Sangwoo Lee

Welcome!

I'm Sangwoo Lee, a labour economist with a focus on higher education, work, employment, job quality and intergenerational social mobility. I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Employment Research (IER) at the University of Warwick. Before this, I was a Research Fellow at the Department of Education, Practice and Society at UCL Institute of Education, and a Research Associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

I completed my Ph.D. in Education at the University of Cambridge in 2022. Prior to that, I earned an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from Harvard University and a B.A. in Economics from Grinnell College.

My research focuses on social inequalities in work and education, with two primary areas of interest: the importance of job quality for business performance, societal progress, and individual well-being, and the role of higher education in enhancing students' skills to better prepare them for the labour market, regardless of their socioeconomic background. My recent work includes studies on transnational higher education, job quality trends related to labour market institutions, the implications of job quality as graduates' labour market outcomes, the relationship between job quality and well-being, and the distribution of 'bad jobs' in Europe and South Korea.