International Education

Scholarly Books

1. Tran, L. T. & Le, T.T.T (2018). Teacher professional learning in international education. . http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319705149
2. Tran, L. T. (2013). Teaching international students in vocational education and training: New pedagogical approaches. Camberwell: ACER Press. Winning the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) Excellence Award for Innovation/Best Practice in International Education

Edited Research Books

1. Tran, L. T., Zou, T & Ota, H. (2023). East and Southeast perspectives on the internationalisation of higher education: Policies, Practices and Prospects. Routledge
1. Ata, A. W., Tran, L. T., & Liyanage, I. (Eds.). (2018). Educational reciprocity and adaptivity: International students and stakeholders. Abingdon: Routledge. http://208.254.74.112/books/details/9781138707399/
2. Tran. L. T. & Gomes, C. (2017). (Eds). International student connectedness and identity. Dordrecht: Springer.
3. Tran, L. T. & Dempsey, K. (2017). (Eds.). Internationalization in vocational education and training: Transnational perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer.

Research Book Chapters

1. Tran, L. T., Blackmore, J. & Nguyen, D. (2024). The Geopolitics of International Higher Education, Transnational Intellectual Collaboration and Leadership. In Fitzgerald, T., Gunter, H. M., & Nixon, J. (Eds.). Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times. Bloomsbury Publishing.
2. Tran, L. T., Zou, T. X., & Ota, H. (2024). Internationalisation of Higher Education: The Rise of East and Southeast Asia. In East and Southeast Asian Perspectives on the Internationalisation of Higher Education (pp. 3-26). Routledge.
3. Bui, H., & Tran, L. T. (2023). Decolonization and internationalization of higher education in Vietnam: A historical perspective. In Colonization and Epistemic Injustice in Higher Education (pp. 67-83). Routledge.
4. Tran, L. T. Glen Stafford, Thao Thi Phuong Vu & Mark Rahimi. (2019). Engagement with Asia via the New Colombo Plan: Impact on Australian Students’ Career Directions and Employability. In Hong T. M. Bui, Hoa T. M. Nguyen and Doug Cole (Eds.). Innovate Higher Education to Enhance Graduate Employability, pp.95-106. Abingdon: Routledge.
5. Tran, L. T & Hoang, T. (2019). International students: (Non)citizenship, rights , discrimination and belonging. In Peterson, Andrew, Stahl, Garth, Soong, Hannah (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education. Palgrave Macmillan.
6. Tran, L. T., & Nyland, C. (2018). Rethinking the issue of rights for international students. In A. Ata, L. T. Tran & I. Liyanage. (Eds). Educational reciprocity and adaptivity: International students and stakeholders. (pp.124-141). Abingdon: Routledge.
7. Liyanage, I., Tran, L. T., & Ata, A. W. (2018). Re-examining reciprocity in international education. In A. Ata, L. T. Tran & I. Liyanage. (Eds). Educational reciprocity and adaptivity: International students and stakeholders. (pp. 3-22). Abingdon: Routledge.
