Our Keynote Speakers
Professor Ly Tran
Dr. Ly Tran is a Professor at the School of Education and Research for Educational Impact (REDI) centre, Deakin University, Australia. She was a lecturer at Hue University, Vietnam prior to coming to Australia. Her research focuses on international education, student mobilities, graduate employability, the geopolitics of international education, and the education-work-migration nexus. Her latest books include East and Southeast perspectives on the internationalisation of higher education (Routledge) with Tracy Zou and Hiroshi Ota and Internationalisation of the Curriculum: A Comparative Perspective across Australian and Vietnamese Universities (Routledge) with Huong Phan and Jill Blackmore. Ly is the Founder of the Australia-Vietnam International Education Centre. She was named as one of Australia and ASEAN’s ‘Top 50’ voices on international education in 2023. She received the Inaugural Melbourne Asia Game Changer Award from Asia Society Australia, and the Inaugural Shining Star Achievement in Research Award in the Noam Chomsky Global Connections Awards.
Associate Professor Tran Thanh Nam
Dr. Tran Thanh Nam is the Vice Rector and a lecturer at the University of Education – Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He earned his Ph.D. with Distinction and his Master’s Degree with Merit from Vanderbilt University, USA. He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree with Merit from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. With over 15 years of experience in psychology, Dr. Nam has been deeply involved in psychological counseling and therapeutic practice. He is a member of the Vietnam Association of Psychology and Education and currently serves as a therapeutic consultant for OPTUM in Vietnam. He has worked at various institutions, including the Career Information and Psychological Counseling Center, Joseph Center, Behavioral Health Intellectual Disability Clinic, Associated Psychiatrists of Nashville, Military Hospital 103, and the Vietnam National Children’s Hospital.
Professor Isabelle Roskam
Dr. Isabelle Roskam is currently a Professor of Developmental and Parenting psychology at UCLouvain, Belgium. Together with Professor Moira Mikolajczak, she leads the Training Institute for Psychology & Health at the University of Louvain. She previously worked for 10 years as a clinical researcher at the Saint Luc University Hospital in Brussels. Dr. Isabelle Roskam is recognized as one of the world’s leading researchers on the psychological concept of parental burnout in the field of parenting and family studies. Alongside Professor Moira Mikolajczak, she has introduced the concept to 50 countries. She has authored and published hundreds of academic articles and four books on the topic.
Associate Professor Le Van Canh
Dr. Le Van Canh has earned his Master’s Degree in TESOL from Saint Michael’s College (USA) and a Doctoral Degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Waikato (New Zealand). He is currently working for Tran Nhan Tong Institute of Vietnam National University, Hanoi on a contractual basis. Prior to this, he had worked as a teacher educator and teacher education researcher for more than forty years. He has published his research in international journals and edited volumes published by international publishers such as Routledge, Palgrave MacMillan, and Springer.
Our Plenary Speakers
Associate Professor Nguyen Huu Cuong
Dr. Nguyen Huu Cuong gained his PhD in Education (Educational Policy and Leadership) from The University of New South Wales, Australia in 2018. Prior to this PhD, he completed his Master of Assessment and Evaluation at The University of Melbourne, Australia in 2011. His research interests include assessment, quality assurance, accreditation, higher education policy, leadership and management. Dr. Cuong’s background is in policy-making, evaluation, quality assurance, and accreditation for Vietnam’s higher education. He has worked as a policy-maker in quality assurance for the Vietnam Education Quality Management Agency (previously called General Department of Education Testing and Accreditation), Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam for 13 years. Cuong was the adjunct Head of Quality Assurance and Accreditation Department of the VNU University of Education. He worked as the Deputy Head of the Department of Testing and Quality Assessment, and Chairman of the Science and Training Council of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam from November 2019 to June 2021. Currently, Dr. Cuong is the Manager of the Quality Assurance Department at Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Dr. Ethan Trinh
Dr. Ethan Trinh (pronouns: they/them/their) is a Vietnamese, queer, immigrant, researcher, and teacher educator. They currently serve as the Associate Director of the Atlanta Global Studies Center, a Title VI National Resource Center, in partnership with The Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Trinh’s scholarship focuses on queer teacher’s emotions and well-being and explores how to embrace queerness as healing teaching and research practices. Dr. Trinh has published 5 edited books with Routledge, Brill & TESOL Press that highlight critical storytelling, doctoral students’ identities, emotional well-being, community, and queer allyship. They were the recipient of the 2022 Leadership Mentoring Program Award by the TESOL International Association and are the 2024-2025 Nominating Committee at TESOL International.
Professor Vina Adriany
Dr. Vina Adriany is a Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. She is currently a Director of the Southeast Asian Minister of Education Organization, Centre for Early Childhood Care Education and Parenting (SEAMEO CECCEP). Her scholarship focuses on the issues of gender and social justice in early childhood education (ECE), the construction of children and childhood in marginal communities, and the impact of neoliberalism in ECE. Her research mainly adopts theories that include feminist poststructuralism and postcolonialism. She has published a number of peer-reviewed articles on the issues. She is currently a co-editor at Pedagogy, Culture, and Society journal, Routledge. She is also an editorial board member in several journals such as Policy Futures in Education, SAGE; International Journal of Early Years Education, Routledge; Global Childhood Studies, SAGE; dan Children and Society, Willey. She was also visiting scholars at several universities that include, National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan; Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, Gothenburg University, Sweden; and Ankara University, Turkey