Dr Julia Mikolai
Lecturer in Quantitative Population Geography/Demography
Biography
Dr Julia Mikolai is a Lecturer in Demography/Quantitative Population Geography in the Population and Health Research Group at the School of Geography and Sustainable Development. She is PI of the UKRI-funded (selected for funding under the ERC Starting Grant 2022 call; funded under the UK’s Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme) ChildLives project. Her research interests include children's life courses; partnerships, families, and fertility; residential mobility and housing; life course research; cross-national comparisons; and longitudinal data analysis. Previously, she was a Senior Research Fellow on the ERC funded MigrantLife project, a Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Population Change Scotland, and on the PartnerLife Project. She holds a PhD in social statistics and demography from the University of Southampton. Her background is in sociology and demography; she studied at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary; Utrecht University, the Netherlands; and participated in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany and the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University, Sweden.
PhD supervision
- Michaela Stastna
- Kuoshi Hu
- Sanny Boy Afable
- Parth Pandya
Selected publications
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Diverse early-life family trajectories and young children's mental health in the UK
Stastna, M., Mikolai, J., Finney, N. & Keenan, K. L., 2 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Family Issues. OnlineFirst, 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Intermarriage and housing upon separation. A matter of resources and bargaining power?
Lacroix, J., Mikolai, J. & Kulu, H., 14 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Marriage and Family. Early View, 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Partnership status, health and mortality: selection or protection?
Kulu, H., Mikolai, J. & Franke, S., 1 Feb 2024, In: Demography. 61, 1, p. 189-207Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrants and their descendants in the United Kingdom: a multilevel multistate event history approach
Mikolai, J. & Kulu, H., 1 Sept 2023, In: Population Studies. 77, 3, p. 359-378 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Spatial patterns of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 mortality across waves of infection in England, Wales, and Scotland
Mikolai, J., Dorey, P., Keenan, K. & Kulu, H., Dec 2023, In: Social Science and Medicine. 338, 116330.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The war, refugees, and the future of Ukraine's population
Kulu, H., Christison, S., Liu, C. & Mikolai, J., 2 May 2023, In: Population, Space and Place. 29, 4, 13 p., e2656.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A spatial perspective on the unexpected Nordic fertility decline: the relevance of economic and social contexts
Campisi, N., Kulu, H., Mikolai, J., Klüsener, S. & Myrskylä, M., 6 Jul 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. First OnlineResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries
Kulu, H., Mikolai, J., Delaporte, I., Liu, C. & Andersson, G., 2022, (Submitted) MigrantLife Working Paper Series.Research output: Working paper
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Learning in a pandemic: primary school children’s emotional engagement with remote schooling during the Spring 2020 Covid-19 lockdown in Ireland
Chzhen, Y., Symonds, J., Devine, D., Mikolai, J., Harkness, S., Sloan, S. & Martinez Sainz, G., 12 Feb 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Child Indicators Research. First Online, 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Make up or break up? partnership transitions among young adults in England and Wales
Pelikh, A., Mikolai, J. & Kulu, H., 1 Jun 2022, In: Advances in Life Course Research. 52, 18 p., 100475.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review