Prof Hill Kulu PhD (Helsinki)
Professor of Demography and Quantitative Geography Geography and Planning
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- Work email Hill.Kulu@liverpool.ac.uk
- Personal Websitehttp://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=P9-HfJ4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Biography
Personal Statement
I was trained in economic geography and demography and received a PhD from the University of Helsinki in 1997. Since then I have occupied the following positions: from 1997 to 2002, I was Researcher (1997-1998) and Senior Researcher (2000-2002) at the University of Tartu, Estonia; I spent a year as Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999; from 2003 to 2007, I worked as Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; from 2005 to 2007, I was Leader of the Research Team on Interdependencies in the Life Course at the institute; in 2007, I also served as Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Contemporary European Fertility and Family Dynamics. Since 2008, I have been employed by the University of Liverpool, first as Senior Lecturer, then as Reader, and currently as Professor of Demography and Quantitative Geography.
Personal Distinctions
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, Summer School on Longitudinal and Life Course Research, University of Bamberg 2015)
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, University of Cambridge 2015)
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, Oxford Institute for Population Ageing 2015)
- Multiple Pathways Towards Integration: The Diversity of Immigrant Families in Europe (Invitation to Speak, Population Europe, Brussels 2015)
- International Symposium on Internal Migration and Commuting in International Perspective (Keynote Speech, Federal Institute for Population Research and University of Hamburg 2015)
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, University of Aberdeen 2013)
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, Summer School on Longitudinal and Life Course Research, University of Oxford 2013)
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, Summer School on Longitudinal and Life Course Research, University of Antwerp 2012)
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, University of Bremen 2012)
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton 2011)
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex 2011)
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, Sussex Centre for Migration Research at the University of Sussex 2011)
- Invited Keynote Speaker at the 17th Nordic Demographic Symposium in Lund (Keynote Speech, The Swedish Demographic Association 2010)
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, University of Groningen 2010)
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton 2009)
- Invited Keynote Speaker at International Conference in Berlin (Four Leibniz Institutes 2009)
- Invitation to Speak (Invitation to Speak, University of Amsterdam 2009)
Administrative Roles
- Director of Postgraduate Research, School of Environmental Sciences;
- Leader of the Social Statistics Pathway of the University of Liverpool, Doctoral Training Centre, North West Consortium
