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Dr. Petteri Eerola is a social scientist and education researcher with broad experience in research and teaching on fatherhood, families and parenting practices, family and childcare policies, everyday family life, family diversity, early childhood education, (in)equality, gender, men and masculinities, and qualitative methods. In his recent research, Dr. Eerola has studied, e.g., the consequences of fathers’ parental leave take-up, fathers’ motivations and barriers to parental leave, couples’ negotiations on the parental division of labor, institutional family discourses in early childhood education, imprisoned men’s narratives of fatherhood, and interviewing men on sensitive topics. Dr. Eerola is currently focusing on nighttime care in families with young children and on parenting practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Eerola gained his PhD in 2015 at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, where he is currently teaching research methods, family studies and education. He is a docent (adjunct professor) in social policy (especially family studies) at Tampere University and in the sociology of education and gender at the University of Oulu. Dr. Eerola has previously worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Tampere University, Finland, visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Thomas Coram Research Unit of the University of London, and visiting PhD candidate at Université Laval, Canada. Dr. Eerola was awarded the Young Scientist Prize 2014 by the European Society on Family Relations.

Dr. Eerola holds several scientific and societal positions of trust, including vice-chair of the Finnish Society for Research on Families and Personal Relationship, board member of the Finnish Association for Men’s Studies, member of the Finnish Ethics Committee on Youth and Childhood Studies, and member of the Subcommittee on Men and Gender Equality of the Finnish Council for Gender Equality.

Recent projects

Finnish Childcare Policies: In/equalities in Focus (2015-2021; postdoctoral team member)