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Exploring Directions for Post-Pandemic Disaster Education Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration between the UK and South Korea

Project overview

This project is focused on establishing a sustainable network between leading disaster education research groups in the UK and South Korea. The project involves 11 researchers from education, socioecology, history and social studies of science, providing a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary and intercultural disaster education research. The project builds on collaborators' previous work on disaster education (Lee & Jeon, 2015; Park, 2020), disaster studies (Kang, 2016; Knowles, 2012; Park, 2019) and SSI education (Christodoulou et al., 2021; Lee et al., 2012; Lee & Lee, 2021; Ratcliffe & Grace, 2003) to develop a new conceptualisation of disaster education that integrates the scientific, technological and social aspects of disasters that can guide future research and practice.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Wonyong Park BSc, MSc, DPhil

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Science education
  • STEM education
  • Disaster education
Connect with Wonyong

Email: W.Park@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Marcus Grace

Research interests
  • The science and values underpinning education for biodiversity, sustainable development and citizenship
  • Adolescent decision-making, and teaching and learning about socio-scientific issues
  • Outdoor science education
Connect with Marcus

Email: M.M.Grace@soton.ac.uk

Professor Craig Hutton

Director Sustainability&Resilience Inst.
Connect with Craig

Email: cwh@geodata.soton.ac.uk

Dr Andri Christodoulou

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Argumentation within scientific and socio-scientific contexts
  • Dialogic teaching
  • Socio-scientific inquiry-based learning
Connect with Andri

Email: A.Christodoulou@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Science education in an age of unnatural disasters: an introduction to the special issue
Wonyong Park, Marcus Grace, Craig Hutton & Scott Gabriel Knowles, 2025, Science & Education, 34(3), 957-967
DOI: 10.1007/s11191-025-00652-1
Type: letterEditorial
STEM education for transformative hazard literacy: from technological fixes to slow learning
Wonyong Park, 2025, Journal of Hazard Literacy, 1(1)
DOI: 10.63737/jhl.25.0014
Type: article
Why did the Fukushima nuclear accident happen, and how did it affect people?
Wonyong Park, Jieun Chun & Hyesung Ji, 2025
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-76297-0_21
Type: bookChapter
Education and Memorialisation for Disaster Justice: Lessons from Grenfell, Hillsborough and Sewol
Wonyong Park, Ian Byrne, Phil Scraton, Jiseong Lee, Eunhwa Lee, Hanan Wahabi & Elisabetta Calamelli, 2024
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/PP0070
Type: report
STEM in a changing world: what is valuable and valued
Karen Skilling & Wonyong Park, 2024
DOI: 10.4324/9781003404989
Type: bookChapter
‘We often forget it was a disaster’: cross-curricular teacher collaboration to develop a curriculum unit on the Titanic disaster
Wonyong Park, Neta Shaby & Rachele Newman, 2024, Science & Education
Type: article
Disasters in the classroom: lessons on talking to students about extreme climate events
Wonyong Park, Lorenzo Miani & Olivia Levrini, 2024
Type: other