Ming Cheung (張可明) is Associate Professor with Tenure in Media at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She conducts research on visual communication, digital marketing and advertising, participatory social media, user experience design, design thinking and innovation management, design education and creativity, media policy and intellectual property. She holds degrees with First Class Honours or Distinction in design, law, information technology, education, languages and music.

She hasled and completed 16 national and university grant projects and published productively in some of the top-ranked international journals. In the recent five years, 14 of her refereed publications were published or are forthcoming in SCI-, SSCI- or AHCI-listed journals. The majority are sole-authored. A Top Paper Awardee, she has consistently presented her research in the largest and most prestigious international conferences in her field.

She started her career as a practitioner in advertising and design, having worked as Principal Consultant in a design agency for 11 years. She also worked as Project Manager leading and managing 56 staff members in the Hong Kong Government. She then joined City University of Hong Kong as a faculty member. She was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award of CityU in 2005 and was the Program Leader of BA (Hons) in Integrated Strategic Communication of CityU from 2007 to 2010.

She was Visiting Associate Professor in Digital and Creative Media at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China in 2011, during which she networked with more than 100 media and product designers in Ningbo and Shanghai. She is currently also Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Permanent Member of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of South Australia. In 2014, she was awarded the University of Adelaide’s HUMSS Executive Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the HUMSS Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching. She writes in English and Chinese, and speaks fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin as well as some Japanese and Korean.

She was a brass band conductor before, and learnt oil painting from her father since four years old and darkroom photography from her brother since seven. She plays the piano and flute, and is a lover of squash and water sports. Her favourite places of interest include the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Maui, Molokini, Hokkaido, New Zealand and Amazon Rainforest. She is now working on her sole-authored academic book “User Experience Design” as well as her first novel “十一月二十一”.

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