Dr Anna Sung
Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
Dr. Anna Sung has cross-disciplinary background in Finance, Technology, Business, Biotechnology and Higher Education. She is qualified as a Certified Management Accountant and a Certified Technologist. In addition, Anna received her BSc (Hons) in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Graduate Diploma in Research related to health and human behaviour and Master of Business Administration from the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), University of New England (Australia) and Edinburgh Napier University, (U.K), respectively. In addition, Dr. Anna Sung received her Doctor of Business Administration from the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), Spain. Her thesis topic is about microlearning and multimedia learning in Higher Education.
Dr. Anna Sung is a pioneer in FinTech education. Before joining the University of Chester, she was the programme leader of the UK’s first undergraduate degree dedicated to FinTech and was the Founding Centre Lead of the FinTech Innovation Centre at Glyndwr University.
Dr. Anna Sung is also a steering committee member of FinTECHTalents. She had been invited to deliver FinTech talks in different events, for example at the FinTech 2017 conference in Dubai, UAE and Digital Future in Wrexham, etc. Anna actively participates in FinTech related industrial meetings such as FinTech Roundtable meeting organized by the FCA in 2017. In addition, her research outputs related to FinTech also appear in various academic journals.
As a Fellow of Higher Education Academy, Anna has solid international higher education experience. She has worked for Universities in both Hong Kong and the UK. Moreover, she served as academic links for partners located in various countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
Anna joined the University of Chester in January 2019 as a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance. Her current research interests include Financial Technology (FinTech), innovation management, data mining and behavioural data analytics. She has been invited as reviewer for textbooks in various field, such as quantitative methods and innovation management.
- Financial Technology
- Data Analytics
- Quantitative methods
- Digital Finance and digital transformation
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate supervision (Level 6 -Level 8)
- Financial Technology
- Educational Technology
- Microlearning
- Multimedia Learning
- User Experience
- Behavioural Data Analytics
Leong K., Sung A., Cunningham S., John H., and Wall., T. (2020) Chapter 11. Technologies to Support Work-Based Learners, The Work-Based Learning Student Handbook (3rd Edition), pp. 225-245, Macmillan International Higher Education.
Leong K., Sung A., Teissier C. (2020) Financial Technology for Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A., Brandli L., Özuyar P., Wall T. (eds) Partnerships for the Goals. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham.
Sung A., Leong K., Cunningham S. (2020) Emerging Technologies in Education for Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A., Brandli L., Özuyar P., Wall T. (eds) Partnerships for the Goals. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham.
Sung, A., Leong, K., Sironi, P., O’Reilly, T., Tsang, C., and Alison McMillian, A. (2019) An exploratory study of the FinTech (Financial Technology) education and retraining in UK, Journal of Work Applied Management, 11(2), pp. 187-198.
Leong, K., Sung, A., Williams., T., Andoniou, C., and Sun, F. (2019) The Importance of colour on the communication of financial data in management, Journal of Work Applied Management, 11(1), pp. 92-100.
Leong, K., and Sung, A. (2018). FinTech (Financial Technology): What is it and how to use technologies to create business value in FinTech way? International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology, Vol 9 (2).
Andrzej Cwynar, Wiktor Cwynar, Przemysław Szuba, Kelvin Leong, Anna Sung, Anna Ostrowska-Dankiewicz. (2018). Academic Integrity and Debt Literacy of Finance Students: A Cross-national Study. 21st Annual International Conference of Enterprise and competitive Environment, March 2018, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
Alison J. McMillan, Norman Swindells, Edward Archer, Alistair McIlhagger, Anna Sung, Kelvin Leong & Rhys Jones (2017) A review of composite product data interoperability and product life-cycle management challenges in the composites industry, Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer & Composites Science, 3:4, 130-147.
Sung, A, and Leong, K. (2017). Fintech in Europe and its challenges, International Accountant, 94, pp12-13.
Leong, K., & Sung, A. (2015). A review of spatio-temporal pattern analysis approaches on crime analysis. International E-journal of Criminal Sciences, (9).
- DBA (Catholic University of Murcia, Spain)
- MBA in Finance (Edinburgh Napier University, U.K.)
- Graduate Diploma in Research (University of New England, Australia)
- BSc (Hons) in Cellular and Molecular Biology (University of Hong Kong, H.K.)
- Certified Management Accountant (CMA), (IMA, U.S.)
- Certified Technologist, (ITP, New Zealand)
- Fellow (FHEA) of the Higher Education Academy