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Dr. Petteri Eerola is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä and Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. His research spans fatherhood, gender roles, family policy, and qualitative methodologies. He leads the Kone Foundation-funded project The Parental Night Shift: Gendered Inequalities in Night-time Care (2022–2027) and contributes to edited volumes like Caring Fathers in the Global Context (2025) and Families with Children in a Turbulent Era (2025).
- University of Jyväskylä (Senior Lecturer)
- University College London (Honorary Associate Professor)
- Docent in Social Policy, Tampere University
- Docent in Sociology of Education and Gender, University of Oulu
His research examines institutional family discourses, paternal parental leave barriers, and gendered inequalities in night-time childcare. Recent work includes analyzing Finnish parents’ interpretative repertoires around night-care practices and longitudinal studies on shared parental responsibilities.
Dr. Eerola’s scientific awards include the Young Scientist Prize 2014 by the European Society on Family Relations. He holds leadership roles in the Finnish Society for Research on Families and Personal Relationships and serves as vice board member for the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare.
