Prof Hill Kulu
Professor of Human Geography and Demography
Biography
I was trained in economic geography and demography and received a PhD from the University of Helsinki (Finland) in 1997. Since then I have occupied the following positions: from 1997 to 2002, I was Researcher/Senior Researcher at the University of Tartu (Estonia); I spent a year as Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (US) in 1999; from 2003 to 2007, I worked as Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock, Germany); I was Leader of the Research Team on Interdependencies in the Life Course (2005-2007) and Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Contemporary European Fertility and Family Dynamics (2007). From 2008 to 2016, I was employed by the University of Liverpool, first as Senior Lecturer/Reader and then as Professor of Demography and Quantitative Geography. Since 2017, I am Professor of Human Geography and Demography at the University of St Andrews.
I am a Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change, Secretary General of the European Association for Population Studies and a Co-Editor of Population Studies. I am also a member of the Expert Advisory Group on Population and Migration at the Scottish Government and have recently advised the Scottish Government on the effect of Brexit on Scotland?s economy and population. Last but not least, I enjoy teaching population and methods courses to geography students at the University of St Andrews and supervising an international team of research fellows and PhD students.
PhD supervision
- Mary Abed Al Ahad
- Peter Dorey
- Nicholas Campisi
- Shubhankar Sharma
- Sebastijan Sekulic
Selected publications
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Family changes, housing transitions, and residential mobility
Mikolai, J. & Kulu, H., 2020, Handbook on Demographic Change and the Life Course. Falkingham, J., Evandrou, M. & Vlachantoni, A. (eds.). Edward Edgar Publishing, p. 213-225Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter
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Family life transitions, residential relocations, and housing in the life course: current research and opportunities for future work: Introduction to the special collection on ?separation, divorce, and residential mobility in a comparative perspective?
Mikolai, J., Kulu, H. & Mulder, C. H., 10 Jul 2020, In : Demographic Research. 43, p. 35-58 2.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Household level health and socio-economic vulnerabilities and the COVID-19 crisis: an analysis from the UK
Mikolai, J., Keenan, K. L. & Kulu, H., 10 May 2020, SocArXiv, 14 p.Research output: Working paper
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Infection rates from Covid-19 in Great Britain by geographical units: a model-based estimation from mortality data
Kulu, H. & Dorey, P., 24 May 2020, In : SocArXiv. 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Intersecting household-level health and socio-economic vulnerabilities and the COVID-19 crisis: an analysis from the UK
Mikolai, J., Keenan, K. & Kulu, H., 2 Jul 2020, In : SSM - Population Health. In press, 100628.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Partnership dynamics among immigrants and their descendants in four European countries
Hannemann, T., Kulu, H., González-Ferrer, A., Pailhe, A., Puur, A. & Rahnu, L., 9 Feb 2020, In : Population, Space and Place. Early View, e2315.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Separation and elevated residential mobility: a cross-country comparison
Kulu, H., Mikolai, J., Thomas, M., Vidal, S., Schnor, C., Willaert, D., Visser, F. & Mulder, C., 29 May 2020, In : European Journal of Population. First Online, 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Spatial variation in fertility across Europe: patterns and determinants
Campisi, N., Kulu, H., Mikolai, J., Klüsener, S. & Myrskylä, M., 15 Jan 2020, In : Population, Space and Place. Early View, e2308.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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The contribution of age structure to the number of deaths from Covid-19 in the UK by geographical units
Kulu, H. & Dorey, P., 22 Apr 2020, In : medRxiv. 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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A decade of life-course research on fertility of immigrants and their descendants in Europe
Kulu, H., Milewski, N., Hannemann, T. & Mikolai, J., 28 May 2019, In : Demographic Research. S23, 46, p. 1345-1374 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article