A N Q Phan
Biographic Data
| ID | 47298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A N Q Phan |
| GIVEN NAMES | A N Q |
| FAMILY NAME | Phan |
| SIGNATURE | PHAN A N Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9979-1321 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Research engagement, teacher identity, and the alignment of teacher careers with the future direction of institution
This study provides an in-depth examination of how university English language teaching (ELT) teachers conceptualize research as part of their professional job and discusses the issues of balancing these two roles. The results show ELT teachers, despite having different conceptualization of research and varying levels of research engagement, considered it an integral part of their job that could better inform their teaching performance. Revealing…
Scholarships in Thailand for Asean Integration: A Three Horizons Analysis of Evolution and Future Trajectories
Scholarships are vital for promoting regional integration and human capital development within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This study utilizes the Three Horizons framework to assess the evolution and future of Thailand's scholarship programs in the context of ASEAN's educational cooperation. Through 27 stakeholder surveys and 18 semi-structured interviews, we explore three temporal dimensions: current challenges (Horizon 1…
Leaving children behind for cross‐border education: Unveiling the emotional agency of international post‐graduate student mothers
Despite growing interest in the internationalisation of higher education, the experiences of international student parents, particularly international student mothers, remain largely marginalised in research and policy. This paper examines the emotional agency of international student mothers who leave their children behind in their home countries to pursue education abroad. Focusing on the narratives of nine Vietnamese post‐graduate student moth…
Thinking towards the Future: Reflections on Engaging with AI for Visual Data Presentation in Qualitative Research
This article reports our experience of exploring the use of ChatGPT to artistically present a segment of qualitative data in a visual form for one of our previous studies. We recounted our engagement with ChatGPT and reflected on our emotions and thoughts throughout the interactive process with this AI-powered tool for image generation. Our narrative analysis highlights the agency of ChatGPT as an active contributor to the creative endeavor and e…
International language certificates in Vietnam’s high school graduation and university admissions: A policy analysis
This study critically examines the Eurocentric foundations of Vietnam's education policy, focusing on the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training's decision to accept IELTS scores as substitutes for the national English examination in high school graduation and university admissions. Utilizing Foucault’s theory of knowledge and power and Carol Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to Be?’ (WPR) approach as the analytical framework, the p…
Regional Organisations and Policy Entrepreneurs: Shaping the Southeast Asian Higher Education Common Space
From coffee shops to online platforms: Students’ construction of and experiences in multiple higher education learning spaces
Learning space has expanded to spaces outside the traditional classroom, such as public transport, cafés, or parks, where students can easily engage in learning activities. In order to understand whether students use classrooms outside class time, where their learning takes place, why, when, and with whom, students’ experiences should be at the forefront of the inquiry. This study is among the first that attempts to understand students’ experienc…
Countering stuckness: International doctoral students’ experiences of disrupted mobility amidst Covid-19
The paper, through the lens of positioning and agency theories, examines the experiences of being stranded in the home country due to the restricted mobility caused by the COVID-19 pandemic of 10 international doctoral students of different nationalities (Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysian, and Indian), majoring in different disciplines (Education, Linguistics, Applied linguistics, Economics, Public health, and Civil engineering), and studying in dif…
Because of thương: Listening to the voices of Vietnamese early childhood educators
This paper explores the self-authoring of two early childhood educators in Vietnam’s disadvantaged areas, Ha and Dong, to understand their marginalization and resilience in their daily practices. Guided by a Bakhtinian view, teachers’ self-authoring is conceptualized as an ongoing process in which the teachers articulate authoritarian discourses, and integrate them with their ideas to develop their internally persuasive discourses—their own knowl…
AI as research partner: Key implications of using AI for data visualisation in qualitative research
Artificial intelligence (AI) can partner in a research process in multiple ways, including data visualisation in qualitative research. It can empower the researchers to (re)present data in more effective and artistically appealing manners. In this paper, we recount our interactive experiment of employing an AI-powered tool to generate a picture of a small segment of qualitative data. We then discuss three key implications from our engagement with…
Spatial (im)mobilities and aspirations: Voice of a young adult learner in Vietnam
This paper continues the strand of research on educational aspirations for upward social mobility with an emphasis on physical mobilities as observed in a Vietnamese student from a less privileged background. The authors utilised qualitative methods including reflexive journaling and life history interviews to engage in conversations with the participant over the course of five months regarding her geographical movement, aspirations, higher educa…
Understanding social-emotional learning needs of US teacher residents: A university supervisor's autoethnography in an urban teacher residency program
Too black to be The Little Mermaid ? Backlash against Disney’s 2023 The Little Mermaid – continuity of racism, white skin preference and hate content in Vietnam
When it was released globally and in Vietnam in May 2023, the live-action Disney movie The Little Mermaid was met with strong backlash online and boycotting in the Southeast Asian country.Negative reactions against the movie due to the casting of Halle Bailey, a Black actress for the titular role, a mermaid and princess of the ocean named Ariel, showed concerning signs of racism and sexism that stem from a preference for white skin and an emphasi…
Hate content and gendered shaming in Vietnamese social media: The case study of Trấn Thành
Few Vietnamese showbiz artists have enjoyed the same success as Trấn Thành, an entertainer with a thriving career in television and filmmaking. One of the most popular Vietnamese artists, Trấn Thành has also endured immense hate. In March 2023, at a press meeting, Trấn Thành bemoaned with tears the misery of being a high-profile figure, insisting that ‘being an artist is much more difficult than you may think’. Rather than garnering sympathy, how…
Popular queerness on Vietnamese prime-time television: Gender Ambiguity, Compliance and Compromises
The past two decades have seen a boom of queer media in many Asian countries, and Vietnam is not outside of this wave. This article examines the queer representations of three entertainers featured in three recent popular Vietnamese reality shows: Gil Lê in Sisters Who Make Waves, BB Trần in Brothers Defeat Thousands of Obstacles, and Pháp Kiều in Brothers Say Hi!. These entertainers serve as fascinating case studies for exploring what this paper…
Reproduction propaganda: The state hails, citizens responds—A case study of Vietnamese governmental Facebook
Since the turn of the 21st century, aging populations and low fertility rates have alarmed governments across Europe and East Asia. The Communist state of Vietnam is now experiencing the same situation. The government has recently started a propaganda campaign to encourage its citizens to not postpone marriage and having children. This article explores one recent attempt—a viral post published on the government's Facebook page in November 2023 ur…
Under the magnolia tree, our youth’: An autoethnography on friendship and sisterhood among female international doctoral students in New Zealand
This paper demonstrates how my friendship with three other female Vietnamese doctoral students in New Zealand grew into an ‘academic sisterhood’ which was forged as an emplaced form of sociality that encouraged solidarity among us. As four female Vietnamese PhD students in New Zealand who shared intersecting identities as Vietnamese temporary migrants, women, mothers, and PhD students, we provided support for and learned from each other. The sist…
Through guilt and resilience, we author ourselves’: A collaborative autoethnography of Vietnamese PhD student mothers / ‘A través de la culpa y la resiliencia, nos escribimos a nosotras mismas’: una a…
In this article, we employed collaborative autoethnography to explore the experiences of ourselves as four Vietnamese PhD student mothers who crossed national borders in pursuit of further education and encountered multiple challenges along the way. Based on Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism, we unpacked our experiences by presenting ongoing dialogues that influenced thoughts about our doctoral studies and mothering practices. On the one hand, we rec…
Strategic Remembering in Vietnam-US Relations: How a Monument of War Turns Into a Marker of Peace
On October 26, 1967, John McCain (1936-2018), the naval aviator who later became a US Senator from Arizona was shot down while flying over Hanoi, Vietnam. McCain then became a war prisoner for five and a half years until his release in March 1973. Where McCain was captured became the site of a memorial, depicting a soldier kneeling with two arms raised in surrender. Originally intended to celebrate the Vietnamese victory, the memorial later turne…
