Youngha is an established real estate academic and researcher with a growing international reputation in the sphere of public and private sector housing, housing supply, housing market and mortgage markets analysis. She has a strong and productive network of international collaborations with academics from Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and the US. Since 2018 Youngha has collaborated with leading academics and institutions in Japan and Sub-Saharan African countries to develop new research ideas in the interlinked thematic areas between housing, labour market, ageing and health. 

Having gained a reputation in the UK and internationally, she has been invited to talk at international conferences and to work as a board member of various international research networks. She is also working actively as an academic referee in paper review committees for several leading journals and the National Grant Applications Committee of Hong Kong, China and EPSRC/ NIHR in the UK.

In 2020 she was appointed as joint lead of the Healthy Ageing and Care Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (RIKE) Network at Oxford Brookes. She is currently developing the next stage of her research themes on ageing, and the integration between health and social care and housing. She has actively engaged in knowledge exchange, supporting social and affordable housing providers in the UK, South Korea and Japan. Recently she has been building new networks locally and nationally such as Oxfordshire Seniors group, Healthwatch, Oxford Community Voluntary Action, AGE UK, Centre for Ageing Better, International Longevity Centre and many other charities and voluntary organisations. She has ambitions to network internationally further. 

Publications: 

Hwang S, Cho Y. and Noh, S, (2022) The cost of overconfidence in public information, International Review of Financial Analysis, Vol.79  

Carpenter, J. Brett, J. Cho, Y. Spencer B. and Moreira De Souza, T. (2021), Exploring lessons from Covid-19 for the role of the voluntary sector in Integrated Care Systems. Healthy Ageing and Care Network, Oxford Brookes University.

Cho, Y. and Whitehead C.  (2021) Better off households moving to more deprived areas: What is happening? Why, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.

Hwang S, Cho Y., Shin J, (2020) ‘The Impact of UK Household Overconfidence in Public Information on House Prices’. Journal of Property Research, Volume 37, 360-389.

R. Keivani Cho, Y. and E. Werna (2018) Room for Improvement: How to (Better) Integrate Housing and Labour Markets, URBANET, September, Available on-line at https://www.urbanet.info/housing-labour-global-south/.

S. Hwang, Cho Y., J. Shin, (2017) Does Illiquidity matter in residential property? Applied Economics 49 (1), 1-20

Brownill S. and Cho Y.(2015) Time to Rebalance Housing Numbers and Affordability, Town and Country Planning Vol 84 No 11

Brownill, S. Cho Y., Keivani R, Nase, I, Valler, D, Bernstock, P and Whitehouse, N (2015) Rethinking Planning Obligations; Achieving a balance between housing numbers and affordability, York, Joseph Rowntree Foundation.