Yoon, Liv

Columbia University, 2022, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, The Earth Institute & Mailman School of Public Health

The University of British Columbia, 2019, PhD (Kinesiology)

The University of British Columbia, 2013, MA (Kinesiology)

The University of British Columbia, 2011, Certificate (International Development)

Queen’s University, 2010, BPHE (Physical Health Education)

KIN 262 Health, Policy and Society

• Socio-cultural Studies
• Climate Change, Health, and Social Inequities

• Climate Change, Environment, Energy, Housing
• Climate Justice, Intersectionality and Health
• Social and Environmental Determinants of Health
• Bodies, media and communication
• Qualitative methodologies
• Inter- and trans-disciplinary research
• Knowledge Translation / Knowledge to Action

See Research Gate for a list of current publications.

Through her research, Dr. Yoon aims to address the intersections of social inequities, climate change, and health. Using primarily qualitative methods, she pursues inter- and trans-disciplinary research, with a focus on community engagement and participatory approaches. Underlying her research is thinking about bodies in sociopolitical contexts in order to understand how some bodies are considered more ‘dispensable’, and thus, rendered more vulnerable to climate-related harms and environmental pollution.

Dr. Yoon also maintains an active interest in critical physical cultural studies with a focus on race (among other various axes of social inequities), communication, popular culture, and social justice outcomes.

Through her teaching, Dr. Yoon seeks to provoke thinking about how various kinesiology course concepts can help understand and situate the body in social, political, cultural, and historical contexts – by ‘connecting the dots’ in one’s immediate surroundings as well as broader social issues. She seeks to foster an environment in which students’ diverse range of experiences and backgrounds come to matter, and thereby facilitate making the course concepts personally relevant.