SOC-MISC

INED, the host institution of SOC-MISC, suffered a cyber attack a few days ago. We currently have no access to email & our website is down. Please send a private message to @heinivaisanen.bsky.social to contact us. We will keep you posted here too. More information 👇 actualitte.com/article/1347...

It's September and we're kicking off another term of monthly #FemQuantSeminars! Join us online on 29 Sept for a presentation by @signesvallfors.bsky.social on Exposure to Local Violent Crime and Abortion, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth in Mexico. Info & sign-up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

A SOC-MISC team member, Jairo Loja Torres will present results on intergenerational transmission of #miscarriage risk using BCS70 data in the @bspsuk.bsky.social annual conference on Wed 9 Sep at 2pm. Please do join us there! See the full programme here: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

📣EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT📣 Pregnancy Endings by the Feminist Miscarriage Project is coming to the Vagina Museum in London from 2 September – 31 December 2026. See the exhibit for free five days a week, Wednesday to Sunday.

📢 Nouvelle publication SOC-MISC ! Une femme sur cinq en France connaîtra une fausse couche au cours de sa vie, alors que la prise en charge est souvent vécue comme mal adaptée, entre paroles blessantes et manque de suivi. À lire dans le dernier Population & Sociétés : doi.org/10.3917/pops...

📢New publication alert from SOC-MISC! One in five women in France will experience a miscarriage in their lifetime, while miscarriage care is often experienced as badly adapted due to hurtful language used and lack of follow up. See more in the latest Population & Societes: doi.org/10.3917/pops...

SOC-MISC social media is now on summer break until the end of August. See you again in September!

🇫🇮 New miscarriage care recommendations were published in Finland in May. A medical visit is recommended already after the 1st miscarriage (with escalation in case of multiple miscarriages) and they emphasise the need for empathetic care. More information (in Finnish): www.kaypahoito.fi/hoi50138

@heinivaisanen.bsky.social will present results from cognitive interviews testing the quality of commonly used #miscarriage questions in French surveys on Thu 9 July at 10am in the MeSSH conference at the Campus Condorcet. See the full programme here: messh26.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/p...

📢PhD opportunity supervised by Katy Keenan and @heinivaisanen.bsky.social on social inequalities in #miscarriage in #Scotland (mixed methods). Based at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, funded via BAME Scholarship. DL 29 June. See (current funded opportunities tab): www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geography-su...

A correction & code published from the SOC-MISC project! 1) Following a discovery of a coding mistake, which had a small impact on results, we issued a correction to one of our earlier publications: doi.org/10.55016/m1c... 2) The code for this analysis is available on GutHub: github.com/socmisc

The SOC-MISC team is excited to take part in the New Directions in Miscarriage Research conference in London on 18-19 June by @miscarriageproject.bsky.social @heinivaisanen.bsky.social discusses measuring social inequalities in #miscarriage & Hélène Malmanche experiences of miscarriage in France.

🚆Are you heading to #EPC2026 conference organised by @eaps.bsky.social in Bologna? Please do not miss SOC-MISC presentations on social inequalities in #miscarriage on Friday 5 June at 4pm! See more details here: epc2026.eaps.nl/sessions/89

SOC-MISC à #MeSSH2026 (9-10 juillet, Campus Condorcet) - Comment les questions sur les fausses couches sont-elles comprises dans les enquêtes en population ? Comment améliorer leur formulation ?Résultats des entretiens cognitifs FISO. messh26.sciencesconf.org

The SOC-MISC team will present results using cognitive interviews testing the quality of commonly used miscarriage questions in surveys on 9-10 July in the MeSSH conference at the Campus Condorcet. Stay tuned for more info when the programme is published! See messh26.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

🚆Are you heading to #EPC2026 conference organised by @eaps.bsky.social in Bologna? Please do not miss SOC-MISC presentations on social inequalities in #miscarriage on Friday 5 June at 4pm! See more details here: epc2026.eaps.nl/sessions/89

Two new members! 🎉 🔹Jairo Loja-Torres joined the partner team at the University of St Andrews in March as a postdoc, working on Scottish admin data and UK surveys. 🔹Jade Beauvillain (University of Picardie Jules Verne) joins the Ined team for a 5-month internship, working on UK surveys. Welcome! 🙌

Surveys are important for miscarriage research, yet questionnaire design and sample characteristics can influence reported miscarriage prevalence We compared miscarriage reporting across British surveys with @mccompans.bsky.social & @heinivaisanen.bsky.social - take a look at our pre-print here ⬇️

📢 The SOC-MISC project will participate in #EPC2026 in Bologna! @heinivaisanen.bsky.social will present a paper on social inequalities in #miscarriage risk in #Finland (epc2026.eaps.nl/abstracts/26...) @mccompans.bsky.social's paper is on the same topic in #France (epc2026.eaps.nl/abstracts/26...)