8. Hoang, T., & Tran, L. T. (2018). Understanding international students’ adaptation motivation and behaviours. In A. Ata, L. T. Tran & I. Liyanage. (Eds). Educational reciprocity and adaptivity: International students and stakeholders. (pp.62-82). Abingdon: Routledge.
9. Tran, L. T. & Soejatminah, S. (2018). International Students as a Vulnerable Army of Workers: Work Experience and Workplace Treatment. In K. Bista (Ed.). Global Perspectives on International Student Experiences in Higher Education: Tensions and Issues. Abingdon: Routledge.
10. Tran, L. T. & Gomes, C. (2017). Student mobility, connectedness and identity. In L. T. Tran & C. Gomes (2017). (Eds), International student connectedness and identity (pp.1-11). Dordrecht: Springer.
11. Tran, L. T. & Dempsey, K. (2017). Internationalization in vocational education and training: An overview. In L. T. Tran & K. Dempsey (Eds), Internationalization in vocational education and training: Transnational perspectives (pp.2-13). Dordrecht: Springer.
12. Tran, L.T. & Pham L. (2017). International student connectedness with local teachers and peers: Insights from teachers. In L. T. Tran & C. Gomes (Eds), International student connectedness and identity (pp.41-60). Dordrecht: Springer.
13. Dang, T. & Tran, L. T. (2017). From ‘Somebody’ to ‘Nobody’: International doctoral students’ perspectives of home - host connectedness in transnational education. In L. T. Tran & C. Gomes (Eds), International student connectedness and identity (pp.75-91). Dordrecht: Springer.
14. Tran, L. T. & Le, T. (2017). Teacher professional development under the impact of internationalization in VET. In L. T. Tran & K. Dempsey (Eds), Internationalization in vocational education and training: Transnational perspectives (pp.68-84). Dordrecht: Springer
15. Gomes, C. & Tran, L. T. (2017). International student (dis)connectedness and identities: Why these matter and the way forward. In L. T. Tran & C. Gomes (2017). (Eds), International student connectedness and identity (pp.283-290). Dordrecht: Springer.
16. Dempsey, K. & Tran, L. T. (2017). Internationalization with VET character: Key emerging issues. In L. T. Tran & K. Dempsey (Eds), Internationalization in vocational education and training: Transnational perspectives (pp.215-221). Dordrecht: Springer.
17. Tran, L. T. (2016). Students’ academic, intercultural and personal development in globalised education mobility. In C.H. Ng. Fox, B. & Nakano, M. (Eds.), Reforming learning and teaching in Asia-Pacific universities: Influences of globalised processes in Japan, Hong Kong and Australia (pp.95-113). Dordrecht: Springer.
18. Tran, L. T. & Nguyen, N. T. (2016). The cosmopolitan sojourners: Understanding Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese students' motivations to study overseas using Bourdieu's work. In D. Sharpes. (Ed.), Handbook on comparative and international studies in education (pp.561-584). Charlotte, US: Information Age Publishing.

