❓ Are you interested in knowing more about the life course, retirement, and welfare state in Europe? 📢 I will be giving a lecture as part of the Erasmus Mundus Master Euroculture Lecture Series! ⬇️ Further information in the flyer.

📣New article out 💡This article suggests that how we live and work across our entire life course shapes how we experience retirement, emphasizing that it is the accumulation of resources over time, not just circumstances at retirement, that matters for later-life well-being. doi.org/10.1177/0164...

❤️Academia is not always rewarding, unless you make it rewarding by writing an article with the love of your life! 📣Our joint side project with my beautiful and smart wife, Bilge Gencoglu, is now out in Social Psychology of Education. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

❓What drives people to work in retirement? 👉My latest PhD paper attempts to answer this question from a life course and cross-national perspective. The paper can be read open access at Work, Aging and Retirement. doi.org/10.1093/work...

Social Psychology II by me!

📢 Call for Papers 📢 💡 @genoni.bsky.social @nellageurts.bsky.social and I are organizing a Workshop on the Integration Paradox 📃 We aim to discuss critical, innovative work on the IP ⏰ When: 18 June 2025 ✒️ How: See tinyurl.com/yj8d9233 📍 Where: @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social Apply now!

My wife defended her PhD ❤️ 👏🏻 Watching her dedication and brilliance in this journey has been an absolute privilege. 💐 Besides seeing her grow, I also learnt much from her while for my own PhD. I’ve always seen her as a model and followed her footsteps. 🙏 I’m grateful for everything she taught me.

📣 I'm thrilled to share that I've embarked on a new journey as a visiting researcher at @wzb.bsky.social! 💡 Over the coming months, I'll work on understanding the migrant-native gap in retirement income from a life course perspective, using SHARE data. Stay tuned for more!

Good news: The deadline for papers for the JCASP contact generalization special issue has been extended to June 1st! Please redistribute/share onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Good news! Our article received enough citations to be a #TopCitedArticle in the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 🥳 The paper can be accessed from here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨In a new paper, we look at how job resources over the course of career predict retirement timing among older workers in Europe 👇Access the paper for free for the findings 🙏This paper is part of a project funded by Instituut Gak and uses SHARE data doi.org/10.1093/work...

I want to know everyone's experiences publishing in: * MDPI journals * Hindawi journals * Frontiers journals Not stories about what you heard, please, but your literal experience. what happened to you. Editors of said journals particularly welcome. RT this. A lot.

Presentations by: - @mustafafirat.bsky.social , Work-family trajectories across Europe: differences between social groups and welfare regimes. - Peter Sun, Life course patterns of productive engagement among rural and urban older adults.

Come join us next Thursday 👇

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.

Call-for-contribution for the next round of our webinar series "work-in-progress edition" targeting research projects using sequence analysis at their developmental stages! Deadline for submission (for presenting Feb.-May) Jan.8th, 2024. More info and form at sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...

Launching Pensions at a Glance 2023 tomorrow! You can follow the launch and access the report from 11 am Paris time here: www.oecd.org/els/public-p...

At the EUI we have a #vacancy for a #postdoc, for 2.5 years, to study inequality in school careers in the Netherlands using register data. Maybe you know a researcher who would be interested in this position. #socsky Deadline: 31/12/2023. See for more: www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Personality and Social Psychology Review is seeking proposals for a special issue 📝 ow.ly/W83o50Qg0is

Interesting paper by Mustafa Firat, @visser.bsky.social, and Gerbert Kraaykamp about work-family trajectories across Europe with SHARE data www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

First post here, and for a good reason 🙏 📣1st paper from my PhD is out! 💡Using data from ~80,000 older adults (50+) from 28 EU countries, we looked at what happened in people’s lives at each age from 15 to 49. ❓What we found? Read the article for free doi.org/10.3389/fsoc... #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Two 3-year PhD fellowships are available within the remit of my ERC project on the risks and vulnerability of widowhood across ageing societies!!! Deadline for applications - December 10 Start date - September 1 www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...