-doc to work on family and housing projections using microsimulation as part of 2 programmes: @migrantlife.bsky.social and @cpc-cg.bsky.social. Closing Date: 8 July 2025. For details:
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/....

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St Andrews Geography & SD @standrewssgsd.bsky.social · Jul 4

🎓 Today we celebrate success! It’s graduation day for our amazing graduates, from Bachelor’s to PhDs. Congratulations to our entire Class of 2025! Here’s our brilliant PhD cohort ready to take on the world. 🌟 #GraduationDay #ProudSchool #ClassOf2025

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Jun 26

Second day of the @migrantlife.bsky.social Symposium
Our colleague Kelsey Quinn Wright got up early today to present her research on the '𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱'𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗺𝗲' this morning @uniofstandrews.bsky.social!
#Fertilty #Migration #Health #Refugees

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · Jun 26

Andrew Ibbetson was the final presenter of the Symposium. Andrew presented on migrant #projections of #family formation patterns in the #UK using #microsimulation methods! It’s Andrew’s last day working for MigrantLife so his presentation is a nice conclusion and we wish him well for the future!

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