Ms Thao Tran

Ms Thao Tran

Casual Academic
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Education

Thao Tran is a casual academic and a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She did 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.

  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Nguyen CD; Tran TNT, 2024, 'Languages and Ethnic Minority Students’ Access to Education in Vietnam: Problems Turned into Opportunities from the Perspective of Translanguaging', in Vietnamese Language, Education and Change In and Outside Vietnam, Springer Nature, pp. 159 - 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9093-1_8
  • Journal articles | 2026
    Clarke M; Raftery D; Kitanova M; Ferris R; Regan E; Nguyen Thao Tran T; Lima A; Nowlan-Roebuck C, 2026, 'Teacher leadership and communities of practice: Female teachers' experiences in Pakistan', , 1, pp. 4 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.70116/31434541158
    Journal articles | 2026
    Tran TNT; Clarke M; Raftery D; Ferris R; Regan E; Nowlan-Roebuck C; Kitanova M; Atwal J, 2026, 'Communities of practice as ‘brave spaces’: perspectives from women teachers in India', Teachers and Teaching Theory and Practice, 32, pp. 808 - 826, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2025.2490839
    Journal articles | 2026
    Tran TTN; Nguyen HTM; Bennett J, 2026, 'Teachers’ responses to student bullying: A systematic literature review', Teaching and Teacher Education, 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2026.105461
    Journal articles | 2025
    Nguyen HTM; Tran TNT; Ngo NTH, 2025, 'Leadership Positioning: Perspectives From Preservice Teachers', European Journal of Education, 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejed.70315
    Journal articles | 2024
    Nguyen CD; Tran TNT; Pham NTT; Huynh MKN, 2024, '‘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, pp. 1799 - 1820, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2023.2210285

2026 HDR Research Output Award

2024 Australian Government Research Training Programme (RTP) Scholarship

2021 UCD Global Excellent Scholar

 

Current projects:

  • culturally responsive pedagogy (K-12 and higher education)
  • school bullying across contexts
  • CALD higher education
  • team teaching
  • vocational education and training