Online teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic: Vietnamese language teachers’ emotions, regulation strategies and institutional policy and management
Teaching is often described as one of the most emotion-laden professions. In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conversion to online teaching has triggered new emotional experiences of teachers that not many studies have taken into account. Studying emotion from a poststructuralist lens, this study examines the emotional experiences of 10 language teachers in a university in Vietnam and their responses to the new teaching platforms. Analysis of …
Covid-19 and higher education in Vietnam: Systematically rethinking the quality assurance system and practices towards the ‘new normal’ in post-crisis era
COVID-19 has spawned a critical shift in the landscape of higher education (HE) worldwide, entailing transformations of practices across the field, in which quality assurance (QA) for HE has also evolved to both reflect and stay adaptive to the ‘new normal’ formed during and beyond the pandemic. Against the COVID-19 context, this paper retells some of the existing debates for Vietnamese QA and accreditation activities, as well as identifies emerg…
Dancing into maternity: The lived experiences of Vietnamese professional dancers
The image of dancing into the spotlight alludes to glamor, which clouds the artists’ back-breaking work and practice. Meanwhile, there is scant research on the lived experiences of professional female dancers. To address this gap, this study explores the lived experiences of eight Vietnamese professional female dancers who are married with children. The findings reveal their enormous challenges in their professional, social, and personal lives to…
The why of where: Vietnamese doctoral students’ choice of PhD destinations
Opting for academic sojourns has become increasingly popular for students worldwide at various levels of education. While there have been a number of research studies into the college and country choice of university students at the undergraduate level, the opinions of international doctoral students are less presented, and if presented, they are mostly categorised into push and pull factors. Using imagination and aspiration theorised by Appadura…
On Space, On Place: A Poetic Self-Study of the Emerging Academic Identity of an International Doctoral Student
Using poetic self-study, the author recounted her own lived experiences during the first year as an international doctoral student in New Zealand to explore how her academic identity emerged and (re)constructed. The article draws on theories of space and place, investigating the spatial production and social interactions of the author within spaces that, in turn, influenced her sense of being an academic. While literature has been more concerned …
In-Betweenness, Mother Guilt, and Juggling Roles: The Emotional Experiences of a Vietnamese International Doctoral Student Mother
Sojourning as a wife, a mother and a daughter: A critical autoethnography of a Vietnamese doctoral student in New Zealand
This study is a critical autoethnography in which I recorded how I, as a Vietnamese student pursuing a doctoral degree in New Zealand with accompanying children, navigated between cultures and learned to raise children to be well adaptive to the New Zealand context and at the same time sustained the bond with the Vietnamese heritage. Based on theories of transnationalism, space and place, I explored my own spatial production and place-making proc…
The Emotional Geographies of Being Stranded Due to Covid-19: A Poetic Autoethnography of an International Doctoral Student
This poetic critical autoethnography paper studies my own experiences of disrupted mobility as a Vietnamese doctoral student in New Zealand who was stuck in Vietnam. Through the lens of space and place, I investigate the issues of sense of belonging and sense of place that were reconfigured in different spaces. The article highlights my agency to reinforce and reconnect with my sense of belonging. As the article focuses on immobility, it challeng…
Reproduction propaganda: The state hails, citizens responds—A case study of Vietnamese governmental Facebook
Since the turn of the 21st century, aging populations and low fertility rates have alarmed governments across Europe and East Asia. The Communist state of Vietnam is now experiencing the same situation. The government has recently started a propaganda campaign to encourage its citizens to not postpone marriage and having children. This article explores one recent attempt—a viral post published on the government's Facebook page in November 2023 ur…
Vietnamese doctoral students’ imaginative geographies of their destination countries
This paper focuses on Vietnamese PhD students’ imaginative geographies of their destination countries. Using the data collected from in-depth semi-structured interviews with 18 Vietnamese PhD students, the study examines the participants’ preparation for their sojourn before their departure, as well as their first multi-sensory experiences of the study countries on the first days of arrival, which then revealed how their imaginative geographies h…
