Heejung Chung

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  • Director of the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Professor of Work and Employment, King's College London

I (she/her) am a labour market & welfare state researcher, the Director of the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Professor of Work and Employment, at King's Business School, King's College London, UK and the author of the books The Flexibility Paradox: why flexible working leads to (self-) exploitation, (Policy Press), Flexible working arrangements and gender equality in Europe (European Commission)

My research interest lies in examining different labour market patterns and attitudes, focusing mostly on gender inequalities, flexibility at work, work-life balance, division of unpaid work/care, and exploring the role welfare state policies, cultural norms, and other contexts play therein. More recently I am curious about how social/organisational norms make us perform "work" & waste our time doing this.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Professor, King's College London
  • 2021–2024
    Professor, University of Kent
  • 2017–2021
    Reader, University of Kent
  • 2014–2017
    Senior lecturer, University of Kent
  • 2011–2014
    Lecturer , University of Kent
  • 2009–2011
    Post-doctoral Researcher, Tilburg University

Education

  • 2009 
    Tilburg University, Ph.D in Sociology
  • 2005 
    Edinburgh University, MSc in Research in Social Policy
  • 2003 
    Yonsei University, MSW in Social Policy

Grants and Contracts

  • 2024
    Hybrid working and productivity
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    The Productivity Institute
  • 2023
    BAME worker's experience of hybrid working
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Trades Union Congress
  • 2023
    REFLEX - project on hybrid working
    Role:
    Co-I
    Funding Source:
    Norweigian Research Council
  • 2022
    TransEuroWorks
    Role:
    Co-I
    Funding Source:
    Horizon 2020
  • 2018
    Family caring arrangements and well-being outcomes
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Government Equalities Office, UK Government(Cabinet Office)
  • 2017
    Flexible working & Future of Work in Estonia
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Estonian Parliament
  • 2015
    Welfare State Futures: Our Children's Europe
    Role:
    CoI
    Funding Source:
    NORFACE
  • 2014
    Part-time careers in Norway – the end of normalization?
    Role:
    National expert
    Funding Source:
    Norwegian Research Council
  • 2013
    Working time flexibility and work life balance
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    ESRC

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