Professor Ly Tran
Ly Tran is a Professor in the School of Education, Deakin University and a former Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow. She is project lead for the Australia-Vietnam Enhanced Economic Engagement Strategy (EEES) - Internationalisation of Higher Education project, funded by the Australian Government Department of Education and co-hosted with Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training. She leads the Best Practice in International Student Engagement project, funded by the Australian Government under the International Education Innovation Fund. Ly is the founder of Australia-Vietnam International Education Centre and leader of the International Student Graduate Employability Research Group.
Ly is a member of Deakin's Research for Educational Impact (REDI) Centre, and member of the Academic Board and an affiliated faculty member of the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. She is a Visiting Professor at Phu Xuan University, Vietnam, Toyo University, Japan and Hitotsubashi University, Japan. She was also a Honorary Research Fellow (2015-2018), at University of Chester, England. She is the Vice-chair of IEEE Task force on Educational Data Mining, affiliated with the Data Mining and Big Data Analytics Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Ly has been awarded six grants on international students, student moblity, the New Colombo Plan, geopolitics of international education, internationalisation of teaching and learning and staff professional development in international education from the Australian Research Council.
Ly has received a number of awards, accolades and fellowships for her research and contributions. She was named one of Australia and ASEAN 'Top 50' voices on international education (The PIE 2023). Ly was awarded the Inaugural Melbourne Asia Game Changer Award by the Asia Society Australia for her work on enriching Australia-Asia connections and strengthening Australia-Vietnam education relationships.
Ly has published extensively in a wide range of outlets, including books, refereed articles, good practice guides, media articles and commentaries in newspapers, and industry discussion papers. She won the Highly Commended Award in the 2019 Emerald Literati Awards. Her co-edited book, International Student Connectedness and Identity: Transnational Perspectives, won the Honorary Award in the 2019 Best Book Award category of the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) Study Abroad & International Students SIG.
Ly has been invited to give more than 80 keynote, plenary and featured talks at a wide range of national and international conferences, industry forums, community seminars and government roundtables on international education, international student experiences, graduate employability, the teaching and engagement of international students, inbound and outbound student mobility, the New Colombo Plan, and education in Vietnam.