Dr. Vuong Tran

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School of Economics, Finance, and Accounting
thvuong@hcmiu.edu.vn

EDUCATION

• PhD. Educational Sustainability, Nipissing University, Ontario, Canada
• Master of Business Administration, Walker School of Business & Technology, Webster
• University, Missouri, USA
• M.Ed. Education, Thompson Rivers University, BC, Canada

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Behavioral Finance
• Financial literacy and financial inclusion for disadvantaged individuals and young people in the contexts of Canada and Vietnam.
• Interdisciplinary research: Finance, Education and Gender Studies
  Global South knowledge systems
• Post-qualitative inquiry and the applications of transgressive data in memory-driven research

TEACHING COURSES

• Investment Banking
• Research Methods
• Advanced Finance & Accounting
• Cash and Investment Decisions
• International Economics and Finance
• Business Statistics and Quantitative Methods
• Management Accounting
• Financial Analysis
• Project Cost Management
• Leadership and Management.
• Entrepreneurship

PUBLICATIONS
Tran, V. (2026). Financial literacy and inclusion for LGBTQ+ students in Vietnam. In: E. Trinh.,
F. Blaike., G. Le (Eds), Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education.
Routledge.

Le, G., Tran, V., Nguyen, T., & Le, T. A. (2025). Writing collaborative autoethnographic stories
to understand Vietnamese children’s gendered toys. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1-
20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2025.2576016

Tran, V. (2024). Socio-economic justice and LGBTQI2S+ young adults: Financial literacy
education and financial inclusion [Doctoral dissertation, Nipissing University].

University of Toronto Tspace Repository.
https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/9879a9d5-0f15-4d64-9c82-2a9739f56ff7
Tran, V., Le. G., & Le, T. (2022). Impacts of international education shifts through transnational
stories of three Vietnamese doctoral students. In A. W. Wiseman (Ed.), Annual
Review of Comparative and International Education 2021 (International
Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 42A). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Trinh, E., Le, G., Dong, H. B., Tran, T., & Tran. V. (2022). Memory writing as a method of
inquiry: When returning becomes collective healing. Qualitative Report, 27(3), 824-
841. DOI:10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5245

Le, N. H. G., Tran, V. H., & Le, T. L. (2021). Combining photography and duoethnography for
creating a trioethnography approach to reflect upon educational issues amidst the
COVID-19 global pandemic. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20, 1-12.
DOI: 10.1177/16094069211031127

Le, T., Tran. V., & Le. G. (2020). Pride and Prejudice: An intersectional look at graduate
employability to transgender and queer international students. Journal of
Comparative and International Higher Education, 12(6S1), 153-160.
Le, G., Blaikie, F., & Tran. V. (2020). To know, to love and to heal: PhotoStory and duo-
ethnography as approaches to enhancing social justice and self-actualization in high
school classrooms. CSSE-CACS 2020 Proceedings/Actes de la SCÉÉ-ACÉC 2020, 18
(1), 53-55.

Tran, V. H., & Handford, V. (2020). The importance of supporting international students with

financial literacy education. OCUFA’s Journal of Higher Education.

Le, G., Tran. V., Vu, L., Nguyen, N., Nguyen, T. H. (2025). Music and memory as method in
arts-based research. Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education. Springer.
Le, G. N. H., Dong, H. B., Tran, V., Vu, L.H. (2023). “She is not a normal teacher of English”:
Photovoice as a decolonial method to study queer teacher identity in Vietnam’s
English language teaching. In: A. Sahlane., R. Pritchard (Eds), English as an
International Language Education. English Language Education. Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34702-3_23