Dr Huong Nguyen

Project Leader

Dr Huong Nguyen is a 20-year-experience policy analyst/researcher/lecturer/leader in higher education. Her research focuses on strategic research leadership and development, career management and employability of women academics, doctoral graduates, middle level academic managers, and university leaders. She has published in highly regarded journals including Higher Education and Studies in Higher Education and serves on one the editorial board of the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. Dr Nguyen has extensive experience in teaching leadership in Australia and Vietnam. In Australia, she led the development and delivery of two new interdisciplinary core units in the innovative inter-disciplinary Graduate Certificate of Research and Innovation Management at Swinburne University of Technology. This course aims to enhance PhD graduates’ project management, research engagement and impact, and employability skills. She was also a Senior Advisor, Research Capability Development at the College of Business and Law, RMIT, Melbourne. In Vietnam, as one of the youngest female Deans, managing a 130-staff faculty at Hanoi University of Industry, she effectively developed the English degree program for 90 English-majored students and innovated the English language teaching programs for 30,000 non-English majored students. Dr Nguyen earned a Master’s degree in Educational Management (2008–2009) sponsored by the Australian Government’s Leadership Awards, and a PhD degree in Higher Education Policy and Management (2010–2014), both from the University of Melbourne. During 2017 – 2020, she founded and lead iVANet-RDP, an online community that has connected PhD qualified Vietnamese with thousands of young Vietnamese research students. She is currently a lecturer

Dr Lan Do

Team Member

Dr Lan Do is currently working as a lecturer at School of Business and Management, RMIT University, Vietnam. She has been an outstanding academic and female leader at several managerial positions at Hanoi University including Head of the Faculty of Management and Tourism and Deputy Director of International Education Center (2005 – 2013). Her practical experience as a female leader at Hanoi University (2010-2013) and her in-depth knowledge gained from her Ph.D. in management would contribute to the understanding of women leadership development. She also worked as a researcher in the National Research Team in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and was involved in several consulting projects to support entrepreneurs to improve their competitiveness. She was awarded her PhD in Management by RMIT University (Melbourne) in 2018 under the Australian Award Scholarship schemes funded by Australian Government and she completed her Master of Commerce at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia in 2004. Besides, she received Australian Leadership Award in 2012. Her research interests include strategy, entrepreneurship, leadership, and sustainability.  

Dr. Cuong Huu Nguyen

Team Member

Dr. Cuong Huu Nguyen was awarded his PhD in Education by The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) in 2018 (with the support of Endeavour Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Incoming Postgraduate Scholarship). Prior to this PhD, he completed his Master of Assessment and Evaluation at The University of Melbourne, Australia in 2011 (with the support of Australian Development Scholarships – ADS). He has a career background in policy-making in higher education quality assurance in Vietnam. His research interests focus on higher education policy, quality assurance and accreditation, assessment and evaluation, educational leadership and management, human resource development in education, and professional development in education. He has published more than 50 papers in scholarly journals and refereed conference proceedings (15 are indexed in WoS/Scopus database). His most recent book as the lead editor “Quality Assurance in Vietnamese Higher Education: Policy and Practice in the 21st Century” published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019 provides a comprehensive overview of quality assurance in Vietnam higher education under the centralized management of the government after 15 years of development. He is also a reviewer and Editorial Board member of several local and international scholarly journals. Dr. Cuong Huu Nguyen has been running several courses in research design and academic paper publication approaching international standards. He has also supported dozens of naive researchers to undertake their research projects and publish their papers in WoS/Scopus indexed journals.

For further information regarding Dr. Cuong Huu Nguyen’s academic career and publications, please visit: 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cuong-Nguyen-36

Dr Thanh Pham

Team Member

Dr Thanh Pham is a Senior Lecturer in graduate employability, globalisation and intercultural education at Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Her main current research agenda is graduate employability in which she examines how graduates develop resources and capitals to manage their post-study career in various contexts. She has published comparative research in Australia, Japan and Vietnam. She initiated the series of Alumni Experience Conference https://www.monash.edu/alumniconference. This series of conferences aim to close the gap between graduates and current students.

She has also done research and teaching in globalization and internationalisation of education. Having acknowledged that the world is becoming a ‘global village’, she is interested in doing research on intercultural education, especially on investigating how pedagogies work in different socio-cultural contexts. She has done research on how to bring western pedagogies into non-western classrooms and how to embed non-western cultural and intellectual resources into western curricula. 

Her main teaching areas are transition from university to workplace, graduate employability, intercultural education, pedagogical practices, globalisation, school-family partnership and research methodology.

Hoa Bui

Project Assistant

Ms. Hoa Bui is currently doing a Ph.D. at Faculty of Education at La Trobe University, Australia, funded by its Postgraduate Research Scholarship and Full-Fee Research Scholarship. She has also worked as a lecturer at Department of Foundation English, School of Foreign Languages, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) since 2007. Her teaching duties include  integrated skills, English teaching methodology, and research methodology. She earned her bachelor degree in English for Science and Technology from HUST and she was awarded with a full scholarship from Vietnamese government and completed her master’s degree in higher education research and development at University of Kassel, Germany in 2011. Her main research interests are innovations in English teaching and learning, higher education management, and women academics in higher education.