Dissertations Doctoral Thesis Defence: Emma Carlsson

13-11-2026 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Add to iCal
Campus Solna Inghesalen, Widerströmska Building, Tomtebodavägen 18A

Welcome to Emma Carlssons’s doctoral thesis defence. Title: Educational inequalities in early labour market exit among older workers – Explanations from a life-course perspective.

Main supervisor: 

  • Emelie Thern, Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Unit of Occupational Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

Co-supervisor:

  • Tomas Hemmingsson, Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University and Institute of Environmental Medicine, Unit of Occupational Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
  • Jonas Landberg, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University
  • Bo Burström, Professor, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet

Opponent:

  • Marianna Virtanen, Professor, School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Eastern Finland

Examination Board:

  • Susanna Toivanen, Professor, Department of Social Science and Humanities, Mälardalen University;
  • Ylva Brännström Almquist, Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University;
  • Kristin Östlund Farrants, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet

The thesis: 

  • Educational inequalities in early labour market exit among older workers – Explanations from a life-course perspective