Dr DongJu Lee

Dongju Lee is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact (CSI), UNSW Business School.

Dongju's research focuses on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), with a particular emphasis on gender and ethnic minorities. She explores how policies and social norms shape individual and collective perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors to advance more equitable organisations, communities and societies. Her recent projects investigate gender-lens investing, DEI in entrepreneurial ecosystems, labour market outcomes associated with parental leave, and the intergenerational impacts of childcare.      

Dongju brings over 20 years of experience and deep expertise in quantitative methods and research design, including survey methods, quasi-experimental design, longitudinal analysis, social network analysis, and big data analysis. 

At CSI, Dongju leads and contribute to multiple projects including the development of locialised measures of community social progress; multi-year surveys of social economy organisations; the design of DEI data systems for entrepreneurship capability programs in partnership with Investment NSW; and longituidnal analysis to support evaluation and strategy development for service providers and local governments. 

She received a PhD and a Master of Arts in Sociology from Harvard University, and was a visiting scholar at Duke University’s Network Analysis Center (DNAC).