Academic Staff

Jack Chun received his BA (First Class Hons.) from the University of Hong Kong, MA and PhD from the University of Toronto as a Canadian Commonwealth Scholar. He served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow on New Confucianism and Honorary Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Currently a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, he has been Interim Director of General education Centre at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Subject Chief Examiner for HKEAA and consultant on Thinking Skills for the HKSAR government, the commercial sectors such as SmarTone-Vodafone and professional groups. Dr Chun has also provided consultancy services to universities, including the Cornell-VinUniversity Project in 2019. He has taught Creativity & Creative Thinking and Life & Death for over two decades. Apart from two award-winning MOOCs on Life and Death and Success: Practical Thinking Skills and an XSeries Program of three MOOCs on Chinese culture on edX, he has also created a mobile app on Ethical Thinking adopted by four Faculties of the university. His research areas cover comparative philosophies (esp. Kant and New Confucianism), applied ethics (esp. life and death), creative thinking (available for consultancy), general education (esp. Great Books Program) and e-pedagogy. The publishers of his writings include Oxford University Press, Routledge, McGraw-Hill, Springer and others.

• Bachelor of Arts, The University of Hong Kong
• Master of Arts, University of Toronto
• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toronto