Spatial (im)mobilities and aspirations: Voice of a young adult learner in Vietnam
This paper continues the strand of research on educational aspirations for upward social mobility with an emphasis on physical mobilities as observed in a Vietnamese student from a less privileged background. The authors utilised qualitative methods including reflexive journaling and life history interviews to engage in conversations with the participant over the course of five months regarding her geographical movement, aspirations, higher educa…
Too black to be The Little Mermaid ? Backlash against Disney’s 2023 The Little Mermaid – continuity of racism, white skin preference and hate content in Vietnam
When it was released globally and in Vietnam in May 2023, the live-action Disney movie The Little Mermaid was met with strong backlash online and boycotting in the Southeast Asian country.Negative reactions against the movie due to the casting of Halle Bailey, a Black actress for the titular role, a mermaid and princess of the ocean named Ariel, showed concerning signs of racism and sexism that stem from a preference for white skin and an emphasi…
Popular queerness on Vietnamese prime-time television: Gender Ambiguity, Compliance and Compromises
The past two decades have seen a boom of queer media in many Asian countries, and Vietnam is not outside of this wave. This article examines the queer representations of three entertainers featured in three recent popular Vietnamese reality shows: Gil Lê in Sisters Who Make Waves, BB Trần in Brothers Defeat Thousands of Obstacles, and Pháp Kiều in Brothers Say Hi!. These entertainers serve as fascinating case studies for exploring what this paper…
Through guilt and resilience, we author ourselves’: A collaborative autoethnography of Vietnamese PhD student mothers / ‘A través de la culpa y la resiliencia, nos escribimos a nosotras mismas’: una a…
In this article, we employed collaborative autoethnography to explore the experiences of ourselves as four Vietnamese PhD student mothers who crossed national borders in pursuit of further education and encountered multiple challenges along the way. Based on Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism, we unpacked our experiences by presenting ongoing dialogues that influenced thoughts about our doctoral studies and mothering practices. On the one hand, we rec…
Under the impacts of globalisation: The rising power of English as a foreign language (EFL) and the corresponding response of EFL policy in Vietnam
On Space, On Place: A Poetic Self-Study of the Emerging Academic Identity of an International Doctoral Student
Using poetic self-study, the author recounted her own lived experiences during the first year as an international doctoral student in New Zealand to explore how her academic identity emerged and (re)constructed. The article draws on theories of space and place, investigating the spatial production and social interactions of the author within spaces that, in turn, influenced her sense of being an academic. While literature has been more concerned …
In-Betweenness, Mother Guilt, and Juggling Roles: The Emotional Experiences of a Vietnamese International Doctoral Student Mother
Emigrate out of National Borders, Immigrate into Diasporic Spaces: Vietnamese International Doctoral Students’ Diasporic Subjectivity in the Making
The article explores the ways in which Vietnamese international doctoral students participated in and influenced social spaces to produce diasporic subjectivity among Vietnamese diasporic communities in the study countries, and how this diasporic subjectivity was produced in what I term ‘diasporised moments’. Guided by theory of space, I look at how Vietnamese doctoral students negotiated their ‘membership’ of those communities, how their nationa…
Writing From Diasporic Space: A Poetic Narrative of a Refugee Daughter
The poetic narrative recounts a story of a Vietnamese refugee daughter I met in New Zealand. Her experience of family separation and dispersion when her parents decided to flee the country after the Vietnam war ended in 1975 evoked a sense of trauma, a collective trauma of thousands of Vietnamese who suffered from losses: “their country,” their home, their families, and their place, to the oceans they crossed. Many of them never had the future th…
Vietnamese doctoral students’ imaginative geographies of their destination countries
This paper focuses on Vietnamese PhD students’ imaginative geographies of their destination countries. Using the data collected from in-depth semi-structured interviews with 18 Vietnamese PhD students, the study examines the participants’ preparation for their sojourn before their departure, as well as their first multi-sensory experiences of the study countries on the first days of arrival, which then revealed how their imaginative geographies h…
Sojourning as a wife, a mother and a daughter: A critical autoethnography of a Vietnamese doctoral student in New Zealand
