Enhancing Student Education Transitions and Employability: From Theory to Practice - Softcover

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Thanh Pham is currently a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Thanh completed her degrees and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Queensland, Australia. She has done substantial research on internationalisation of higher education curricula and enhancing interactions of students from various backgrounds. Thanh has published extensively in cross-cultural pedagogies and is currently researching graduate employability with a focus on unpacking how graduates develop strategies to navigate barriers in the labour markets. She has worked with leading researchers in the field of graduate employability to develop comparative models showing resources/capitals that graduates need to articulate to thrive in the labour markets. Her research has been published in various sources including journals, books and magazines. Thanh initiated the Alumni Experience Conference series as a platform for alumni to share their career development experiences as well as a channel for mentorship between graduates and current students.

Behnam Soltani earned his PhD in Applied Linguistics from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has lectured in Sociolinguistics at Massey University, and has worked as a Research Officer on Massey University MBIE funded CaDDANZ project. He has been a Research Lead and Senior Research Fellow on the AKO Aotearoa funded Learner Capability Framework project at Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. He has more than two decades of teaching experience and is currently an Academic Partner at Manukau Institute of Technology. His research interests include graduate employability, academic socialisation, learner and teacher identities, classroom participation, silence in the classroom, production of space, internationalisation of higher education, mentorship and supervisory practices, assessment for learning, and professional practice.