Shiori Shakuto

Shiori Shakuto is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is a feminist anthropologist with expertise in gender and household in Japan. She has conducted over ten years of research among older Japanese people, focusing on their mobility and transitions in later life. Her research has highlighted the gendered differences in how women and men socialize after retiring from their workplaces, directly affecting their sense of loneliness and belonging. Her book on gender, ageing, and sociality, titled "After Work," is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press in January 2025. She has also published her work in leading qualitative journals, such as American Ethnologist, Australian Journal of Anthropology, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Japan Review of Anthropology, Anthropology News, Science of the Total Environment, Australian Aboriginal Studies, and Japanese Studies. Shiori has received several awards and fellowships based on her work with older Japanese people, including the Endeavour Fellowship Award (Australian Government 2015) and the Evans Fellowship Award (Cambridge University 2016). Her research has been funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Singapore Government Ministry of Education, the Singapore National Research Foundation and the UK Natural Environment Research Council. Before joining the University of Sydney as a Lecturer, Shiori worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore (2018-2020) and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo (2020-2022). Shiori is currently collaborating with Singaporean colleagues to examine the gendered use of household plastics in Asia.