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In his research, Teppo Kröger analyses care policy from local, comparative and global perspectives. His studies have focused on, for example, social care for older people, integration of formal and informal care, conditions of care work and reconciliation of caring and paid employment. In his work he integrates different theoretical and empirical approaches from social policy, social gerontology, disability studies, family sociology and governance studies. He has drafted new conceptual perspectives for the research field, including the concepts of welfare municipality, weak universalism, dedomestication, demographic panic, care capital and care poverty.

Teppo Kröger supervises doctoral theses that analyse social policies of ageing, care, disability and family. At the moment, he is supervising the following PhD students: Mari Aholainen, Tuulikki Alanko, Matti Kajaste, Youngbin Kwon, Liliya Martynova, Pia Pulkkinen, Pauliina Puurtinen, Netta Tuominen and Anne Vienovirta. His students have been awarded for the Best PhD Thesis of the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ (Helena Hirvonen, 2014) and the Best Master Thesis in Social Policy in Finland (Emilia Leinonen, 2014 and Mikko Myllymäki, 2020). Recent PhD theses finished under his supervision include those by Jiby Mathew Puthenparambil, Tiina Sihto, Paula Vasara, Emilia Leinonen, Sher-E Khoda and Salla Era. He is also a Co-PI of the national Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of Social Services (DocSoc360°, 2025-2027).

Teppo Kröger has evaluated the merits of applicants for Professor and Lecturer positions in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom and research proposals in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and for the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grants) and the Open Research Area for the Social Sciences (ORA). He has been a pre-examiner and faculty opponent of PhD theses in universities in Finland, Sweden, Norway and New Zealand. He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Care and Caring and the Nordic Journal of Social Research and for book series of De Gruyter and Policy Press. He has been a referee for over 35 academic journals as well as for Palgrave Macmillan and Policy Press.

Teppo Kröger is a member of the scientific committee of the Transforming Care Network (TCN) and a member of scientific advisory boards of several research projects (SOLDEX & FinNät/Finland, INNOVCARE/France, LeTs-Care/Italy, CollAGE/Sweden, ASCK-WELL/UK). Together with Dr Nic Brimblecombe (LSE) and Dr Ricardo Rodrigues (University of Lisbon), he co-ordinates the 'Unmet Needs, Inequalities and Care Poverty' (UNICAP) research network, which is a part of the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care. He is a regularly invited speaker in national and international conferences and seminars and an expert consulted frequently by policy-makers and the media. He is also the chair of the organising committee of the 7th Transforming Care Conference, organised in Helsinki on 25-27 June 2025.

Teppo Kröger is the recipient of the 2024 Nordic Prize in Gerontology (the Sohlberg Prize). As well, he has received the awards for ’UNO of the Year – All-rounder of Science’ (Finnish Union of University Professors, Jyväskylä chapter, 2021) and 'the Science Communication Act of the Year' (Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, 2019).