Refereed Journal Articles

1. Tran, L. T., Jung, J., Unangst, L., & Marshall, S. (2023). New developments in internationalisation of higher education. Higher Education Research & Development, 42(5), 1033-1041.
2. Nguyen, A., Tran, L., & Duong, B. H. (2023). Higher education policy and management in the post-pandemic era. Policy Futures in Education, 14782103231158171.
3. Tran, L. T., Nguyen, D. T. B., Blackmore, J., He, B., & Vu, H. Q. (2023). COVID-19, geopolitics and risk management: Towards framing a reciprocal, coordinated, responsive and empathetic international education sector. Policy Futures in Education, 21(4), 423-444.
4. Tran, L. T., & Bui, H. (2021). Public Diplomacy and Social Impact of Australian Student Mobility to the Indo-Pacific: Host Countries’ Perspectives on Hosting New Colombo Plan Students. Journal of Studies in International Education, 25(4), 425–442. DOI:1028315320984833.
5. Tran, L., Do, T. & Bui, H. (2021). Employability in context: Re-imagining graduate employability through Australian student mobility to the Indo-Pacific funded by the New Colombo Plan. Higher Education Quarterly.
6. Tran, L. T., Le, T. T. T., & Henderson, F. (2021). Rite of passage into the teaching profession? Australian pre-service teachers’ professional learning in the Indo-Pacific through the New Colombo Plan. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 1-16. doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2021.1977272
7. Rowan, L., Beavis, C., Tran, L., Blackmore, J., McCandless, T., Hoang, T., ... & Halse, C. (2021). International students in the first years of senior secondary schooling in Australia: Longing for belonging. International Journal of Educational Development, 81, 102347.
8. Tran, L. T., Blackmore, J. & Mark, R. (2021). ‘“You are not as localised as I need”: employability of Chinese returning graduates’, Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/HESWBL-09-2020-0221
9. Tran, L. T., Le, T. T. T., Phan, H. L. T. & Pham, A. (2021). ‘“Induction and off you go”: Professional development for teachers in transnational education’, Oxford Review of Education, doi:10.1080/03054985.2020.1867524, DE140101473 (2014-2017)
10. Tran, L. T., Phan, H. L. T. & Bellgrove, A. (2021). ‘“There’s a much bigger world of science than just Australia”: Australian students’ development of disciplinary knowledge, transferable skills and attributes through a New Colombo Plan short-term mobility program to Japan’, International Journal of Science Education, doi:10.1080/09500693.2021.1891322, FT170100101 (2007-2021)
11. Tran, L. T., Stafford, G., Soejatminah, S., & Gribble, C. (2021). Building experience, opportunities, and the resume: Motivations of students participating in learning-abroad programmes through the New Colombo Plan. Higher Education Research & Development, 40(2), 416-430.
12. Xu, X., & Tran, L. T. (2021). A Qualitative Investigation Into Chinese International Doctoral Students’ Navigation of a Disrupted Study Trajectory During COVID-19. Journal of Studies in International Education, 10283153211042092.
13. Tran, L. T., & Pasura, R. (2021). The nature of teacher professional development in Australian international vocational education. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 45(1), 16-29.
14. Tran, L. T., Rahimi, M., Tan, G., Dang, X. T., & Le, N. (2020). Post-study work for international graduates in Australia: opportunity to enhance employability, get a return on investment or secure migration?. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 18(5), 495-510.
15. Tran, L. T., Phan, H., Tan, G. & Rahimi, T. (2020, on line first). ‘I changed my strategy and looked for jobs on Gumtree’: the ecological circumstances and international graduates’ agency and strategies to navigate the Australian labour market. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.
16. Tran, L. T., & Nghia, T. L. H. (2020). Leadership in international education: leaders’ professional development needs and tensions. Higher Education, 80, 479–495
17. Nyland, C., & Tran, L. T. (2020). The consumer rights of international students in the Australian vocational education and training sector. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 72(1), 71-87.
18. Gopi, S., Tran, L. T., & Hutchison, K. (2020). Academic literacies of international students in New Zealand library environments. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 4(2), 169-182.
19. Tran, L. T., & Pasura, R. (2019). Teacher interactive and reflexive positionings in accommodating international students: implications for teacher professional development. Professional Development in Education, 45(4), 539-550.
