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Dr Julia Mikolai

Lecturer in Quantitative Population Geography/Demography

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3949

Email

Julia.Mikolai@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Dr Julia Mikolai is a Lecturer in Demography/Quantitative Population Geography in the Population and Health Research Group at the School of Geography and Sustainable Development. She is PI of the (supported by the Horizon Europe Guarantee, selected for funding as an ERC Starting Grant. Her research interests include children's life courses; partnerships, families, and fertility; residential mobility and housing; life course research; cross-national comparisons; and longitudinal data analysis. Previously, she was a Senior Research Fellow on the ERC funded , a Research Fellow at the Scotland, and on the . She holds a PhD in social statistics and demography from the University of Southampton. Her background is in sociology and demography; she studied at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary; Utrecht University, the Netherlands; and participated in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany and the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University, Sweden.

PhD supervision

• Sanny Boy Afable
• Shuqi Lyu
• Parth Pandya
• Edward Pomeroy

Selected publications

• Open access
  Šťastná, M., Mikolai, J., Finney, N. & Keenan, K. L., 19 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. Early View, 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Afable, S. D., Mikolai, J., Evans, M., Korhonen, K., Vierboom, Y., Martikainen, P., Kulu, H. & Myrskylä, M., Apr 2026, Rostock: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 47 p. (MPIDR working papers; no. WP-2026-013).

  Research output: Working paper

• Open access
  Afable, S. D., Vierboom, Y., Evans, M., Mikolai, J., Kulu, H. & Myrskylä, M., 1 Oct 2025, In: Population, Space and Place. 31, 7, 13 p., e70116.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Mikolai, J. & Kulu, H., 1 Dec 2025, In: Advances in Life Course Research. 66, 12 p., 100703.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Mikolai, J., Kulu, H., Delaporte, I. & Liu, C., 1 Dec 2025, In: European Journal of Population. 41, 1, 54 p., 26.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Ibbetson, A., Kulu, H. & Mikolai, J., Jan 2025, 58³Ô¹Ï: MigrantLife, 27 p. (MigrantLife working papers; no. 24).

  Research output: Working paper

• Open access
  Harrison, J., Delaporte, I., Kulu, H., Mikolai, J., Liu, C., Abed Al Ahad, M., Lacroix, J., Andersson, G. & Pailhé, A., 1 Dec 2026, In: European Journal of Population. 42, 43 p., 2.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Hu, K., Kulu, H. & Mikolai, J., 1 Nov 2025, In: Population, Space and Place. 31, 8, 18 p., e70124.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Hu, K., Kulu, H. & Mikolai, J., 1 Dec 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Asian Population Studies. Latest Articles, 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Mikolai, J., 29 Apr 2025, Research handbook on partnering across the life course. Mortelmans, D., Bernardi, L. & Perelli-Harris, B. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, p. 254-264 11 p. (Research handbooks in sociology).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter