Gyeonghwa delivers lectures, seminars and tutorials to students at Levels 4, 5 and 6. She also gives guest lectures to postgraduate students at universities internationally.
Gyeonghwa’s research interests span graphic design, information design, colour design and inclusive design, with a particular focus on how designers think and work in specific design situations within the context of inclusive design. She is expanding her research to explore Korean cultural identity and visual arts alongside design education in South Korea.
Lee G., Westland S., Tang T., Cheung V. (2025) Reflective Practice in Inclusive Information Design: A Co-Design Approach with Vision and Colour Vision Impaired Users. The Design Journal. [Accepted].
Lee G., Yang J., Yun C. (2025) From intuition to intentionality: understanding color decision-making through reflective design practice in graphic design education. 17th International Colour Association (AIC) Congress, 19 Oct - 24 Oct 2025, Taipei, Taiwan. [Funded by the Colour Group (GB)]
Lee G., Cheung V. (2023) A reflection of the Korean colorist and color qualification over the past three decades. 15th International Colour Association (AIC) Congress, 28 Nov - 02 Dec 2023, Bangkok, Thailand.
Lee G., Cheung V., Tang T. (2021) The role of colour designers in the design process. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Colour Association (AIC) Congress. The 14th International Colour Association (AIC) Congress, 30 Aug - 03 Sep 2021, Milan, Italy., pp. 861-866. (Best paper award)
Lee, G. (2021) Clarifying the complexities of qualitative research: A book review of Phillip Adu's a step-by-step guide to qualitative data coding. The Qualitative Report, 26(7), 2168-2170.
Lee G., Westland S., Tang T. (2020) Designer attitudes to accessible information provision on a bus route map: Focus group discussions. In: Langdon P., Lazar J., Heylighen A., Dong H. (eds). Designing for Inclusion. CWUAAT 2020. Springer, Cham.
Lee G., Cheung V., Tang T., Westland S. (2020) Designers' experience and use of colour information. International Colour Association. Proceedings of the Midterm Meeting of the International Colour Association, 14-17 October 2019. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lee G., Westland S., Cheung V. (2019) Colour communication challenges: Exploring disciplinary divides. Journal of the International Colour Association. 23, pp.25-35. (Invited paper)
Lee G. Designers' responses to information accessibility needs. (2019) The Centre for Disability Studies (CDS) Postgraduate Conference. University of Leeds, Social Sciences Building. 11-12 July 2019.
Lee G., Walker V. (2018) Creating accessible transport information for people with vision and colour-vision impairment: A focus group interview. The 9th Lancaster Disability Studies conference. 11-13 September 2018. Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Lee G., Westland S., Cheung V. (2018) Effective colour communication. AIC Interim Meeting 25-29 September 2018. Lisbon, Portugal. (Award-winning)
Gyeonghwa gained seven years of practical employment experience in both the colour design and graphic design areas in South Korea prior to doing her MA and PhD in the UK. Also, having worked extensively in management as a design team leader, she gained a lot of experience in leading design projects and helping early-career designers to build up their careers.
