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Overview

Sun specialises in international cultural policy, UNESCO and Artificial Intelligence in cultural policy and the creative industries. She did a PhD in Sociology and MA in International Cultural Policy and Management from the University of Warwick. Her PhD thesis explores how UNESCO can register AI-generated works as UNESCO heritage, challenging the Turing Test of Alan Turing. As an alternative to the Turing Test, she designed the 'Durkheim Process' as the criteria for evaluating AI-generated works as UNESCO heritage.

She has worked at UNESCO, the Korean National Commission for UNESCO and Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding under the auspices of UNESCO. In the field of UNESCO, she spealised in the interpretation of heritage, global citizenship and UNESCO's policy-making systems. 

Research interests

The Common Heritage of Mankind, Global cultural policy, UNESCO, policy-making, Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy, AI in the creative industries, Human-AI interaction 

Teaching

Sun was a co-module convenor of 'Culture in Global Sustainable Development' and 'International Cultural Policy' that were Master's core modules of the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies of the University of Warwick. She also did teaching across social theory of law, media, audiences and social change, sociology of knowledge and Generative AI in creative industries at the University of Warwick.

Sun also supervised master's dissertations on media discourse, cultural respresentation of game characters, the impacts of Generative AI on journalism, AI literacy and AI anxiety of artists, and users of AI divination applications at the University of Warwick. 

She is teaching the following modules in the 2024-2025 academic year: 

SALC60021 Cultural Policy 

SALC60101 Theories and Practices in Creative and Cultural Industries

SALC60072/60702 Business Strategies for the Arts

SALC61402/60402 Global Creative and Cultural Industries 

 

Qualifications

Associate Fellow (AFHEA)

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, The Registration of AI-generated Works as UNESCO Heritage: Distributed Knowledge Systems as Human-algorithmic Common Heritage of Mankind, The University of Warwick

Oct 2020Oct 2024

Master of Arts, Understanding Ambivalence in Ambiguity of Cultural Policy: the case of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, UNESCO, The University of Warwick

Sept 2017Dec 2018

Bachelor of Arts, University of Edinburgh

External positions

Module Convenor, The University of Warwick

Sept 2022Sept 2024

Assistant Programme Specialist, Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding Republic of Korea under the auspices of UNESCO

Feb 2019Dec 2019

Programme Officer, Korean National Commission for UNESCO

Feb 2016Nov 2016

Assistant Programme Officer, Korean National Commission for UNESCO

Apr 2015Jan 2016

Intern, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Jul 2014Dec 2014

Programme Assistant, Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding Republic of Korea under the auspices of UNESCO

Oct 2013Dec 2013

Areas of expertise

  • JZ International relations
  • Common Heritage of Mankind
  • UNESCO
  • global cultural policy
  • International Convention
  • Policy analysis
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • AI Ethics
  • AI policy
  • AI-generated arts
  • Human-AI interaction

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