Ung-Sang Lee’s research examines how school stakeholders learn to collaboratively center justice and equity in their practices through multi-stakeholder design and improvement partnerships. He connects three related areas of study, examining how organizational learning for racial justice occurs through distributed leadership in K-12 schools, methodological advances in research-practice partnerships (RPPs) facilitate systematic, participatory knowledge-building for racial justice in schools, and how technology-mediated educational practices can be designed and implemented to center the context-specific assets, knowledge, and needs, of school stakeholders.

Currently, he serves as an investigator for a study funded by the W.T. Grant Foundation, a Southern California Regional RPP Network for the Comparative Study of Research Use in Anti-Racist Partnerships.