Cheng-yu Jung (Mori)

Education

• 2024- Ph.D. student, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures, Arizona State Univesity

• 2011 M.A., Environmental Humanities, University of Utah

• 2002 B.A., Foreign Languages and Literature, Huafan University (Taipei, Taiwan)

Fields of interest

Sustainability, social-ecological-technological systems (SETS), science, technology, & society (STS), living laboratory, environmental humanities, Japan studies

Professional memberships 

• 2025- Sustainability Transitions Research Network

Grants and awards

• 2025 Sustainability Transitions Research Network: Funding for educational research upskilling and capacity building (June)

• 2025 Martinson Sustainability Solutions Research Grant (April)

• 2025 SOS Rob Melnick Sustainability Scholarship (April)

• 2024 School of Sustainability Dissertation Award (Spring 2025) "Imagining sustainable futures: Insights from the 2025 Osaka Expo for Future Co-Creation in Japan"

• 2021 Government Scholarship to Study Abroad, Ministry of Education, Taiwan

• 2002 Member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

Employment related sustainability

Ministry of Environment

• 2024 Project Researcher, Department of Statistics

My responsibilities focused on conducting in-depth policy and methodological analysis of the Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS) within the framework of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA). This involved evaluating sustainable development indicators, enhancing data collection methodologies, and providing actionable insights to integrate environmental and economic dimensions into national policies. My work supported Taiwan’s efforts to align environmental accounting practices with global sustainability standards.

• 2017-2018 International Coordinator, Office of Sustainability

My responsibilities included coordinating and managing environmental-focused projects and fostering environmental diplomacy with the US EPA and partnering countries. I played a key role in building partnerships, facilitating capacity building, and supporting initiatives aimed at promoting environmental protection across the Asia-Pacific Region.

Funding: International Environmental Partnership Program, the Ministry of Environment

National Taiwan University

• 2021-2022 International Coordinator, College of Liberal Arts

In this role, I facilitated international cooperation initiatives, managed exchange student programs, and advanced the college’s sustainability performance. My efforts focused on fostering cross-cultural academic partnerships, enhancing global engagement opportunities for students, and integrating sustainability goals into the university’s strategic objectives, aligning with national higher education enhancement strategies.

Funding: Higher Education SPROUT Project, the Ministry of Education

• 2020-2021 Research Associate, Education for Climate Change Program

My role involved developing and managing programs focused on climate, energy, and sustainable development education, as well as fostering international cooperation. I contributed to interdisciplinary initiatives that aimed to enhance awareness, knowledge-action, and capacity-building in addressing Taiwan’s sustainability challenges, aligning with the project’s mission to advance resilience and sustainability.

Funding: Education for Climate Change Program, the Ministry of Education, PI: Prof. Hwong-wen Ma

• 2018-2020 Project Coordinator, Research Center for Future Earth

I managed multidisciplinary research and education projects, advanced sustainability science, university social responsibility initiatives, and facilitated international collaboration. My role also involved organizing outreach activities to promote sustainability science, fostering partnerships, enhancing the center’s impact on global and local sustainability challenges, and tracking the center’s progress of performance.

Funding: The Featured Areas Research Center Program under the Higher Education SPROUT Project, the Ministry of Education, PI: Prof. Ching-Hua Lo

Projects

• 2025 Beyond the Compact City: Examining Sustainability Transitions through Social-Ecological-Technological Systems in Toyama City, Japan

• 2024 Navigating Japan’s Hokuriku Region for Sustainable Futures: A Social-Ecological-Technological Study of Sustainability Transformations (in progress)

Committee:

• 2025 Imagining sustainable futures: Insights from the 2025 Osaka Expo for Future Co-Creation in Japan (summer field research in progress) 

• 2021 Taiwan-U.S. Bilateral Workshop on Climate Education (in collaboration with Global Environmental Education Partnership and North American Association for Environmental Education), PI: Prof. Hwong-wen Ma, Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University

• 2020 Energy Wise Living Lab (Design and implementation), PI: Prof. Hwong-wen Ma

• 2011 Finding Indigenous Ecological Identities in Syaman Rapongan’s The Old Sea Man and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, M.A. graduation project, Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, University of Utah. Advisor: Prof. Stephen Tatum, Department of English

Services

• 2024 (Dec)         Peer review for The Journal of Circular Economy (ISSN 2752-163X)

• 2023 Graduate student member, Sustainable Mobility Group, UMass Amherst Environmental and Social Action Movement.

• 2022-2023   Graduate student member, UMass Amherst Environmental and Social Action Movement.

Teaching/Research assistantship

• 2024-   Teaching Assistant, School of Sustainability, Arizona State Univeristy

• 2022-2023 Teaching/Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• 2008-2010 Research Assistant, Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, University of Utah

Training/Certificate

• 2024- CITI Program: RCR - Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Responsible Conduct of Research 

• 2024-2028 CITI Program: Human Research - IRB – Social & Behavioral Research (Group 2)

• 2024-2028 CITI Program: Community-Engaged and Community-Based Participatory Research

• 2022   CITI Program: Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research (Curriculum Group)

• 2022   CITI Program: Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research (Course Learner Group)

• 2022   CITI Program: 1 - RCR (Stage)

• 2016   Center for Outdoor Ethics, Leave No Trace Trainer

Languages

• Traditional Chinese

• English

• Japanese

• Hakka

• Taiwanese

Methods and analyses for research

• Observations

• Interviews

• Focus groups

• Surveys

• Secondary research

• Historical study

• Case study

• Digital ethnography

• Policy analysis

• Content analysis

• Thematic analysis

• Textual analysis

IT skills

• Mac OS

• Windows

• Office

• Google Workspace

• Website building

• Imagine editing