Tutkimuksen ja opetuksen kuvaus

Anna Simola holds a PhD in sociology. From 2022 to 2025, she worked as an FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Families and Sexualities (CIRFASE), part of the IACCHOS Institute at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium. Between 2018 and 2025, she was also a member of the Centre of Excellence for Research on Ageing and Care (RG3: Migration, Care and Ageing) at the University of Helsinki. Anna completed her PhD at the University of Helsinki in 2021, with a thesis entitled Passionate Mobile Citizens or Precarious Migrant Workers? Young EU Migrants, Neoliberal Governance and Inequality within the Free Movement Regime.

Her research advances a critical orientation and novel approaches to the study of free mobility in Europe. Her broad areas of interest include the intersections of personal life, migration, families, and changes in work, social policies, and ecological environments. Her research addresses these themes in relation to issues of freedom, vulnerability, precarity, aging, dependency, inequality, sustainability, and connectedness, particularly within the shifting dynamics of care and transnational living. Her work has been published in leading journals, including Sociology, Journal of European Social Policy, Work, Employment and Society, and Global Networks.