Dr Antonios Roumpakis

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

Chair of the Board of Studies
Member of Social Policy & Society Editorial Board
Member of Social Policy Association Executive Committee

Teaching

Teaching

My main teaching is on the following modules:

• Comparative Social Policy;
• Comparative research methods;
• Historical approaches to welfare;
• Political economy of welfare

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

Dimitrina Ivanova (2021 - now)
Jieun Lee (awarded)
Hyungyung Moon (awarded)
Gregory Neocleous (awarded)
Dongyoung Sohn (2019 - now)
Jiaxin Liu (2018 - now)
Shimeng Yin (2017 - now)
Xinide (2018 - now)

Publications

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Professional Activities

Professional Activities

Co-editor of  the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy (from January 2023)
Honorary Treasurer of the Social Policy Association

Supervision Interests 

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.