Youngcho (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and a Cambridge Trust & Murray Edwards Scholar. She is currently studying South Korean fathers’ parental leave experiences using mixed methods. More broadly she is interested in gender, social policy, family, and the utilisation of diverse methodologies to study these.
Prior to starting her PhD degree in 2018, Youngcho completed her MSc in Gender, Policy, and Inequalities at LSE, where she graduated with distinction and overall best performance. Before that, she obtained her MA at KDI (Korea Development Institute) School of Public Policy and Management and her BA (Hons) at Ewha Womans University.
Besides her doctoral research, Youngcho is a research assistant for the Gender & Technology project, run by Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies in collaboration with Centre for Future Intelligence. She is also one of the coordinators for FemQuant (@FemQuant), an international network of early-career researchers exploring feminist quantitative methods.
