Seonyoung joined RHUL in Nov 2023. Prior to this, Seonyoung received her PhD in Organisation and Human Resource Management from Warwick Business School (University of Warwick) in 2019 and held a post-doctoral position at Aalto University School of Business in Finland from 2020 to 2023. 

Her research interests encompass the work-life interface, social identity (including gender, ethnicity, disability, and language), diversity and inclusion, intersectionality, meaningful work and calling, and occupational health. Her paper on the intersection of gender and ethnicity among East Asian female migrant workers in the UK was published in Human Relations and selected for the Honor Roll of Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM). Additionally, she has another publication on the intersectional variation in the experience of daily work-family conflict in Human Resource Management, which received the Dorothy Harlow Best Conference Paper Award from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in 2019. 

Currently, Seonyoung is involved in various research projects focusing on meaningful work and calling, motherhood, academic expatriates, inclusion climate, career shocks, etc. 

In the academic year 2023-24, Seonyoung teaches the Foundations for Responsible Business (MN1125), Diversity and Inclusion (MN2206), and International Human Resource Management (MN3271) modules. Seonyoung is dedicated to fostering a learning environment that emphasises diversity & inclusion and practical application, as she strongly believes this approach can enhance students' learning motivation and engagement.

Seonyoung is keen on supervising PhD students interested in the following topics:

• The work-life interface
• Diversity and inclusion
• Social identity (including gender, ethnicity, language, and disability) and intersectionality
• Meaningful work and calling
• Occupational health