Adjunct Associate Professor Jay Song
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Jay is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Korea Research and Engagement Centre of Western Australia at Curtin University. Prior to her current position, she was Korea Foundation Associate Professor and stood up a new BA program in Korean Studies at the University of Melbourne. Jay has served Deputy Editor for Asian Studies Review, Chair of the Partnership Committee, Research Coordinator for Gender and Migration, Korean Studies Minor Coordinator and Discipline Chair, and lastly, Director of the Korean Studies Research Hub in Melbourne. Jay has won multiple grants including an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on Korean Migration to Australia. She is the author of Human Rights Discourse in North Korea: Post-colonial, Marxist and Confucian Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2010) and peer-reviewed academic articles.

In addition to her academic achievements, Jay has also held various professional positions in the UK, the US, Switzerland and Australia, including program director of migration at the Lowy Institute (Sydney), Global Ethics Fellow of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (New York), Associate Fellow of Chatham House (London), and Consultant for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Geneva).

Jay has completed her PhD in Politics and International Relations (Cambridge, UK). Her current research focuses on Korean migration to Australia, Korean-Australian people relations and North Korea.

She welcomes student consultation on any of the subjects above.

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