Simon Chapman
PhD
sinich@utu.fi Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Työhuone: 252 ORCID-tunniste: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2342-3383 |
parental leave; evolutionary biology; altruism; post-reproductive life; menopause; demography
I am a senior researcher in the INVEST Flagship (Department of Social Research), studying parental leave uptake effects on the life-course and how the extended family associates with educational outcomes. Previously, I worked in the Department of Biology on the context-dependence of grandmother effects in pre-industrial Finland.
My current work focuses on life-course outcomes of couples based on their parental leave uptake and following parental leave reforms in Finland (as part of the PREDLIFE project within INVEST). I also have a project working on educational outcomes and how the extended family may influence these. Additionally, I am working on further context-dependence in grandmothering, from evolutionary and demographic angles.
In my current position, I teach Introduction to R and Event History Analysis course for INVEST. I have previously taught on the Human Evolution and Advanced Evolutionary Biology courses given by the Department of Biology.
- How big is it really? Assessing the efficacy of indirect estimates of body size in Asian elephants (2016)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Testing storage methods of faecal samples for subsequent measurement of helminth egg numbers in the domestic horse (2016)
- Veterinary Parasitology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Distinguishing between determinate and indeterminate growth in a long-lived mammal (2015)
- BMC Evolutionary Biology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
- SHARELEAVE01.09.2025 - 31.08.2029
- INVEST tutkimuskeskus ja lippulaiva
- PREDLIFE01.09.2020 - 31.12.2024
- sosiologia



