Thao Tran is a casual academic and a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She did a MA Education at University College Dublin, Ireland. While in Dublin, she contributed as a teacher to EU-funded Erasmus+ projects and later as a research assistant at the UCD School of Education on a large-scale project promoting professional development for female teachers in the Global South. She also worked as a lecturer in a private university in Vietnam. Her research interests include teacher professional development, psychosocial wellbeing, language education and advocating for education as a public good.