Biography
Dr Antonios Roumpakis is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Dr Antonios Roumpakis joined the Hong Kong Metropolitan University in February 2026.
Dr Antonios Roumpakis was previously appointed as Professor of Comparative Social Policy and served as Head of Social Policy (2022-2025) at the School for Business and Society, University of York. He has also been elected as a member of the Social Policy Association Executive Board (2018-2025) where, among other roles, he served as Treasurer (2022-2025). Since 2022, he also serves as a co-editor of the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy (Cambridge University Press).
Dr Antonios Roumpakis has published in top ranked peer-reviewing journals (e.g. Journal of Social Policy, Critical Social Policy, International Labour Review, Politics, Journal of Comparative and International Social Policy, Social Policy & Society, Social Policy & Administration). Dr Antonios Roumpakis has also published book chapters with reputable publishers and internationally prominent edited volumes (Edgar Elgar, Policy Press, Ashgate). He has supervised numerous PhD students to completion, co-organised national and international conferences and has presented his research in regional and international fora.
Teaching Areas & Research Interests
- Comparative historical research methods
- Debt, indebtedness and housing
- Households, families and social reproduction
- Political economy of welfare
- Pension reforms & governance of pension funds
- Power approaches to welfare
- Familistic welfare regimes
Academic & Professional Experience
Professor of Comparative Social Policy, University of York, October 2025 - September 2026.
Head of Social Policy, School for Business and Society, September 2022 - August 2025.
Treasurer of Social Policy Association, July 2022 - July 2025.
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Comparative Social Policy, Dept. of Social Policy & Social Work, University of York, 2019 - 2024.
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Comparative Social Policy, Dept. of Social Policy & Social Work, University of York, 2012 - 2019.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Nordic Centre of Excellence for Welfare Research (NORDwel), Faculty of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland, September 2010 - June 2011 (full-time).
Teaching Fellow in Social Policy, Dept. of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath, September 2008 - July 2010 (full-time).
Research Fellow at the Centre for Death & Dying, University of Bath, 2007-2008 (part-time).
Research Fellow at the European Research Institute, University of Bath, 2005-2007 (part-time).
Selected Publications
Book Chapters
- Roumpakis, A., Wenham, A. and Smith, K. (forthcoming) 'Putting together a jigsaw puzzle? Family, emotional support and youth transitions', in Köppe, S., Parma, A. and Sojka, B. Social Policy Review 37: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2025, Bristol University Press.
- Moon, H. & Roumpakis, A. (2024) 'Within-Case and Process Tracing Analysis: Reviewing challenges and opportunities for social policy research', in Greve, B, Van Gerven, M. and Moreira, A (eds.) Handbook of the Political Economy of Social Policy, Edward Elgar.
- Papadopoulos, T. & Roumpakis, A. (2020) 'Southern Europe', in Ellison, N. and Haux, T. (eds.) Handbook of Society and Social Policy, Edward Elgar, pp. 182-195.
- Papadopoulos, T. & Roumpakis, A. (2019) 'Family as a Socio-economic Actor in the Political Economy of Welfare', in Heins E., Rees J. and Needham C. (eds.) Social Policy Review No 31, Bristol: Policy Press, pp 243-66.
- Papadopoulos, T. & Roumpakis, A. (2015) 'Democracy, Austerity and Crisis : Southern Europe and the decline of the European Social model' in Romano, S. and Punziano, G. (eds.) The European Social Model Adrift : Europe, Social Cohesion and the Economic Crisis, Routledge, pp. 189-212.
- Papadopoulos,T. & Roumpakis A. (2012), 'The Greek welfare state in the age of austerity: anti-social policy and the politico-economic crisis', in Kilkey, M., Ramia, G., & Farnsworth, K. (Eds.), Social Policy Review (Vol. 24, pp. 205–230). Bristol: Policy Press
- Papadopoulos, T. & Roumpakis, A. (2012) 'Contingency in risk management: the case of pension funds in Sweden and Finland' in Sorsa, V-P. (ed.) Rethinking social risks in the Nordics, Brussels: Foundation for European Progressive Studies, pp. 169-198.
Journal Articles
- Mumtaz, Z., Roumpakis, A. and Sumarto, M. (2025) 'Overcoming hybridisation in global welfare regime classifications: Lessons from a single case study', Journal of Social Policy, 54 (4): 1113-1133.
- Kühner, S., Hong, I., Ketola, M. & Roumpakis, A. (2023) Editors' Introduction: Ten years of the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy (2013-2022)—Taking Stock and Charting A Route Forward, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 39(1):1-12.
- Moreira, A, Roumpakis, A., Coda Moscarola, F. and Cantó, O. (2023) 'Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Southern Europe', Social Policy & Society, 23(1):224-239.
- Ferrero, J.P, Miranda, R.I.C. and Roumpakis, A. (2022) 'Transitions and Non-Transitions from Neoliberalism in Latin America and Southern Europe', Politics, 42(4), 524–539.
- Roumpakis, A. & N. Pleace (2021) 'Preventing Family Homelessness: Evidence from Service Provision in Greece', Social Policy (Greek Journal of), Special Issue on Social Policy and Housing Inequalities in a Landscape of Multiple Crises, 14, 129-148.
- Moreira, A, Léon, M, Coda Moscarola, F. & Roumpakis, A. (2021) In the eye of the storm… again! Social policy responses to COVID19 in Southern Europe, Social Policy & Administration, 55 (2), p.339-357.
- Roumpakis, A. (2020), Revisiting Global Welfare Regimes: Gender, (In)formal Employment and Care, Social Policy & Society, Vol 19 (4), 677-689.
- Roumpakis, A. (2020), Review article: Revisiting global welfare regime classifications, Social Policy & Society, Vol 19 (4), 589-612.
- Papadopoulos, T. & Roumpakis, A. (2018) 'Rattling Europe's ordoliberal 'iron cage': the contestation of austerity in Southern Europe', Critical Social Policy, 38 (3), 505-526.
- Papadopoulos, T. & Roumpakis, A. (2017) The Erosion of Southern Europe's Middle Classes: Debt, insecurity and the political economy of austerity, Sociologia e politiche sociali [The Italian Journal of Sociology and Social Policy], 20,2, 67-86.
- Papadopoulos T. & Roumpakis, A. (2017) Family as a Socio-economic Actor in the Political Economies of East and South-East Asian Welfare Capitalisms, Social Policy and Administration. 51, 6, 857-875.
- Papadopoulos, T. & Roumpakis, A. (2013) The meta-regulation of European industrial relations: Power shifts, institutional dynamics and the emergence of regulatory competition among Member States, International Labour Review, 152, 2, 255-274.
- Papadopoulos, T. & Roumpakis, A. (2013) Familistic welfare capitalism in crisis: social reproduction and anti-social policy in Greece, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 29, 3, 204-224.
Selected Professional & Community Services
- Head of Social Policy, School for Business and Society, University of York (2022-2025)
- Chair of the Board of Studies, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York (2020-2022)
- Director of Postgraduate Taught (Campus) Programmes, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York (2015-2020)
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