Academic roles, accolades and memberships
Academic roles at DMU
Faculty Staff Loading Review Group staff representative for ADA (2024-present)
DMU Professional Recognition Fellowship Mentor & Reviewer (2024-present)
Reviewer on the Institute of Arts, Design and Performance Internal Research Funding Panel (2024-present)
Faculty Head of Research Ethics on the Faculty Research Ethics Committee (2023-present)
Programme Leader for MA and MSc Product Design (2021-present)
ADH (Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities) contact for research relating to India for India Advisory Board (2023)
Reviewer on the Institute of Art and Design Research Funding Committee (2022-2024)
ADH Early Career Representative in the Concordat for Researcher Development Task and Finish Group (2022-2023)
Faculty Deputy Head of Research Ethics on the Faculty Research Ethics Committee (2021-2023)
ADA (School of Art, Design and Architecture) Lead Ethics Reviewer on the Faculty Research Ethics Committee (2021-2023)
Early Career Academic/Researcher Representative on the Faculty Research and Business Innovation Committee (2020-2024)
External roles
2nd International Industrial Ecology Conference (IIECON-2025) Scientific Committee (2024-present)
Design Council Expert Network member (https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/who-we-are/our-people/kyungeun-sung/) (2024-present)
Korean Society of Design Science Board member - 17th period (2024-present)
ICLLCD 2024 (The 3rd International Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture Development) Technical Programme Committee (2024)
UKRI Interdisciplinary Assessment College member (2023-present)
UKRI AHRC Peer Review College member (2022-present)
Awards and accolades
DMU Climate Action Awards 2023 Climate Action Engagement Champion (2023)
DMU Climate Change Awards 2022 Climate Action in Arts and Culture (2022)
DMU Vice-Chancellor's Future Research Leaders (FRL8) Programme (2021-2022)
Royal Academy of Engineering endorsement for exceptional promise as a potential world leader in upcycling research (2019)
Memberships
British Academy Early Career Researcher Network member (2022-present)
British Academy of Management member (2016-present)
The Design Society member (2016-present)
International Sustainable Development Research Society (2016-present)
Design Research Society member (2015-present)