Key details
Dr Hetty Sun
Associate Head of School - Research and Knowledge Exchange Executive Business Centre
Dr Hetty (Wenxian) Sun is an Associate Professor and Associate Head of the Executive Business Centre. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Hetty is passionate about diversity recognition and social value. As an academic entrepreneur, she innovates her portfolio by integrating real-life projects to promote SMEs and make useful contributions to society. She is one of the judges for the Best of Royal Greenwich Business Awards 2024. Hetty has played a leading role in several pioneering initiatives, including securing multi-million funding from the European Commission. Before joining academia, she worked in the UK FinTech business and contributed to government-funded projects in China, obtaining a government reward for remarkable success.
Responsibilities within the university
- Lead faculty strategic development projects including the development and launch of Hyflex enabled academic programmes;
- Responsible for the overall design of a group of 27 undergraduate programmes, acting as an academic lead for the team of staff who contribute modules and teaching for the core and optional elements of the programme;
- Responsible for ongoing programme design, maintenance and improvement, ensuring that the programme is responsive to market need and that appropriate actions are taken in response to all stakeholders;
- Member of Faculty Research Ethics Committee and Connected CITY Research Group (CCRG)
Awards
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Recognition
- SFHEA - Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- CMBE - Certified Management & Business Educator
- External Examiner for Business & Management subject
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
Research / Scholarly interests
Hetty is specialised in critical system thinking, project management and sustainable value creation. By employing various system methodologies such as critical system heuristics and autopoietics, her recent research focuses on exploring how ‘difference’ or diversity has been recognised and sustained in social crisis management, e.g. COVID response and control strategy.
As an academic entrepreneur with extensive experience in experiential learning and team coaching, her passion of creating practical contribution to society through teaching has enabled her to innovate her teaching portfolio with many successful real-life projects.