Dr Daner Sun wins APSCE Early Career Research Award 2022

Dr Sun Daner, Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, has won the 2022 Early Career Research Award from the Asia Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE). The award recognises early career researchers in the early stages of his or her career no later than 12 years after receipt of their doctoral degree, who have produced international research of quality and demonstrated ambitions and aspirations consistent with the potential to achieve world-leading status in the field of computers in education.

Dr Sun joined EdUHK in 2015. Before that, she worked as a postdoc fellow at the Learning Sciences Lab of the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Dr Sun follows a long-term research agenda spanning ICT-supported science education, AI in education, mobile learning, technology-oriented STEM education, and higher-order thinking in interdisciplinary education. In her research, she addresses prevailing hot topics and challenges in these fields, thereby developing a solid understanding of the developments in these fields as well as making her own contributions.

The APSCE is an independent academic society with the broad objective to promote the conduct and communication of scientific research related to all aspects of the use of computers in education, especially within the Asia Pacific. The Early Career Research Award was initially launched in 2009 for provision every two years. Since 2014, the Award has been provided every year. At most, one Early Career Researcher Award will be presented each year.