Sergi Vidal
Social demographer | Families, spatial mobility, inequality, life course | ERC grant @lifelongmove.bsky.social | CED & Sociology dept at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
vidalsergi.wordpress.com
webs.uab.cat/lifelongmove
- Publication alert🚨
- 📢New article in International Migration Review! w/ @svidal.bsky.social (@lifelongmove.bsky.social) and Louise Caron, we study how immigrant descent and migration experiences in childhood shape later-life aspirations towards migration. Check it out (it's OpenAccess!) 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0197...
- Check out this open-access article that deepens on compound effects of residential and social mobility!
- Moving homes, changing perspectives: How residential and social mobility in childhood shape locus of control and adult mental health Our team members Riccardo Valente and @svidal.bsky.social explore it in a new paper at SSR. Check it out, it’s open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
- Proud (and a little sad to see him go): Jianji Chen defended last week his PhD in Demography at UAB—on family dynamics & older adults’ well-being. Congrats, Dr. Chen, and all the best ahead! Also, big thanks to the committee: Karsten Hank, @elirenteria.bsky.social @marcoalbertini.bsky.social
- Double participation of @lifelongmove.bsky.social members in a session of the @sllshome.bsky.social conference 2025. Talks dealt with residential trajectories since early life and socio-economic and health outcomes in adulthood. Thank you to participants for useful tips to improve our research.
- Reposted by Sergi Vidal💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 🧵👇
- Excellent conference and powerful session on housing precarity organized by @lifecoursecentre.bsky.social. Homelessness, gender inequalities, and homeownership dynamics. I am grateful for the insights and discussion!
- 📢New Publication with A Bernard & @pmcmullin.bsky.social Individuals who moved during childhood are more likely to feel often lonely—especially with repeated moves. Siblings help. Duration matters. The impact is stronger in individualist societies.🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Great presentations by A Colasurdo, N Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025. Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.
- Reposted by Sergi VidalGreat energy at the Workshop on Mining Migration Trajectories, hosted by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025 ! @iussp.bsky.social Led by our own @svidal.bsky.social & Juste Lekstyte, it brought hands-on exploration of lifetime migration data using ML techniques #sequenceanalysis
- Last Friday, Min Zhu successfully defended her PhD in Demography at UAB- @cedemografia.bsky.social with a dissertation on couple migration in China. Congratulations, Min, on this achievement - and best wishes for your career ahead!
- Reposted by Sergi VidalJust wrapped up an inspiring workshop on “Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course”! Great presentations and discussions on geographic mobility in childhood and adulthood across Europe. Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! See you next time!
- Congratulations to @pertzikovitz.bsky.social team member of @lifelongmove.bsky.social for the successful defense of his doctoral thesis at Groningen University. Well done Dr. Pertzikovitz @popresgroningen.bsky.social
- • Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025) Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are…
- 📢 Publication alert! In our new study (w/ Belinda Hewitt), we track individuals over time and find that cohabiting with marriage intentions is linked to similar—or even better—health & well-being than being married. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
- Have a read to this new publication on the role of transnational separation from a child for the mental health of migrant populations.
- Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review! How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term? Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0197...
- Get updates on other research published by members of the lifelongmove project team here: @lifelongmove.bsky.social
- If interested in migration and mobility trajectories: Follow @lifelongmove.bsky.social for updates on the lifrlongmove ERC project and activities of the IUSSP panel on lifetime migration.
- Fresh from #PAA2025! Our PI Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social & co-authors presented new findings on the impact of lifelong neighborhood disadvantage and residential trajectories on socioeconomic outcomes. 📍📈 Stay tuned for more
- 📢 Reminder: Submit your paper or extended abstract for the Comparative Population Studies special issue on “Migration Trajectories Over the Life Course”! 🧳 🗓️ Deadline: May 15 📄 Call for papers: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP... #Migration #Lifecourse
- • CALL FOR PAPERS – 2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course” Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…
- 📢 Call for Papers We welcome submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course. It aims to provide deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
- The European Association for Population Studies is now on bluesky. Follow @eaps.bsky.social for updates on activities and the next European Population Conference in Bologna!
- Reposted by Sergi VidalGuess who’s on BlueSky? 🙌 @eaps.bsky.social 🙌 A must-follow!
