Dr Julia Mikolai

Senior Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463949

Email

Julia.Mikolai@st-andrews.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Julia Mikolai is a Senior Research Fellow in the Population and Health Research Group at the School of Geography and Sustainable Development. Currently, she works on the ERC funded MigrantLife project. Her research interests include partnerships, families, and fertility; residential mobility and housing; life course research; cross-national comparisons; and longitudinal data analysis. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Population Change, Scotland and has worked on the PartnerLife Project which studied the interrelationship between partner relationships, residential relocations and housing in the life course in the UK, Netherlands, and Germany. She holds a PhD in social statistics and demography from the University of Southampton. Her PhD investigated the intersection between partnership experiences and the transition to motherhood in several European countries and the United States using multi-state event history models. 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

• Nicholas Campisi

Selected publications

• 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. 213-225

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Remain, leave, or return? Mothers? location continuity after separation in Belgium

  Schnor, C. & Mikolai, J., 13 Feb 2020, In : Demographic Research. 42, p. 245-292 9.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• 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

• 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

• Studying individuals across the life course: A review of longitudinal methods

  Mikolai, J. & Amos, M., 2020, Handbook on Demographic Change and the Life Course. Falkingham, J., Evandrou, M. & Vlachantoni, A. (eds.). Edward Edgar Publishing, p. 40-55

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• 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

• Separation, divorce, and housing tenure: a cross-country comparison

  Mikolai, J., Kulu, H., Vidal, S., van der Wiel, R. & Mulder, C. H., 29 Oct 2019, In : Demographic Research. 41, p. 1131-1146 39.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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