Marti Rovira

REF: CPIS-INV-INDF-2026-02. Postdoctoral Researcher in Violence Against Women in Intimate Relations: Longitudinal Analysis of Linked Crime, Employment, and Health Administrative Records. Socio-Demogra...

📢 Hiring: Postdoc in Criminology / Sociology at UPF

Join @demosocupf.bsky.social as a Postdoc:

📊 Focus: Evaluating penal interventions in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).
📍 Location: Barcelona, Spain.
🗓️ Deadline: March 15th, 2026.

www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...

Hey Chris, I got it 2019 :)

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Next @demosocupf.bsky.social seminar January 13th 'The Employability in Higher Education: Conceptual Challenges, Causal Evidence, and Policy Implications' by Rosario Scandurra. Join us @politiquesupf.bsky.social for this and other upcoming events!

Generalists or specialists? Unpacking crime trajectories of intimate partner violence offenders This study examines the heterogeneity of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) perpetrators by distinguishing IPV specialists, whose violence is limited to …

🚨 New article with J. Rodríguez-Menés, @dimipa.bsky.social, and @maikevd.bsky.social on the crime trajectories of intimate partner offenders. 📊📈
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Seminario en Madrid el 9 de diciembre, dar difusión si podéis

Have you, a family member or friend moved from council housing to renting privately?

I’m a PhD researcher looking into what drives these moves, how it impacts tenants' lives and their views of the council housing tenure.

Please reach out and share among your contacts! 👇

#socialhousing
#renting

We also emphasize the importance of methodological rigor: distinguishing between breaches and violent recidivism, and accounting for selection effects, significantly alters conclusions.

Using a longitudinal dataset of 6,000+ convicted IPV offenders in Catalonia, we find that while risk may initially increase, long-term protective effects emerge—particularly after several months. This suggests that protection orders are not a quick fix, but they can reduce recidivism over time

'As Time Goes By': The Effectiveness of Protection Orders in Reducing Intimate Partner Violence Recidivism - Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology This study investigates the effectiveness of protection orders in reducing intimate partner violence (IPV) recidivism. Protection orders are legal measures imposing restrictions on aggressors to prevent them from approaching or contacting their victims. These legal measures have seen rapid international expansion in recent years. However, understanding the extent to which they work remains an ongoing challenge. To contribute to this debate, we employ Cox standard proportional hazards models and Prentice–Williams–Peterson gap-time models for recurrent events using a new dataset, which includes comprehensive registry data from an entire cohort of more than 6000 aggressors sentenced for at least one IPV crime over a five-year period, followed for at least four years. Our findings unveil an initial, average adverse effect of protection orders on recidivism. This effect becomes non-significant after excluding breaches of the orders and after controlling for judges’ tendency to impose these measures on high-risk offenders. Moreover, we observe that the effects of protection orders vary over time: While there is an adverse immediate impact of holding an order, a positive temporal cumulative effect counteracts it after a few months.

🔍 New Research Alert 🔍

Do protection orders really reduce reoffending in intimate partner violence cases?

I just co-authored a new open-access study that tackles this question in the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨

Recruiting a PhD candidate for the project:
“Contextualized Multi-Intervention Strategies to Break the Vicious Cycle of Intimate Partner Violence”

⏳ Deadline: 22/10/2025 – short timeline & demanding application, act fast!

📄 Info (Catalan): drive.google.com/file/d/1g_Wt...

On October 1st the call opens for a funded PhD student position in the project "Contextualized Multi-Intervention Strategies to Break the Vicious Cycle of Intimate Partner Violence". Contact me if you’d like to know more!

On October 1st the call opens for a funded PhD student position in the project "Contextualized Multi-Intervention Strategies to Break the Vicious Cycle of Intimate Partner Violence". Contact me if you’d like to know more!

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨

Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details:

1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html
2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html

Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

✨ Want to use quant methods to study crime, desistance and intimate partner violence? A *funded PhD* at ‪@demosocupf.bsky.social‬ is opening soon! DM if you are interested 📬

Gent de Girona 🙏

Per si us interessa, el meu company oferirà classes d'anglès a Girona a partir del mes de juny.

Amb àmplia experiència docent, és professor nadiu i ha treballat de profe a la UPF i a la Universitat de Texas entre altres llocs.

Thanks Alba!

Social inequalities and the criminal justice system (CJS). It reflects and reinforces inequality. Exciting talk today by @mrovira.bsky.social @demosocupf.bsky.social @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Do ethnic minorities have incentives to omit photographs from résumés? Experimental evidence from Germany and the Netherlands Abstract. Ethnic minority job-seekers may have incentives to include or omit photographs from résumés depending on the social norms regarding this practice

🚨 Our new article, co-authored with Martí Rovira, has just been published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. We explore whether ethnic minority job seekers have incentives to include or omit photos from their job applications based on results from audit studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxre...

Check my latest co-authored article, led by the amazing @mfreino.bsky.social !

PhD Researcher in Adolescent Well-Being, Inequalities, Digital Media and Computational Social Sciences at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Explore the PhD Researcher in Adolescent Well-Being, Inequalities, Digital Media and Computational Social Sciences on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for higher education. Apply now.

1 PhD Job (4 years) in ERC DIGINEQ project!

At Centre for Demographic Studies & Dept. of Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona

"Adolescent Well-Being; Inequalities; Digital Media; Computational Social Science"

Deadline: December 3

Apply & share!! 🔝🔥

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ730/p...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Adolescent Well-Being, Social Inequalities, Digital Media and Computational Methods at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Apply now for the Postdoctoral Researcher in Adolescent Well-Being, Social Inequalities, Digital Media and Computational Methods role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. V...

1 Postdoc (3 years) in my ERC DIGINEQ project!

At Centre for Demographic Studies & Dept. of Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona

"Adolescent Well-Being; Social/Digital Inequalities; Computational Social Science"

Deadline: December 3

Apply & share!! ❤️‍🔥🔝

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKO526/p...

This is the first post of the DemoSoc group at BlueSky.

We are an interdisciplinary research group specialized in demographic and sociological analysis, as well as labor market and criminology studies at UPF-Barcelona.

DemoSoc seminars are open to all at UPF Barcelona. Check them out and come join us

ECSR 2024 will take place in Barcelona 12-14 September @UPFBarcelona Call for papers is now out! Submission period: from December 1st, 2023 to January 31st, 2024. More info: ecsr2024.com

Thrilled to share my latest article, "Invisible Stripes? A Field Experiment on the Disclosure of a Criminal Record in the British Labour Market and the Potential Effects of Introducing Ban-The-Box Policies," now published in the British Journal of Criminology doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...