上智大学 SDGs&サステナビリティ

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.

Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Materials and Life Sciences　Professor

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

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.

Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Materials and Life Sciences　Professor

Research Interests: Specializing in polymer chemistry and material chemistry, we are conducting research about organic-inorganic hybrid materials and functional polymers such as conducting polymers and biocompatible polymers for various applications.
In particular, we aim to apply them to the fields of light, energy, biotechnology, and the environment. Our motto is to design, synthesize, evaluate the resulting compounds, and conduct research with a firm image of the process to be applied.

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

Research Interests: My research field is environmental economics which employs economics analysis techniques to consider the causes of environmental problems and to explore effective countermeasures.
Especially, I have been working on the economic valuation of the environment. Economic valuation of the environment enables the estimation of the benefits of environmental protection and the costs of environmental destruction, therefore economic analysis such as cost-benefit analysis of environmental policies becomes possible.
Since solving environmental problems requires knowledge in various fields, I participate in interdisciplinary research projects composed of researchers from various fields and conduct joint research.

Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Materials and Life Sciences　Professor

Research Interests: The goal of our research includes development of environmental-benign organic synthetic reactions and reaction processes on the basis of organometallic chemistry and catalysis chemistry. We have been studying synthesis and reactivity of novel organometallic compounds, as well as their application for organic synthesis and polymerization catalysts. Our present study focuses on novel metal complexes and their immobilization onto thermoresponsive polymers to achieve highly functionalized transition metal catalysts.

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

Research Interests: My areas of research include 1) corporate environmental and energy strategy, 2) technology innovation and transfer of clean energy technologies (such as wind and solar power generation technologies), 3) inter-linkages between climate change and SDGs, 4) ESG investing, and 5) sustainable community development and sustainable tourism.
I am also interested in examining new sustainable business models that may bring both social benefits for society and profit for a company, which are sometimes discussed in the context of the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) and Creating Shared Values (CSVs) business models.

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.