Dr An Nguyen founded this program in March 2024. In late 2024, Dr Dan Tong and Dr Phu Nguyen joined the program as supervisors and provided expertise in their fields. 

Dr. AN NGUYEN

Dr An Nguyen is a social health researcher specialising in disability, ageing, and health equity among culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Her work integrates qualitative and mixed-method approaches to examine structural barriers in health systems and inform inclusive policy reform. She has an established international publication record, including first-author articles in leading journals such as Disability & Society, Sexuality and Disability, and Global Public Health. Dr Nguyen’s emerging research agenda focuses on disability and ageing in multicultural Australia, with particular attention to culturally diverse communities and health service accessibility. More details can be found at this site: https://sites.google.com/view/dr-an-nguyen/home

Dr PHU NGUYEN

Dr. Phu got his Ph.D, from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geo-scienses, under the supervision of Prof. Lambertus Johannes Sluys. His PhD was about multi scale failure modelling of quasi-brittle materials like concrete using advanced discontinuous computational homogenization methods. After his PhD he had been to a couple of different places (Johns Hopkins University, Cardiff University and The University of Adelaide) before joining Monash University as a lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering in 2016. His research area is numerical methods for solving partial differential equations (isogeometric analysis, extended finite element method, material point method) and damage/fracture models (phase-field fracture/damage models, cohesive zone models) for fracture mechanics and large deformation mechanics problems. More details can be found on his website at http://nvinhphu.wixsite.com/mysite.

Dr DAN TONG

I am an experienced lecturer with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. I have been teaching various economics subjects at La Trobe University and overseas. My current research (and also my on-going projects) focuses on the impact of the technological innovations (online platforms, AI…) and how it sheds lights on a number of areas, such as future of work, labour migration, gender disparities, food security and pollution issue. There are 2 factors which shape my expertise and explain my current work span: (1) I possess a theoretical base in Economics with a Master in Development and Resource Economics and a PhD in Economics and conducted series of research on those areas, and (2) 3 recent years which I have been deeply engaged in digital business and economics of innovation amazingly causes me to look at those same issues through a completely new lens. 

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8580-1426/