Jung Yoon is a research fellow and a project manager for the Diversity Pathways project, Information Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC), to develop employers’ capacity to employ people with cognitive disability in the fashion retail and hospitality industries. Jung Yoon is also involved in cross-cultural research projects between Australia and South Korea by building project concepts and connecting to project-relevant bodies in South Korea, including the international case studies of disability policies and disability employment systems for pre-mature aging populations with cognitive disability. Jung is part of the ARC project on ‘Everyday Harms’ to prevent people with cognitive disability from abuse.
Jung has focused on building accessible, inclusive and innovative working environments to enable socio-economic inclusion for people with cognitive disability, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and intellectual and mental disability. Jung’s research interests include disability employment, social enterprise management, inclusive corporate culture, and social and disability-related policies under different jurisdictions in other countries.