Aga Kasperska

@akasperska.bsky.social

Postdoc at King's College London @kingsbschool.bsky.social @giwlkings.bsky.social || PhD @labfam.bsky.social Exploring: remote work, gender inequalities, ideal worker norms, parental leave, career penalties • Various methods 👩🏻‍🏫📈

Today is Poland’s Independence Day 🇵🇱 I’m incredibly proud of Poles for persisting despite centuries of imperial oppression. Thinking of Ukrainians and Palestinians whose struggles for self-determination continue.

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📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE. 📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

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I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨 Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography! Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

We're hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Demography, deadline: 30 September 2025

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring

INVEST Research Flagship Centre@invest-flagship.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We’re hiring! Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶 🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi... #hiring #openvacancies

Millions of Poles tuned in to watch their country's first-ever appearance at the Women's Euro this month. The tournament "has changed the perception of women’s football in the country forever", writes Joanna Wiśniowska for @theguardian.com.

How Poland’s Euro 2025 showing transformed a nation’s view of women’s football

Despite their group-stage exit, Nina Patalon’s side have made history and changed perceptions back home

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It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.

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What happens to women when they are denied an abortion? Short run: their risk of death rises. A full 15 years later, they experience: more health issues, lower attainment, reduced labor-force participation, higher single motherhood, higher poverty, + greater government assistance

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The latest agenda for the Europe and Mobilities conference is now available! Explore the sessions, keynotes, and side events shaping the conversation around Europe's future. See what’s coming soon at @UniWarszawski. Registration and full details > bit.ly/4ijTmzG

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The conference addresses key socio-economic issues in Europe: migration, demography, democracy, and tech change. @labfam.bsky.social & @amatysiak.bsky.social lead the session on Demographic Change & Resilience (Thu 4th of June, 14:45-16:15). It’s held in 🇵🇱 with online access - link coming soon.

Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw@cmr-warsaw.bsky.social · last yr.

The registration for "Europe and Mobilities", organised as part of @poland25eu.bsky.social is open. Join academics, policymakers, international orgs and NGOs to discuss demography, migration, digital and energy transformation, and the future of democracy in Europe b2match.com/e/euromobi-c...

If you run conjoint experiments, you need to read this. Most conjoints estimate average effects for each attribute. But what if the effect of one attribute depends on the others? This paper has got you covered!

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🚨🔍 New research on Russian public opinion! Despite sanctions, political turmoil & economic strain, many Russians remain surprisingly optimistic about the war. Why? My latest study unpacks this paradox & what it reveals about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇 (1/4) 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1478...

Russian public perceptions of the war in Ukraine: a paradox of optimism amid crisis

This study examines public perceptions of the Ukraine war, with a particular focus on Russian attitudes toward its economic and political impacts in comparison to other countries. Drawing on theore...

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New article by me! It's a common mistake to think the TFR is a prediction of the average number of children women will have over their lifetimes. But it's not. The TFR can decline even when the eventual number of children per woman stays constant or even increases; the opposite can happen too. 🧵

A line graph compares two measures of fertility rates in Sweden over time: the total fertility rate and the completed cohort fertility rate.

The total fertility rate is depicted using a red line, which shows a downward trend starting around the early 1900s, with fluctuations and a gradual decline to about 1.5 in 2022. 

The completed cohort fertility rate is illustrated with a blue line, with the time axis showing the women's birth year. It shows an initial decline followed by a stable fertility rate.

A note at the bottom states that the completed cohort fertility rate has been shifted by 30 years to align with the respective birth years of women. The data source is the Human Fertility Database (2024) and the chart is published by Our World in Data.

“Poland’s ambitious “Family 500+” program offered substantial monthly payment to families with children. While the program modestly increased overall fertility in the short-term, its effects varied significantly by age and income” www.niussp.org/fertility-an...

Lessons from Poland's pro-natalist "Family 500+" program - N-IUSSP

Poland’s ambitious “Family 500+” program offered substantial monthly payment to families with children. While the program modestly increased overall fertility in the short-term, its effects varied sig...

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