Public Defence in Public Health Sciences: Emma Carlsson
On Friday November 13, Emma Carlsson will defend her doctoral thesis in public health sciences at Karolinska Institutet. In her doctoral thesis work, she has studied educational inequalities in early labour market exit among older workers.

Emma Carlsson. Photo: Private
Title of the thesis: Educational inequalities in early labour market exit among older workers – Explanations from a life-course perspective
Respondent: Emma Carlsson, PhD student, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet
Opponent: Marianna Virtanen, Professor, School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Eastern Finland
Members of the grading committee: Susanna Toivanen, Professor, Department of Social Science and Humanities, Mälardalen University;
Ylva Brännström Almquist, Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University;
Kristin Östlund Farrants, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
Chair: Ann Liljas, Associate Professor, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet
Principal supervisor: Emelie Thern, Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
Supervisors entitled to be present and to speak during the first part of the grading committee’s meeting: Linda Magnusson Hanson, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, and Viveca Östberg, Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University.
Last updated: 2026-10-21
Source: Department of Public Health Sciences