Dr Nao Kodate
Dr Nao Kodate joined PSSQ as a Research Associate for the Risk Programme in April 2008. He holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the London School of Economics (LSE). His doctoral thesis investigates the mechanisms of policy change in the hospital sector in three countries (England, Sweden and Japan).
Before joining the Department he was a researcher at the Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo (European Politics), and has taught Comparative Public Administration and other subjects at LSE and the University of Potsdam. His research interests include comparative public policy (health reforms in advanced industrial economies); risk and regulation in the hospital sector, politics of the welfare state; impact of party politics on social policy in Europe and Japan.
Selected publications:
Cantelli, F., Kodate, N. and Krieger, K. (2010) Questioning world risk society: Three challenges for research on the governance of uncertainty, Global Policy, online exclusives, May 2010.
Kodate, N. (2010) Events, public discourses and responsive government: Quality assurance in health care in England, Sweden and Japan, Journal of Public Policy, 30, 3, 263-289.
Kodate, N., Kodate, K. and Kodate, T. (2010) Mission completed? Changing visibility of women's colleges in England and Japan and their roles in promoting gender equality in science, Minerva, 48, 3, 309-330.
Kodate, N. and Ogawa, K. (2010) ‘Politics in the UK’, Shimokusu, M. (ed.) An Introduction to British Culture Tokyo: Sanshusha Publishing Co. Ltd. (Japanese).
Kodate, N. (2009) Institutional adaptation in risk regulation in the health sector in England and Japan. SCARR Conference 2009 “Managing the Social Impacts of Change from a Risk Perspective”, 15-17 April 2009 (awarded £750 funding from Research Councils UK to present the paper), Beijing, China.
Kodate, N. (2010) National patterns of risk regulation in the health sector in England and Japan: Crises, public discourses and responsive government. European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, 22-27 March 2010, Münster, Germany.
Kodate, N. (2010) Quality management in healthcare and the role of government in England, Sweden and Japan: transparency, innovation and ranking. Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 29 March – 1 April 2010, Edinburgh.
Kodate, N., Anderson, J. and Dodds, A. (2010) Patient safety as a science of ‘muddling through’? Incident reporting systems and organizational learning – towards more effective use of incident data. Organisational Behaviour in Health Care Conference, 11-14 April 2010, Birmingham.
Kodate, N., Anderson, J. and Dodds, A. (2009) Using incident data to improve patient safety. Risk & Patient Safety 2010 Conference, 26 November 2010, London.
