About Tauchid Komara Yuda
Tauchid Komara Yuda is an Assistant Professor (full-time) in Social Policy at the Department of Social Development and Welfare, UGM, Indonesia and concurrently R&D director at Wiralembaga Indonesia Policy Consultant Ltd. 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 and a master of development policy (in social policy) at KDI School of Public Policy & Management, South Korea in 2020. He is currently pursuing a PhD (in Social Policy) degree at Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR.
Yuda specialises in the theory of institutions and integrates it into research on social policy reform, welfare regime changes and contemporary social innovation dynamics (social enterpreneurship, Anthropocene risk management, and artificial/institutionalised institution) with particular reference to Southeast and East Asian geographies. A principal aspect of his study offers insights into critiques of welfare capitalism and the domination of an immovable policy landscape.
His peer-reviewed articles are available in a range of leading international journals and publishing houses, including Social Policy & Administration (2021, 2023a, 2023b), 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 (2023, 2021, 2020, 2019), International Social Work (2021), Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work & Development (2021, 2023), Public Administration & Development (2021), 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, among others, ‘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.
Yuda is a co-founding editor of the Journal of Social Development Studies and served as an associate editor for Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik(SCOPUS Q3), as well as an ad hoc reviewer for several international journals, such as the Social Policy & Society; International Journal of Social Welfare; Journal of Asian Public Policy; Journal of Human Trafficking; Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences; Policy & Society.
Education
2021 –
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Social Policy, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Thesis: -; Supervisor: Stefan Kühner
2019 – 2020
Master of Development Policy (MDP), Korea Development Institute School (KDIS) of Public Policy and Management, South Korea. Thesis: “The historical evolution of childcare development in South Korea: Structural and political explanations of care regime change” (in English); Supervisor: Yun Heesuk.
2013 – 2018
Bachelor of Social Science (S.Sos), Department of Social Development & Welfare, UGM, Indonesia. Thesis: “Governing alternative resources for social policy: A welfare political challenges on mixed-welfare arrangements” (in English); Supervisor: Suparjan.
Academic Position
UGM
2021 –
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Development & Welfare (on official leave until 2024).
2020 – 2021
Research Associate, Department of Social Development & Welfare.
EXTERNAL
2022
Visiting Professor, Department of Society & Health, Mahidol University, Thailand.
2022
Visiting Researcher, Department of Social Policy, PRAKARSA, Indonesia.
Publications
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Journal article, book/chapter book, editorial, etc.
Competitive Research Grants
2022
Investigator, Department of Social Work at National Taiwan University. Title of Research: Global welfare regimes using a model family approach
2022
Social Welfare, Villages and Connectivity Research Center, National Research and Innovation Agency. Title of Research: Incorporating social entrepreneurship into social assistance programs: Beneficiaries’ perspectives [Total funding amount: US$ 6,410.25]
2021
Research and Development Department, Ministry of Social Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. Title of the research: Scaling up social entrepreneurship: Exploring the challenges and opportunities through stakeholder engagement [Total funding amount: US$ 6,129.17]
2020
UGM research program for handling Covid-19 impact, UGM. Title of the research: Managing a pandemic: A study on the construction of risks and community adaptation-transformation strategies in developing social resilience during COVID-19 [Total funding amount: US$ 4,929.57]
2020
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL) UGM Research Grant 2020, FISIPOL, UGM, Indonesia. Title of the research: Policy evaluation of the unemployment benefit initiatives as Social Safety Nets (SSN) in Indonesia during COVID-19 outbreaks[Total funding amount: US$ 2,557.72]
2018
Special Region of Yogyakarta Research Grant, Special Region of Yogyakarta government, Indonesia. Title of the research: Conditionality in housing renovation program targeted to the poor in Bantul District, Indonesia[Total funding amount: US$ 3,552.39]
2017
FORBIL research project, FORBIL Institute for Future Policy Initiative, Indonesia. Title of the research: Assessing the new peatland management provision under Jokowi’s administration: Social and political impacts[Total funding amount: US$ 7,957.37]
2017
FISIPOL UGM Research Grant 2017 (rated as the winner team of student research proposal out of the faculty research competing proposal), FISIPOL, UGM, Indonesia. Title of the research: Politics against the market: A study of decommodification model in classless healthcare initiatives in Kulon Progo Regency, Indonesia. [Total funding amount: US$ 710.47]
2017
Selected Student-Researcher, “Student research fellowship in the Australian National University (ANU) – Indonesia Gifted Researcher Program”.
2016
Departmental Research Grant 2016, Department of Social Development & Welfare, UGM. Title of the research: The social construction of welfare control: A qualitative research on State, corporation and community links in the urban city of Cilacap, Indonesia[Total funding amount: US$ 3,552.39]
2016
Arif Budimanta – Mastarina – Muhassin Scholarship 2016, the Indonesia Centre of Sustainable Development (ICSD). “Poverty and Sustainable Development” (rated as the runner-up individual research proposal out of national competing proposals). Title of the research: Governing alternative resources for social policy [Total funding amount: US$ 355.23]
2016
Bachelor Thesis Research Grant 2017 (rated as the winner student research proposal out of the faculty research competing proposal), FISIPOL, UGM, Indonesia. Title: New trends and innovations in social welfare policy in the local context of Indonesia: The case of Kulon Progo Regency[Total funding amount: US$ 355.23]
Awards
2023
2022
1st winner, 2023 KDIS International Alumni Essay Contest, South Korea
Top cited article in the Journal of Social Policy & Administration (Q1, SSCI), Wiley, USA.
2022 – 2023
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) awardee, Research Grants Council, the Government of Hong Kong, 2021.
2019- 2020
Belt & Road Scholarship, HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund, Education Bureau, the Government of Hong Kong SAR.
2017
Awardee of the Global Ambassador Scholarship, Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy & Management.
2017
Runner-up of the National Scientific Writing Competition on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), “Goresan Pena Sosial”, held by the Department of Sociology, Brawijaya University, Indonesia.
2016
The Winner of the Public Policy Innovation Competition, “National Governance Days (NGD)”, held by the Department of Government Sciences, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Padjajaran University, Indonesia.
2016
Runner-up of the National Essay Competition in “Airlangga Politics” with sub-theme: food security, held by the Department of Political Sciences, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University, Indonesia.
Journals & Public Engagement
EDITORIAL
2021 –
Associate editor, Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik (JSP), UGM, Indonesia (SCOPUS, Q3)
2020 –
Co-founding and associate editor, Journal of Social Development Studies, Department of Social Development & Welfare, UGM, Indonesia.
AD HOC REVIEWIER
2021
Social Policy & Society; International Journal of Social Welfare; Journal of Asian Public Policy; Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work & Development; Journal of Indonesian Economy and Bussiness; Cogent Bussiness and Management; Asian Social Work & Policy Review; Journal of Human Trafficking; Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences; Policy & Society (Verified information: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AAB-8400-2021)