I am Associate Professor (permanent) at the Department of Sociology of Trinity College Dublin. I am also Head of Department (Sociology) and College Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
My research activities are located in social stratification research, family research, social demography, quantitative social research methodology, longitudinal and cross-national research, as well as digital sociology and digital social research. My work is published in peer-review journals and books.
My teaching portfolio covers various topics in life course sociology and quantitative social research methodology (introductory and advanced level). I deliver teaching to undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students. I also provide workshops on advanced quantitative methods to professional audiences.
Updates
Recent publications
Leesch, J; Skopek, J. (2025, forthcoming). Five Decades of Marital Sorting in France and the United States – The Role of Educational Expansion and the Changing Gender Imbalance in Education. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
Preprint version onSocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/tv36h
Şengül-İnal, G.; Borgen, N. T.; Skopek, J.; Nærde, A.; Zachrisson, H. D. (2025). Maternal Education, Early Language Skills, And Mother-Child Interactions Across Three Welfare States. In: Journal of Marriage and Family. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13087
Passaretta, G.; Skopek, J. (2025). The Role of Schooling for Equalizing Achievement Disparity by Migrant Background. In: Sociology of Education, 98 (1), 62-85. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380407241293692
Skopek, J; Triventi, M; Passaretta, G. (2024). Does Schooling Equalize Achievement Inequality in Italy? Evidence from an Adjacent-grade Discontinuity Design. Working paper, SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/4f6cq
New book
Research Handbook on Digital Sociology
Edited by Jan Skopek
Exploring the social implications of digital transformation, as well as demonstrating how we might use digital transformation to further sociological knowledge, this incisive Handbook provides an extensive overview of cutting-edge research on the digital turn of modern society. Open-access chapters available.
Find the book here!