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Yusuke KAKITA's Laboratory


Updated: 12th July 2010



AFFILIATION:
      Graduate School of Social Service Administration, Oita University
      Dannoharu 700, Oita-shi, 870-1192, JAPAN


PERSONAL:
      Year of birth:   1976
      Place of birth:  Osaka prefecture, Japan
      Nationality:    Japanese


EDUCATION:
      Ph. D. Social Welfare, Osaka Prefecture University, 2010
      M. S. Social Welfare, Osaka Prefecture University, 2001
      B. A. Literature, Doshisha University, 1998


EMPLOYMENT:
      2004-  Assistant Professor,
           Graduate School of Social Service Administration, Oita University
      2007-  Associate Professor,
           Graduate School of Social Service Administration, Oita University


MAJORS:
      Wefare policy
      Poverty and social exclusion


SUBJECTS OF RESEARCH:
      Field research on the homelessness and support system in Japan
      Political economy of welfare policy and poverty


PUBLICATIONS (Listed ONLY papers written in English):
     ◆ Yusuke Kakita and Toshiko Yoshinaka, 2004,
      ‘General Characteristics of Rough Sleepers through the "National Survey
       of Homeless People in Japan"’
      in Oita University Economic Review, No.56, Vol.2, pp.68-92.
      → Download (PDF file)

     ◆ Yusuke Kakita, 2004,
      ‘Homeless People in Japan: Characteristics, Processes and Policy Responses’
      in The Annuals of Sociological Association, Osaka City University, No.5,
      Special Issue:‘Controversy on Homeless People in Japan’, pp.7-20.
      → Download (PDF file)


CONFERENCE PAPERS (Listed ONLY papers presented in English):
     ◆ Yusuke Kakita and Toshiko Yoshinaka,
      ‘General Characteristics of Rough Sleepers through the "National Survey
       of Homeless People in Japan"’
      The Third East Asian Regional Conference of Alternative Geography,
      Tokyo, Japan, August 2003
      → Download (Abstract in PDF file)

     ◆ Yusuke Kakita,
      ‘Rough Sleepers in Japan: Characteristics, Processes and Policy Responses’
      The Eighth Asian Studies Conference in Japan, Tokyo, Japan, June 2004
      → Download (Abstract in PDF file)


FUNDED RESEARCH:
     ◆ Studies about the theory of poverty and social exclusion on homelessness,
      and the conditions of social inclusion,
      Research fund of Japan Academy for the Promotion of Science, 2005-07.

     ◆ Studies about the homelessness in the local city
      Research fund of Japan Academy for the Promotion of Science, 2008-10.


ACADEMIC SOCIETIES (only in Japanese):
      1999-  Society for the Study of Social Policy
            → Web site only in Japanese
      1999-  Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare
            → Web site only in Japanese




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