August 19, 2022

Dr Van Tran's second PhD graduation

Dr Van H. Tran graduated with her second PhD on Thursday 18th August at 10am in Sydney. 

Here is the URL for the livestream of the ceremony: https://www.facebook.com/charlessturtgraduations 

Her PhD thesis is here: https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/publications/home-language-maintenance-among-vietnamese-australian-families

Van's PhD was part of our Australian Research Council Discover Grant: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/overview

Van's supervisory team were: Prof Sharynne McLeod, A/Prof Sarah Verdon, Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang. Unfortunately Sarah was unable to attend the graduation ceremony, but Kate Margetson who also worked on the VietSpeech grant was able to attend.

Van has published a number of papers from her PhD including:

Tran, V. H., McLeod, S., Verdon, S., & Wang, C. (2021). Vietnamese–Australian parents: Factors associated with language use and attitudes towards home language maintenance. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2021.1904963 

Tran, V. H., Wang, C., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. (2021). Vietnamese–Australian children’s language proficiency and use. International Journal of Bilingualism, 25(6), 1735-1763. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069211034587 

Tran, V. H., Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Wang, C. (2022). Family language policies of Vietnamese–Australian families. Journal of Child Science, 12(1), e67-e78. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1743490

Congratulations Dr Dr Van Tran! We are so pleased you were a member of our VietSpeech team and that we were able to learn so much from you.

 
Prof Sharynne McLeod, Dr Dr Van Tran, Dr Audrey Wang, Kate Margetson



Dr Van Tran, Sharynne, A/Prof Sarah Verdon