Professor Misa Izuhara
B.A., M.A.(UBC Canada), Ph.D.(Bristol)
Current positions
Professor of Social Policy
School for Policy Studies
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Biography
Misa Izuhara FAcSS is Professor of Social Policy at the School for Policy Studies, with the expertise of the analysis of the dynamic interactions between housing (wealth) and intergenerational relations, and their associations with inequalities across the life-course. She joined the University of Bristol in 1998 after completing an MA (planning) at the University of British Columbia, Canada and PhD at the University of Bristol. Her research projects include a number of ESRC-funded grants which have explored the role of housing and asset-based welfare including their significance for family dynamics, retirement possibilities and household decision-making. Misa’s research has frequently involved international and comparative research that examined policies and practices between the UK and Japan and across East Asian societies. She is the author of Housing, Care and Inheritance (Routledge, 2009), Housing in Post-Growth Society (Routledge, 2018), and the editor of A Research Agenda for East Asian Social Policy (Edward Elgar, 2023).
Misa is a member of the East Asian Social Policy Research Network (EASP) in which she was the President between 2016 and 2018. She is also the past Co-Editor of one of the leading international disciplinary journals, Journal of Social Policy (2014-18) and Policy & Politics (2005-08). She was awarded a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2022.
Misa is a member of the East Asian Social Policy Research Network (EASP) in which she was the President between 2016 and 2018. She is also the past Co-Editor of one of the leading international disciplinary journals, Journal of Social Policy (2014-18) and Policy & Politics (2005-08). She was awarded a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2022.
Research interests
Research projects
Completed
- Housing assets and inter-generational dynamics in East Asian societies (2010)
- A comparative study of women's material assets in Japan and Britain (2006)
- Care and inheritance in Britain and Japan: The younger generation’s perspective (2006)
- Survey of residential homes (2004)
- Monitoring and evaluation of the Choice Based Lettings Pilots (2003)
- Restructuring of the home ownership system: Japan-Great Britain comparison (2002)
- The generational contract between care and inheritance in Britain and Japan (2000)
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Critical Human Security and Public Policy Challenges in a Post-Covid World: UK and South Korea
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This ESRC funded project brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the UK and South Korea to contribute to the development of a body of knowledge, academic exchange and…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/02/2022 to 31/08/2023
Collaborative Housing Communities and Innovative Care Practice
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/03/2021 to 31/08/2023
Wealth, education and retirement trajectories in aged knowledge economies of Japan and the UK
Principal Investigator
Description
The process of retirement is becoming more complex and differentiated in terms of timing and resources. In many advanced economies, active ageing policies encourage older workers to remain in the…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
31/01/2019 to 30/09/2022
Re-defining the role of families in the marketised care systems: a comparative analysis in the UK and China
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Care systems are increasingly shaped by the growing market due to the rapidly ageing population and increasing care needs. Embedded convergences of the marketisation of care are prominent at the…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/11/2018 to 31/07/2019
The role of housing in sustainable youth transitions: UK Japan compared
Principal Investigator
Description
This is a research collaboration on the comparative analysis of young people’s transitions to adulthood. In post-growth Japanese society, the struggle of young people in making successful transitions to adulthood…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/05/2017 to 31/08/2017
Thesis supervisions
Housing poverty and housing choice
Supervisors
Home Care for Older People in Urban China
Supervisors
The implications of university rankings for Taiwan's higher education
Supervisors
Growing city, resettled people and contesting rights
Supervisors
Policy movement through the lens of postcolonial feminism, policy transfer, and policy translation
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
19/05/2022Collaborative Housing Communities through the COVID-19 Pandemic
Housing Studies
Inheritance and family conflicts
Families, Relationships and Societies
Reconceptualising co-residence in post-growth Japanese society
Contemporary Social Science
Housing in post-growth society
Housing in post-growth society
Emerging Adulthood Transitions in Japan
Asian Journal of Social Science
