Patricia McMullin
Academy Research Fellow, INVEST
patricia.mcmullin@utu.fi +358 29 450 3077 +358 46 922 1882 Office: 482 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6055-3510 |
social inequality; education; early childhood inequality; geographical mobility
PI, Academy of Finland Fellowship: MovingMatters
I am a Lecturer and Academy Fellow at the Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State (INVEST) Flagship at the University of Turku. Prior to this, I held the University lectureship in quantitative methodology at the Department of Social Research and a postdoctoral position on the European Research Council-funded project INDIRECT (Intergenerational Cumulative Disadvantage and Resource Compensation) led by Prof. Jani Erola at the University of Turku. I received my doctorate from the European University Institute in 2016 as part of the ERC project eduLIFE (Education as a Lifelong Process) led by Prof. Hans-Peter Blossfeld.
I am PI of the Academy of Finland research project MovingMatters which looks at the role that family migration within countries plays in transmitting intergenerational inequalities. My research also focuses on cumulative inequality over the life course and early childhood inequality.
I previously held the position of Lecturer for the Academy of Finland Flagship project INVEST. My responsibilities include the design and implementation of the curriculum of the new Masters and Doctoral Programme. The courses I taught included multivariate research methods, graphs and interactions, and multilevel modeling.
- Childhood Geographical Mobility, Local Opportunity Structures, and the Pursuit of Higher Education (2025) Karonen, Esa; McMullin, Patricia; Kilpi-Jakonen, Elina; Erola, Jani
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Childhood Geographical Mobility's Role in Shaping Educational and Occupational Attainment by Age 30 in Finland (2025) McMullin, Patricia; Karhula, Aleksi; Erola, Jani
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Internal Migration and Loneliness in Childhood: The Moderating Role of Family Structure and Cultural Individualism (2025)
- European Journal of Population
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Entering the Classroom : Do Newcomers Experience More Peer Victimization than Their Established Peers? (2024)
- Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Higher education retention in Ireland and Scotland : the role of admissions policies (2024)
- Higher Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mothers miss out – Limited adult education opportunities in the context of scarce public support (2024)
- INVEST blog
(E1 Popularised blog post) - Participation in formal adult education and family life—a gendered story (2024)
- European Sociological Review
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Strong family services are needed to allow mothers to participate in adult education (2024) McMullin, Patricia; Pöyliö, Heta
(Other publication) - Participation in formal adult education and family life - a gendered story (2023) Pöyliö Heta, McMullin Patricia
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Strong family services are needed to allow mothers to participate in adult education (2023) McMullin Patricia, Pöyliö Heta
(Other publication)



