DrSoyeon Kim

Dr Soyeon Kim is a Visiting Scholar at the Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, supported by the Korea Foundation Postdoctorol Fellowship. Her research examines multilingualism, language ideologies, and the lived experiences of migrants across Australia and South Korea. She works across a range of collaborative projects that explore language ideologies, migrants’ communicative practices, information access, and the social conditions shaping migrant citizenship and participation.

With a professional background in early childhood and primary education, she brings an educator’s perspective to her sociolinguistic and community-engaged research, particularly in studies of language learning, family language practices, and culturally responsive communication. Her forthcoming monograph, Family Language Policy in English–Korean Cross-Cultural Families, builds on her PhD research completed at Monash University in 2024.

She has published on intercultural (im)politeness, Korean conversation practices, and language use in migrant communities, and regularly contributes to public scholarship through community engagement, invited talks, and outreach activities.