2023 - currently: Lecturer

School of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences

Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS)

2022: Post-doctoral Fellow

Department of Health Sciences, University of Missouri

Project: Investigation of Immigrant Integration Process using SIPP data

2021: Ph.D. in Public Affairs

University of Missouri, USA

2014: M.A. in Development Studies

University of Sussex, UK

2010: B.A. in English

Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam

Publications

• Pham, T., & Potochnick, S. (2024) Undergraduate Grading Practices of International Faculty – Evidence from Three Large Public Universities. AERA Open, 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584241267910

• Pham, T., Tsai, Y. (2024) The roles of faculty hiring and retention in shaping faculty diversity in US higher education institutions — retrospectively and prospectively from 2001 to 2035. Research in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-024-09810-w. (Access to Springer Nature ShareIt Content: https://rdcu.be/dL8bA)

• Pham, T. (2024) How Different are Johnson and Wang? Documenting Discrepancies in the Records of Ethnic Scholars in Scopus. Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology. 21. 004.  https://doi.org/10.28945/5325. 

• Pham, T., Altman, C.E. (2024). An Analysis of Individual, Parental, and Family Determinants of Gifted Placement among Children of Immigrants – Evidence from the 2014 SIPP Data. Journal of Child and Family Study. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02802-5.  (Access to Springer Nature ShareIt Content: https://rdcu.be/dz04o) 

• Koedel, C., & Pham, T. (2023). The Narrowing Gender Wage Gap Among Faculty at Public Universities in the U.S. SAGE Open, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231192936 

• Pham, T. (2022).  Academic Identity Development of Asian International Doctoral Students at a Public University - A Thematic Analysis. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 17, pp.323-344 https://doi.org/10.28945/5013  

• Pham, T. (2021). Three essays on Assimilation and Acculturation of International instructors at U.S. research universities. Dissertation. Access here. 

Work-in-progress papers/ Projects

• A Home Without, a Home Within: An Autoethnography of Academic Identity Development after Doctoral Graduation in Internationalised Higher Education (Under review)

• Diversity risks and Diversity leaders' characteristics: A Comparative Study of Corporations and Higher Education Institutions (With GuiDeng Say)

• Family Structures among Forced Migrants: A Case of Rohingya Refugees in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh (With Tapas Paul)

Singapore University of Social Sciences

• HBC 101: Understanding Contemporary Society: The Social and Behavioural Sciences

Instructor

Student evaluation: JAN2024: 4.35/5; JUL2024: 4.36/5; JAN2025: 4.35/5; JUL2025: 4.34/5, 3.93/5

• ABS 105: Everyday Sociology

Instructor

Student evaluation: JUL2024: 4.05/5; JAN2025 (course leader): 4.27/5; JUL2025 (course leader): 4.00/5

• ABS 355: Social Policy and Societal Well-being

Course developer (2023-2024); Instructor

Student evaluation: JAN2025 (course leader): 4.38/5

University of Missouri - Columbia

• HLTH-SCI 4410-02: Humanism and Health Literacy (Fall 2022)

Instructor of record - Department of Health Sciences, University of Missouri

Student evaluation: 4.83/5

• PA-8430: Policy Analysis (Fall 2020)

Teaching assistant -Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri

• PA-8181: Advanced research methodology for public affairs (Spring 2019)

Teaching assistant - Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri

Invited lectures

• 03/2024: Singapore Management University, Singapore

  •  (Lab) Using SingStat and Interpreting Population Data for Business Strategy Analysis (slide | worksheet)

• 05/2022: Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri-Columbia

  • (Lab) Narrative Inquiry as a Methodology (slide | worksheet) 

• 03/2020: Singapore Management University, Singapore

• 02/2020: Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri-Columbia

  • Multivariate regression

• 09/2019: School of Foreign Languages, Hanoi University of Science and Technology

• 11/2015: Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam

• Review Service: Journal of Diversity in Higher Education (Member of the Editorial Board, 2024-2026); International Journal of Doctoral Studies (Senior Reviewer); Asian Pacific Journal of Education; Journal of International Migration and Integration; Research in Higher Education; Industrial Engineering and Management Journal; Frontiers in Education.