I am keen to hear from prospective PhD students interested in science education and my other areas of research. I do not supervise PhDs outside of my expertise. For more information about PhD application, see this page.

Employment

Lecturer in Science Education. Southampton Education School, University of Southampton, 2021-

Education

DPhil Science Education. University of Oxford, 2021

MSc Science Education. Seoul National University, 2018

BSc Physics Education. Seoul National University, 2016

Publications

Books

Park, W. (2025). Disaster education for social justice: A STEM-centred approach. Routledge. (under contract)

Edited Volumes

Millar, V., Park, W., & Dillon, J. (2024). (Eds.). The science curriculum: Issues, tensions and future prospects. Special issue of International Journal of Science Education.

Park, W., Grace, M. Hutton, C. W., & Knowles, S. G. (2024). (Eds.). Teaching and learning about disasters: Contributions from historical and social studies of science. Special issue of Science & Education.

Journal Articles

Park, W., Shaby, N., & Newman, R. (in press). "We often forget it was a disaster": Cross-curricular teacher collaboration to develop a curriculum unit on the Titanic disaster. Science & Education.

Park, W., Lim, I., & Song, J. (in press). Exploring the intersection of disasters and science education with preservice science teachers through a disaster case study. Cultural Studies of Science Education. 

Brock, R., & Park, W. (in press). Distinguishing nature of science beliefs, knowledge and understandings: Towards clarity and coherence in educational goals related to the nature of science. Science & Education. doi:10.1007/s11191-022-00368-6

Park, W., Cullinane, A., Gandolfi, H., Alameh, S., & Mesci, G. (2024). Innovations, challenges and future directions in nature of science research: Reflections from early career academics. Research in Science Education, 54(1), 27-48.

Ha, H., Park, W., & Song, J. (2023). Preservice elementary teachers’ socioscientific reasoning during a decision-making activity in the context of COVID-19. Science & Education, 32(6), 1869-1886.

Park, W., Lee, H., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2023). "Safety" and "integration": Examining the introduction of disaster in the science curriculum in South Korea. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 55(5), 580-597.

Park, W., Erduran, S., Song, J., & Kim, M. (2023). "It's a lesson with no correct answer": Design issues in preservice teachers’ collaborative lesson planning using history of science. International Journal of Science Education, 45(3), 181-203.

Park, W., & Brock, R. (2023). Is there a limit to resemblances? Teaching about science and pseudoscience from a family resemblance perspective. Science & Education, 32(5), 1265-1286.

Cho, H-J., Jo, J.-H., Choi, N., Choi, J., & Park, W. (2022). Environmental themes and ecosystem services in picture books about forests for sustainability education. Journal of Forest Research, 27(6), 419-428.

Park, W., Cho, H. (2022). The interaction of history and STEM learning goals in teacher-developed curriculum materials: Opportunities and challenges for STEAM education. Asia Pacific Education Review, 23(3), 457-474.

Park, W., Erduran, S., & Guilfoyle, L. (2022). Secondary teachers’ instructional practices on argumentation in the context of science and religious education. International Journal of Science Education, 44(8), 1251-1276.

Erduran, S., Guilfoyle, L., & Park, W. (2022). Science and religious education teachers’ perceptions of argumentation and its teaching. Research in Science Education, 52(2), 655-673,

Park, W., & Song, J. (2022). Looking back at “our science” and “our history”: Exploring Korean preservice teachers’ encounters with East Asian history of science. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 17(2), 355-381.

Park, W., Kim, D., & Kang, D. Y. (2021). Research trends in science and mathematics education in South Korea 2014–2018: A cross-disciplinary analysis of publications in selected local journals. Asia-Pacific Science Education, 7, 280–308.

Guilfoyle, L., Erduran, S., & Park, W. (2021). An investigation into secondary teachers’ views of argumentation in science and religious education. Journal of Beliefs and Values, 42(2), 190–204.

