ProfessorLy Tran

Professor in Education

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Two main areas of my research focus are:

International Education, including international education policy, international education as public diplomacy, geopolitics of international education, international students, international graduate employability, internationalisation of teaching and learning, Australian students' learning and engagement in the Indo-Pacific, education-work-migration nexus and staff professional learning in international education.

Higher education in Vietnam, Southeast Asia and East Asia, including internationalisation of HE, student mobilities, student experiences, graduate employability and curriculum.

Projects:


Australia-Vietnam Enhanced Economic Engagement Strategy (EEES) - Internationalisation of Higher Education. Australian Government Department of Education & MOET. Ly Tran, John Molony, Diep Nguyen, Huyen Bui, Thu Vo, John Bolton, Bardo Fraunholz, Angela Puskic. 

Vietnam-Australia partnerships for digital transformation in higher education. CIs: Widjaja, Tran, Bui, Yim & Fraunholz. Australian Awards Fellowship, DFAT. 2023. 

Assessing the feasibility of a student welcome centre. Ly Tran, Danielle Hartridge & Diep Nguyen. City of Melbourne

Empowering Leadership in Transnational Education for An Impactful and Sustainable Growth. Quach, Bui, Nguyen, Nguyen & Tran. Aus4Skills.

Best Practice International Student Engagement, Australian Government's Department of Education. Tran, Blackmore, Hartridge, Forbes-Mewett, Aldana, 2022-3. 

ARC Discovery Project (DP220100552). Student mobility, risk and changing geopolitics of international education. Ly Tran, Jill Blackmore, Baogang He, Quan Vu. 2022-2025. 

ARC Discovery Project (DP190100987). International students' sexual and intimate partner violence experiences. Tarzia, Forbes-Mewett, Tran, Hegarty, Segrave, Humphreys, Murdulo. 2019-2022. 

ARC Future Fellowship (FT170100101), New Colombo Plan: Australian students' learning in and engagement with Asia. 2017-2022. 

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103181), International students in secondary schools.. 2016-2019. Blackmore; Tran; Beavis; Rowan; PI: Halse, Karcher. 

ARC DECRA Project (DE140101473), Staff Professional Development in International Vocational Education. 2014-2017.

ARC Discovery Project (DP0986590), International students in Vocational Training and Education: Learning Practices and Institutional Responses
2009-2013. 

2021, Learning English as a Second Language in Interactive Virtual Environments with Avatars. Wang, Hoang, Tran, Bonti.

2019, Leadership for Vietnamese women leaders. Tran, Blackmore & Rowlands. Vietnam's Ministry of Home Affairs.

2018, Needs of and Gaps Encountered by Employers in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam. Tran, Ngo & Nguyen. Aus4skills.

The impact of post-study work rights on international students in Australia. Central Research Grants Scheme. CI: Tran, Tan; Rahimi.

Enhancing the experience and outcome of international HDR Candidates: Reciprocal Intercultural Supervision. Tran, Green, Nguyen. IEAA.

Cultural perspectives, credentialism and graduate employability in the field of accounting. Blackmore, Tran, Rahimi. CPA Australia.

Transnational and local teacher conceptualisations of international mindedness in PYP programmes in Australian and Singaporean IB schools, Moss, Tran, Chao. International Baccalaureate.

Exploring Hybrid Universities in Vietnam: Cultures, Values and Changes. Tran, Nguyen, Ngo & Chan. REDI Grant.

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Australia Enhanced Economic Engagement Strategy.
    1 Feb 2024 - 30 Jun 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Education (Australian Government) - ESE22/1596 - $57,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Assessing the feasibility of a student welcome centre.
    29 Jan 2024 - 30 Apr 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ly Tran
    City of Melbourne Grant - Research - $11,394.00
  • GRANT
    Vietnam-Australia partnerships for digital transformation in higher education
    25 Jul 2023 - 12 Oct 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Australia Awards Fellowships - R180839 - $310,175.62
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Best practice International Student engagement, Department of Education Skills and Employment. Canberra. PRN ESE22/386
    8 Apr 2022 - 4 Apr 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Education, Skills and Employment (Cmwlth) - $299,688.09
  • GRANT
    Student mobility, risk and changing geopolitics of international education
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP220100552 - $355,586.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Learning English as a Second Language in Interactive Virtual Environments with Avatars.
    9 Dec 2020 - 13 Feb 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Shanghai Langjia Traffic Environment Technology Co Ltd - $201,040.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Leadership and management of Vietnamese Women Leaders.
    27 Aug 2019 - 30 Aug 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Vietnamese Ministry of Home Affairs - CONTR2019/01680 - $35,052.46
  • GRANT
    International students' sexual and intimate partner violence experiences
    10 May 2019 - 9 May 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Tran L,
    • Tarzia L,
    • Forbes-Mewett H,
    • Hegarty K,
    • Segrave M
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP190100987 - $8,792.00
  • FELLOWSHIP
    New Colombo Plan: Australian students' learning in and engagement with Asia
    4 Sep 2017 - 3 Sep 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ly Tran
    ARC Fellowships - Future Fellowships - FT170100101 - $827,926.12
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Intercultural doctoral supervision: Research digest and guides
    28 Jun 2016 - 31 Dec 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ly Tran
    International Education Association of Australia - $6,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Transnational and local teacher conceptualisations and enactments of international-mindedness in PYP programmes in Australian and Singaporean IB World Schools
    9 Mar 2016 - 28 Feb 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    International Baccalaureate Organization - Switzerland - $17,644.66
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Cultural perspectives, credentialism and graduate employability in the field of accounting
    29 Jan 2016 - 31 Oct 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    CPA Australia - $54,545.46
  • GRANT
    International students in secondary schools
    1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP160103181 - $318,332.02
  • GRANT
    Teacher Professional Development in International Vocational Education and Training
    17 Feb 2014 - 16 Feb 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ly Tran
    ARC DECRA - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - DE140101473 - $262,556.34
  • GRANT
    International Students in the Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) Sector: Study Purposes, Learning Practices and Institutional Responses
    1 Jul 2013 - 31 Dec 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ly Tran
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP0986590 - $27,548.00