Profile
Areas of expertise
- Comparative historical research methods
- Debt, indebtedness and housing
- Households, families and social reproduction
- Familistic welfare regimes
- Pension reforms & governance of pension funds
- Political economy of welfare
- Power approaches to welfare
Academic biography
Before joining the University of York in 2012, I taught at the Department of Social & Policy Sciences (University of Bath) and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Nordic Centre of Excellence in Welfare Research (NORDwel) at the University of Helsinki. My research agenda, that is mainly focusing on the comparative political economy of welfare, transcends policy areas and brings together work from housing, pensions, family policy, labour relations, regulation and governance of welfare, including informal work, care and private indebtedness. My research has been published in journals such as Critical Social Policy, International Labour Review, Journal of Comparative and International Social Policy, Social Policy and Administration and Social Policy and Society.
Professional activities
Member of Social Policy & Society Editorial Board
Member of Social Policy Association Executive Committee
Research
Research
Associate Fellow of Social Policy East Asia Exchange (SPEAX), Centre for Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy (CRCG).
Current research interests:
Comparative and International social policy
Employment and pension policy
Family, market and state Informal welfare regimes (China, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia)
Public Service Markets Welfare responses to austerity, covid and inflation
Current Research and Scholarship projects (funded)
Geographies of exclusion and inclusion: A comparative investigation of families' abilities to provide emotional support to young people
Social Welfare for Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia: People, Processes and Institutions (funded by British Academy)
Research team members
Associate Fellow of Social Policy East Asia Exchange (SPEAX), Centre for Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy (CRCG).
Research labels
Social research methods
Comparative and International social policy
Family, market and state
Employment and pension policy
PhD supervision interests
Comparative welfare states and political economy of welfare; Pension policy analysis; Labour mobility and rights; Especially welcome interests in: comparative historical (& institutionalism) analysis; governance of pension funds; power approaches to welfare; familistic welfare regimes and household debt in East Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe.
PhD students
Thanakorn Sayut (2024 - now)
Wittayarrath (Pok) Puang-Ngam (2024 - now)
Dimitrina Ivanova (2021 - now) - A comparative exploration of family policy among Central Eastern European countries
Dongyoung Sohn (2019 - now) - Business’s Policy Preference and Influence in the Time of Welfare State Expansion: Focusing on Chaebol Firms and the Korean Welfare State
Xinide (awarded) - Examining the role of the family in China: both as a welfare provider and economic actor
Jiaxin Liu (awarded) - Old-age pensions and family support in China: Bridging the two levels of intergenerational relationship
Shimeng Yin (awarded) - Inequality in China’s current pension system: analyzing urban-rural difference and the gender gap
Jieun Lee (awarded) - The Trends of Pension Reform Strategies in the OECD (awarded)
Hyungyung Moon (awarded) - Explaining institutional change of the welfare state in Korea
Gregory Neocleous (awarded) - The Evolution of Social Insurance for Cyprus, 1878-2004 with a particular reference to Older People
