My research centers around social and policy analysis of care, welfare, intergenerational relations, ineqaulities and gender. My work advances research and teaching on 1) sociological and policy analysis of care and 2) de-centralise the Euro-American approach to knowledge production. My research has contributed to designing a society centred around care for building a just and sustainable society and economy. My work has enhanced the understanding of how people’s engagement with care is shaped and shaping policy practices, intimate relationships and social inequalities, locally, nationally and globally. My research was instrumental for policy makers, carers and community organisations in establishing empirical evidence to enhance the recognition of multigenerational care and to lead policy changes in Japan. I have long-standing international collaboration with community organisations and local and national authorities to co-produce research and disseminate the knowledge to a wider public. I am co-founder of East Asian Social Research Policy Network and co-editor of East Asian Gender Studies; both contribute to the critical analysis of Euro-American-centred knowledge production, and my teaching is unique as it reflects such contribution of my research.

My recent research includes an international collaborative project on ‘Dual Responsibility of Care in East Asia’. The team consisted of scholars from Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and the OECD. I was Co-I and this project was funded by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (£96k for 2016-19, £92k for 2012-2015, 2016-2019). I also successfully completed a project 'Experiments in Collective Care’ funded by Brigstow Institute in 2019 (with Dr. Maud Perrier, SPAIS and Alice Tatton-Brown, artist). This was an interdisciplinary project, a collaboration with a local artist, bringing together art, archival research and public engagement through a public exhibition on collective care.