Laura
Heiskala
Senior Researcher, INVEST Research Flagship Centre
VTT / D.Soc.Sc.
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Areas of expertise
social inequality
educational inequality
intergenerational inequality
quantitative methods
Biography
I work as a senior researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre. I successfully defended my PhD thesis in December 2024, focusing on intergenerational inequality in higher education in Finland.
Currently, I am involved in two research projects: Mapping inequalities through the life course (Mapineq) and Sufficiency solutions for a resilient, green, and just Finland (SISU).
In the academic year 2024–2025, I am involved in teaching the following methods courses in the Master’s Degree Programme in Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State: Panel Regression and Multilevel Modelling.
Publications
Compensatory and Multiplicative Advantages: Social Origin, School Performance, and Stratified Higher Education Enrolment in Finland (2021)
European Sociological Review
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Kahden korkeakoulun malli eriyttää oppilaita perhetaustan perusteella (2020)
INVEST blog
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Koronakriisin vaikutukset lasten ja nuorten oppimiseen, koulutukseen ja hyvinvointiin pitkällä aikavälillä (2020)
INVEST Policy brief (Politiikkasuositukset)
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))