ProfessorLy Tran

Professor in Education

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

TEACHING EXPERTISE

  • Key issues in international education

    Principles and contexts of adult learning

    Working with diversity

    Internationalisation of the curriculum

    HDR Research Supervision

    I am keen to supervise research candidates in areas related to my research interests including international education, student mobility, New Colombo Plan, international students, Vietnamese/Chinese higher education, graduate employability, staff professional learning in international education and curriculum and pedagogy in international education.

    Below are some PhD and Masters projects I have supervised:
    * AI and academic integrity for international students (PhD on Deakin scholarship)
    * Digitalisation of HE and its impacts on employability and career support (PhD on Deakin scholarship)
    * Internationalisation of the Curriculum: A Comparative Study of Australian and Vietnamese Universities (PhD on Deakin scholarship)
  • * Domestic students and internationalisation at home (PhD on ARC project scholarship)
  • * International Study Experience and Employability: A study of Indonesian Students in Australia and Australian New Colombo Plan Students in  Indonesia (PhD on Indonesian government scholarship)
  • * International student engagament in blended learning (PhD on Deakin scholarship)
    * Transnational Education Partnerships in Higher Education since COVID-19: A comparative study of Australia, Indonesia and Vietnam (PhD)
    * VCE curriculum and international students in secondary schools (PhD)
    * Understanding International Secondary Students' Education Experiences: Aspiration and Connectedness. (PhD on ARC project scholarship)
    * Academics' capacity development and engagement in internationalisation: A comparative study of Australian and Vietnamese universities (PhD on Deakin scholarship)
  • * School choices and international schools in Vietnam. (PhD on Deakin scholarship)
    * Inclusive Education Abroad: Examining factors that influence university student participation in study abroad by underrepresented groups in the USA (PhD)
    * Intercultural communication and international graduate employability (PhD on Deakin scholarship)
    * Pre-service Teachers' Learning to Teach in Practicums in Vietnam (PhD on Vietnamese Government's scholarship)
    * Impacts of ICT on the professional identity development of international Vietnamese doctoral students in Australia (Postdoc project on Endeavor scholarship)
    * International students, academic libraries and information seeking (Masters thesis)
    * Transformative learning in the experience of adult learners (Masters thesis)
    * The First Year International Student Perception and Experience of Employability (Masters Research Paper)
    * A trans-disciplinary framework for conceptualising Chinese students' perspectives on academic integrity (PhD study on APA scholarship)
    * The impact of sharing stories on developing cosmopolitan understanding in secondary school students (Masters Research Paper)
    * Saudi Arabian students' transition to a mixed-gender environment (PhD project on government scholarship)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Global Engagement: Fundraising or High Stakes Education
    John Bolton - School of Education
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Where Do You Draw the Line? GenAI and International Students in Australian Higher Education
    Ghazalossadat Fatemi - School of Education
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    A narrative study of international secondary school students from China in Australia: their major academic learning experiences, inspirations and challenges.
    Delan Lin - School of Education
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Transnational education in K-12 education system: A case study in Vietnamese context
    Thao Nguyen Thi Thu - School of Education
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Comparing International Students? Employability and Career Supports in HE
    Huiling Chen - School of Education
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    From Opportunities to Valued Careers: A Comparative Study of Graduate Employability and Career Choices in Vietnam and Australia
    Lan Huong Nguyen - School of Education
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    International University Alliances: Reframing Higher Education Internationalisation in a Changing Geopolitical Context
    Xingbin ZHU - School of Education
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    Investigating Education Hub Formation in Viet Nam: Ambition, Policy Translation, and Structural Conditioning
    Thi Lien Huong NGUYEN - School of Education
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    When Two Waves Collide: Internationalisation at Home (IaH) Meets International Branch Campuses (IBCs) in Indonesia
    Supriyono SUPRIYONO - School of Education
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Internationalisation of the Business Curriculum in Australian and Vietnamese Universities
    Le Thanh Huong Phan - School of Education - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Understanding Secondary School Student Education Experience: Aspiration, Belonging and Connectedness
    Trang Hoang - School of Education - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Pre-service Teachers Learning to Teach in Practicums in Vietnam
    Thuy Tien Nguyen Vu - School of Education - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Building academics' capacity for internationalisation in Australian and Vietnamese universities
    Diep Nguyen - School of Education - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Domestic students and internationalisation at home in Australian secondary schools
    Manaia Chou-Lee - School of Education - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Career Directions and Employability Through Australian-Indonesian Student Mobility Programs
    Alam Ikhlas - School of Education - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Employability of Vietnamese International Graduates in Australia and Vietnam Since the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Thuy Trang Le - School of Education - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Vietnamese International Student Engagement in Blended Learning in the Australian Higher Education Context
    Thinh Huynh - School of Education - 2025
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Academic Literacies of International Higher Degree Students in Library Environments.
    Suhasini Gopi - School of Education - 2018