Dr Jae-Eun Noh

Gender and Women's History Research Centre

Areas of expertise: human rights, gender equality, justice and social movement, professional ethics and practices, health and wellbeing

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9324-8192

Email: jae-eun.noh@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Melbourne Campus

Jae-Eun Noh is a Research Fellow at the Gender and Women's History Research Centre in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds a BA in French literature (Seoul National University, Rep of Korea) and a MA in Social Welfare (Seoul National University, Rep of Korea) and Social Development (University of Sussex, the UK). She obtained her Ph.D. in International Development from the University of Queensland in 2015, with a dissertation titled "From a normative discourse to contextualised practices: a case study of a human rights-based approach in Bangladesh."

Jae-Eun's research interests include human rights and social justice, solidarity, sustainable development, civil society, corporate social accountability, global citizenship, and helping professionals' health and wellbeing. Her current project, “Solidarity in/for Global Health”, examines the concepts and practices of solidarity from feminist, decolonial, and ecological perspectives. Another project explores the meanings of ‘separation’, paying particular attention to the emotional and gendered dimensions of international and internal displacement, in collaboration with Prof. Susan Broomhall. She recently completed her project, "The Role of Faith in 'Comfort Women's Activism in Australia" funded by the Academy of Korean Studies, where she served as principal investigator.

Select publications

Journal articles (out of 25 peer-reviewed articles)

• Cho, H., Jae-Eun Noh, & Papoutsis, L. (2025). “Navigating faith and gender-based violence: The role of faith communities in addressing family violence in a migrant context”, Journal of Gender Studies, online first.
• Jae-Eun Noh (2025). “Navigating research, development practice, and activism as a transnational pracademic”, Development in Practice, 35(2), 244-249.
• Jae-Eun Noh (2024). “Coloniality and decoloniality in ‘Comfort Women’ memory activism: Transnational and transgenerational truth-telling practices in Australia”, Journal of Sociology, 60(4), 760-777.
• Jae-Eun Noh (2024). “The fight for global health justice: The advocacy of international humanitarian development NGOs during the COVID-19 Pandemic”, VOLUNTAS, 35(4), 661-675.
• Jae-Eun Noh (2023). "Ethical challenges faced by Korean development practitioners in international community development practices", Community Development Journal, 58(1): 44-63.
• Jae-Eun Noh (2023). “The emotional underpinning of norms and identities in framing Korean aid”, Development in Practice, 33(3), 361-371.
• Jae-Eun Noh (2022). "Development practitioners' emotions for resilience: Sources of reflective and transformative practices”, Third World Quarterly, 43(10): 2509-2525.
• Jae-Eun Noh (2022). "Constructing 'others' and a wider 'we' as emotional processes", Thesis Eleven, 170(1): 43-57.
• Jae-Eun Noh (2021). "Korean migrants' transnational activism in Australia: Collective meaning making around human rights”, VOLUNTAS, 32(3): 573-584.
• Jae-Eun Noh (2021). "Review of human rights-based approaches to development: Empirical evidence from developing countries”, International Journal of Human Rights, 26(5): 883-901.

Book and Book chapters (out of 7 book chapters)

• Jae-Eun Noh (2025). “Towards global cooperation and justice: Korean aid and beyond” in Lim, S. (eds). International Aid and South Korea: Experience from Recipient to Donor. (pp.46-62). Oxon: Routledge.
• Jae-Eun Noh (2022). "A rights-based approach for sustainable livelihoods" in Nunan, F. et al. (eds). The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South. (pp. 68-77). London: Routledge.
• Jae-Eun Noh (2020). "Global citizenship education in South Korea: The role of NGOs in cultivating global citizens". In Peterson, A. et al. (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education. (pp. 359-374). Palgrave Macmillan.
• Jae-Eun Noh (2016). Reframing development: A human rights-based approach in practice. Daegu University Press.