Dr Ngoc Quynh Anh Phan

Dr Ngoc Quynh Anh Phan (or Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan) is a Lecturer in Higher Education in the Curriculum and Educational Development Team (CEDT). Dr Phan is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research centres on student mobility, migration, international students’ lived experience, space and place, (international) higher education, teacher education, TESOL and other social sciences areas (including gender roles, diasporic experiences, media and culture, and Vietnamese studies).

Prior to joining University of Kent, Dr Phan worked for 5 years as a lecturer in a leading university in Vietnam and focused on English language teacher education. She taught research methods, critical thinking, and Academic English. Dr Phan was an Erasmus Mundus scholar, studying her MA in Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management in Aarhus University (Denmark), University of Deusto (Spain) and UCL (UK). Dr Phan completed her PhD at The University of Auckland in New Zealand. Her international educational mobility has inspired her to study international education landscape, student mobility, and migration. Dr Phan is currently a regional consultant for ASEAN, she has been working with her research team in multiple funded projects on ASEAN higher education since 2021.  

Dr Phan’s research interests include mobility, migration, diaspora, international education, (post-)doctoral education, teacher education, teacher professional development, TESOL, higher education, education policy, among others. Her doctoral research offered insight into how Vietnamese Ph.D. graduates’ identities were mediated in the intersection of their imaginations, aspirations, desires, mobility, and conditions that allowed or inhibited them from carving out their migratory trajectories. She paid particular attention to the spatial production, place-making, and home-making processes of the students-migrants through a layered analysis of how they managed their connections with the homes in the home and host countries, their family relocation, their micro-geographies, and mundane everyday practices, as well as their diasporic experiences.
Dr Phan has published extensively in top-tier journals of the fields that are related to her research interests, including Journal of Gender Studies; Globalisation, Societies, and Education; Studies in Continuing Education; Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies; Journal of International Students; Policy Futures in Education; The Education Forum; Diaspora Studies, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, London Review of Education, among many others. She has engaged with multiple (post-)qualitative methodologies, such as writing as a method of inquiry, poetic inquiry, and critical (collaborative) autoethnography. She also has poems published in Qualitative Inquiry and Journal of Poetry Therapy.
Dr Phan has been working with an international research team commissioned by SHARE (European Union Support to Higher Education in the ASEAN Region) and the British Council to conduct research projects on the contribution of student mobility within the ASEAN region to students’ employability and on the higher education landscape in Southeast Asia. The involvement in these projects allows her to contribute to the policy making process regarding intra-regional mobility and higher education in Southeast Asia. She is currently working as a regional consultant on the first phase of developing an intra-ASEAN branded scholarship scheme to enhance student mobility in this region.  

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