Paraskevi Peristera Associate Professor
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Name and title: Paraskevi PeristeraAssociate Professor
Workplace: Stress Research Institute Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room 346Albanovägen 12
Postal address Psykologiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
Research group
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- Skiftarbete påverkar män och kvinnor olika Länk till annan webbplats.
- Being treated unfairly at work increases risk of long-term sick leave Länk till annan webbplats.
- Psykobiologi och epidemiologi Länk till annan webbplats.
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About me
Paraskevi Peristera is a researcher at the Stress Research Institute, Department of Psychology, conducting research in the fields of public health and occupational epidemiology, with an emphasis on advanced statistical methods. Her current work focuses on understanding the impact of mandatory teleworking, under the COVID-19 pandemic, on various domains of employees’ work- and personal life with a special focus on work-life balance, job quality and health, both from a quantitative and and qualitative perspective. Other research interests concern the use of state-of-the-art statistical methods in the development of stress at individual and societal levels, the interaction between work and private life and sickness absence. She has substantial experience of working with large, longitudinal surveys as well as administrative data.
Education
- PostDoc in statistics, Stockholm University, Sweden
- PhD in statistics, Athens University of Economic and Business, Greece.
- MSc in statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece.
- BSc in mathematics, University of Patras, Greece.
Paraskevi's PhD work focused on mathematical models of demography phenomena. She developed models to study differences in fertility, mortality and nuptiality for a wide range of countries.
Paraskevi is participating, as both turor and supervisor, in the course Psy-II - Vetenskaplig Metod och Statistik. She has also broad teaching experience in epidemiology and public health at the Stress Research Institute as well as in demography and statistics at the Department of Statistics, Stockholm University. At undergraduate level, she has been course leader in econometrics and has taught demography and analysis of survival data as well as, at Master's level, analysis of survival data. She has also been teaching demography for several years, at the University of Thessaly, Greece.
She supervises students at the bachelor and master level in the subjects of psychology and public health science and is currently a supervisor for one doctoral student.
Policy experience
Before moving to Sweden, Paraskevi worked as a policy expert at the Research and Development Unit of the Greece Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs. She performed labour market and population analyses and represented Greece at the European Commission's Experts Demography Group and the Social Protection Committee. Paraskevi acted as a liaison between EU institutions, universities, national stakeholders and civil society.
Externally funded project as principle investigator
The Swedish Research Council is funding Paraskevi to lead a project examining he impact of teleworking on various domains of work- and personal life, with a special focus on work-life balance, job quality and health. Paraskevi Peristera is collaborating with Constanze Leineweber and Christine Bergljottsdotter at Stockholm University, Department of Psychology.