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 ChildLives project (supported by the Horizon Europe Guarantee, selected for funding as an ERC Starting Grant. 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
- Sanny Boy Afable
- Parth Pandya
- Edward Pomeroy
Selected publications
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Health decline and residential transitions among older adults in Europe
Afable, S. D., Vierboom, Y., Evans, M., Mikolai, J., Kulu, H. & Myrskylä, M., 1 Oct 2025, In: Population, Space and Place. 31, 7, 13 p., e70116.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Heterogeneity or disadvantage? Partnership, childbearing, and employment trajectories of the descendants of immigrants in the United Kingdom
Mikolai, J. & Kulu, H., 1 Dec 2025, In: Advances in Life Course Research. 66, 12 p., 100703.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Origin, generation, and destination country context: employment changes and childbearing among female immigrants and their descendants in the UK, France, and Germany
Mikolai, J., Kulu, H., Delaporte, I. & Liu, C., 1 Dec 2025, In: European Journal of Population. 41, 1, 54 p., 26.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Spatial fertility variation in China: the role of population composition, context and spillover
Hu, K., Kulu, H. & Mikolai, J., 1 Nov 2025, In: Population, Space and Place. 31, 8, 18 p., e70124.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The partnership context of childbearing
Mikolai, J., 29 Apr 2025, Research handbook on partnering across the life course. Mortelmans, D., Bernardi, L. & Perelli-Harris, B. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, p. 254-264 11 p. (Research handbooks in sociology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the United Kingdom: an intersectional life course approach using three-channel sequence analysis
Mikolai, J. & Kulu, H., 12 Aug 2025, In: Demographic Research. 53, p. 261-306 46 p., 10.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Time since separation, repartnering, and homeownership in England and Wales, and Germany
Mikolai, J., Kulu, H., Thomas, M. J. & Vidal, S., 1 Aug 2025, In: Population, Space and Place. 31, 6, 14 p., e70073.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries: a multistate approach in comparative research
Kulu, H., Mikolai, J., Delaporte, I., Liu, C. & Andersson, G., 1 Aug 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Population Studies. Latest Articles, 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Health decline and residential transitions among older adults in Europe
Afable, S. D., Vierboom, Y., Evans, M., Mikolai, J., Kulu, H. & Myrskyla, M., Jul 2024, Rostock: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 45 p. (MPIDR working paper; no. 2024-018).Research output: Working paper