Tauchid Komara Yuda is an Assistant Professor (full-time) in Social Policy at the Department of Social Development and Welfare, UGM, Indonesia. He is also a former visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Society and Health, Mahidol University, Thailand. 

Yuda achieved a Bachelor of Social Science (in social policy) at UGM in 2018, a Master of Development Policy (in social policy) at KDI School of Public Policy & Management, South Korea in 2020 and a PhD (in Social Policy) degree at Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR in 2024. 

Yuda specialises in the theory of institutions and integrates it into the research on social policy reform with particular reference to, but not limited to, Southeast and East Asian geographies. A principal arm of his study offers insights into critiques of welfare capitalism and the immovable policy landscape domination.

His peer-review articles are available in a range of leading international journals and publishing houses, including Social Policy & Administration (2021), Social Policy & Society (Cambridge University Press, 2023a, 2023b), International Journal of Social Welfare (2021), Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Journal of Asian Public Policy (2021, 2020, 2019),  International Social Work (2021), Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work & Development (2021, 2023), Public Administration & Development (2021), Political Studies Review (2023) etc. (Please click this link to view a complete list of journal publications). 

In addition, Yuda is the author of Social Policy in East Asia: Transforming Ideas and Approaches (in Bahasa, 2021, Yogyakarta: Kanisius Press) and contributed as one of the invited authors for the edited book series, for example, 'Path-creation: An alternative framework for studying social institutions' in Social Development and Welfare: Perspectives, Approaches, and Contemporary Issues, published by UGM Press in 2022 (In Bahasa, edited by Susetiawan., Bahruddin., & M. L. Pinem) and 'Comparing Social Policy Responses Between Separate Crises: Taking the Case of Indonesia' in The Covid-19 Pandemic: Problems Arising (edited by Christian Aspalter), launched by Springer Verlag (forthcoming).

Yuda is a co-founding editor of the Journal of Social Development Studies and served as an Editor-in-Chief for Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik (SCOPUS Q3), as well as an ad hoc reviewer for several international journals, such as the International Journal of Social Welfare, Journal of Asian Public Policy; Journal of Human Trafficking; Social Policy & Society; Policy & Society; etc.

Contact: tauchidkomarayuda@ugm.ac.id

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