In addition to secondary analyses of various survey datasets, I also collected and analyzed new data, both qualitative and quantitative, among middle-aged and older Turkish migrants in the Netherlands. The data collected specifically for this project have been made available for scholarly reuse through disposition in Erasmus University Rotterdam's open access data repository. In the last project year, access has been acquired to Norwegian register data to assess whether the health impact of lifecourse events in older age, e.g. spousal loss or later-life divorce, differ between older migrants and native Norwegians without a migration background.
As of July 2023, two articles based on research conducted as part of the project have been published in international peer-reviewed journals. Four more manuscripts based on project research (about, respectively, health selection into migration; trends (2003-2020) in later-life sports participation among five ethnic groups in the Netherlands; the contribution of parity to ethnic differences in mothers' body mass index; older migrants' projected demand for long-term care in the Netherlands) are under review at international peer-reviewed journals, and two manuscripts are in preparation.
I also presented project research at two academic conferences and co-organized a special session about ageing as a migrant in the Netherlands for the Dutch-Flemmish Sociology Day 2022 in Groningen and participated in and interdisciplinary research seminar on (ethnic differences in) the implications of divorce in Oslo. In May 2023, I gave an invited talk about the research conducted as part of the project at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
To generate impact beyond academia, I moreover co-authored a popular article based on project research for Geron, a non-academic outlet for policymakers and practitioners working with older people. Findings from the project were also used as input for lectures on, respectively, social determinants of health and older migrants that were delivered in Erasmus University Rotterdam's elective minor course Public Health.
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship also enabled me to further develop myself as a scholar. For example, I applied new techniques during the project and gained experience with data collection and data management. I also participated in multi-day courses on Q-methodology and the analysis of Dutch administrative data. I moreover received a tailored hands-on introduction to the analysis of Norwegian register data. I furthermore started the University Teaching Qualification trajectory. During the project, my personal development was monitored semi-annual progress review meetings with my supervisor at Erasmus University Rotterdam.