Senior Research Fellow, 1 August 2013 – 31 July 2015
Office: Atalpa 227
Tel. +358 (0)50 318 6174
Email: eriikka.oinonen@uta.fi
Homepage at School of Social Sciences and Humanities (YKY)
My background is in sociology and my work has focused on sociology of personal life, family and youth research and cross-national comparative research. My present research concentrates on effects of current economic crisis on highly educated young adults’ transition to labor market in Spain and Finland.
Research interests
- cross-national comparative sociology
- historical sociology
- sociology of personal life
- life-course transitions
- youth, adulthood
- family institution
- South Europe (Spain, Portugal)
- interaction between structure and agent
Research projects
A Lost Generation? Young educated adults under economic crisis in Europe (Institute for Advanced Social Research, University of Tampere, 2013-2015)
Twenty-five and Something. Transition to Adulthood in Europe (Emil Aaltonen Foundation, 2006-2008).
Families in Europe: Ideology and Realities (Academy of Finland, 2005-2008)