Dr. Dongju Lee

Biography

Dongju Lee is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact, UNSW Business School, with a research focus on social changes and inequalities. His particular interests include gender and immigration, where he examines the emergence, development, and diffusion of social policies. Lee pays special attention to the role of institutional agencies and non-governmental organizations in social movements. He is keenly interested in analyzing and evaluating policy impacts, particularly their unintended consequences. With strong expertise in research design, quantitative methods, survey methods, quasi-experiment design, longitudinal analysis, social network analysis, and big data analysis, he leads data analytics at CSI, developing measures to map social progress within Australian communities. Lee conducts research projects that involve surveying and constructing longitudinal datasets for purpose-driven organizations in Australia. He received his PhD and Master of Arts in Sociology from Harvard University and was a visiting scholar at Duke University's Network Analysis Centre (DNAC) for several years, prior to which he taught and researched at five Australian universities.

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