Associate Professor Hoa Nguyen

Fields of Research (FoR)

Teacher education and professional development of educators

Biography

Dr Hoa T.M Nguyen (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the School of Education, specialising in teacher education/development, mentoring, language education and sociocultural theory. She has co-led Teacher Education and Development Research Group in the School of Education, UNSW. Her research excellence has been recognised by a number of awards such as Research Recognition Award for Early Career Researchers (ATEA); Endeavor Fellowship Award (Australian government). Being active in research allows her to incorporate her research interests into teaching to create an intellectually engaging, and challenging learning environment. She enjoys working with ECR researchers, preservice and in-service teachers in the role as mentors and has a strong passion to develop teachers’ professional learning.

She was the Post Graduate Higher Degree Research Director at the School of Education from 2021-2023 and the Director of Doctor of Education Degree Program (2023-2026). She has supervised over 30 PhD students. Her supervision/mentoring excellence has been recognised by a number of awards such as Outstanding Research Supervisor Award (UNSW Postgraduate Council), Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Higher Research Degree Supervision, and ADA Staff Award for Excellence in Research Mentorship.

She is Co-Editor-in-Chief Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, Associate Editor of The Asia Pacific Education Researcher, and serves on the Editorial Board Current Issues in Language Planning and Teaching and Teacher Education. She is also an editor for the Cambridge Elements Critical Issues in Teacher Education (cambridge.org). She has held visiting and honorary positions at The University of Sydney, Kings' College London, The University of Leeds, Universitas Brawijaya ,Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Hanoi University of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Oxford.

My Grants

Selected Funded projects

Supervising Teachers Application of the Graduate Teaching Standards to the Assessment of Professional Experience in Education 2017
Needs and gaps encountered by employers in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam 2018
Developing mentors' standards 2020
School-university partnership in teacher education 2020-2021
Developing preservice teacher leadership 2020-2021
Teacher professional development for Content and language integrated learning Teachers in Vietnam (2020-2022)
The use of exploratory practice to support continuing professional development for teachers (2023-2024)
Digital Transformation in Higher Education (2024, UNESCO)
Mentoring for HDR students in higher education

My Qualifications

PhD (The University of Queensland),

MTesol(The University of Queensland),

Med (RMIT)

Graduate Certificate In Research Commercialization (The University of Queensland)

My Awards

2024 HDR Supervision Award, UNSW Postgraduate Council

2023 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Higher Research Degree Supervision

2022 ADA Staff Award for Excellence in Research Mentorship

2021 Outstanding HDR Supervision Award, UNSW Postgraduate Council

2020 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Higher Research Degree Supervision

2019 Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford, UK

2019 Visiting Scholar, University of Leeds, UK

2018 Visiting Scholar, Kings' College London , UK

2018 Endeavour Award , Aust. Govt.

2018 Shortlisted for 2018 Dean’s Award for Best Monograph by an Early Career Researcher.

2017 ACE Sutherland St George Region World Teachers Day Award from the Australian College of Educators for significant contributions to the professional learning of teachers and preservice teachers

2017: Vice-Chancellor’s Childcare Support Fund for Women Researchers

2017: Shortlisted for the Dean’s Award for Early Career Researcher Achievement

2016 Early Career Researcher Grant (School of Education, UNSW)

2013 : Research Recognition Award for Early Career Researcher by Australian Teacher Education Association

2011: The N V Varghese Prize for Comparative Education

2010: Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence 2010 (Outstanding PhD thesis), The University of Queensland.

2010: Commercialisation Training Scheme (CTS) support and grant, Graduate School, The University of Queensland

2009: Postgraduate Research Conference Publication Award 2009, School of Education, The University of Queensland

2008: English Speaking Union Fund (Grant), Victoria, Australia

2006: Vietnam National University (VNU) Young Lecturer Excellence issued by Director of VNU

2006: Postgraduate Research Scholarship at The University of Queensland (PhD degree)

2007: Travel Grant- The 1st Korea English Teachers Associations Joint Conference & ETAK International Conference

2004: International RMIT scholarship (MA degree)

2002: Queensland University Scholarship (MA degree)

2001: Toyota Foundation Scholarship Award

My Research Activities

Current projects

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Teacher professional learning about AI
Cross countries study of beginning teachers’ professional learning experiences : Australia and Canada
Developing mentors' standards
Teacher's professional readiness

My Research Supervision

Supervision keywords

teacher education - undergraduate

mentoring

Areas of supervision

Teacher education
Pre-service/in-service teacher professional development/learning
Mentoring/coaching
TESOL education

Currently supervising

Le Duc Manh (completed): English primary teachers exercise their agency in response to a new language policy: A case study of Vietnam. Manh Le received Russell N. Campbell Award 2015 for his research in language planning and policy
Lisa Gilanyi (completed) : Transnational sojourners and language investment: a multi case study of spouses of international students.(completed). Lisa Gilanyi received Michael Clyne Prize 2020 for the best postgraduate research thesis
Panya Akkaraputtapong (completed): The effects of teacher psychological types on the preferences of supervisory options and behaviours.
Tram Phan (completed) teachers’ responses to curriculum changes in language education in Vietnam
Tatik Tatik: Mentoring beginning teachers in the context of Indonesia. Tatik also received a research grant (2020) funded by NSW Institute for Educational Research
Rodrigo F. Arellano : Language Teacher Education in Chile. Rodrigo received HDR Publication Incentive Award 2020.
Tanya Kwee : I’ve Landed but I Won’t Teach Anymore - Career Choices of Overseas-trained Immigrant Teachers with Permanent Residency. Tanya received U21 Graduate Collaborative Research Awards 2021, 2022 ADA HDR Research Output Award, 2022 ADA Student Experience Award
Andrew Kingsford-Smith (Scientia PhD candidate): Teacher motivation
WENDI WIJARWADI: Challenges and Opportunity of Teacher Professional Collaboration in Indonesia: An Insight from Organizational Learning Framework
Fernandita Gusweni Jayanti Investigating Teacher Cognition in Motivating Reading Instruction: A Multiple Case Study on Indonesian Teacher
Dianne Quarmby: Career development and leadership opportunities for second career teachers
Vahid Bahrami A/ELD teachers' identity development
Nina Inayati : Self-regulated learning strategies in teaching English in higher education in Indonesia
Current Candidates
Jade Rushby (Scientia PhD candidate): Designing a responsive needs-based staffing system for NSW Schools
Catherine (Kate) Colgan: Mid career teachers' development
Faisal Mustafa: Technology acceptance and intention to implement e-learning for teaching by EFL teachers in rural schools
Melanie Sugumaran: Mentoring Mid-career teachers
Lyndal Tait: Teacher's sense making
Rachel George: teacher's collective efficacy
Thao Tran: Teachers' addressing bullying among students
Thang Phan: Preservice teacher Leadership
Trang Nguyen: teachers' emotional labors and support strategies
Hoa Le : CLIL teacher professional development
Tengyao Huang : In-service teacher leadership in the context of China
Shulun Jiang: Mentoring in-service teachers in rural areas in China
Munawwarah Munawwarah: Community engagement in teacher education
Lindie Matthews : mentoring beginning teachers in NSW
Adam Ballard: AI and teacher professional development
Yiwen (Evelyn) Zhang: Language Teacher Burnout
Li Xu: Language teachers' engagement with research in higher education in China
Merlyn Kristine Nelloe: Students’ agency in digital learing
Merryll-Anne Cobb-Clark: Special teachers’ Professional learning
Werner Pienaar : Character Education