External Grants

  • Fellowship, Fudan University, China, 2025

  • Fellowship, Academy of Korean Studies, South Korea, 2024

  • Korean Studies Grant, The Academy of Korean Studies 2024-2025 (Principal Investigator)
    Project title: Korean as a foreign language (KFL) learners’ motivation, demotivation, and language achievement: The Australian and New Zealand context

  • The Worldwide Universities Network - Research Development Funding 2024-2025 (Principal Investigator)
    Project title: Linguistic diversity and linguistic discrimination in higher education: Opportunities and challenges
    https://wun.ac.uk/wun/research/view/linguistic-diversity-and-linguistic-discrimination-in-higher-education-opportunities-and-challenges/

  • Strategic Research Institute (SRI) Grant, The Academy of Korean Studies 2022-2033 (Co-Investigator) Project: Korean Studies beyond Oceania: Enhancing Korean Studies in Oceania, and Expanding it to the South Pacific, the Indonesian Archipelago, and Central Asian Highlands With Dr Changzoo Song (PI), Sunhee Koo, Mi Yung Park, and Irene Lee

  • Korean Studies Grant, The Academy of Korean Studies 2021-2022 (Co-Investigator)
    Project title: Language use, language maintenance, and ethnic identity among Korean heritage speakers in the Asia-Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii)
    With Dr Min Jung Jee (PI), University of Queensland, and Dr Sang Yee Cheon (Co-I), University of Hawaii at Manoa

  • Korean Studies Grant, The Academy of Korean Studies 2017-2018 (Principal Investigator)
    Project title: Language use and identity construction of mixed-heritage children in South Korea

  • The Worldwide Universities Network - Research Development Funding 2015-2016 (Co-Investigator)
    Project title: Multilingualism and Mobility in the Northern & Southern Hemispheres With Professor Kristine Horner (PI), University of Sheffield, UK

Internal Grants

  • Research Development Fund, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland (Co-Investigator)
    Project title: Linguistic diversity and linguistic discrimination in higher education. With Professor Stephen May (PI), Dr Peter Keegan (Co-I)

  • Faculty Research Development Fund, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland 2021-2022 (Principal Investigator)
    Project title: Family language policies and language use among Korean migrant families in New Zealand

  • Faculty Research Development Fund, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland 2014-2016 (Principal Investigator)
    Project title: Exploring language learning and identity in the context of migration: Migrant brides in South Korea