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Professor Antonios Roumpakis is a faculty member at the University of York in the School for Business and Society. His research focuses on the comparative political economy of welfare, with specific interests in debt and social reproduction, familistic welfare regimes, pension governance, and welfare responses to crises (austerity, pandemics, inflation). He has supervised PhD students on topics spanning Central Eastern Europe, Korea, China, and Cyprus.
- Education: PhD in Social and Policy Sciences from the University of Bath (2009), Ptychion in Sociology from the University of Crete (2003).
- Employment: Professor at York (2019–present), previously Senior Lecturer (2012–2019), Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki (2010–2011), and Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath (2008–2010).
Research Themes include familistic welfare regimes, governance of pension funds, power approaches to welfare, and household debt in East/Southeast Asia and Europe. Recent projects examine geographies of exclusion, welfare sustainability in Southeast Asia, and family as socio-economic actors. His work bridges comparative historical institutionalism and informal welfare dynamics.
Scientific Awards include: a competitive Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Helsinki (2010–2011), Election to the Social Policy Association Executive Board (2017), and Elected Treasurer of the Social Policy Association (2022).
