Dr. Wonyong Park

Associate Professor

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Biography

Wonyong Park holds a BSc and MSc in Physics Education from Seoul National University and is a trained physics teacher with extensive experience teaching science and physics in secondary schools in South Korea. He pursued doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, where his DPhil research focused on fairness in classroom assessment by secondary science teachers, especially in relation to the nature of science. In 2021, he joined the Southampton Education School as a Lecturer and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024. His work addresses key issues in science education, particularly the role of STEM education in building resilience against disasters in both local and global contexts. He is committed to interdisciplinary approaches that integrate science with humanities and social education, having published in leading educational journals. Wonyong is actively involved in speaker engagements at academic conferences and serves on various editorial boards within the education field. He also leads funded research projects exploring the intersections of science education and disaster sociology, and he is an advocate for developing educational policies that support effective learning in the context of STEM.

Research Interests

Experience

Associate Professor

2024-01-01 — Present

University of Southampton • Southampton

Wonyong Park serves as an Associate Professor in Science Education at the University of Southampton.

Lecturer

2021-01-01 — 2024-01-01

University of Southampton • Southampton

Wonyong began his academic career at Southampton Education School as a Lecturer.

Awards

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Reviewer Excellence, Science & Education

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Early Career Researcher Award

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Reviewer Excellence, Science & Education

Courses

BSc Education MSc Education PhD programmes