Kim is a first-generation university student from Northern Ireland. She completed her BA in Sociology with Criminology at the University of Ulster in 2017 and her MA in Gender Studies at the University of Leeds in 2020. She came to University of Manchester in 2023 to begin studying her PhD and is a member of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives.

Kim's current work is examining the lived experiences of rape culture in the everyday lives of Northern Irish women from two contrasting generations, those lived through The Troubles and those who were born after the ceasefire. This project aims to incorporate different areas of gender theory such as the continuum of sexual violence, slow violence, silences, heterosexism, masculinities/femininities and the specter of violence.