Faculty and Staff

Professor of Population Studies, CEDAR

Arctic Six Chair, 2026-2028, Arctic Centre

My research investigates processes linking labour market inequalities, family life and wellbeing.

Professor in ethnology. Research areas include rural studies, ageing identities and loneliness, hormonal narratives, and green industrialisation.

My current research investigates the importance of schools for the wellbeing of pupils, as well as the effects of parental unemployment on the health of children. 

I am associate Professor in Human Geography. I am also Head of Department at Department of Geography. My main reserach interrest is interregional migration in Sweden. 

Research on migration, commuting and mobility, focusing on family, work and place. Teaching in spatial planning, GIS and quantitative methods.

I am a statistician and associate professor in population studies with a focus on demographic studies, including historical populations, genetic genealogy, demographic crisis, and disabilities.

Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Public Health. Main area of interest: public health, disability, gender-based violence, reproductive health in Sweden and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Senior lecturer and associate professor of history, from 2027 director of the research infrastructure SwedPop. My field is historical and contemporary demography, focusing on long-term family change

Professor of Human Geography. Research on migration and population ageing.

Associate professor of Mathematical Statistics and professor emeritus at CEDAR. His research includes survival and event history analysis with applications in demography and epidemiology.

Researcher at CEDAR. Working with SHARE on ageing populations. Research focus: living conditions, life strategies, family networks and subjective age.

Historical demographer who studies how disability and climate shape human lives across time

Lars Fredrik is professor in economic history and works on economic development and structural change, human well-being and social welfare, demography, and economic geography

I am Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Sociology, and Head of unit at Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR).

Associate professor in Economic History. Research interests: public and private insurance, historical morbidity patterns and historical alcohol regulations.

Within my project funded by my Wallenberg Scholar Grant (2020-30) I lead a cross-disciplinary team researching how disabilities affect people's ageing and health in Swedish society across time.

I am an associate professor (senior lecturer) and docent in Statistics. My research mainly involves methods for studying age-related cognitive change.

Research Analyst and Data Retrieval Coordinator at CEDAR, with a PhD in history with a focus on historical demography.  

Analyst and assistant director for the Demographic Data Base (infrastructure) at CEDAR.

Mojgan Padyab is an associate professor (Docent) in social work and assistant director at CEDAR.

As Communications Officer at CEDAR and Várdduo, I am responsible for the strategy and planning, as well as the content and design of websites and social media.

Associate professor in history.

Teacher representative, Umeå University board.

Scientific member of the Swedish Ethical Review Authority

I am working in the HEALFAM Project investigating the effects of unemployment on health of family. My PhD dissertation investigated the effects of Employment Uncertainty on Life Course Outcomes.

PhD in history. my reserach primarily deals with demographic rural history. Predominantly long-term changes in migration dynamics.

I am a doctoral student working at the intersection of human geography and gender studies. My research project focuses on informal elder care workers in Sweden.

research interest: Mental Health,  Substance Use, Aging, care organization

Methods: Real-world data analysis; Latent variable modeling; Longitudinal analysis; Qualitative content analysis