Teppo Kröger
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General description
Professor of Social and Public Policy at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of Jyväskylä.
Director of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare).
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Professor
Research interests
Teppo Kröger supervises doctoral theses that analyse social policies of ageing, care, disability, family and childhood. At the moment, he is supervising the following PhD students: Mari Aholainen, Tuulikki Alanko, Salla Era, Matti Kajaste, Youngbin Kwon, Liliya Martynova and Pauliina Puurtinen. His students have been awarded for the Best PhD Thesis of the University of Jyvaskylä (Helena Hirvonen, 2014) and the Best Master Thesis in Social Policy in Finland (Emilia Leinonen, 2014 and Mikko Myllymäki, 2020). Recent PhD theses finished under his supervision include those by Soili Vento, Jiby Mathew Puthenparambil, Tiina Sihto, Paula Vasara, Emilia Leinonen and Sher-E Khoda.
Teppo Kröger has evaluated the merits of applicants for Professor and Lecturer positions in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom and research proposals in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden and for the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grants) and the Open Research Area for the Social Sciences (ORA). He has been a pre-examiner and faculty opponent of PhD theses in universities in Finland, Sweden, Norway and New Zealand. He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Care and Caring and the Nordic Journal of Social Research and for book series of De Gruyter and Policy Press. He has been a referee for over 30 academic journals as well as for Palgrave Macmillan and Policy Press. Teppo Kröger is a member of the scientific committee of the Transforming Care Network (TCN) and, together with Nic Brimblecombe from the LSE, he co-ordinates the 'Unmet Needs, Inequalities and Care Poverty' (UNICAP) research network. He is a regularly invited speaker in national and international conferences and seminars and an expert consulted frequently by policy-makers and the media.
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
Personal keywords
care, social care, long-term care, social policy, ageing, older people, disability, comparative research, care poverty, welfare municipality, demographic panic, dedomestication, weak universalism
Projects as Principal investigator
- Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care
- Research Council of Finland
- Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care
- Research Council of Finland
- Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care
- Research Council of Finland
- Linked Ageing: Interdependencies in Housing and Care in the Course of Later Life (LinkAge)
- Research Council of Finland
- ASUVA - Asumisen uudet vaihtoehdot ja hyvä vanhuus
- Prime Minister's Office
- NORDCARE2, Åldrande och hälsa: Individanpassad omsorg och generell välfärd: dilemman i marknadiseringerns tid
- Stockholm University
Projects as Team Member
- Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care
- Taipale, Sakari
- Research Council of Finland
- Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care
- Taipale, Sakari
- Research Council of Finland
- Remembering migration: Memory politics of forced migration in mediated societies
- Horsti, Karina
- Research Council of Finland