20. Tran, L. T. & Wall, T. (2019). Ubuntu in adult vocation education: Theoretical discussion and implications for international students. UNESCO International Review of Education.
21. McCrohon, M., & Tran, L. T. (2019). Visualizing the Reality of Educational Research Participants Using an Amalgamation of Grounded and Positioning Theories. Higher Education for the Future, 6(2), 141-157.
22. Tran, L. T., Nghia, T. L. H., Khuong, C., & Le, T. T. T. (2019). Language and learning advisors as a valuable but under-recognised workforce in higher education: a Bourdieuian analysis of their professional development in international education. Teaching in Higher Education, 24(6), 755-771.
23. Phan, H. L. T., Tran, L. T., & Blackmore, J. (2019). Internationalization, Student Engagement, and Global Graduates: A Comparative Study of Vietnamese and Australian Students’ Experience. Journal of Studies in International Education, 1028315318803717.
24. Ho, T. T. H., & Tran, L. T. (2018). Appropriation of foreign approaches for sustainable development and transformational changes in Vietnamese vocational education. Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, 8(4), 527-543.
25. Tran, L. T., & Pasura, R. (2019). Teacher interactive and reflexive positionings in accommodating international students: Implications for teacher professional development. Professional Development in Education, 45(4), 539-550.
26. Tran, L. T., & Vu, T. T. P. (2018). Beyond the ‘normal’ to the ‘new possibles’: Australian students’ experiences in Asia and their roles in making connections with the region via the New Colombo Plan. Higher Education Quarterly, 72(3), 194-207. https://rdcu.be/3moi
27. Tran, L & Vu, T. (2017). International students and intercultural responsibility. Intercultural Education. 28(3), 283-303. 10.1080/14675986.2017.1333691
28. Tran, L. T. (2017). “I am really expecting people to judge me by my skills”: Ethnicity and identity of international students. Journal of Vocational Education and Training. 69(3), 390-404.
29. Tran, L. T. & Vu, T. (2017). ‘Agency in mobility’: An examination of student agency in transnational education. Educational Review. 28(3), 283-303.
30. Tran, L.T. & Soejatminah S. (2017). Work-integrated learning for international students: From harmony to inequality. Journal of Studies in International Education. 21(3):261-277
31. Tran, L. T., & Vu, T. T. P. (2017). International students and personal responsibility towards learning. Journal of International education. 1 (1), 4-23.
32. Tran, L. T., & Pasura, R. (2017). Professional Development for Teachers Working with International Students. Vocations and Learning, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12186-017-9195-6
33. Tran, L. T., & Vu, T. T. P. (2017). ‘Responsibility in mobility’: International students and social responsibility. Globalization, Societies and Education 15(5), 561-575.
34. Wall, T., Tran, L. T. & Soejatminah, S. (2016). Inequalities and agencies in workplace learning experiences: international student perspectives. Vocations and Learning. 10(2), 141-15
35. Tran, L.T., & Soejatminah S. (2016). ‘Get foot in the door’: International students’ perceptions of work-integrated learning. British Journal of Educational Studies, 64(3), 337-355.
36. Tran, L. T., & Vu, T. T. P. (2016). ‘I’m not like that, why treat me the same way?’ The impact of stereotyping international students on their learning, employability and connectedness with the workplace. The Australian Educational Researcher, 43(2), 203-220.
37. Tran, L. T (2016). ‘Mobility as becoming’: A Bourdieuian analysis of the factors shaping international student mobility. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37(8), 1268-1289.
38. Tran, L. T. & Pham, L (2016). International students in transnational mobility: Intercultural Connectedness with domestic and international peers, institutions and the wider community. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 46(4), 560-581.
39. Cao, L. & Tran, L. T. (2015). Chinese international students in Australia: An insight into their help and information seeking manners. International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 14(1), 42-56.
40. Tran, L. T. & Nguyen, N. (2015). Re-imagining teachers’ professional roles and identity under the condition of internationalisation. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 21(8), 958-973.
