Dr. Nicole Kapelle

Biography

I am a Quantitative Sociologist and Social Demographer based at Trinity College Dublin, where I work as an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Sociology of Inequality and Life Course in the Department of Sociology. I am also an affiliated Research Fellow at Humboldt-Universität (HU) zu Berlin in the field of Microsociology and at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. My research focuses on the causes and consequences of social inequalities across individuals" life courses, with a particular emphasis on subjective and economic well-being, gender, work, health behaviors, and family dynamics. I use household panel survey data and longitudinal analysis methods to explore these issues. My work has been published in journals such as European Sociological Review, Journal of Marriage and Family, European Journal of Population, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, The Journals of Gerontology, European Societies and International Journal of Social Research Methodology. I obtained my PhD in Sociology, Demography, and Statistics from the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) at the University of Queensland, Australia, on 9th November 2020, supervised by Prof. Janeen Baxter, Prof. Sergi Vidal, and Prof. Philipp Lersch. My thesis, May your wealth be easily divisible by two, examined the association between marital dissolution and personal wealth from a life course perspective. Before joining Trinity College Dublin in September 2024, I was a Lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2022-2024) within the team of Prof. Anette Fasang, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford (2021-2022) under Prof. Christiaan Monden, and a Predoctoral Research Fellow within the MyWealth project led by Prof. Philipp Lersch at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2018-2021) and the University of Cologne (2017-2018).