Anticipated Graduation:  June 2020

Youngjun ChoiProfessional and Research Interests:  Youngjun’s research focuses on impacts of high technologies on older adults’ health and psychological well-being with social justice perspectives. Implementing publicly funded Internet-based counselling services for dementia caregivers, Youngjun saw the potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as an advanced means in social service delivery system. Simultaneously, he also realized that many caregivers who needed supports could not benefit from the services due to limited access to the Internet. Based on the experiences as both researcher and implementer, it has become Youngjun’s long-term research and implementation goal to deploy digital technologies to bring a more comprehensive array of social services to socially disadvantaged groups. Youngjun is interested in teaching social welfare research, advanced quantitative methods, aging, and social policy courses.

Email:     yjchoi81@uw.edu