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Melinda Mills and Tomas Zwinkels received the ‘Research Talent’ (Onderzoekstalent) Grant from NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) to carry out the PhD project of Tomas Zwinkels: ‘Pathways to Power: Political Careers and Political Networks in the Netherlands 1945-2010’.

As of January 2012, Melinda Mills is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Sociological Review

Current Research

From 2011-15 Melinda Mills, together with a research team will work on the project: 'Is Fertility in the Genes? Unraveling Gene-Environment Interaction and Fertility'. She received 889,642 Euros in a VIDI (mid-career) grant from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO).

Melinda Mills has entered into a research partnership with eDarling to examine 'Online daters in a cross-national comparative perspective' (also in coooperation with eDarling Germany and eDarling the Netherlands)

Recent Publications

Forthcoming in 2012 & 2011 (selected)

Poortman, A-R. and M. Mills (2012). “Joint investments in marriage and cohabitation: The role of legal and symbolic factors”. Journal of Marriage and Family. 74: 357-376.

Begall, K.H. and M.Mills (forthcoming) “The impact of occupation and occupational sex segregation on fertility in the Netherlands”, European Sociological   Review

Täht, K. and M.Mills (forthcoming). “Non-standard work schedules and parent-child interaction: A mixed-method couple analysis,” Journal of Family Issues, DOI: 10.1177/0192513X11424260.

Ivanova, K., R. Veenstra, and M. Mills. (forthcoming). “Who Dates? The Effects of Temperament, Puberty, and Parenting on Early Adolescent Experience with Dating. The TRAILS study,” Journal of Early Adolescence. doi: 10.1177/0272431610393246

Mills, M. (2011). Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA/London: Sage.

Mills, M., R.R. Rindfuss, P. McDonald and E. te Velde (2011). “Why do people postpone  parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives,” Human Reproduction Update, 17(6): 848-860.

Balbo, N.F.G and M. Mills (2011) “Social capital and pressure in fertility decision-making: second and third births in France, Germany and Bulgaria,” Population Studies, 65(3): 335-351. 

Begall, K.H. and M. Mills (2011) “The impact of perceived work control, job strain and work-family conflict on fertility intentions: A European comparison,” European Journal of Population, 27(4): 433-456. [OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE!]

Ivanova, K., M. Mills and R. Veenstra. (2011). “The initiation of dating in adolescence: The effect of parental divorce. The TRAILS study,” Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21(4):  769-775.

Balbo, N.F.G. and M. Mills (2011) “The influence of the family network on the realization of fertility intentions,” Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 19: 187-215.

Survival and Event History Workshops

Melinda Mills gave the workshop "Introduction to event history analysis in R." to the Scientific Research Network Historical Demography (WOG), October 6, 2011, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Melinda Mills gave an introductory workshop on Survival and Event History analysis at the CIES (Centre for Research Studies in Sociology), Lisbon University Institute, Portugal, October 6-7, 2010

From August 2-6, 2010, Melinda Mills gave the course Event History Analysis and the Life Course at the Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies, University of Oslo, Norway

Melinda Mills was one of the instructors at the upcoming Summer School on "R", September 1-7, Bucharest, Romania as part of the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Melinda Mills was an instructor at the  Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences summer school Introduction to event history analysis with a special focus on cross-national comparisons, 18-29 August 2009, Paris, France. Other speakers included: Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Fiona Steele and Louis-Andre Vallet.

International Research Projects

European Science Foundation TransEurope Research Network (Member of Steering Committee & Applicant)

European Science Foundation Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences-2 (QMSS2) (Member of Life History Analysis group)

GLOBALIFE: Life Courses in the Globalization Process (short-listed for the 2006 European Union Descartes Prize for Scientific Research!)

Non-standard work schedules and family cohesion

In the media (ook in het Nederlands)

In January 2012, Melinda's research appeared on the front page of the Volkskrant and also covered in the AD and Dagblad van het Noorden.

Verschillende media hebben aandacht besteed aan het artikel van Melinda Mills dat in 2011 was gepubliceerd: Why do people postponement parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives [PDF], Human Reproduction Update.

Mills was te beluisteren in het NTR programma Hoe? Zo! Radio van 13 en15 juli 2011 in het lunchprogramma Dagdoorbraakvan OOG Radio. Er was ook een artikel van het dagblad Trouw, ANP, AD, evenals regionale bladen en De Telegraaf. Een opiniestuk van Mills is ook te vinden op: www.socialevraagstukken.nl. Ook staat er een artikel in Broerstraat 5 (pagina 12-13).

Melinda was in the  debate section of the September 2011 issue of OpZij and in the AD September 29, 2011, commenting on older fathers. In October 2011, she appeared in Elsevier magazine.

Interview about female professors in the Netherlands in Intermediair 4 Maart 2011