41. Soong, H., Tran, L.T., & Pham, H. (2015). Being and becoming an intercultural doctoral student: reflective autobiographical narratives. Reflective Practice, 16(4), 435-448.
42. Pham, L & Tran, L.T. (2015). Understanding the symbolic capital of intercultural interactions: A case study of international students in Australia. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 25(3), 204-224.
43. Cao, L. & Tran, L. T. (2015). Pathways from vocational education and associate degree to higher education: Chinese students in Australia. Asia Pacific Journal of Education. 35(2), 274-289.
44. Tran, L. T. (2013). Internationalisation of vocational education and training: An adapting curve for teachers and learners. Journal of Studies in International Education, 17(4), 492-507.
45. Tran, L. T. & Nyland, C. (2013). Competency-based training, global skills mobility and the teaching of international students in VET. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 65(1), 143-157.
46. Tran, L.T. & Nguyen, N.T. (2013). Mediating teacher professional identity: The emergence of humanness and ethical identity. International Journal of Training Research, 11(3), 119-212.
47. Tran, L. T. & Nyland, C. (2011). International vocational education and training - The migration and learning mix. Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 51(1), 8-31.
48. Tran, L. T. (2011). Committed, face-value, hybrid or mutual adaptation? The experiences of international students in higher education. Educational Review, 63(1), 79-94.
49. Tran, L. T. (2010). Embracing prior professional experience in academic writing: Views from international students and academics. Educational Review, 62(2), 157-173.
50. Arkoudis, S. & Tran, L. T. (2010). Writing blah, blah, blah: Lecturers' approaches and challenges in supporting international students. The International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 22(2), 169-178.
51. Tran, L. T. (2009). Making visible ‘hidden’ intentions and potential choices: International students in intercultural education. Language & Intercultural Communication, 9(4), 271-284.
52. Nyland, B, Zeng, X., Nyland, C. & Tran, L. T. (2009). Grandparents as educators and carers in China. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 7(1), 46-57.
53. Tran, L. T. (2008). Unpacking academic practices: International students in Management and Education disciplines in Australian higher education. Higher Education Research and Development, 27(3), 245-256.
54. Arkoudis, S. & Tran, L. T. (2007). International students in Australia: Read ten thousand volumes of books and walk ten thousand miles. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 27(2), 157-169.
55. Tran, L. T. (2006). Different shades of the collective way of thinking: Vietnamese and Chinese international students' reflection on academic writing. Journal of Asia TEFL, 3(3), 121-141.
56. Tran, L. T. (2005). Interacting with disciplinary academic practice: The accounts of two Chinese international students. Research Papers on Language and Literature: Interventions, Interactions and Interrelation, 5, 152-174.
57. Bui, H. T. N., Selvarajah, C., & Vinen, D. G (2021). The role of student–university value alignment in international student acculturation in Australia. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.07.009
58. Tran, L. T., & Bui, H. (2021). International graduate returnees’ accumulation of capitals and (re)positioning in the home labour market in Vietnam: the explorer, the advancer or the adventurer? Journal of Education and Work, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2021.1943334
59. Bui, H. T. N., Selvarajah, C., Vinen, D. G., & Meyer, D. Acculturation: Role of student–university alignment for international student psychological adjustment (2020). Journal of Studies in International Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315320964286.
60. Tran, L. T. & Bui, H. (2020), ‘Why host countries should support international alumni.’ University World News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=2020042408542653
61. Tran, L., Bui, H., & Balakrishnan, V. D. (2020). Forms of Racism and Discrimination faced by International Students. https://cisa.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Types-and-forms-of-Racism-and-Discrimination-faced-by-International-Students_CISA-statement-1.pdf
62. Tran, L. T. & Bui, H. T. N. (2019), ‘International graduates: Navigating the host and home labour markets’, International Education Association of Australia (IEAA). Retrieved from https://www.ieaa.org.au/documents/item/1743.

