{"id":36797,"date":"2021-08-10T21:53:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T21:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.science\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=36797"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:00:52","slug":"shirahase","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/council.science\/profile\/shirahase\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawako Shirahase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Involvement at the ISC<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ISC Vice-President for <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/about-us\/governance\/committees\/committee-for-finance\/\">Committee for Finance, Compliance &amp; Risk<\/a> (2022-2026)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/about-us\/governance\/committees\/committee-for-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ISC Standing Committee for Finance (2022-2025)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/about-us\/governance\/committees\/dues-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ISC Dues Working Group (2024)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ISC Foundation Fellow (June 2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member of the Steering Group of the <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/our-work\/social-science-matters\/\">ISC Social Science Matters Programme<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member of the ISC Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science (2019-2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sawako Shirahase previously held positions as a Junior Research Fellow at Columbia University, Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, and Assistant Professor at Tsukuba University, and Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo. She is now a Research Professor and the founding director of the Endowed Research Unit for Inclusive Global Future Studies at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo. She earned her D.Phil. degree in sociology from the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her primary research interests include social stratification and inequality, demographic change, gender and family dynamics, and social security systems, examined from cross-national perspectives. She currently leads a research initiative focused on building inclusive futures by addressing well-being across multiple levels\u2014ranging from countries and regions to communities and households. She has served as principal investigator on several large-scale, longitudinal research projects and has authored numerous books and academic articles on these topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2019 to 2021, Professor Shirahase was a member of the Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science (CFRS) of the International Science Council. 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