An economic sociologist currently working as a professor of sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. Research interests: appearance, beauty, social inequalities, consumption.
Outi Sarpila
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Join INVEST as a Visiting Fellow! Our fellowship call is open 3.11.-28.11. Fellowships are designed for postdoctoral researchers and beyond who wish to spend time at the flagship, exchange ideas, and build new research collaborations.
Read more and apply
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I have a bunch of positions open with @mjantti.bsky.social and @anttikouvo.bsky.social in four different projects!
You need a PhD (or you should be about to defend your thesis), quant methods skills are necessary, but otherwise we are pretty flexible.
#sociology #demography #economics #statistics
Invitation! Interested in in beauty, bodies, decoloniality and inequality? Please join us for an online seminar series on "decolonizing bodies". With our very special guest Walter Mignolo; and @tommytse.bsky.social, Patricio Simonetto, Ashley Mears, Ladan Rahbari & @carorabasarucki.bsky.social >>
Important myth-debunking by evolutionary psychologists Linda Lidborg and @drboothroyd.bsky.social. The authors also contributed an outstanding chapter to the forthcoming Handbook on Beauty and Inequality edited by @outisarpila.bsky.social and me.
The windmill gave us feudalism, the steam mill gave us industrial capitalism, but what does the content mill bring us?
Riffing on Marx, Kobe De Keere discuss this question with Rachel O'Dwyer and Ashley Mears in this new episode of the Culture and inequality Podcast:
pod.link/1533967764/e... >>
@bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising the 3rd AMCIS Workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences", 1-2 October 2025 in Amsterdam.
We are looking for Papers and/or Research Designs. Please email your submission to me and Bram, submission deadline is 27/08/2025.
@aissr.bsky.social
Beauty – a long-overlooked yet undeniably significant dimension of inequality in contemporary societies – has finally received its own handbook. Fully open access, edited by @giselinde.bsky.social and me.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
INVEST Research Flagship Centre
Outi Sarpila
Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake.
#research #hiring
Jani Erola
Outi Sarpila
Giselinde Kuipers
Giselinde Kuipers
Giselinde Kuipers
What is an INVEST fellowship? INVEST fellowships are 1-3 (or up to 6) months visits to the flagship to collaborate...
🔥 Apply for our 2-year fixed-term position as a Senior Researcher!
Open positions (4–6) at @utu.fi/INVEST in the
#STRATEQ & #USFI projects led by @janierola.net
#CoROL project led by @anttikouvo.bsky.social
#PublicPrivate project led by @mjantti.bsky.social
ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...
Eva Zschirnt
How does culture feed into inequality? And the other way around? In Culture and Inequality, cultural sociologists from universities across the world explore these topics in-depth from various perspect...
The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, 2-year fixed term senior researcher (4-6 positions). Employment s...
Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
We’re hiring!
Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶
🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...
#hiring #openvacancies
Rebecca Sear
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility
The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, fixed term senior researcher or doctoral researcher position from 1....
Suomen Akatemia tuomitsee jyrkästi tutkijaan kohdistuvan häirinnän ja vihapuheen.
”In Finland, academic freedom is a core value. Researchers must be able to explore, question and share knowledge openly.”
”Let’s protect the freedom to do science, and the people who make it possible.”
