Gil-Soo Han

Personal profile

Biography

My disciplinary training is sociological, but I greatly appreciate anthropological and historical insights in my teaching and research. Throughout my academic career, my research “subjects”/participants have been from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse people; or the disadvantaged, such as immigrants, overseas trained professionals, and rural population. In my research into these populations, there have been 3 key sources of evidence for analysis. They are:

the study of participants' experiences;
how they represent themselves in, or how they are represented by, the media; and
how their life is enabled and restrained by socio-cultural/economic factors. This is reflected in my research publications where ethnic, local and national media representations are critical sources of empirical data.

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Joining Monash Communications & Media Studies in 2008, I have continued my sociological insights and extended to the study of Communications & Media. I have well embraced the very broad definition of Communication which regards human relations and interactions as the product of how humans (un)successfully communicate with each other. For example, how immigrants are well integrated is a matter of how the host society and immigrants are willing to or (un)successfully communicate with each other.

Major monographs:

Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea: The business of death (2019, Springer)
Nouveau-rich Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Korea: A media narrative analysis (2016, Routledge)
Korean Diaspora and Media in Australia: In search of identities (2012, Univ Press of America)
Healthcare Reform and Interest Groups: Catalysts and barriers in rural Australia (with Frank Evans, 2006, Univ Press of America)
Health and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean immigrants in Australia (2000, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
Social Sources of Church Growth: Korean Churches in the Homeland and Overseas (1994, Univ Press of America)
Minorities and Media in Australia: Producers, Industries, Audiences (Co-Ed 2017, Palgrave).

My research impact and contributions beyond Communications & Media research, prior to and post 2008, is international and cumulative. I have been an invited panel speaker at national and international conferences. Of equal importance is my engagement with the Korean community in Australia where I am often invited to deliver lectures to the Korean community in Australia, speaking on topics of interest to the public, teachers, future leaders, the clergy etc.

Research interests

Intercultural communications,
Global communications,
Local agency and globalisation
Religious communication,
Ethnicities,
Health communication,
Communications and media,
Cotemporary Korean society.
My research pursuit is centred on intersections between individual members of society and diverse socio-economic institutions & structure in the fast changing society. In addition to five books, one co-authored book and one edited volume, I published seventy journal articles and book chapters.

Research Projects

I am currently leading an international project, Local Agency and National Responses to Globalisation: The South Korean Case in Comparative, Transnational and Diasporic Perspective, funded by The Academy of Korean Studies' Laboratory Program for Korean Studies (AU$1.87M, 2018-2023). Other CIs include Professors Timothy Lim, Jaeeun Kim, Erin Chung, Nora Kim, Seungsook Moon and Kyungja Jung.

Supervision interests

Potential doctoral candidates are welcome to get in touch with me through my email -

Gil-Soo.Han@monash.edu

Monash teaching commitment

ATS2250 Communications and Cultures in the Global Era [Intercultural Communications]

ATS3760 Global Communications

Research area keywords

Contemporary Korean Society
Religious Communication
Health Communication
Intercultural Communication
Grassroots Nationalism in Korea
Local Agency & Globalisation
The Korean Community in Australia

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Projects

1 Not started
2 Active
6 Finished

Korean_Responses: Local Agency and National Responses to Globalization: The South Korean Case in Comparative, Transnational and Diasporic Perspective

Han, G., CHUNG, E. A., KIM, N. H., LIM, T., KIM, J., JUNG, K. & MOON, S.

1/08/18 → 31/07/23

Project: Research

Creating a Nexus at Monash for a Stronger Korean Studies in Melbourne and the Metropolitan Region AKS CORE UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME FOR KOREAN STUDIES

Jackson, A., Brown, L., Sohn, J., Han, G., Kim, J. S., Roh, J., Ko, H. & Zulawnik, A.

20/12/17 → 19/12/22

Project: Research

Changing disease patterns amongst migrants: a focus on the National Health Priority Areas

Han, G.

Australian Research Council (ARC)

Project: Research

ADFR: Approaches to Death, Funeral Rites and Memorialisation in Contemporary Australia

Han, G. & Forbes-Mewett, H.

15/02/18 → 30/03/19

Project: Research

Chinese immigrants’ changing values and perceptions of funeral rites in the context of multicultural Australia & ii) Facing the funeral rite in the new homeland: Chinese migrants in Melbourne

Han, G.

1/08/16 → 30/11/17

Project: Research

Research Output

67 Article
9 Conference Paper
7 Chapter (Book)
6 Book
5 More

Together Here, Now and Forever: Chinese Immigrants’ Belonging in Australia, Family, Ethnicity and Memorialisation

Forbes-Mewett, H. & Han, G. S., 2020, In : Journal of Intercultural Studies. 41, 3, p. 370-385 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Dengue control in the context of climate change: views from health professionals in different geographic regions of China

Tong, M. X., Hansen, A., Hanson-Easey, S., Xiang, J., Cameron, S., Liu, Q., Liu, X., Sun, Y., Weinstein, P., Han, G-S., Williams, C., Mahmood, A. & Bi, P., 2019, In : Journal of Infection and Public Health. 12, 3, p. 388-394 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

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1 Citation (Scopus)

Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea: The Business of Death

Han, G-S., 2019, 1 ed. Singapore: Springer. 231 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

Men's weight loss stories: How personal confession, responsibility and transformation work as social control

Couch, D. L., Han, G-S., Robinson, P. & Komesaroff, P. A., 1 Jan 2019, In : Health. 23, 1, p. 76-96 21 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

Association between malaria incidence and meteorological factors: a multi-location study in China, 2005-2012

Xiang, J., Hansen, A., Liu, Q., Tong, M. X., Liu, X. B., Sun, Y., Cameron, S., Hanson-Easey, S., Han, G-S., Williams, C. R., Weinstein, P. & Bi, P., 2018, In : Epidemiology and Infection. 146, p. 89-99 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

5 Citations (Scopus)

Prizes

Friend of the African Community

Han, Gil-Soo (Recipient), 2014

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Good Practice in Teaching, Monash University, 2007

18/05/17

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities