Linda Nathalié Kridahl Docent i Demografi

Linda Kridahl is an Associate Professor (Docent) in Demography at Stockholm University and Södertrön University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociological Demography from Stockholm University in 2018 and has since developed a strong research profile at the intersection of demography, ageing, family dynamics, and social policy. Her research focuses on how life course events such as childbearing, divorce, and intergenerational relations shape retirement timing, economic security, and well-being in later life. She has also contributed to comparative studies across European countries, with particular attention to Sweden and Central and Eastern Europe.

Her work has been published in leading international journals, including Journal of Marriage and Family, Ageing & Society, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Family Relations, and Demographic Research. She has also co-authored influential articles on late-life divorce, money practices among older couples, and the gendered consequences of partnership dynamics for economic outcomes in later life. In addition, she has developed expertise in register-based research and survey data analysis, applying life course perspectives to questions of family and ageing.

Most recently, she revcieved 4.8 million grant for Swedish Research Council to study life course trajectories and their link to old-age poverty in Sweden (2026-2028). In this project, she will collaborate with Anna Brydsten (Umeå University), Martin Kolk (Stockholm University), Rense Nieuwenhuis (Stockholm University) and Gulin Öylu (Linköping University). 

Linda has been principal investigator and collaborator in several other externally funded research projects, supported by Forte (see below), the Kamprad Family Foundation (see below), and the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (A matter of transition? Working life trajectories and retirement behavior in post-socialist contexts across Central and Eastern Europe (2023-2025, Caroline Hasselgren, PI). Her work has also included international collaborations with scholars across Europe and the United States, including a visiting scholarship at Syracuse University’s Aging Studies Institute. Currently, she is part of a project about "Vulnerability and partnership dynamics in the Baltic Sea region: Similarities and differences within and between Eastern European and Nordic countries", supported by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Livia Oláh, PI) situated at the School of Social Sciences at Södertörn University.

In 2020, Linda recieved 4.8 million grant from Forte to study predictors and consequences of late-life divorce together with Ann-Zofie Duvander, Sofi Ohlsson-Wijk, Jani Turunen and Marianne Abramsson (Divorce in old age: Predictors and consequences of late life divorce, 2021-2024). She has also recieved a 3.3 million grant from the Kamprad Family Foundation together with Ann-Zofie Duvander (Stockholm University) about "Life quality among older adults in contemporary Sweden: Financial conflicts, relationship quality and equality" (2018-2021)

A strong commitment to research communication and societal impact characterizes her academic work. Her findings have gained wide media attention in Sweden, with coverage in Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Aftonbladet, TT, and Vi föräldrar, as well as Swedish public service radio (P1, P3, P4). She has participated in live panel discussions broadcast by the Swedish Pension Agency and regularly contributes to public debates on pensions, family life, and ageing. In addition, she has written popular science articles for national and international outlets such as PopDigest, N-IUSSP, and Äldre i Centrum.

She has extensive teaching and supervision experience at both bachelor’s and master’s level, primarily in sociology and demography at Stockholm University and Södertörn University. She has supervised and examined numerous theses and has also been actively engaged in pedagogical development, with training in supervision, inclusive teaching, and digital learning environments.

Linda has also contributed to the broader scientific community as president of the Swedish Demographic Association (2015–2020), referee for several international journals, and as an organizer of international conferences and workshops.

Please see CV for more details.