Ito Peng

Director

University of Toronto

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Ito Peng is the Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the Department of Sociology and the School of Public Policy and Governance, and the Director of the Centre for Global Social Policy. She teaches political sociology and comparative public policy, specializing in family and gender policies and comparative welfare states. She has written extensively on gender, labour market, and political economy of social policy reforms in East Asia.

Professor Peng is the Project Director for the Care Economies in Context project, and was previously the Project Director for the Gender, Migration and the Work of Care project. She is also a co-principal investigator with Otgontugs Banzragc invstigating the care economy in Mongolia, and is collaborating with Monica Alexander on a project investigating the position of unregulated nannies in the Canadian childcare landscape. She is starting a project exploring the intersections of care and climate change.

In 2022, she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2023 she received the President’s Impact Award and the Carolyn Tuohy Impact on Public Policy Award at the University of Toronto. These awards recognize her contributions to various policy communities, particularly in placing care work on the policy agenda in Canada and elsewhere.

Current Projects

Inequality in Childcare: The Case of Nannies

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Investing in Inclusive and Sustainable Care: A Macroeconomic Approach to Understanding Care in Mongolia

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Affiliated Outputs

Academic Books and Articles Journal Articles

Mental and Physical Wellbeing of Carer–Employees in Canada

4 December 2024

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Academic Books and Articles Book Chapters

The Role of Religion for the Development of Work-Family Policies: The Example of Confucianism

18 September 2024

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Academic Books and Articles Book Chapters

COVID-19, Global Care, and Migration

18 September 2024

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Journal Articles

Care as an Intersectional Point to Analyze Socio-Economy

18 September 2024

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Research Findings Presentations

Childcare in Canada: An exploration of progress and gaps in access and quality

24 July 2024

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Research Findings Student Work Presentations

“When they found her on the side of the road”: Family caregiver decision-making and care responsibilities on dementia care

24 July 2024

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Research Findings Student Work Presentations

Defining care moments: unequal rebounding from crises for family senior caregivers

24 July 2024

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Project Profiles

Resolving Data Challenges to Understand Unregulated Childcare in Canada

11 March 2024

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Think Pieces Student Work

The Climate-Care Nexus: Compounded Problems and Interconnected Solutions 

7 March 2024

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Reports

17 Rooms 2023 Report: Forging Next Steps

20 December 2023

Project Profiles

Investing in Inclusive and Sustainable Care: A Macroeconomic Approach to Understanding Care in Mongolia

5 October 2023

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Facts and Context Project Profiles

Country Profile: Care Economy in Canada

10 March 2023

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Academic Books and Articles

Impacts of COVID-19 on Parents with Small Children in South Korea

15 January 2022

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Essays Policy Briefs

Canada would be better served by Long-Term Care Insurance

20 May 2021

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Think Pieces

Think Piece: “Systemic Resilience and Carework: An Asia-Pacific Perspective”

12 April 2021

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Essays

COVID-19 is testing the norm: gender dynamics and care in the midst of the pandemic

27 April 2020

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Project Profiles Research Findings

Theoretical and Empirical Bases for Reconceptualizing Care, Work, and Migration

23 February 2016

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Related News

Announcements Conferences

Conference materials from “Korea’s Demographic Crisis and Care Economy: Gender, Migration, Digital, and Community” available online

20 November 2024

Announcements Conferences

Care Economies in Context Canada Team Gathers in Toronto

19 November 2024

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Recording of “Care and Climate Change: A Conceptual Framework” is now live

6 November 2024

Events

Asia Region Teams for Care Economies in Context Project meet in Korea

5 November 2024

Announcements

Congratulations to Eugene Emeka Dim on his convocation

30 October 2024

Media Coverage Researcher Interviews

Beyond the Headlines Podcast: Ito Peng speaks on the Care Economy

8 April 2024

Media Coverage Events Researcher Interviews

Massey Dialogue hosts Ito Peng in talk re Care and Climate Change

7 March 2024

Media Coverage Researcher Interviews

Professor Ito Peng on the Borders and Belonging Podcast: Is Japan Turning into a Migration State?

14 February 2024

Media Coverage Student News

“Not feeling isolated (and) feeling like you belong in society is the most important thing when you are aging.”

18 December 2023

Events

Webinar: Demographic and the Aging

13 November 2023

Media Coverage

‘Care is a lifelong engagement’: Faculty of Arts and Science profiles Professor Ito Peng’s research.

4 May 2023

Awards

Congratulations to Professor Ito Peng, recipient of a University of Toronto President’s Impact Award  and the Carolyn Tuohy Impact on Public Policy Award!

13 March 2023

Awards Announcements

Ito Peng is named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

6 September 2022

Media Coverage

Hear Ito Peng on the Healthy Cities in the SDG Era podcast

25 May 2022

Media Coverage

Dr. Ito Peng Interviewed on the BBC

13 September 2021

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Media Coverage Announcements

Dr. Ito Peng Interviewed by the Faculty of Arts & Science

24 August 2021

Announcements

Read Dr. Ito Peng at Policy Options

20 May 2021

Announcements

Article: Women Moving the World Forward (featuring Ito Peng)

10 May 2017