Professor Lim Sun Sun
Vice President, Partnerships & Engagement
Website: sunsunlim.com | Connect on LinkedIn
Professor Lim Sun Sun is Vice President, Partnerships & Engagement and Professor of Communication and Technology at the Singapore Management University. A veteran of higher education, she has held leadership positions at the National University of Singapore where she was faculty for fourteen years, and was Dean of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Singapore University of Technology Design for six years. From 2018-2020, she was Nominated Member of the 13th Parliament of Singapore, raising issues such as governance of big data, support for gender diversity in the technology sector, and digital rights for children. She is Vice President of the Singapore Computer Society’s Women in Tech chapter and also serves on the Media Literacy Council, Singapore Environment Council and Social Science Research Council. She is an honoree of the inaugural Singapore 100 Women in Tech list in 2020.
An accomplished academic, Sun Sun has extensively researched the social impact of technology, focusing on technology domestication by families, workplace digital disruptions and public perceptions of smart city technologies. She has authored over 90 publications including Transcendent Parenting: Raising Children in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2020) and co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society (Oxford University Press, 2020). She is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and serves on thirteen journal editorial boards. She frequently offers her expert commentary in international outlets including Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Nature, Scientific American, Channel NewsAsia and writes a monthly TechTalk column in The Straits Times. She has won eight awards for excellent teaching.
As an engaged city university, SMU is constantly working with an extensive bench of partners from the private, public and people sectors in Singapore and beyond. The Partnerships & Engagement Group housing the Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Office of Industry Engagement, International Office and Office of Overseas Centres is your gateway to collaborating with SMU.
Whether you are a corporation or think tank, non-profit or professional association, university or university alliance, we endeavour to link you with the relevant schools, offices, colleagues or student groups. Our website introduces the full range of services that our Partnerships & Engagement Group offers and the relevant people you can reach out to.
At SMU, we work tirelessly to forge deeper links with our vast swathe of stakeholders so that together, we can build a transformative education landscape, produce societally relevant research and shape leaders for and of the future.
Even as we mount a diverse suite of thought leadership and collaborative events to connect with our broader network, we are also eager to hear from you on how SMU can work with you and your organisation to co-create solutions, grow businesses and nurture communities.
Drop me or any of our Partnerships and Engagement Group a line. Universities are a force for positive change and by working with an engaged city university like SMU, you can be part of that change too.