Park, W., Wu, J.-Y., & Erduran, S. (2020). The nature of STEM disciplines in the science education standards documents from the USA, Korea and Taiwan: Focusing on disciplinary aims, values and practices. Science & Education, 29(4), 899–927. 

Park, W. (2020). Beyond the “two cultures” in the teaching of disaster: or how disaster education and science education could benefit each other. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(13), 1434–1448. 

Park, W., Yang, S., & Song, J. (2020). Eliciting students’ understanding of nature of science with text-based tasks: Insights from new Korean high school textbooks. International Journal of Science Education, 42(3), 426–450. 

Park, W., Yang, S., & Song, J. (2019). When modern physics meets nature of science: The representation of nature of science in general relativity in new Korean physics textbooks. Science & Education, 28(9–10), 1055–1083. 

Erduran, S., Guilfoyle, L., Park, W., Chan, J., & Fancourt, N. (2019). Argumentation and interdisciplinarity: Reflections from the Oxford Argumentation in Religion and Science Project. Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research, 1, 8. 

Park, W., & Song, J. (2018). Goethe’s conception of “experiment as mediator” and implications for practical work in school science. Science & Education, 27(1–2), 39–61. 

Book Chapters

Erduran, S., Guilfoyle, L., & Park, W. (in press). Broadening STEM education through cross-curricular collaboration: The case of argumentation in science and religious education. In Y. Li, Z. Zeng & N. Song (Eds.), Disciplinary and Iiterdisciplinary education in STEM: Changes and innovations. Springer. 

Erduran, S, & Park, W. (2023). A systemic approach to the integration of Big Science in science education. In P. Charitos, T. Arabatzis, H. Cliff, G. Dissertori, J. Forneris & J. Li-Ying (Eds.), Big Science in the 21st century: Economic and social impacts. IOP Publishing.

Erduran, S., & Park, W. (2023). Argumentation in physics education: Recent trends and key themes. In M. F. Taşar & P. Heron (Eds.), International handbook of physics education research. AIP Publishing.

Park, W., Wu, J.-Y., & Erduran, S. (2020). Investigating the epistemic nature of STEM: Analysis of curriculum documents from the USA using the Family Resemblance Approach. In Anderson, J., & Li, Y. (Eds.) Integrated approaches to STEM education: An international perspective (pp. 137–155). Springer.

Yang, S., Park, W., & Song, J. (2020). Representations of nature of science in new Korean science textbooks: The case of “scientific inquiry and experimentation”. In A.-L. Tan., T. W. Teo, & Y. S. Ong (Eds.), Science education in the 21st century: Re-searching issues that matters from different lenses (pp. 19–35). Springer. 

Park, W., & Song, J. (2019). Between realism and constructivism: A sketch of pluralism for science education. In E. Herring, K. Jones, K. Kiprijanov, & L. Sellers (Eds.), The past, present and future of integrated history and philosophy of science (pp. 228–247). Routledge. 

Opinions, Reviews and Practitioner Pieces

Park, W., Miani, L., & Levrini, O. (2024). Disasters in the classroom: Lessons on talking to students about extreme climate events. UNDRR PreventionWeb.

Park, W. (2024). Remembering Titanic: Lessons from a cross-curricular professional development project with science and history teachers. Education in Science, 294, 22-23.

Park, W. (2023). Computing education in the United Kingdom. Science Times. (written in Korean)

Park, W., Lee, S., Lee, E., & Lee, J. (2023). How South Koreans remember tragedy through education. BERA Blog. 

Park, W. (2022). Learning from Grenfell and Sewol: Why science education can be crucial for disaster justice and resilience. HPS&ST Newsletter.

