Patricia McMullin
Academy Research Fellow, INVEST
patricia.mcmullin@utu.fi +358 29 450 3077 +358 46 922 1882 : 482 |
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.
- Understanding differences in children's reading ability by social origin and gender: The role of parental reading and pre- and primary school exposure in Ireland (2022)
- Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
- Formal differentiation at upper secondary education in Finland: subject-level choices and stratified pathways to socio-economic status and unemployment (2021)
- Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
- Geographical mobility and children's non-completion of upper secondary education in Finland and Germany: Do parental resources matter? (2021)
- British Educational Research Journal
- (2021)
- Finnish Yearbook of Population Research
- Left Behind? The impact of geographical mobility on children´s educational attainment in Finland and Germany (2020) Patricia McMullin, Aleksi Karhula, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Jani Erola
- What You Do Versus Who You Are: Home-Learning Activities, Social Origin and Cognitive Skills among Young Children in Ireland (2020)
- European Sociological Review
- Access programmes and higher education outcomesThe consequences of shifting education and economic structures for gender differences at labor market entry: the British case study (2017) Economic Insights on Higher Education Policy in Ireland Patricia McMullin
- Does adult education contribute to securing non-precarious employment? – A cross-national comparison (2016)
- Work, Employment and Society
- Onwards or upwards? - The role of subject choice and schools in the reproduction of educational inequality in England (2016) Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality - an International Comparison Patricia McMullin, Nevena Kulic
- (2015) Gender, Education and Employment: An International Comparison of School-to-Work Transitions Patricia McMullin, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen



