Profile Information

Affiliation
Professor, Faculty of Human and Social Studies Department of International Social Studies, Keisen University
Degree
Filosofian tohtori (Doctor of Philosophy)(Oct, 1995, The University of Tampere, Finland)

J-GLOBAL ID
200901020135183953
researchmap Member ID
6000001969

TAKAHASHI Mutsuko is:
Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, Keisen University, Japan

After graduated from the University of Foreign Studies, she worked at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1986 to 1990. Shifting her career from diplomat to researcher, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Tampere, Finland in 1995. Currently her main research interests are risks and social justice, ethics in social policy concerning domestic violence and custody issues, and comparative studies of welfare state models. Her recent publications in English include "Risk and Public Policy in East Asia" (co-authors: Raymond K.H. Chan & Lillian Lih-rong Wang), Ashgate 2010, ‘The intimate risk as challenge to welfare state – precarious family and human relationships in Japanese risk society’ (Journal of Asian Public Policy, 2009, 2(3)), and ‘Challenges in Nordic childcare policies: with special reference to Finland’ ( Journal of Comparative Economic Studies,2008, 4).
Specialties

welfare policy, child attachment and custody issues in relation to IPV (intimate partner violence)


Papers

  47

Misc.

  21

Books and Other Publications

  25

Presentations

  29

Teaching Experience

  25

Research Projects

  18

Academic Activities

  1

Social Activities

  1