Ms Thao Tran
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.
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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