Sustainability transition, social innovation, urban politics
Urban/regional food systems, food access and security, healthy cities, urban-rural linkages
Planning theory: inclusion, accessibility, and participation in planning
(2026-2029) 저출산·고령화 시대 선제적 주택정책 실행을 위한 AI 기반 정책 시뮬레이션·평가 시스템 개발 (Development of an AI-Based Policy Simulation and Evaluation System for Proactive Housing Policy in the Era of Low Fertility and Population Aging). 한국연구재단 인문사회 분야 학술지원사업. (공동연구원, Co-Investigator)
(2026-2027) 포용성 관점에서 본 지속가능한 도시계획의 재구성: 인지적, 감각적 접근성을 중심으로 (Rethinking Sustainable Urban Planning through the Lens of Inclusion: A Focus on Cognitive and Sensory Accessibility) . 서울시립대학교 교내연구과제. (Pincipal Investigator)
(2026) School Meals & Regenerative Agriculture: Catalysing Transformative Pathways in Food Systems Through School Meals and Regenerative Agriculture. Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition, Imperial College London, and the Agroecology Coalition. (Working Group Member and Report Contributor)
(2025) A Research for Influence and Action Agenda for Scaling Regenerative/Agroecological School Meals: Updates and Next Steps, Rockefeller Foundation, U.S. (Co-investigator)
Unpacking Local Food Politics in Scaling Up Sustainable Public Food Procurement, Journal of Rural Studies (2026).
Sustainable Public Food Procurement and Its Policy Implications: The Case of Korea’s Eco-Friendly School Meal Program, Korean Policy Studies Review (2026), with LIM, T. and PARK, J.
Constructing ‘local’and ‘sustainable’: a critical analysis of place-based public food procurement, Geoforum (2024).
Transitions in South Korean Public Food Procurement Policy: Landscape Context, Institutionalization, and Local Agents, Environment Innovation & Societal Transitions (2024).
Disparities in Food Security during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Two-year Analysis, Cities (2022), with PARK, J. and KIM, C.
Government Response to Support Local Farmers in the Face of COVID-19: A Case of South Korea. Gastronomica (2020) *A commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on food systems
(Re)producing Just School Food Economies: Direct Urban-Rural Supply Chains for South Korean Communities in Transforming School Food Politics edited by Sarah Robert and Jennifer Gaddis, MIT Press (2025).
Building a Public Good: Policy and Infrastructure Development in South Korea’s Universal Free, Environment-Friendly School Lunch Program, Rockefeller Foundation. (Co-first Author) with Gaddis, J. E., Robert, S. A., & Jeon, J. (2025).
South Korea, Seoul: Urban-Rural Coexistence Public Meal Service – connecting city, rural communities, food and people. Compendium of Inspiring Practices on Urban-Rural Linkages (2nd edition). UN-Habitat. Nairobi, Kenya (2021).
Beyond the Thirty-percent Rule: Multi-threshold Longitudinal Analysis of Housing Cost Burden and Depressive Symptoms among Adult Subgroups in South Korea with LIM, T. and PARK, J.
Redefining Sustainable Urbanism through Neuro-inclusive Planning: A Scoping Review of Spatial Equity with PARK, J and KIM, S.
Beyond Nutrition: The Material and Symbolic Roles of School Food in Sustainability with PARK, J and Kim, Y.