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Place Montesquieu 1/L2.08.03
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Damiano Uccheddu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Demographic Research (DEMO) of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). Currently, Damiano is holding an F.R.S.-FNRS postdoctoral fellowship. In his project, he investigates how adult children’s socioeconomic resources, particularly education, affect their parents’ health outcomes from a longitudinal and comparative life course perspective.
Before joining UCLouvain, Damiano received a PhD from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW) and University of Groningen (RUG, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences) and a Master’s Degree in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento (Italy). He was also part of the “Care, Retirement & Wellbeing of Older People Across Different Welfare Regimes” (CREW) research project.
His main research interests lie in social and gender inequalities in health, intergenerational relationships, social determinants of health, welfare systems, and quantitative methods for social research. Damiano specializes in analyzing large social survey datasets (such as SHARE) and full-population register data. In particular, he analyzes data for epidemiological and demographic research. His analytical approach is best described as theory-driven, quantitative empirical research.
Uccheddu, Damiano ; van Gaalen, Ruben. Children's strains, parents' pains? How adult children's union dissolution influences older parents' health. In: Journal of Family Research, Vol. 34, no. 2, p. 757–781 (2022). doi:10.20377/jfr-774.
Uccheddu, Damiano ; Emery, Tom ; Gauthier, Anne H. ; Steverink, Nardi. Gendered work-family life courses and late-life physical functioning: A comparative analysis from 28 European countries. In: Advances in Life Course Research, Vol. 53, no.100495, p. 1-20 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2022.100495.
Uccheddu, Damiano ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Intergenerational ties and COVID-19 contagion: A study on European adults 50 years and older using SHARE data. In: The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, (2022). doi:10.1093/geronb/gbac196.
Uccheddu, Damiano ; Gauthier, Anne H ; Steverink, Nardi ; Emery, Tom. Gender and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health at Older Ages Across Different European Welfare Clusters: Evidence from SHARE Data, 2004–2015. In: European Sociological Review, Vol. 35, no.3, p. 346-362 (2019). doi:10.1093/esr/jcz007.
Uccheddu, Damiano ; Gauthier, Anne H. ; Steverink, Nardi ; Emery, Tom. The pains and reliefs of the transitions into and out of spousal caregiving. A cross-national comparison of the health consequences of caregiving by gender. In: Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 240, no.112517, p. 1-9 (2019). doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112517.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Uccheddu, Damiano. Gendered loneliness in Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic. . In: Bruno Arpino, Loneliness and social exclusion among older Europeans before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023. ISBN - 978-88-32003-04-8 .