Name: Rosa Cheesman, Research Fellow, the PROMENTA Center, the University of Oslo  

Title: Interplay between children’s individual genetic differences and school inequalities 

Abstract: Rosa will give an overview of her past present and future research on how learning environments affect different children. Her recent work has used genetic methods to show how schools can moderate the negative consequences of ADHD, and to highlight the importance of academic interests (not just achievements). Overall, this research aims to expand upon how we represent children in large-scale social science research and place new genetic information into a social and developmental context.

Biography: Rosa Cheesman is a Research Fellow at the Department of Psychology, the University of Oslo. She studied Human Sciences at the University of Oxford before completing a PhD in Behavioural Genetics at King’s College London. Rosa applies interdisciplinary approaches to understand gene-environment interplay in learning and mental health.  

 

Name: Joakim Ebeltoft, University of Oslo 

Title: Family wealth and mental health

Abstract: The existing literature has focus on income and often fails to include wealth when assessing the role of family finances as social gradients of offspring mental health. Although income is often used as an indicator of family financial status in studies of mental health, income captures only a part of wealth variation. Considering that most of the shared variance between parental income and wealth can be traced to additive genetic and extended family-shared environmental influences, i.e. population stratification processes, excluding wealth fails to represent a reliable picture of financial situation of the nuclear family. In addition, excluding wealth means excluding the socioeconomic status indiex with the most inequality world-wide and in Norway. In this study we aim to investigate the association between family wealth and offspring mental health. 

Biography: Clinical psychologist (University of Norway). Worked in a multisystemic framework (i.e. with the children, parents, schools, etc.) with at-risk families. Currently doing a PhD on socioeconomic status, genetics, and mental health at the University of Oslo. 

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