Research Activities
Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University
Yumika Shirase graduated from Hitotsubashi University with bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Social Sciences. She also studied social policy and social work at the University of Birmingham in the UK, which motivated her to explore the development of health and social care policy in the UK and Japan. After she earned a Doctor of Social Sciences degree at Hitotsubashi University in 2006, she started working for the Health Care Science Institute. From 2007 to 2009 she was a lecturer of social policy at Faculty of Policy Studies, Doshisha University, and then became a researcher at the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in 2009. She served at Hitotsubashi University as an Associate Professor from 2015 to 2017 and took up her current post in April 2017. Her research interests are the delivery of health and social care services, quality of care, and inter-professional collaboration.
2018-2023 | Exploring inclusive social care services based on lifestyle structure in the community <Link to KAKEN DB> |
2015-2017 | Theoretical and Empirical Study on the Living Condition of Older People and Desired Quality of Home Care <Link to KAKEN DB> |
2012-2014 | The Development of Community-based Support Services for Older People – Comparative Study between the UK and Japan <Link to KAKEN DB> |
2008-2011 | The Transformation of Regionalism and Inter-sectional Collaboration in the British Health Care System <Link to KAKEN DB> |