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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.
The Common Heritage of Mankind, Global cultural policy, UNESCO, policy-making, Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy, AI in the creative industries, Human-AI interaction
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
Associate Fellow (AFHEA)
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):
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 2020 → Oct 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 2017 → Dec 2018
Bachelor of Arts, University of Edinburgh
Module Convenor, The University of Warwick
Sept 2022 → Sept 2024
Assistant Programme Specialist, Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding Republic of Korea under the auspices of UNESCO
Feb 2019 → Dec 2019
Programme Officer, Korean National Commission for UNESCO
Feb 2016 → Nov 2016
Assistant Programme Officer, Korean National Commission for UNESCO
Apr 2015 → Jan 2016
Intern, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Jul 2014 → Dec 2014
Programme Assistant, Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding Republic of Korea under the auspices of UNESCO
Oct 2013 → Dec 2013
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