City St. George’s, University of London is a public research university in London. By the recent merger between City, University of London (founded in 1894) and St George’s, University of London, City St. George’s, University of London, has become one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, and a powerful multi-faculty institution with a distinctive focus on professional education and research at the frontier of practice.
Located in central London, City St. George’s has six schools – the City Law school, School of Health & Psychological Sciences, School of Policy & Global Affairs, School of Communication & Creativity, School of Science & Technology and Bayes Business School (formerly Cass). There are nearly 20,000 students at the university from more than 160 universities and staff from over 75 countries, reflecting their aim to create a cultural environment that is welcoming and encourages all individuals to strive to the best of their ability.
Ranked as the 40th best university in the UK, City prides itself on being the University of business, practice and the professions and aims to provide the relevant skills, attributes and approaches that enable our graduates to succeed in their future careers and life pathways. According to the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025, City’s Media and Communications programmes are ranked in top 10 in the country and number 1 in London.
Hyunsun is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Communications at the Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries, City St. George’s, University of London.
As a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), she has extensive experience in teaching and researching media, advertising, and marketing communications over two decades. She has published widely on these topics and also successfully completed several research projects with a particular focus on older adults’ relationship with digital communications. Hyunsun’s work has been shared both nationally (in the UK) and internationally through public engagement and continued collaborations with organisations such as the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the History of Advertising Trust (HAT), the Korean Cultural Centre and the European Institute for Commercial Communications Education (EdCom). Her international profile has a foundation in using education to empower under-represented communities and to improve the public experience of digital communications.