Miia Bask
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Sociology; Faculty
- Telephone:
- +46 72 999 97 83, +46 18 471 52 22
- Mobile phone:
- +46 72 999 97 83
- E-mail:
- miia.bask@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA
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- Academic merits:
- FD, Docent
- CV:
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-4749-8750
Short presentation
- PhD in Sociology 2008 (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Docent in Social Policy 2015 (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
- Research Professor 2016-2018 (NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)
- Member of Editorial Board Sociology (British Sociological Association)
- Director of Studies (Undergraduate and Master's levels)
- Member of the Electoral College
- Board Member of the Swedish Sociological Association
Keywords
- inequality
- social policy
- quantitative methods
- social exclusion
- computational social science
- social stratification
Biography
Miia Bask is Associate Professor in Sociology and Docent in Social Policy. She is a quantitative sociologist with research interest in social stratification and inequality. In her doctoral dissertation she investigated social exclusion in Sweden. Her postdoctoral research included topics such as the connection between school burnout and school dropout, internalized and externalizing problem behavior in adolescents, parents' education-related expectations and their association to the level of education achieved, as well as theoretically and methodologically oriented studies on inequality-creating mechanisms.
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Publications
Selection of publications
Part of Preventive Medicine, 2022
- DOI for Political stringency, infection rates, and higher education students' adherence to government measures in the Nordic countries and the UK during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak
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Part of European Journal of Public Health, p. 481-487, 2022
- DOI for Depressive symptoms in higher education students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of containment measures
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Part of International Journal of Social Welfare, p. 130139, 2020
- DOI for Growing up in economic hardship: The relationship between childhood social assistance recipiency and early adulthood obstacles
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Psychiatric diagnoses as grounds for disability pension among former child welfare clients
Part of Longitudlinal and Life Course Studies, p. 365-381, 2017
Accumulation and Persistence of Welfare Problems over Time
Part of Social Indicators Research, p. 757-770, 2016
Cumulative (Dis) Advantage and the Matthew Effect in Life-Course Analysis
Part of PLOS ONE, 2015
- DOI for Cumulative (Dis) Advantage and the Matthew Effect in Life-Course Analysis
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Externalising and internalising problem behaviour among Swedish adolescent boys and girls
Part of International Journal of Social Welfare, p. 182-192, 2015
Social influence and the Matthew mechanism: The case of an artificial cultural market
Part of Physica A, p. 113-119, 2014
Part of Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainment, p. 389-411, Cambridge University Press, 2014
Burned out to drop out: Exploring the relationship between school burnout and school dropout
Part of European Journal of Psychology of Education, p. 511-528, 2013
Increasing Inequality in Social Exclusion Occurrence: The Case of Sweden during 1979-2003
Part of Social Indicators Research, p. 299-323, 2010
Recent publications
Matching the general or the specific child with a foster home?
Part of British Journal of Social Work, 2025
- DOI for Matching the general or the specific child with a foster home?
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Matching in practice: how to find the right family foster home for the right child
Part of European Social Work Research, 2024
- DOI for Matching in practice: how to find the right family foster home for the right child
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Part of Global Health Action, 2024
Matching Process Concerning Children With Disabilities in Family Foster Care
Part of Child & Family Social Work, 2024
- DOI for Matching Process Concerning Children With Disabilities in Family Foster Care
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Part of Child & Family Social Work, 2024
- DOI for Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden
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All publications
Articles in journal
Matching the general or the specific child with a foster home?
Part of British Journal of Social Work, 2025
- DOI for Matching the general or the specific child with a foster home?
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Matching in practice: how to find the right family foster home for the right child
Part of European Social Work Research, 2024
- DOI for Matching in practice: how to find the right family foster home for the right child
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Part of Global Health Action, 2024
Matching Process Concerning Children With Disabilities in Family Foster Care
Part of Child & Family Social Work, 2024
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Part of Child & Family Social Work, 2024
- DOI for Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden
Part of Preventive Medicine, 2022
- DOI for Political stringency, infection rates, and higher education students' adherence to government measures in the Nordic countries and the UK during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak
- Download full text (pdf) of Political stringency, infection rates, and higher education students' adherence to government measures in the Nordic countries and the UK during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak
Part of European Journal of Public Health, p. 481-487, 2022
- DOI for Depressive symptoms in higher education students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of containment measures
- Download full text (pdf) of Depressive symptoms in higher education students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of containment measures
Does political stringency change students’ adherence to governmental recommendations?
Part of European Journal of Public Health, 2022
- DOI for Does political stringency change students’ adherence to governmental recommendations?
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Part of International Journal of Social Welfare, p. 130139, 2020
- DOI for Growing up in economic hardship: The relationship between childhood social assistance recipiency and early adulthood obstacles
- Download full text (pdf) of Growing up in economic hardship: The relationship between childhood social assistance recipiency and early adulthood obstacles
Psychiatric diagnoses as grounds for disability pension among former child welfare clients
Part of Longitudlinal and Life Course Studies, p. 365-381, 2017
Accumulation and Persistence of Welfare Problems over Time
Part of Social Indicators Research, p. 757-770, 2016
Cumulative (Dis) Advantage and the Matthew Effect in Life-Course Analysis
Part of PLOS ONE, 2015
- DOI for Cumulative (Dis) Advantage and the Matthew Effect in Life-Course Analysis
- Download full text (pdf) of Cumulative (Dis) Advantage and the Matthew Effect in Life-Course Analysis
Externalising and internalising problem behaviour among Swedish adolescent boys and girls
Part of International Journal of Social Welfare, p. 182-192, 2015
Patterns of Psycho-Social Distress Among Ageing Swedes
Part of Journal of Population Ageing, p. 261-278, 2015
Social influence and the Matthew mechanism: The case of an artificial cultural market
Part of Physica A, p. 113-119, 2014
Burned out to drop out: Exploring the relationship between school burnout and school dropout
Part of European Journal of Psychology of Education, p. 511-528, 2013
Cumulative Disadvantage and Connections Between Welfare Problems
Part of Social Indicators Research, p. 443-464, 2011
Increasing Inequality in Social Exclusion Occurrence: The Case of Sweden during 1979-2003
Part of Social Indicators Research, p. 299-323, 2010
Accumulation of Welfare Problems in a Longitudinal Perspective
Part of Social Indicators Research, p. 311-327, 2008
Welfare problems and social exclusion among immigrants in Sweden
Part of European Sociological Review, p. 73-89, 2005
Chapters in book
Part of Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainment, p. 389-411, Cambridge University Press, 2014
Conference papers
Generation of temporal multilayer networks from population-scale register data
2022
Patterns of Childhood Economic Hardship and Early Adulthood Obstacles
2018
Timing and Duration of Childhood Economic Hardship and Early Adulthood Obstacles
2017
Patterns of Psycho-Social Distress among Middle-Aged and Elderly Swedes
2015
Externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors among Swedish boys and girls
2013
2012
Inequality Generating Processes and Measurement of the Matthew Effect
2011
2011
Young People's Paths to Marginalization
2009
2008
Social Exclusion in Sweden during 1979-2003
2008
Social Exclusion across the Life-Course: A Look at Swedish Data
2007
2006
2005
Welfare Problems and Social Exclusion among Immigrants in Sweden
2004