Ly Thi Tran is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, Deakin University, Australia and an Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) fellow. Ly’s research and publications focus on international students, student mobility, international vocational education and training, pedagogy and curriculum in international education and Vietnamese higher education. She has been awarded three grants for research on international student mobility and staff professional development in international education by the Australian Research Council. Her book ‘Teaching international students in vocational education: New pedagogical approaches’ won the 2014 International Education Association of Australia’s Excellence Award for Best Practice/Innovation in International Education.
Kate Dempsey is an organisational consultant who has operated her own business, Kate Dempsey & Associates, for 29 years. She assists businesses with change management and organisational review. In addition to her consulting work, Kate is an academic who has taught Leadership and Managing Change to Master’s level students and to Bachelor of Business students. She currently teaches in the Latrobe online MBA course. She is a Research Fellow at Deakin University, specialising in research on educational internalisation. She was Executive Officer for an association of public Vocational Education and Training institutions in Australia from 2008 to 2015, where she prepared more than 18 research and best practice documents on international vocational education and training.