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Sara Kalucza is a Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Demographic and Aging Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University. She is affiliated with three research groups: Family Sociology, Sociology of health, well-being, and quality of life, and Sociology of work.
Her research centers on life course sociology with emphasis on teenage parenthood, mental health consequences, and labor market trajectories. She investigates intergenerational transmission of family formation patterns, mental health effects of early parenthood, and social determinants of teenage parenthood using longitudinal register-based studies primarily in Sweden. Her work bridges demographic methods with sociological theory to examine how early life events shape long-term socioeconomic outcomes.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2015-2025) reveals consistent focus on demographic transitions, particularly teenage parenthood and its intergenerational consequences. Key thematic clusters include mental health trajectories (35% of publications), labor market outcomes (25%), intergenerational transmission (20%), and methodological innovations in life course research (15%), with emerging interest in technology-society interactions as evidenced by her 2025 AI perception study.
Dr. Kalucza actively participates in major research initiatives including CRITICAL MICROBES (2024), Viral BRAIN (2022), a COPD stigma study (2021-2024), HEALFAM (2019-2025), and life course consequences of teenage parenthood research (2019-2021). These projects demonstrate her interdisciplinary approach integrating sociology, demography, and public health through large-scale register data and longitudinal analysis.