This study is a critical autoethnography in which I recorded how I, as a Vietnamese student pursuing a doctoral degree in New Zealand with accompanying children, navigated between cultures and learned to raise children to be well adaptive to the New Zealand context and at the same time sustained the bond with the Vietnamese heritage. Based on theories of transnationalism, space and place, I explored my own spatial production and place-making proc…
The Emotional Geographies of Being Stranded Due to Covid-19: A Poetic Autoethnography of an International Doctoral Student
This poetic critical autoethnography paper studies my own experiences of disrupted mobility as a Vietnamese doctoral student in New Zealand who was stuck in Vietnam. Through the lens of space and place, I investigate the issues of sense of belonging and sense of place that were reconfigured in different spaces. The article highlights my agency to reinforce and reconnect with my sense of belonging. As the article focuses on immobility, it challeng…
Online teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic: Vietnamese language teachers’ emotions, regulation strategies and institutional policy and management
Teaching is often described as one of the most emotion-laden professions. In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conversion to online teaching has triggered new emotional experiences of teachers that not many studies have taken into account. Studying emotion from a poststructuralist lens, this study examines the emotional experiences of 10 language teachers in a university in Vietnam and their responses to the new teaching platforms. Analysis of …
Covid-19 and higher education in Vietnam: Systematically rethinking the quality assurance system and practices towards the ‘new normal’ in post-crisis era
COVID-19 has spawned a critical shift in the landscape of higher education (HE) worldwide, entailing transformations of practices across the field, in which quality assurance (QA) for HE has also evolved to both reflect and stay adaptive to the ‘new normal’ formed during and beyond the pandemic. Against the COVID-19 context, this paper retells some of the existing debates for Vietnamese QA and accreditation activities, as well as identifies emerg…
Dancing into maternity: The lived experiences of Vietnamese professional dancers
The image of dancing into the spotlight alludes to glamor, which clouds the artists’ back-breaking work and practice. Meanwhile, there is scant research on the lived experiences of professional female dancers. To address this gap, this study explores the lived experiences of eight Vietnamese professional female dancers who are married with children. The findings reveal their enormous challenges in their professional, social, and personal lives to…
The why of where: Vietnamese doctoral students’ choice of PhD destinations
Opting for academic sojourns has become increasingly popular for students worldwide at various levels of education. While there have been a number of research studies into the college and country choice of university students at the undergraduate level, the opinions of international doctoral students are less presented, and if presented, they are mostly categorised into push and pull factors. Using imagination and aspiration theorised by Appadura…
Reproduction propaganda: The state hails, citizens responds—A case study of Vietnamese governmental Facebook
Since the turn of the 21st century, aging populations and low fertility rates have alarmed governments across Europe and East Asia. The Communist state of Vietnam is now experiencing the same situation. The government has recently started a propaganda campaign to encourage its citizens to not postpone marriage and having children. This article explores one recent attempt—a viral post published on the government's Facebook page in November 2023 ur…
Under the magnolia tree, our youth’: An autoethnography on friendship and sisterhood among female international doctoral students in New Zealand
This paper demonstrates how my friendship with three other female Vietnamese doctoral students in New Zealand grew into an ‘academic sisterhood’ which was forged as an emplaced form of sociality that encouraged solidarity among us. As four female Vietnamese PhD students in New Zealand who shared intersecting identities as Vietnamese temporary migrants, women, mothers, and PhD students, we provided support for and learned from each other. The sist…
Through guilt and resilience, we author ourselves’: A collaborative autoethnography of Vietnamese PhD student mothers / ‘A través de la culpa y la resiliencia, nos escribimos a nosotras mismas’: una a…
In this article, we employed collaborative autoethnography to explore the experiences of ourselves as four Vietnamese PhD student mothers who crossed national borders in pursuit of further education and encountered multiple challenges along the way. Based on Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism, we unpacked our experiences by presenting ongoing dialogues that influenced thoughts about our doctoral studies and mothering practices. On the one hand, we rec…
Strategic Remembering in Vietnam-US Relations: How a Monument of War Turns Into a Marker of Peace
