CAROLA HOMMERICHCAROLA HOMMERICH

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology　Professor

Research Interests

Carola Hommerich is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Human Sciences, and a core faculty member of the Sophia Program for Sustainable Futures (SPSF). Her research interest centres on the interrelation of social and subjective well-being. She specifically analyses how experiences of precarity, status anxiety and social exclusion relate to subjective well-being, and how different types of social capital mediate this relationship. Analysing Japanese society in comparative perspective, she has been working with different conceptualisations of well-being, utilizing standard measures of well-being as well as culture specific measures. Recently, she is also working on attitudes towards climate change, with a specific interest in how environmental attitudes and perceptions of individual efficacy translate into pro-environmental behaviour.

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Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology　Professor

Huang Guangwei / 黄　光偉 Huang Guangwei

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies　Professor

Research Interests

Specialized in watershed environmental science and sustainability studies. Sustainability has three pillars: the environment, economy, and society, and water is a nexus connecting the three pillars. Better water quantity and quality management is an indispensable key for achieving SDGs. Following this way of thinking, I have been conducting sustainability studies through the lens of water and using knowledge fusion approaches.
Research undertakings include wetland health monitoring, assessment and prediction; urban flood risk analysis and reduction; innovative water resources management and water culture as well.
My motto is that environmental problems cannot be truly solved without crossing various boundaries from academic, business to national. The journey towards SDFs requires a shift from interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary.

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Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies　Professor

Togawa Taku / 外川　拓Togawa Taku

Faculty of Economics, Department of Management　Associate Professor

Research Interests

Taku Togawa received his Ph.D. in Marketing from Waseda University in 2018. He mainly conducts experimental studies in the area of consumer behavior. Specifically, his research focuses on how and when sensory inputs from marketing tools, including advertising, packaging, and in-store environments, influence consumers' perceptions, evaluations, and consumption behavior.
Dr. Togawa's research has appeared in top-tier journals such as the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Retailing, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, Motivation Science, and Food Quality and Preference. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing & Distribution, JSMD Review, and Japan Marketing Journal.
Dr. Togawa joined Sophia University, Department of Management as an Associate Professor in April 2020. He currently teaches marketing courses at the undergraduate program and supervises graduate student research.

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Faculty of Economics, Department of Management　Associate Professor

Takaoka Eiko / 高岡 詠子　Takaoka Eiko

Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Information and Communication Sciences　Professor

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Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Information and Communication Sciences　Professor

Arai Noriko / 新井 範子Arai Noriko

Faculty of Economics, Department of Management　Professor

Research Interests

My research focuses on value co-creation marketing, in which value is created through relationships with consumers. In recent years, I have been working on purpose-driven marketing, in which companies form brands and build communities/markets by aiming to solve social issues.
I am also researching mechanisms to generate synergy between business and social contribution and shopping spaces that are easy for the elderly and disabled to shop in.

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Faculty of Economics, Department of Management　Professor

Hosoki Ralph Ittonen / 細木 一十稔 ラルフHosoki Ralph Ittonen

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology　Assistant Professor

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Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology　Assistant Professor

MITSUTAKE Tomomi / 光武 智美MITSUTAKE Tomomi

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Nursing　Assistant Professor

Research Interests

I wish for society to be a place where all children born would be raised with great care. In the past, when it was common for babies to be born at home, the process of a child’s birth and development was part of everyday home life, something close and familiar. It was an opportunity to experience and learn about “life” and “lifestyles” intimately.
I am conducting research on gradually incorporating learning related to “life” and “lifestyles” into the educational settings of elementary school students, junior high school students, high school students, and adolescents. This research would aid in the development of a mindset of caring for oneself and one’s surroundings as well as encouraging self-care and decision-making behavior toward the protection of mental and physical health among the present-day children, who have not had many direct experiences yet.

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Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Nursing　Assistant Professor

Saito Atsuko / 齋藤 慈子Saito Atsuko

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Psychology　Associate Professor

Research Interests

Atsuko Saito specializes in developmental psychology, evolutionary psychology, and comparative cognitive science.
Her research focuses on the relationship between humans and cats as companion animals, and human parenting from the perspective of humans as an animal species. Humans are a species of mammals and primates, but unlike the majority in these taxonomic groups, we are not capable of raising children by mothers alone. However, in Japan today, the burden of child-rearing is disproportionately placed on the mother/parent. She considers what can be done to achieve child-rearing within society.

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Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Psychology　Associate Professor

Takashi OKADA / 岡田　隆Takashi OKADA

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Psychology　Professor

Research Interests

Takashi OKADA has engaged in research of physiological psychology, especially with electrophysiological techniques using animal brain preparations and animal behavior analysis. Focusing on the importance of synaptic transmission by glutamate, which is one of the major transmitters in the central nervous system, we have studied the roles of glutamatergic transmission and regulation in psychological functions from various aspects.
In recent years, we have been particularly focusing on the biological bases of memory such as the elucidation of substances that regulate long-term potentiation of hippocampal synaptic efficacy and their mechanisms, and the regulatory mechanisms for diurnal variation of animal memory task performance.

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Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Psychology　Professor

Hirao Keiko / 平尾 桂子Hirao Keiko

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies　Professor

Research Interests

Dr. Keiko Hirao is a Professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies. Her research interest includes social sustainability, the construction of environmental issues, intergenerational relations, and gender and environment.
She is the author of Child Rearing War Front (Chobunsha 1991), chapters in Women's Working Lives in East Asia (Stanford University Press 2001), Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility (Stanford University Press, 2006), Working and Mothering: Images, Ideologies, and Identities (NIAS Press,2007).
Her recent book, Invisible Hands and Invisible Heart (Sophia University Press 2015), discusses the structural undervaluation of care work vis-à-vis pecuniary activities. She also co-authored Families, Family Policies, and Sustainable Development Goals (UNICEF 2019), a policy tool that evaluates family policies worldwide across the six Sustainable Development Goals.

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Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies　Professor