Research grants: university competitive funding:

2021 – 2022: VND 298,600,050. Australian Government, Australian Alumni Grants Funds, Principal investigator, ‘Advancing Australia-trained Women Leadership in Education in Vietnam’. Co-investigators: Dr Thanh Pham, Monash University, Lan Do, RMIT Vietnam, and Cuong Nguyen, Ton Duc Thang University.

2015 – 2017: $16,017 (AUD). Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne – Sarawak Research Collaboration Scheme. Principal investigator, “Barriers to and facilitators of female academic promotions in Australian and Malaysian higher education institutions: an exploratory comparative case study”. Co-investigators:  Professor Bernadine Van Gramberg, Dr Ida Fatimawati bt Adi Badiozaman, and Dr Voon Mung Ling.

Research grants: external competitive funding:

2009:  $8,000 (USD). UNDP, Cambridge-Viet Nam Women’s Leadership Program, EOWP Research Grant. Principal investigator, “Empower and promote mid-level academic female leadership in higher education in Vietnam.” 

Research scholarships: competitive research training funding:

2010-2013: The University of Melbourne, Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship and Melbourne International Research Scholarship, PhD thesis. Principal investigator. “Building University Research Capacity in Vietnam: Prospects, Problems, and Possibilities.“ Principal Supervisor: Professor Vincent Lynn Meek, Co-supervisor: Professor Prof Leo Goedegebuure, The University of Melbourne, Australia

2008-2009: Australian Government, Australian Leadership Award, Master minor thesis. Principal investigator. “Identifying the training needs of the heads of departments at a newly established university in Vietnam.” Supervisor: Professor Vincent Lynn Meek, Director, The LH Martin Institute for Leadership and Higher Education, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Others:

2003 – 2004. ‘A Critical Discourse Analysis of news coverage of Iraq war in English and Vietnamese’. Master of English Master thesis, Vietnam National University, University of Languages and International Studies.