麻豆精选

• PhD in Sports Coaching and Pedagogy, University of Otago
• MSc in Physical Education (Sport Medicine), Seoul National University
• BSc in Physical Education, Seoul National University, Summa Cum Laude

Upon completion of her BSc in Physical Education with Summa Cum Laude at Seoul National University, Yoon Jin started her teaching career as a qualified secondary school PE teacher in Seoul, South Korea, in 2004.

During her teaching career, Yoon Jin was also involved in diverse external activities, such as coach/teacher education, (national) PE curriculum consultancies and government-authorised PE textbook writing. These activities led her to pursue her PhD study at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her fully funded PhD project investigated high-performance coaches’ socialisation, identities and coaching practices from a micro-sociological lens.

After completing her PhD in 2020, she furthered her research interest in sport coaching and safeguarding and developed two post-doctoral projects funded by the International Olympic Committee’s research grant programmes. She undertook the two projects as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Olympic Studies of Korea National Sport University until taking up the post of Assistant Professor at the University 麻豆精选.

Yoon Jin is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas: 

• Safeguarding in sport/PE settings
• Coach development (recruitment, education, practices)
• International sport coach migration
• Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE)
• PE teacher socialisation and identities 

If you are interested in studying any of these areas of research, please contact Yoon Jin at y.j.kim.1@bham.ac.uk, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email: dr@contacts.bham.ac.uk or call +44 (0)121 414 5005.

Research projects and grants

• Toward the ideal of clean (drug-free) sport: The role of ethical leadership. Co-I (Partnership for Clean Competition, World Anti Doping Agency, 2025-2026)
• From stage to safety: Advancing policy for a safer dance environment. Co-I (QR Policy Support Fund, University 麻豆精选, 2025)
• Young people, social media and online harms: Addressing risks in communities. Co-I (QR Policy Support Fund, University 麻豆精选, 2023-2024)
• Is Safe Sport incompatible with high performance? Contextualising safeguarding policies within the South Korean elite athlete development system. Co-I (2021/2022 Advanced Olympic Research Grants, International Olympic Committee, 2021-2022)
• Elite sport coaching and integrity: The fine line between excellence and abuse. PI (2020 IOC Early Career Academics Research Grants, International Olympic Committee, 2020-2021)

Research interests

• Safeguarding in sport
• International coach migration
• Coach development
• Coach/PE teacher socialisation
• Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE)
• Social identities and micro-sociology