The time for the seminars is Thursday at 13:00-14:00.
Welcome to a CEDAR seminar with Anna Baranowska-Rataj & Björn Högberg.
The seminar will take place in the conference room at CEDAR and via zoom. Link will be sent out within CEDAR, other interested should contact Mojgan Padyab.
Effects of parental job loss on children’s mental health: the role of latency, timing and cumulative effects.
Crossover effects of critical life events within families have received growing attention in life-course research. A parent losing a job is among the most distressing events that can befall a family, but existing research has reached discrepant conclusions concerning if, and if so how, this affects child mental health. Drawing on insights from models of intra-family influence and life course epidemiological models, we ask if parental job loss have latent or long-term effects on child mental health, if the effects are conditional on the timing of the job loss, and if repeated job losses have cumulative effects.
We use intergenerationally linked Swedish register data combined with entropy balance and structural nested mean models for the analyses. The data allow us to track 400,000 children over 14 years and thereby test different life-course models of cross-over effects, and to identify involuntary job losses using information on workplace closures, thus reducing the risk of confounding.
Results show that paternal but not maternal job loss significantly increases the risk of mental health problems among children, that the average effects are modest in size (less than 4% in relative terms), that they materialize only after some years, and that they are driven by children aged 6-10 years. Moreover, we find evidence of cumulative effects, but also of declining marginal harm of additional job losses over the life course.
Anna Baranowska-Rataj, CEDAR, Umeå University
Björn Högberg, CEDAR & Department of Social Work, Umeå University
Welcome to a CEDAR seminar with Anne-Marie Fors Connolly.
The seminar will take place in the conference room at CEDAR and via zoom. Link will be sent out within CEDAR, other interested should contact Mojgan Padyab.
Complications following COVID-19, Influenza and Puumala virus infections – cohort, clinic and cell studies
I will present my background, my research group and the research topic which focuses on risk factors and complications following viral diseases. There will be a background to the nationwide Swedish registries, and I will go through some of my research projects that have an epidemiological, clinical and laboratory focus.
The data foundation is the whole Swedish population from 1997 and onwards.
Anne-Marie Fors Connolly (former: Connolly-Andersen)
Assoc Prof (Docent Medical Microbiology)
Medical Resident (Clinical Microbiology)
Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University Hospital
Welcome to a CEDAR seminar with Professor Oonagh Walsh.
The seminar will take place in the conference room at CEDAR and via zoom. Link will be sent out within CEDAR, other interested should contact Mojgan Padyab.
Myths of Madness?: Irish starvation and insanity in the later nineteenth-century’
In the talk I will discuss the development of the District Asylum system in nineteenth-century Ireland, looking in particular at patterns of admission in the decades following the Great Famine (1845-51). Despite a sharp drop in the general population from 8.2 million in 1845 to 4.2 million in 1901, Ireland’s asylum population increased dramatically and exponentially to a point that each District Asylum was grossly overcrowded, and rates of mental illness per capita appeared to be the highest in the western world. Were the Irish more prone to mental ill-health than other nationalities? Did the mental and physical trauma of the Famine manifest itself in an increased susceptibility to illness, or in epigenetic change that drove successive generations to the asylum? Or does the unusual post-Famine profile merely reflect a learned system of dependence on institutional care, and a faith in hierarchical systems of authority in this period that included the Catholic Church as well as State systems of medical care?
Professor Oonagh Walsh
Dept of Social Science, Glasgow Caledonian University
Welcome to the first session of “Research Marathon” at CEDAR. The aim is to have short presentations about our ongoing projects. This time we have Johan, Mojgan, Toafeek and Erling as speakers.
The seminar will take place in the conference room at CEDAR and via zoom. Link will be sent out within CEDAR, other interested should contact Mojgan Padyab.
Johan Junkka
Exploring Resilience Through Time: A Proposed Study of Temperature Exposure, Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities, and Health in Historical Context
In this talk, I propose a new research topic that seeks to combine historical and modern register data to investigate long-term resilience to temperature exposures, focusing on the intersections of health, disability, and socioeconomic factors. The project aims to explore gender disparities in temperature-related mortality among vulnerable populations and analyze the role of individual and neighborhood-level socioeconomic factors in modulating the effects of ambient temperature on health and mortality outcomes. By leveraging longitudinal data from the 19th to the 21st century, the proposed study will delve into the complex interplay between temperature exposure, socioeconomic vulnerabilities, and resilience over time. This research endeavor will uncover new knowledge that can enhance climate resilience among vulnerable populations and neighborhoods, ultimately fostering more equitable and climate-resilient communities.
