Heejung Chung

I (she/her) am a labour market & welfare state researcher and Professor of Work and Employment, and the Director of the King's Global Institute of Women's Leadership 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)

I'm a TEDx speaker - watch my talk on the Return to Office mandate and remote working stigma.

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. Check out my recent publications here, my recent projects here, and some of my media appearances here

I am on the editorial board the journal Gender & Society, Rosabeth Moss Kanter Awards committee, and on the advisory board for the Four day week Foundation... and I am a mom of a 13 ten year old, a tuxedo cat, and a Bulgarian rescue dog,  a partner to a software engineer/musician. I used to play bass in an feminist punk band, play football/futsal in a old-bags women's vet club, and coach U13 girls' football  team.