Sophia Seung-Yoon Lee, our 2024–25 YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship recipient with research collaborator Thomas R. Klassen (School of Public Policy and Administration) is in Toronto conduct the duo’s comparative study of the working conditions and social protection regulations for platform workers in South Korea and Canada.
Professor Sophia Seung yoon Lee is a professor in the School of Social Welfare at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. She earned her PhD in Social Policy from the University of Oxford with a comparative study on East Asian welfare production regimes and non-regular workers. Her primary research areas include welfare states and labour markets, precarious employment, labour market policies and institutionalism.
She has published approximately 80 academic peer reviewed papers and books. Her notable works include research on "The Institutional Legacy of State Corporatism in Service Economy Labor Markets" and her 2023 English-language book Varieties of Precarity: Melting Labour and the Failure to Protect Workers in the Korean Welfare State has earned her the Alternative Research Award from the Korean Association of Critical and Alternative Social Welfare.
Read more about Professor Lee’s work at this link.
The next deadline for the Research Collaboration Fellowship for the 2026–27 academic year is 01 May 2026. More information at this link