Dr Hui Sun was a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham. She led on the Language Learning package of the Out of our Minds project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She is now a Lecturer at Cardiff University.

Hui holds a PhD and an MA in applied linguistics from Birkbeck, University of London, and an MA in English language and literature from Beijing Institute of Technology.

Her research interests are in understanding how cognitive and socio-psychological individual differences influence the outcomes of foreign/second language learning.