Professor Roger Goodman BA (Durham), DPhil (Oxon) is Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, and Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College. He lectures on contemporary Japanese society, welfare and education and anthropological theory.  He is the author of Japan's International Youth: The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren (1990), Kikokushijo (1993 in Japanese), Children of the Japanese State: The Changing Role of Child Protection Institutions in Contemporary Japan (2000) and Nihon no Jidōyōgo: Jidōyōgogaku e no Shōtai (2006 in Japanese). He is an editor and author in Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan (1992); Case Studies on Human Rights in Japan (1996); The East Asian Welfare Model: Welfare Orientalism and the State (1998); Family and Social Policy in Japan (2002); Can the Japanese Change their Education System? (2002); Global Japan: The Experience of Japan's New Immigrant and Overseas Communities (2003), The 'Big Bang' in Japanese Higher Education: The 2004 Reforms and the Dynamics of Change (2005) Ageing in Asia: Asia's Position in the New Global Demography (2007), A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs (2011) and Higher Education and the State: Changing Relationships in Europe and East Asia (2012) among other titles.  

Professor Goodman was University Assessor 1997/98; Acting Warden 2006/7 and has been Head of the Social Sciences Division since 1 April 2008.

Email: roger.goodman@sant.ox.ac.uk