About Us

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Tu Phuong Nguyen

PhD, Australian National University

Lecturer in Asian Studies at Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia

Research Interests

Labour law, labour rights, labour disputes, precarious employment, social protection, and gender equality at work in Vietnam.

Current Project

Challenges of pension reform and how factory workers and their households respond to the reform amid rising labour precarity.

Funding

University of Melbourne's Early Career Researcher Grant, Griffith University Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, and Labour Research Contest in Vietnam.

Professional Service

Vietnam Country Representative of Association of Mainland Southeast Asia Scholars (AMSEAS), member of Board of Trustees of Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA), member of ALSA award committees and ALSA annual conference's program committees.

Consultancy Work

Australian Award Short Course: Knowledge Exchange - Gender Equality Law (funded by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia); Research Methodology Training on Labour Relations Research (ILO in Vietnam and Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs).

With Support From

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Trang Tran

PhD, Monash University

Lecturer in Law at Deakin Law School, Deakin University, Australia

Research Interests

Labour law and regulatory theory, comparative labour law, labour governance in global value chain, labour resistance and digitalisation, labour history.

Current Projects

  • Labour power and law in supply chain
  • Grievance mechanisms in Vietnam's garment industry
  • Social media and workers' resistance in Vietnam
  • Algorithmic management and the platform work in China
  • Migrant workers' access to justice in Japan and Australia

Funding

PhD scholarship under the Australian Research Council Discovery Project (#DP190100821), Post-doctoral Research Fellowship under the Horizon European Research Council grant ERC-2022-COG (New Labour Law, Project Number 101088188).

Professional Service

Executive member of Asian Society of Labour Law

Consultancy Work

Consultant (ILO in Vietnam and Geneva), Ergon Associates