Storyteller & Social Scientist
On 1 March 2014, I joined the faculty of the Department of Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Southampton (UK) as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer). In addition to the Lectureship appointment, I will be a faculty affiliate of the ESRC Research Centre for Population Change (CPC) and the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI).... Continue Reading →
Title: The Employment of Turkish Second Generation Women in Europe in Comparative Perspective Authors: Jennifer A. Holland and Helga de Valk Publication: NEUJOBS Working Paper D 18.4. Brussels: European Commission, 7th Framework Program. Abstract: Over the next 50 years, population aging will contribute to a dramatic decline in the European working age population. One important... Continue Reading →
Along with my co-author Kenneth Wiik, I have been invited to become a collaborator on the Research Council of Norway funded project "Family dynamics, fertility choices and family policy" at Statistics Norway (PI: Trude Lappegård; project no. 202442/S20). The project will partially fund our work on "Pathways into Family Life among Migrant and Majority Populations... Continue Reading →
My article "Love, Marriage, then the Baby Carriage? The timing of marriage and childbearing in Sweden" has been accepted for publication in Demographic Research, an online, peer-reviewed journal of population science. I am particularly pleased that this work will be available in Open Access format under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (2.0 Germany). Demographic... Continue Reading →
My article "Home and Where the Heart Is: Marriage Timing and Joint Home Purchase" is now available in the US National Institutes of Health PubMed Central database. Of course, if you're a print-version purist, you can also find the original version of from the European Journal of Population (via Springer). Holland, J. A. (2012). Home... Continue Reading →
I was pleased to have the opportunity to organize a session on "International and Domestic Migration, Children and Families" at the upcoming 2013 meetings of the Population Association of America. I had a large number of high quality submissions addressing a host of sub-topics-- it was extremely challenging to narrow down the selection to only... Continue Reading →
Jennifer A. Holland 