Professor Misa Izuhara

B.A., M.A.(UBC Canada), Ph.D.(Bristol)

  • BS8 1TZ

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Research interests

Misa Izuhara FAcSS is Professor of Social Policy at the School for Policy Studies, the University of Bristol, UK. She has been undertaking research extensively, both nationally and internationally, in the areas of housing and social change, ageing and intergenerational relations, and comparative policy analysis. Her expertise is of the analysis of the dynamic interactions between housing (wealth) and intergenerational relations, and their associations with inequalities across the life-course. 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 UK and Japan and across East Asia.

She is the author of Housing in the Post-Growth Society (Routledge, 2018) and the Editor of Research Agenda on East Asian Social Policy (Edward Elgar, 2023). Misa is also the past Co-Editor of the international journal, Journal of Social Policy (2015-19).

Research Groups and Themes

  • Ageing Futures
  • Urban Research Cluster

Keywords

  • Social Policy
  • Housing
  • Housing wealth
  • Intergenerational relationships
  • intergenerational transmissions & transfers
  • Ageing and The Life Course
  • Demographic change
  • Care
  • Comparative policy analysis
  • East Asia

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