Prof. Dimitri Mortelmans
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Dimitri Mortelmans is Senior Full Professor in Sociology at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is head of the Centre for Population, Family and Health. His research concentrates on family sociology and sociology of labour. He has published on divorce, new constituted families, gendered labour careers and work-life balance. On qualitative methodology, he published the Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods and Qualitative Analysis with Nvivo. In demography, he co-edited Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution. The Family Kaleidoscope (Edward Elgar) and Lone parenthood in the Life Course (Springer).
Prof. Michelle Kelly-Irving
Michelle Kelly-Irving is an Inserm research director, and leads the EQUITY research team at the CERPOP. She is specialised in the field of life course epidemiology, with a focus on the mechanisms and processes involved in the production of health inequalities across the life course. She has developed a program of research to examine intersecting social-structural factors that drive the production of health inequalities operating through psychosocial, material and behavioural mechanisms from early life onwards.
