Hannu Lehti
PhD, Docent
hpleht@utu.fi +358 29 450 4190 +358 40 720 9352 Office: 485 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7928-789X |
Quantitative methods; Social stratification; Education; Intergenerational transmissions; Sociogenomics; Evolutionary social science
Hannu Lehti is an academic research fellow in the Department of Social Research. He works at the INVEST Flagship Center. His research focuses on intergenerational social mobility, life course disadvantages, education, social stratification, sociogenomics and the evolutionary social science approach. In his doctoral thesis called The Role of Kin in Educational and Status Attainment, he studied the intergenerational effects of parental and extended family members on socioeconomic attainment by applying theories on social stratification and evolutionary social sciences. His studies have been published in the European Sociological Review, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Research on Finnish Society, and the Journal of Biosocial Science.
Toimin tällä hetkellä akatemiatutkijana INVEST lippulaiva - ohjelmassa, jossa tutkin geenien ja ympäristön yhteisvaikutuksia sosioekonomisiin tekijöihin kuten koulutukseen ja tuloihin. Lisäksi tutkin vanhempien vaikutuksia lasten koulutukseen, oppimistuloksiin ja muihin sosioekonomisiin muuttujiin sekä yleisesti sosiaalista kerrostuneisuutta. Aikaisemmin olen työskennellyt projektitutkijana INDIRECT - hankkeessa, jossa väitöskirjani The Role of Kin in Educational and Status Attainment valmistui sekä Life-Course, Disadvantage Experiences and Socioeconomic Inheritance in Finland - hankkeessa ja projektitutkijana koulutussosiologian tutkimuskeskuksessa (RUSE).
- The role of gender in gene by family SES interactions - A twin study across four European countries (2026)
- Social Science Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Role of Gender in Gene by Family SES Interactions – A Twin Study Across Four European Countries (2025) Lehti, Hannu; Stienstra, Kim; Baier, Tina; Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Book review: Comprehensive Evolutionary Perspective on Family and Parenting (2024)
- Finnish Yearbook of Population Research
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Children’s Perceived Economic Disadvantage and Social Relationships in School: Family Relationships as a Mediating Factor (2024)
- Child Indicators Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Inheritance of Socioeconomic Disadvantages is More Complex than Assumed in the Social Sciences (2024) Lehti, Hannu; Eskelinen, Niko; Arhippainen, Simo
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Students’ Cultural and Economic Family Background and Duration of University Studies in Finland (2024)
- European Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The gender achievement gap in grades and standardised tests—what accounts for gender inequality? (2024)
- Frontiers in Sociology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Structure of Child Adoption Based on the Relationship Between Adoptive Parents and Adoptive Children in Finland (2024)
- Evolutionary Psychological Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Tyttöjen ja poikien välinen osaamiskuilu on suurempi päättötodistuksen arvosanoissa kuin PISA-tuloksissa (2024)
- INVEST blog
(E1 Popularised blog post) - Educational attainment and family composition across generations, origin and place (2023) Lehti, Hannu; Tuominen, Minna; Kilpi-Jakonen, Elina; Erola, Jani
(D4 Published development or research report or study )



