Jung Yoon

Research Fellow in Disability Employment

College of Business, Government and Law

place Bedford Park
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Dr Jung Yoon is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) at the College of Business, Government, and Law, Flinders University. She combines her lived experience as a mother of a child with complex disabilities with her research knowledge and skills to understand the context of disability, business management, and socio-economic engagement opportunities to promote the quality of life and socially valued roles for people with disability.

Jung has focused on building safe, accessible, inclusive, and innovative working environments to enable socio-economic inclusion for people with cognitive disability, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and intellectual and mental disabilities. She also supports cross-cultural research projects between Australia and South Korea by building project concepts and connecting to project relevant bodies in South Korea.

Jung’s research interests include socio-cultural impact in creative industries, disability employment, innovative social enterprise management, inclusive corporate culture in a broad workforce, and social and disability-related policies under the jurisdiction of other countries.

Qualifications

2024 PhD (Business Management) at Flinders University

2019 Graduate Diploma in Research Methods at Flinders University

2012 Master of Teaching (Secondary Education) at the University of South Australia

2009 Master of Visual Art & Design (Textile) at the University of South Australia

2004 Honours of Visual Communication (Character Design) at the University of South Australia

2003 Bachelor of Visual Communication (Illustration) at the University of South Australia

Honours, awards and grants

2024, $5,440, Industry Partnership Funded Project with the City of Adelaide Council for a co-design workshop to explore inclusive and accessible businesses with people with disability. Yoon, J.

2024-2025, $137,000. EPIC, co-designing a digital skills training framework for people with disability. Yoon, J.

2022-2026, $636,381 Information Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) Program, Department of Social Services, Commonwealth of Australia; co-designing disability employment strategies with people with disability, industry mentors, and disability employment experts to diversify the workforce for people with disability in fashion and hospitality nationwide. Yoon, J., Goodwin-Smith, I., et al.

2021-2022, $38,000. Australia-Korea Foundation Grant, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Australia-Korea Conference on Innovation in Disability Employment. Goodwin-Smith, I. & Yoon, J.

Key responsibilities

Key contributions include the development of a conceptual framework, the employment and establishment of a community researcher program for people with cognitive disability – a novel participatory methodological approach, and the engagement of industry stakeholders in 3-way co-design processes: (1) the Diversity Pathways project for co-designing and co-producing disability employment strategies for hospitality employers, (2) the co-development of a digital skills and knowledge training framework for people with disability, and (3) facilitation of a co-design workshop to develop accessible and inclusive business strategies with people with disability, the City of Adelaide Council, and business owners in the City of Adelaide.

  • Project lead of the Diversity Pathways project, disability employment initiatives in partnership with Accor Pacific
  • Project lead of the Inclusive and Accessible Digital Literacy Skills project in partnership with EPIC Assist