Hyojin Seo

I'm a gender and labour market social scientist and an international and interdisciplinary scholar with background in comparative social policy. I have been awarded Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship on my project RePRECARiAT(Rethinking gendered PRECARity in the Age of Technology), which will begin February 2026. It is a mixed-methods project on the gendered experience of precarity in the long-term labour market experience of workers in the midst of digitalisation in the UK and South Korea. I will be based in King's Business School and King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership (UK).

I aim to contribute to an equal, diverse and inclusive society where all workers feel secure.

My research mainly focuses on the gendered precariousness experiences in the labour market and the role of institutional contexts (e.g., social policy, norms) surrounding them. Methodologically, I have expertise in quantitative methods (e.g., Latent Class Analysis, Multilevel Modelling) and survey design, as well as cross-national comparison across Europe and East Asia.