Sirin Sung is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Her main research interests include gender and social policy, work-life balance policies, childcare workforce and gender and benefits in both the UK and East Asian countries. She won the Leverhulme Study Abroad Research Fellowship in 2010 to conduct research on work-family balance issues in the US and UK. Her recent publications include an edited volume Gender and Welfare State in East Asia: Confucianism or Gender Equality? (2014), Palgrave (With Gillian Pascall), ‘Dimensions of Financial Autonomy in Low-Moderate-income Couples from a Gender Perspective and Implications for Welfare Reform in the UK’ (With Fran Bennett), in Journal of Social Policy (2013), ‘Gender, Work and Care in Policy and Practice’, in Critical Social Policy (2018), and and 'Gendered families: States and Societies in Transition' (With Lisa Smyth), in Contemporary Social Sciences (2022).