Park, W. (2022). K-Science Education: Korean science education from an international perspective. Journal of Seoul Science Education (August 2022 Issue) (written in Korean). http://webzine-ssp.kr/education_issue/54

Park, W. (2020). Preparing school science for the next disaster. Teach311+COVID19 Collective Blog. https://www.teach311.org/2020/06/25/wonyong-park/

Grants and Contracts

The Grenfell Curriculum: Developing principles for disaster justice education through community-based participatory research (PI)
Funder: Research England (University of Southampton Internal Allocation)
Duration: 2024

RAPID: Co-developing a community-based science education curriculum framework for disaster justice and resilience: A response to the 2022 Buffalo Blizzard (Co-PI)
Funder: National Science Foundation (Award Number: 2326811)
Duration: 2023-2024

Exploring directions for post-pandemic disaster education through interdisciplinary collaboration between the UK and South Korea (PI)
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (Award Number: ES/W010917/1)
Duration: 2022-2023

A review of existing STEM policies and strategies in South-East Europe and part of the Mediterranean countries (14 countries) in the context of scaling up the implementation of SDG 4, SDG 5 and SDG 9 (Lead Individual Specialist)
Funder: UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe
Duration: 2022-2023

Remembering Titanic: Interdisciplinary place-based education about the Titanic disaster (PI)
Funder:  University of Southampton (Higher Education Innovation Fund)
Duration: 2022-2023

Professonal Service

Editorships

Associate Editor, Research in Science Education (2024-)

Guest Editor, International Journal of Science Education (2023-)

Guest Editor, Science & Education (2023-)

Editorial Boards

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Research in Science Teaching (2023-2026)

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Science Teacher Education (2022-2025)

Service to University

Deputy Chair, Faculty of Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee (2023-)

Ethics Champion for Education, Faculty of Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee (2022-)

Ethics Reviewer, Faculty of Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee (2021-)

Member, Head of School Consultation Committee (2022-2023)

Service to Organisations

Strand Co-Chair, ESERA Strand 5: Interdisciplinarity and Education (2022-)

Member, UK Research and Innovation Talent Peer Review College (2022-)

President, Oxford Korean Academic Society (2020–2021)

Journal Reviewer

Science Education; Science & Education; Journal of Research in Science Teaching; Oxford Review of Education; Cultural Studies of Science Education; Asia-Pacific Science Education; European Journal of Education; Teaching and Teacher Education; International Journal of Chinese Education; International Journal of Comparative Education and Development; International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education; Research in Science Education; Journal of Education, Technology & Society; Journal of Curriculum Studies; Journal of Korean Association for Science Education; Journal of Science Teacher Education; The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher; Education Sciences; Disaster Prevention and Management

Conference Reviewer

National Association for Research in Science Teaching; European Science Education Research Association; International Society of the Learning Sciences

Grant Proposal Reviewer

Israel Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology 

Invited Talks & Seminars

Korea National University of Education, Department of Chemistry Education. April 2019.

Ewha Womans University, Research Centre for Hazard Literacy Education. November 2021.

Seoul National University, Department of Physics Education. December 2021.

University of Southampton, Southampton Education School. February 2022.

CERN, Physics Education Research Group. April 2022.

University of Groningen, Institute for Science Education and Communication. June 2022.

Institute of Physics & University of Birmingham Department of Physics, IOP Conference. June 2022.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Disaster Haggyo. August 2022.

Seoul National University, Department of Science Studies. September 2022.

Kongju National University, Department of Physics Education. September 2022.

King's College London, Centre for Research in Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. June 2023.

UCL Institute of Education, Reimagining Disaster Education: Perspectives and Methodologies. June 2023.

Oxford Summit of Koreans in Academia. June 2023.

Korean Association for Science Education. July 2023.

Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. August 2023.

Seoul Women's Univeristy. September 2023.

Chuncheon National University of Education. September 2023.

Seoul National University, Education of Physics in Context Lab, October 2023.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy. November 2023.

University at Buffalo, Graduate School of Education, March 2024.

4.16 Institute of Democratic Citizenship Education, April 2024.