Mojgan Padyab
Cybercrime: a longitudinal register-based study on demographic, socioeconomic and technological determinants
Strengthening public security and protecting institutions and individuals are crucial to society and of great concern to the Swedish government. Given an increased use of internet in daily life, which is positive per se, the negative impacts of cyber threats on people’s integrity and economic consequences are inevitable. While good preventive strategies should target particular risk groups for various types of cybercrime, yet research on the risk factors of cybercrime is insufficient. Understanding the risk factors of susceptibility to cybercrime and the context in which cybercrime occurs would offer a way to exploit preventive strategies for the most effective outcomes. We will provide an empirically grounded knowledge on risk factors for three main elements of cybercrime: offenders, victims and the Information Technology(IT) environment.
Taofeek Kolawole Aliyu
Social Support Networks and Quality of Life of Octogenarians in Nigeria
The association between ageing, declining health, reduced income, and loss of independence has gained traction among researchers. Research has shown that social support at this phase of life has a positive impact on quality of life (QoL). Meanwhile, the decline in the social support system occassioned by eroding extended family systems via migration, urbanisation, modernisation, and the economic downturn has increased the vulnerability of older people to health and other social problems. Most studies on older people have treated this age cohort as homogenous, with little known studies addressing the issue of social supports and QOL of people who are between 80 and 89years. This research is therefore focused on the influence of social support networks on the quality of life of octogenarians in Nigeria. A sequential explanatory design involving quantitative and qualitative components was adopted for this study. A sample of Nigerian octogenarians aged 80 and 89 years (n = 1600) were assessed using the World Health Organisation Quality of Life instrument (WHOQoL-Bref), and a sample successful octogenarian, friends of octogenarian, significant others, community leaders, religious leaders, pensioner association members, and ministry officials (n = 72) will be adopted for the in-depth and key informant interviews. Data generated from this research will fill the gap relating to the octogenarian group within the larger population and provide a primary source of information on the quality of life and their association with social support networks. The outcome of this study will also contribute to the formulation of relevant and acceptable policy responses to the issue of octogenarians in Nigeria.
Erling Häggström Gunfridsson
Crisis and mortality in northern Sweden during the 19th century
During the 19th century, two major crises - the Finnish war of 1808-1809 and the famine of the 1860s - caused a significant increase in mortality in northern Sweden. This ongoing research aims to examine how these crises impacted mortality in Västerbotten, specifically by analyzing who died, from what causes, and when.
Who: What factors such as gender, age, socio-economic situation and health affects the probability of dying or surviving.
What: Which death causes characterize the crisis and how do they compare with normal conditions.
When: What patterns can be found in the process leading to increased mortality during the crisis.
The Finnish war: The last war on Swedish soil happened in Västerbotten killing about 20% of the civil population making it a suitable case study of mortality under crisis. Here the rural Umeå parish will be studied.
The famine: In the 1860s northern Europe was affected by extreme weather conditions that caused crops to fail and, in some places, led to famine. The north-Swedish province of Västerbotten stands out in national context in this regard making it interesting to study. Here data from all Västerbotten will be used except some parts in the south east.
Welcome to a CEDAR seminar with professor emeritus Göran Broström.
The seminar will take place in the conference room at CEDAR and via zoom. Link will be sent out within CEDAR, other interested should contact Mojgan Padyab.
Infant mortality and cause of death in a historical context
Göran Broström, professor emeritus Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR)
You find more information here.
! This seminar takes place at 14.00-15.00
Welcome to CEDAR hybrid seminar with Yanyuan Ma and Xavier de Luna.
The seminar is in English and will be given in hybrid format, both in the conference room at CEDAR and via zoom. Link will be sent out within CEDAR, other interested should contact Mojgan Padyab.
Observational studies with very large databases
Yanyuan Ma, Professor of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University
Xavier de Luna, Professor of Statistics, Umeå University
The seminar is arranged by CEDAR in collaboration with the Department of Statistics.
! This seminar takes place on Monday at 11.00-12.00
Welcome to a seminar with Mandy Yap.
The seminar is in English and will be given in the conference room at CEDAR.
“Conceptions of Indigenous wellbeing and sustainability: Weaving Indigenous and other knowledge systems”
Mandy Yap from Australian National University
The seminar is arranged by CEDAR in collaboration with Várdduo.
Welcome to CEDAR hybrid seminar given by Cartrine Anyango-Odhiambo and Sophia Erhard.
The seminar is in English and will be given in hybrid format, both in the conference room at CEDAR and via zoom. Link will be sent out within CEDAR, other interested should contact Mojgan Padyab.
“Experiences on intimate partner violence-perspectives of women with disabilities in Sweden”
Cartrine Anyango-Odhiambo
Department of Epidemiology and Global Health (EPIGH)
Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR)
”Informal carers of older adults in Sweden”
Sophia Erhard
Department of Geography
Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research at Umeå University (CEDAR)
Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)
The event is hybrid (Rum för lärande and zoom) at 10.15-12.00
Subjective career success of manufacturing workers a decade after plant closures
You are warmly invited to a seminar with Fiona Köster, Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Reserach.
If you want to participate and are not employed - send an e-mail to samuel.merrill@umu.se
This seminar is a collaboration with Department of Sociology.
