ProfessorLy Tran
Professor in Education
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact
- Professor in EducationFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact
- +61 3 924 46026 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
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 RESEARCHAssessing the feasibility of a student welcome centre.29 Jan 2024 - 30 Apr 2024People funded by this grant:
- Ly Tran
- GRANTVietnam-Australia partnerships for digital transformation in higher education25 Jul 2023 - 12 Oct 2023People funded by this grant:
- Widjaja W,
- Tran L,
- Bui H,
- Yim B,
- Fraunholz B
- CONTRACT RESEARCHBest practice International Student engagement, Department of Education Skills and Employment. Canberra. PRN ESE22/3868 Apr 2022 - 4 Apr 2025People funded by this grant:
- Tran L,
- Blackmore J,
- Hartridge D
- GRANTStudent mobility, risk and changing geopolitics of international education1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024People funded by this grant:
- Tran L,
- Blackmore J,
- He B,
- Vu Q
- CONTRACT RESEARCHLearning English as a Second Language in Interactive Virtual Environments with Avatars.9 Dec 2020 - 13 Feb 2023People funded by this grant:
- Wang R,
- Hoang T,
- Bonti A,
- Tran L
- CONTRACT RESEARCHLeadership and management of Vietnamese Women Leaders.27 Aug 2019 - 30 Aug 2019People funded by this grant:
- Tran L,
- Blackmore J,
- Rowlands J
- GRANTInternational students' sexual and intimate partner violence experiences10 May 2019 - 9 May 2022People funded by this grant:
- Tran L,
- Tarzia L,
- Forbes-Mewett H,
- Hegarty K,
- Segrave M
- FELLOWSHIPNew Colombo Plan: Australian students' learning in and engagement with Asia4 Sep 2017 - 3 Sep 2021People funded by this grant:
- Ly Tran
- CONTRACT RESEARCHIntercultural doctoral supervision: Research digest and guides28 Jun 2016 - 31 Dec 2016People funded by this grant:
- Ly Tran
- CONTRACT RESEARCHTransnational and local teacher conceptualisations and enactments of international-mindedness in PYP programmes in Australian and Singaporean IB World Schools9 Mar 2016 - 28 Feb 2019People funded by this grant:
- Moss J,
- Tran L
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCultural perspectives, credentialism and graduate employability in the field of accounting29 Jan 2016 - 31 Oct 2017People funded by this grant:
- Blackmore J,
- Tran L,
- Dang T
- GRANTInternational students in secondary schools1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2018People funded by this grant:
- Blackmore J,
- Halse C,
- Tran L,
- Beavis C,
- Rowan L
- GRANTTeacher Professional Development in International Vocational Education and Training17 Feb 2014 - 16 Feb 2017People funded by this grant:
- Ly Tran
- GRANTInternational Students in the Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) Sector: Study Purposes, Learning Practices and Institutional Responses1 Jul 2013 - 31 Dec 2013People funded by this grant:
- Ly Tran