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Satu Helske is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Turku’s INVEST Research Flagship Centre and a Docent in Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Jyväskylä (2016). As the Principal Investigator of the PREDLIFE consortium, she leads research on predicting policy impacts on life trajectories. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford and Linköping University.
Her research focuses on life course dynamics, family-work interactions, and parental leave policies, combining statistical methods like sequence analysis and Markov models with sociological inquiry. Key projects include the FLUX initiative on family formation and the PREDLIFE project modeling policy effects. She teaches longitudinal and multilevel modeling methods.
Recent work explores workplace peer effects on parental leave uptake, cross-border policy legacies, and the methodological development of sequence analysis. Her publications address both theoretical advancements and applied policy analysis in Finland and beyond.
