Woojung Aria Ahn

PhD Candidate and Sessional Academic

Woojung Aria Ahn is a PhD candidate in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. Her research focuses on domestic abuse and bystander intervention across both offline and online settings. Her doctoral work builds on her Honours thesis, which examined in-person bystander responses to domestic and sexual violence in South Korea, and now extends to online bystander intervention in technology-facilitated domestic abuse, with a comparative emphasis on South Korea and Australia.

Aria specialises in quantitative social and survey research, with expertise in survey design and piloting, complex sampling and weighting, and advanced multivariate modelling. Her methodological approach supports the development of cross-cultural evidence that informs prevention strategies in the field.

In addition to her research, Aria is a sessional academic in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She has contributed to the teaching of undergraduate courses in statistics, qualitative research methods and cybercrime and fraud.