Hyunah is interested in the materiality, and socioeconomic/environmental impacts of wastes. During her master, she did internship in the Jordan Program of Global Green Growth Institute, working remotely at the Seoul Headquarter. With this experience, she became more interested in the contemporary and practical issues around wastes. She wrote her master’s thesis in particular about plastic wastes during COVID-19 in South Korea, to investigate different practices to regulate or promote the use of plastic from the perspective of slow disaster. Throughout doctoral program, she wants to expand her research fields into revealing unequal relationships around waste, and its impacts on different beings, not just humans but also non-humans. Also, she is very keen to learn various skills (e.g. filming, making podcasts) which can transgress the boundary between academia and public.
