Current research interests 

• Debt, family and social reproduction
• The political economy of familistic welfare regimes
• Process tracing in social and public policy research
• Ageing, family and care in China
• South European Welfare Model

Areas of expertise

• Comparative Historical Research Methods
• Debt, Indebtedness and housing
• Households, families and social reproduction
• Familistic welfare regimes,
• Pensions reforms & governance of pension funds
• Political economy of welfare
• Power approaches to welfare

Supervision interests

I welcome doctoral students interested in undertaking research in the following areas: comparative welfare state and political economic of welfare;fa,ilistic welfare regimes and household debt in East Asia, Southeast Asia and Southern Europe;  pension policy analysis; governance of pension funds; labour mobility and rights; social policy in conflict areas.

PhD in Social and Policy Sciences (Awarded December 2009), Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, United Kingdom.

Phd Thesis: "From democratisation to marketisation: A comparative historical study of Swedish, German and British pension systems and funds" (Supervisors: T.Papadopoulos, E.K. Carmel and F.H.Longstreth).

Ptychion in Sociology (1999-2003), Department of Sociology, University of Crete, Greece.

Social Policy Association (UK)

East Asian Social Policy Research Network

European Social Policy Research Network

Before joining the School of Arts & Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, I was a Professor of Comparative Social Policy at the University of York where I also served as Head of Social Policy at the School for Business and Society. Before my promotion to Professor, I served as a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy and before joining the University of York (in 2012 as a Lecturer), I taught at the Department Social & Policy Sciences, at the University of Bath and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Nordic Centre of Excellent in Welfare Research (NORDwel) at the University of Helsinki.

I am currently serving as Co-Editor of the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy  (published by Cambridge University Press) and also served as a member of Social Policy & Society (also published by CUP). 

My research agenda is mainly focusing on the comparative political economic 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 own and collaboratively authored research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Social Policy, Critical Social Policy, International Labour Review, Social Policy & Society, Social Policy and Administration, Politics and the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy.