Sewon Hwang

Project Title: Conceptualizing the Diversity of Care Responsibilities and Understanding the Gendered Policy Implications

Sewon began her ESRC Collaborative Studentship with the Women's Budget Group in 2026. Grounded in intersectional and feminist economics perspectives, her doctoral research examines the UK's Pathways to Work and related reforms, with a particular focus on their differential economic implications for unpaid carers. Using mixed methods, the project aims to identify which groups of unpaid carers face the greatest risk of poverty and to outline potential policy interventions that could mitigate that risk and support their transition out of poverty.

She holds an MSc in Gender (Research) and a BSc in International Relations, both from LSE. Before beginning her doctoral research, she worked in international development, facilitating knowledge-sharing initiatives at the UNDP Seoul Policy Centre and supporting communications, operations, and public outreach at the UNFPA Seoul Representation Office. She has also worked as a Community Outreach Worker at Refuge, providing frontline support to survivors of domestic abuse. Alongside these professional roles, she was an active student campaigner at Hands-Off, advocating for expanded support for victim-survivors of gender-based violence at LSE.