Research Reports, Good Practice Guides and
Submissions to Government Policy Review and Industry Publications

1. Tran, L., Bui, H., & Nguyen, D. (2021). National Report: Australian student mobility to the Indo-Pacific region through the New Colombo Plan. REDI: Deakin University.
2. Tan, G., Taylor, A. & Tran, L. (March, 2021). Invited submission to Joint Standing Committee on Migration Inquiry into Australia’s skilled migration program, Department of Home Affairs. Recommendations cited by Interim Report of the Inquiry into Australia's Skilled Migration Program. Parliament of Australia: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Migration/SkilledMigrationProgram/Report
3. Tan, G., Taylor, A. & Tran, L. (2021). Submission 2 to Joint Standing Committee on Migration Inquiry into Australia’s skilled migration program, Department of Home Affairs.
4. Tran, L., Bui, H., & Balakrishnan, V. D. (2020). Forms of Racism and Discrimination faced by International Students. Council of International Students Australia (CISA): Australia. Discussion paper used for the Australian International Education Anti-Racism Roundtable on 23th June 2020, organised by Austrade involving government bodies and industry: Department of Education Skill and Employment, Universities Australia, Australian Human Rights Commission, CISA, International Education Australia Association (IEAA), Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA), English Australia & ISANA International Education Association Retried from: https://cisa.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Types-and-forms-of-Racism-and-Discrimination-faced-by-International-Students_CISA-statement-1.pdf
5. Tran, L. (2020). Keynote Foreword. Indo-Pacific Student Mobility Youth Dialogue. Retrieved from: https://aiya.org.au/2020/11/10/ipsymd-report/
6. Tran, L. T. & Bui, H. T. N. (2019), ‘International graduates: navigating the host and home labour markets’, International Education Association of Australia (IEAA). Retrieved from: https://www.ieaa.org.au/documents/item/1743
7. Tran, L., Rahimi, M. & Tan, G. (2019). Temporary Graduatification: Impacts of Post-Study Work Rights Policy in Australia. REDI: Deakin University. Retrieved from https://www.deakin.edu.au/redi/our-research/Impacts-of-Post-Study-Work-Rights-Policy-in-Australia
8. Berquist, B., Hall, R., Morris-Lange, S., Shields, H., Stern, V., & Tran, L. T. (2019). Global perspectives on international student employability. International Education Association of Australia (IEAA). Retrieved from https://www.ieaa.org.au/documents/item/1586
9. Tran, L. T. & Rahimi, M. (2018). New Colombo Plan: A Review of Research and Implications for Practice. Research Digest, No. 14. Melbourne: International Education Association of Australia (IEAA). A comprehensive analysis of the policy frameworks and research on the New Colombo Plan. Retrieved from: https://www.ieaa.org.au/documents/item/1448
10. Tran, L. T., Nguyen, L & Green, W. (2017). Enhancing the experience and outcomes of international higher degree research candidates: Reciprocal Intercultural Supervision. Research Digest. No.12. Melbourne: IEAA. https://www.ieaa.org.au/research/higher-degree-research
11. Tran, L. T., Green, W. & Nguyen, L. (2017). Guides for Supervisors: Enhancing the experience and outcomes of international higher degree research candidates: Reciprocal Intercultural Supervision. Melbourne: IEAA. https://www.ieaa.org.au/documents/item/1039
12. Nguyen, L. Tran, L. T. & Green, W. (2017). Guides for International HDR Candidates: Enhancing the experience and outcomes of international higher degree research candidates: Reciprocal Intercultural Supervision. Melbourne: IEAA. https://www.ieaa.org.au/documents/item/1038
13. Green, W., Tran, L. T. & Nguyen, L. (2017). Guides for HDR Training Managers: Enhancing the experience and outcomes of international higher degree research candidates: Reciprocal Intercultural Supervision. Melbourne: IEAA. https://www.ieaa.org.au/documents/item/1040
14. Gribble, C. & Tran, L. T. (2016). International trends in learning abroad: Information and promotions campaign for student mobility. Melbourne: Universities Australia & IEAA.
15. Blackmore, J, Tran, L.T., Rahimi, M. (2019) Cultural understandings of graduate employability in accounting in China and India Report for the CPA Australia. https://www.deakin.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/1900922/Cultural-Understandings-of-Graduate-Employability-in-Accounting-in-China-and-India-2019.pdf
16. Tran, L & Dempsey, K. (2015). Internationalisation in VET: Moving from the periphery to the centre. Research Digest. No.7. Melbourne: IEAA. http://www.ieaa.org.au/documents/item/603.
17. Nyland, C., Forbes-Mewett, H., Marginson, S., Ramia, G., Sawir, L., Smith, S., & Tran, L. T. (2007). International Student Safety. Report commissioned by the Queensland Government, Australia.

International Education

Scholarly Books

Edited Research Books

Research Book Chapters

Refereed Journal Articles

Research Reports, Good Practice Guides and Submissions to Government Policy Review and Industry Publications

Commentaries and Articles in Newspapers and Editorials

Research Reports, Good Practice Guides and
Submissions to Government Policy Review and Industry Publications