On October 26, 1967, John McCain (1936-2018), the naval aviator who later became a US Senator from Arizona was shot down while flying over Hanoi, Vietnam. McCain then became a war prisoner for five and a half years until his release in March 1973. Where McCain was captured became the site of a memorial, depicting a soldier kneeling with two arms raised in surrender. Originally intended to celebrate the Vietnamese victory, the memorial later turne…
From coffee shops to online platforms: Students’ construction of and experiences in multiple higher education learning spaces
Learning space has expanded to spaces outside the traditional classroom, such as public transport, cafés, or parks, where students can easily engage in learning activities. In order to understand whether students use classrooms outside class time, where their learning takes place, why, when, and with whom, students’ experiences should be at the forefront of the inquiry. This study is among the first that attempts to understand students’ experienc…
Countering stuckness: International doctoral students’ experiences of disrupted mobility amidst Covid-19
The paper, through the lens of positioning and agency theories, examines the experiences of being stranded in the home country due to the restricted mobility caused by the COVID-19 pandemic of 10 international doctoral students of different nationalities (Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysian, and Indian), majoring in different disciplines (Education, Linguistics, Applied linguistics, Economics, Public health, and Civil engineering), and studying in dif…
Because of thương: Listening to the voices of Vietnamese early childhood educators
This paper explores the self-authoring of two early childhood educators in Vietnam’s disadvantaged areas, Ha and Dong, to understand their marginalization and resilience in their daily practices. Guided by a Bakhtinian view, teachers’ self-authoring is conceptualized as an ongoing process in which the teachers articulate authoritarian discourses, and integrate them with their ideas to develop their internally persuasive discourses—their own knowl…
AI as research partner: Key implications of using AI for data visualisation in qualitative research
Artificial intelligence (AI) can partner in a research process in multiple ways, including data visualisation in qualitative research. It can empower the researchers to (re)present data in more effective and artistically appealing manners. In this paper, we recount our interactive experiment of employing an AI-powered tool to generate a picture of a small segment of qualitative data. We then discuss three key implications from our engagement with…
Spatial (im)mobilities and aspirations: Voice of a young adult learner in Vietnam
This paper continues the strand of research on educational aspirations for upward social mobility with an emphasis on physical mobilities as observed in a Vietnamese student from a less privileged background. The authors utilised qualitative methods including reflexive journaling and life history interviews to engage in conversations with the participant over the course of five months regarding her geographical movement, aspirations, higher educa…
Understanding social-emotional learning needs of US teacher residents: A university supervisor's autoethnography in an urban teacher residency program
Too black to be The Little Mermaid ? Backlash against Disney’s 2023 The Little Mermaid – continuity of racism, white skin preference and hate content in Vietnam
When it was released globally and in Vietnam in May 2023, the live-action Disney movie The Little Mermaid was met with strong backlash online and boycotting in the Southeast Asian country.Negative reactions against the movie due to the casting of Halle Bailey, a Black actress for the titular role, a mermaid and princess of the ocean named Ariel, showed concerning signs of racism and sexism that stem from a preference for white skin and an emphasi…
Hate content and gendered shaming in Vietnamese social media: The case study of Trấn Thành
Few Vietnamese showbiz artists have enjoyed the same success as Trấn Thành, an entertainer with a thriving career in television and filmmaking. One of the most popular Vietnamese artists, Trấn Thành has also endured immense hate. In March 2023, at a press meeting, Trấn Thành bemoaned with tears the misery of being a high-profile figure, insisting that ‘being an artist is much more difficult than you may think’. Rather than garnering sympathy, how…
Popular queerness on Vietnamese prime-time television: Gender Ambiguity, Compliance and Compromises
The past two decades have seen a boom of queer media in many Asian countries, and Vietnam is not outside of this wave. This article examines the queer representations of three entertainers featured in three recent popular Vietnamese reality shows: Gil Lê in Sisters Who Make Waves, BB Trần in Brothers Defeat Thousands of Obstacles, and Pháp Kiều in Brothers Say Hi!. These entertainers serve as fascinating case studies for exploring what this paper…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (18 works) · Vietnamese (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (7 works)