Welcome,

I am Dr An Nguyen. I am a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at King's Business School, King's College London. 

I am the Deputy Programme Director of the MSc Global Human Resource Management (Online, Part-time) at King's. 

I am an experienced educator in teaching Human Resource Management, Education, and Research Methods at UK universities in both online and face-to-face delivery. I have experience in leading large modules, flipped classroom learning, dissertation supervision and online teaching. 

My research interests include Global HRM; Work and Employment, speficically:

1. Global and comparative HRM 

2. Future of work (e.g., AI in HRM, working from home, virtual teams,…) 

3. Sociology of work (e.g career aspirations, employability, sustainable careers…) 

I have extensive work and consultancy experience with corporations, NGOs, ed-tech, and universities in India, China, Vietnam, and the UK. I am a trilingual researcher in Vietnamese, English and Mandarin Chinese (with conversational proficiency in Spanish and Arabic).

Contact: an.nguyen@kcl.ac.uk. My KCL staff profile page is here.

Affiliated organisations

British Educational Research Association (member)

British Association of Management (BAM)

British  Sociology Association (BSA)

The Women in Higher Education Fellowship (Fellow)

King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Affliate) 

Journal Publications

1. Nguyen, A. (2023). Unraveling EMI as a predictor of English proficiency in Vietnamese higher education: Exploring learners’ backgrounds as a variable. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 13(2), 347-371. https://doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.38278 

2. Nguyen, A. (2024). A longitudinal study on content learning of EMI students in Vietnam from Bourdieusian perspectives. Journal of English-Medium Instruction, 3(1), 115-138. https://doi.org/10.1075/jemi.22014.ngu 

3. Nguyen, A., & Dang, C. T. (2024). Exploring the effectiveness and equity of English-medium instruction on self-efficacy development: A pre-post study of business students in Vietnam. Journal of Education for Business, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/08832323.2024.2404616 (Open Access)

4. Lyu, H., Nguyen, A., & Dang, C. T. (2025). Aligning Support With the Needs of Mature Students in Russell Group Universities: A Systematic Literature Review. The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/07377363.2025.2460248 (Open Access)

Working papers (completed)

1. Distinguishing Fact from Fiction:  Student Traits, Attitudes, and AI Hallucination Detection in Business School Assessment, with Canh Dang, 2024, (Revised and Resubmitted)

2. Enhancing student engagement through Vygotskian enquiry-based learning: Action research at a UK business school, with Canh Dang, 2025, (Revise and Resubmit),

Media Publications

1. Student engagement: A catalyst for academic integrity, University World News, 04/2024

2. Promoting academic integrity in business schools, Knowledge Sharing Learning & Teaching, CABS, o8/2024

3. Are we prepared for the looming shadow of AI hallucination?, The Innovation Platform Issue 19, 2024

Teaching 

King's Business School, King's College London, Lecturer in HRM, 3/2024 - now

• Design and deliver online HRM courses: Comparative and Global HRM, Strategic HRM, Research and Consulting Skills

• Dissertation supervision: HRM Capstone Project, Postgraduate Dissertation

• Deputy Programme Director MSc Global HRM Programme

• Research Affiliate at King's AI Institute

• Fellowship of The Women in Higher Education Association

• Member of Women@KBS Steering Group

Coventry University, UK, Lecturer and Module Leader in HRM, 5/2023 - 3/2024

• Design and deliver HRM courses: 7021MHR Research Methods, 7024MHR Contemporary Issues in HRM, 7020MHR Employee Engagement and Relations, 7014MHR Leadership, 7028MHR Managing Diversity in Global HRM contexts, 7025MHR Strategic HRM

• Dissertation supervision: 6005MHR Global Business Dissertation (undergraduate level), 7010MHR Business and Management Dissertation (postgraduate level)

• Completed supervised dissertations: 22 postgraduate dissertation theses, 7 undergraduate theses

University of Glasgow, Associate Tutor, 5/2021 - 9/2025

• Facilitate weekly seminars, respond to students’ academic inquiries, deliver additional academic support for international students, and provide personalised supervision for dissertation module for postgraduate students in the MSc Education Studies programme

• Mark and cross-mark students' assignments for Contemporary Issues in Education Policy and Seminars in Contemporary Issues in Education modules.

• Lead weekly seminars for Modern Educational Thought 2021-2022 and undertake summative markings for the module

Awards and recognitions

• British Academy of Management Early Career Education Practice Award 2025

• Teaching Evaluation Student Feedback (2020 - )

• Best PhD presentation paper, Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education Conference 2022

• Nomination for the Open University Postgraduate Research Student Excellence Award 2022

• OU Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies Conference Fund Award 2022

• BERA Conference PhD Student Scholarship 2021

• The Open University PhD Studentship (Overseas fees + Stipend + Research Grants)

• UCL Learning Opportunities Fund

• LSE Language Centre Best Research Prize