Ms Heini Väisänen
Email [email protected]
www: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/vaisanen/
RESEARCH INTEREST
Social demography. Reproductive health with emphasis on induced abortions, contraceptive use
and pregnancy intentions over the life course. The effect of life course events on health and
wellbeing later in life. Longitudinal, event-history and multilevel modelling, and other quantitative
research methods.
EDUCATION
PhD in Demography, London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE), UK
 Thesis title: A Life Course Perspective to Abortion in Finland
 Supervisors: Prof Mike Murphy, Dr Tiziana Leone, Prof Mikko Myrskylä
2012present
Postgraduate Teaching Certificate in Higher Education, LSE
 Entitles to a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
2012-2014
MSc in Social Research Methods (Population Stream), LSE
 Grade: Distinction
 Courses taken e.g. Advanced quantitative research methods, Population
Analysis: Methods and Models, Health and Population in Contemporary
Developed Societies
2011-2012
Master of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
 Major in Sociology, minor in Statistics and Gender Studies
2004-2010
Exchange student, École normale supérieure, Paris, France
 Master’s level courses in sociology, history and ethnography
2007-2008
(9 months)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, Department of Social Policy, LSE
 Co-authoring a research paper on the effect of lifetime stressors on mental
wellbeing later in life in the UK with professor Emily Grundy and Dr Sanna
Read
 Secondary quantitative data analysis of panel data using path models
Feb 2015May 2015
Coordinator, E-conference on abortion research, Department of Social
Policy, LSE
 Organising an e-conference on abortion research in collaboration with Drs
Ernestina Coast and Emily Freeman
 Inviting and registering participants, communications, website
maintenance, co-authoring the conference report
Apr 2015May 2015
Research Fellow at Guttmacher Institute, New York City, US
 An ESRC-funded overseas institutional visit
 Co-authoring a research paper on fertility behaviour and pregnancy
intentions expected to make a significant contribution in the field
 Analysing data on incidence of abortion in Ethiopia
 Assisting authoring of a literature review on abortion in India
Apr 2014Jul 2014
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Researcher and Coordinator, Department of Behavioural Sciences,
University of Helsinki
 Reproductive Behaviour in Contemporary Societies project
 Co-authoring publications and conducting statistical analyses
 Administrative tasks, such as budgeting and communications
Sep 2009Sep 2011
Researcher, Population Research Institute, Väestöliitto, Finland
 Co-authoring publications
 Conducting in-depth interviews and quantitative secondary data analysis
Apr 2010Aug 2010
Researcher, City of Helsinki Urban Facts, Finland
 Conducting survey-data analysis and authoring a research report
Jun 2009Dec 2009
Research assistant, YLE—Finland's national public service broadcasting
company
 Conducting and analysing online surveys
Apr 2009–
May 2009
Research assistant, Department of Social Psychology, University of
Helsinki
 Analysing survey data and reporting findings
Oct 2008–
Dec 2008
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Social Policy, LSE
 Demographic Description and Analysis (for undergraduate students)
 Three seminar groups with 15 students in each
 Formative essay and homework marking
 One-to-one tutoring in weekly office hours
Jan 2014Mar 2014
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Methodology, LSE
 Applied Regression Analysis (for postgraduate students)
 Introduction to Quantitative Methods (for postgraduate students)
 Two to three seminar groups per term with 15-40 students each
 Helping students to complete problem sets in computer labs, exam
marking, formative weekly homework marking
Oct 2012Dec 2013
Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
 Introduction to SPSS (for undergraduate students)
 One to three groups of 20 students during three terms
2009 and
2011
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Väisänen, Heini. (Forthcoming). “The Association between Education and Induced Abortion in
Finland: A Cohort Perspective”. Accepted for publication in Population Studies.
Väisänen, Heini and Michael Murphy. 2014. “Social Inequalities in Teenage Fertility Outcomes:
Childbearing and Abortion Trends of Three Birth Cohorts in Finland.” Perspectives on Sexual and
Reproductive Health, 46(2): 109-116
Berg, Venla, Anna Rotkirch, Heini Väisänen, and Markus Jokela. 2013. “Personality Is
Differentially Associated with Planned and Non-planned Pregnancies.” Journal of Research in
Personality, 47(4): 296-305.
Rotkirch, Anna, Stuart Basten, Heini Väisänen, and Markus Jokela. 2011. “Baby Longing and
Men’s Reproductive Motivation.” Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 9: 283-306.
Väisänen, Heini, and Markus Jokela. 2010. “Fertility after Induced Abortion: a Register-Based
Study in Finland 2000-2008.” Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, XLV: 25-44.
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SELECTED CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS
“Does Teenage Pregnancy Affect Social Mobility? Decomposition Using the KHB
Method”, British Society for Population Studies annual meeting, Leeds, UK.
2015
“The Educational Gradient in the Occurrence of Repeat Abortion in Finland in 19752010”, poster in
Population Association of America Annual meeting, San Diego, US and
British Society for Population Studies annual meeting, Leeds, UK.
2015
“Using Panel Data to Examine Pregnancy Attitudes over Time” with Rachel Jones,
Population Association of America Annual meeting, San Diego, US.
2015
“The Association between the Timing of Abortions and Births and Socioeconomic
Position Later in Life in Finland”, IUSSP international seminar on Decision-making
regarding abortion, Nanyuki, Kenya.
2014
“Comparison of Cohort Abortion among Those Aged 20 and over in Finland”, poster
in Population Association of America Annual meeting, Boston, US.
2014
“The Association between Education and Induced Abortion in Finland: A Cohort
Perspective”
LSE Population Brown Bag series, London, UK and
Guttmacher Institute Brown Bag series, New York, US.
2014
“The Wonderland of Statistics? History, access and uses of Finnish register data”,
invited speaker in Sociology Seminar series, University of Goldsmiths, London, UK.
2013
“Social Inequalities of Adolescent Fertility Outcomes: Teenage Childbearing and
Abortion Trends of Three Birth Cohorts in Finland” British Society for Population
Studies annual meeting, Swansea, UK.
2013
HONOURS AND AWARDS
ESRC Doctoral Training Centre Studentship
 Full award with additional advanced quantitative methods stipend
2011-2015
ESRC Overseas institutional visit award
 For a three-month visit at Guttmacher Institute, New York City, US
2014
Funding to attend IUSSP international seminar on Decision-making
regarding abortion, Nanyuki, Kenya
 LSE Postgraduate travel fund
 Financial support for local expenses from the seminar organisers
2014
Best student poster, British Society for Population Studies annual meeting
2014
Best MSc Dissertation, British Society for Population Studies
2013
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-organiser of LSE Population Brown Bag seminar series
2013-2014
Co-organiser of poster session in British Society for Population Studies
annual meeting, Winchester, UK
2014
Occasional reviewer in Population Studies journal
Since 2014
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LANGUAGES AND IT SKILLS
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Finnish (native speaker)
English (bilingual proficiency)
French (professional working proficiency)
Swedish (limited working proficiency)
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Statistical software: Stata, MPlus,
SPSS, R
NVivo
Microsoft Office
Moodle
Blogs and websites
References available upon request.
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