Thao Tran
Email: thao.tran2@unsw.edu.au
Supervisors: Hoa Nguyen, Jill Bennett
Thao Thanh Nguyen Tran is a PhD candidate in Education at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, funded by the Australian Government Research Training Program scholarship. Prior to embarking on her doctoral studies, she was awarded the UCD Global Excellence scholarship to pursue a MA Education at University College Dublin, Ireland. While in Dublin, she contributed as a teacher to EU-funded Erasmus+ projects and later as a research assistant at the UCD School of Education on a large-scale project promoting professional development for female teachers in the Global South. She also worked as a lecturer in a private university in Vietnam. Her research interests include teacher professional development, psychosocial wellbeing, language education and advocating for education as a public good.
- Research area
- Research outputs
- Teacher professional development
- Trauma-informed practices
- Tran, T.N.T, Clarke, M., Raftery, D., Ferris, R., Regan, E., Nowlan-Roebuck, C., Kitanova, M., & Atwal, J. (2025). Communities of practice as 'brave spaces': perspectives from women teachers in India. Teachers and Teaching.
- Nguyen, C.D., Tran, T.N.T. (2024). Languages and ethnic minority students’ access to education in Vietnam: Problems turned into opportunities from the perspective of translanguaging. In: Phan Le Ha, Bao, D., Windle, J. (eds) Vietnamese Language, Education and Change In and Outside Vietnam. Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community. Springer, Singapore.
- Tran, T.N.T. (2024). Brave spaces within pedagogical practices for teachers in higher education: Transforming scars into stars. The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction SIG 11&13. University of Oxford, UK.
- Tran, T.N.T., Raftery, D., Clarke, M., Ferris, R., et al. (2024). Addressing gender inEqualities through critical hope: perspectives of women teachers in communities of practice in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Nicosia.
- Nguyen, C. D., Tran, T. N. T., Pham, N. T. T., & Huynh, M. K. N. (2023). ‘I don’t want to see the foreign languages connected with our family disappear’: building and maintaining a multilingual family in the monolingual context of Vietnam. International Journal of Multilingualism, 21(4), 1799–1820.