Fields of Research (FoR)
Teacher education and professional development of educatorsBiography
Dr Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen (PhD, University of Queensland, Australia) is a Senior Lecturer and Post-Graduate Research Coordinator in the School of Education, specialising in teacher education/development, mentoring, TESOL and sociocultural theory. Prior to this position, she worked at the University of Sydney where she was awarded the prestigious and highly competitive University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research...view more
Dr Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen (PhD, University of Queensland, Australia) is a Senior Lecturer and Post-Graduate Research Coordinator in the School of Education, specialising in teacher education/development, mentoring, TESOL and sociocultural theory. Prior to this position, she worked at the University of Sydney where she was awarded the prestigious and highly competitive University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research interests. She has experience teaching and training pre-service and in-service teachers in Asia and Australia. She has procured a number of grants in these areas in her career (A total of $600.000). Her research excellence has been recognised by a number of awards such as Research Recognition Award for Early Career Researchers (ATEA); Endeavor Fellowship Award. 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 teachers, in their role as mentors to student teachers and early career teachers and has a strong commitment and passion to develop teachers’ professional learning. She has also held visiting and honorary positions at University of Sydney, Kings' College London, University of Leeds, and University of Oxford.
My Grants
Funded projects
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The impact of training listening skills on EFL learners in Taiwan 2008
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Preservice teachers’ professional learning during the professional experience (Funded by the University of Sydney) 2012
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Beginning teachers’ professional learning needs and practice (UNSW) 2016
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Cross countries study of beginning teachers’ professional learning experiences : Australia and Canada ( UNSW) 2015
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A comparative study between the UK and Australia of preservice teachers’ learning during their practicum ( funded by Australian Government, Endeavor Fellowship) 2018
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Supervising Teachers Application of the Graduate Teaching Standards to the Assessment of Professional Experience in Education (funded by NSW Department of Education and Training) 2017
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Teachers' resilience in the context of Vietnam. (funded by Four skill programs, Australian Government) 2018
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Needs and gaps encountered by employers in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam (funded by Four skill programs, Australian Government) 2018
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Developing mentors' standard, funded by School of Education, UNSW, 2021
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School-university partnership in teacher education (Funded by NAFOSTED) 2020-2021
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Developing preservice teacher leadership (Funded by NAFOSTED) 2020-2021
- Teacher professional development for Content and language integrated learning Teachers in Vietnam (2020), funded by Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training , 2020-2021
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
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 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
- Cross countries study of beginning teachers’ professional learning experiences : Australia and Canada
- Developing mentors' standards
- Teacher's professional readiness
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
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 (completed). 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
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CURRENT HDR CANDIDATES
- Tatik Tatik: Mentoring beginning teachers in the context of Indonesia. Tatik received a research grant (2020) funded by NSW Institute for Educational Research
- Kelli Cato : Principals understanding and use of professional teacher standards to identify teacher quality
- Rodrigo F. Arellano : Language Teacher Education in Chile. ( Rodrigo received HDR Publication Incentive Award 2020)
- Jade Rushby (Scientia PhD candidate): Designing a responsive needs-based staffing system for NSW Schools
- Andrew Kingsford-Smith (Scientia PhD candidate): Teacher motivation
- Tanya Kwee : I’ve Landed but I Won’t Teach Anymore - Career Choices of Overseas-trained Immigrant Teachers with Permanent Residency
- Dianne Quarmby: Career development and leadership opportunities for second career teachers
- Fernandita Gusweni Jayanti Investigating Teacher Cognition in Motivating Reading Instruction: A Multiple Case Study on Indonesian Teachers
- WENDI WIJARWADI: Challenges and Opportunity of Teacher Professional Collaboration in Indonesia: An Insight from Organizational Learning Framework
My Engagement
Dr Nguyen works as a reviewer for a number of journals such as Asia Pacific Journal of Education, System, Asian EFL journal, Action in Teacher Education, Journal of Teacher Education, teaching and teacher education, teaching education, TESOL Quarterly... . She is in the editorial team of Asian EFL journal, and Current Issues in Language Planning.
My Teaching
EDST 5127 Coaching and Mentoring in Educational Leadership
EDST 5117 Professional Inquiry
EDST 5441 Advanced TESOL Curriculum and Assessment
EDST5325 Advanced TESOL Professional Practice
EDST 5308 Teacher Learning
EDST 6760 Professional Experience
Contact
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3414-1544