- Today we had Naza Panichella visiting at @cedemografia.bsky.social UAB, and gave us a great lecture on couple's internal migration and gender inequality in six European country
- Great opportunity to work on a very interesting research project with a great team 👇👇👇
- We are hiring a postdoc for the deciphe.eu project at @diw.de. Work with @svidal.bsky.social, @sbeduk.bsky.social, S. Zinn, M. Medgyesi, myself, and other fantastic team members to understand the intergenerational persistence in homeownership in Europe! More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...
- Reposted by Sergi VidalAnd we do have a website now: deciphe.eu
- 👇👇👇Thrilled to see this collaboration with @pertzikovitz and @ValkHelga published! 📢 We examine how childhood moves underlie partnership stability in adulthood, to contribute to our understanding of the long-term impacts of residential mobility! @lifelongmove
- 📄🍾 happy to share that the 3rd paper of my thesis, a great collaboration with Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social and Helga de Valk is now out in the ENJP 🏘️📦 We ask whether moving in childhood has lasting effects on individuals’ life courses. Short answer: yes Longer answer: doi.org/10.1007/s106...
- Reposted by Sergi VidalOne more month to submit your abstract for the International Population Conference, to be held in Brisbane in July 2025 iussp.org/fr/page/what...
- 🚨New research project DECIPHE investigates the impact of demographic changes on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership. See: shorturl.at/sAV26 ⚓DIW (Berlin), DSPI (Oxford), TÁRKI (Budapest), CED (Barcelona). 💰Funded by @VolkswagenSt (2024/28) 📢Job openings and website coming soon!!
- DECIPHE starts on June 2024 and is led by Philipp Lersch, Selcuk Beduk, Márton Medgyesi, Sergi Vidal & Sabine Zinn
- DECIPHE deploys a comparative research design to address how the chances of being in homeownership if parents were homeowners is affected by demographic change, also in interplay with other contextual factors, such as housing market dynamics The key research objectives are:
-
View full thread(5) To build a microsimulation model on the demographic conditions of intergenerational persistence for predicting future scenarios.
- Reposted by Sergi Vidal🔊CfA - #EPC2024 side event for Early Career Researchers "Migrations over the life course" 🌍Edinburgh 📆June 12th 9am-1pm ✉️iussp.workshop@gmail.com Submit your abstract by February 29th! More info: shorturl.at/inBFG @eapsphd.bsky.social @svidal.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sergi Vidal📣📣Don't miss this webinar on innovations in data infrastructure for the longitudinal study of international migration! 📆 March 7th 2024, 15:00-16:30 CET More info and registrations: iussp.org/en/innovatio... @svidal.bsky.social @rosaweber.bsky.social @akbaritabar.bsky.social
- Are you an early-career researcher focusing on spatial mobility, migration, and the life course? If so, you might find this pre-event of EPC 2024 (June 12, Edinburgh) intriguing. Stay tuned for the upcoming call for papers!
- 📣Save the date! The projects LIFELONGMOVE, FAMILYTIES and MYMOVE are sponsoring an Early-Career Researchers Workshop on Migration Over the Life Course as a pre-event of EPC 2024 ☀️ 🗓️12 June 2024 🗺️Edinburgh CfP coming in January! More info: rb.gy/sl1k45
- Great conference #LIVES at Unil (Lausanne)
- How does age at migration affect occupational outcomes in adulthood? Yesterday @svidal.bsky.social presented his working paper on South-to-North migration in Italy (w/ Andrea Succi & Nazareno Panichella) at the LIVES conference in Lausanne.
- Finally the ERC-funded Lifelongmove project has joined bluesky. Follow us for updates on our research and activities :-)
- And please, check our website too webs.uab.cat/lifelongmove/
- Reposted by Sergi VidalFirst post on here! 🫐 📢 Call for papers! 2024 Annual Meeting of the German Demographic Association & the Demographic Societies of the Nordic Countries. Submit to my & Jonathan Wörn's session on "The impact on sickness & health on family members" 👪⚕️📈, deadline is 27 Nov 23 tinyurl.com/t2cymy9e
- Reposted by Sergi VidalThe @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social is hosting a workshop on "Dissimilarity Measure Choices", featuring Anna-Victoria Holtz and Dana Sarnak - join us on November 2nd, 4 pm CET sequenceanalysis.org/webinars/
