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Dr. Thi Kim Anh Dang, known professionally as Kim Dang, serves as Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in TESOL and Languages Education at the School of Education, Culture & Society, Faculty of Education, Monash University, a position she has held since January 2019. Previously, from May 2015 to December 2018, she was Senior Lecturer in the Continuing Education Excellence Development program at Monash University's Office of the Vice-Provost (Learning and Teaching). Her earlier roles in Australia include lecturer at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, and lecturer in student learning at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University. In Vietnam, she began her career as a teacher educator at the Faculty of English Language Teacher Education, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, for over ten years, alongside serving as a trainer at the Asian Institute of Technology Centre in Vietnam for more than eight years. Kim Dang is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) and a Monash Education Academy Fellow. She earned her PhD in TESOL Teacher Education from the University of Melbourne in 2014, with the thesis 'Paired-placements in teacher education: A socio-cultural activity theoretical perspective'; a Master of Education from the same institution in 2002, titled 'Applying a genre-based approach in teaching the writing of the English discussion genre to Vietnamese EFL students at the tertiary level,' which received the John and Elizabeth Robertson Prize; and a Bachelor of Education (Honours) in English Language Teaching from Vietnam National University in 1996.

Kim Dang's research focuses on teacher education, professional learning, TESOL, English language education, globalisation in education, Indigenous education, educational policy and leadership, informed by Vygotsky's sociocultural theory and activity theory, areas she has explored since 2008. She has published in leading journals such as Teaching and Teacher Education, Critical Studies in Education, Current Issues in Language Planning, and Asia Pacific Journal of Education, including her 2016 book 'Education Policy: Mapping the Landscape and Scope' (Peter Lang Publishers). Key recent works include 'In-service TESOL teachers' professional learning (2014–2024): a scoping review' (Review of Education, 2025), 'Educators’ agency in implementing English-medium-instruction in Chinese higher education: a cultural-historical perspective' (Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024), and 'How academics manage individual differences to team teach in higher education: a sociocultural activity theory perspective' (Higher Education, 2022). Her achievements include the Early Career Researcher Special Commendation Award from the Australian Association for Research in Education (2015), Excellent Research Supervision Award from the Government of Vietnam (2007), and various scholarships and prizes. She convened the Teacher Education & Research Innovation Special Interest Group of AARE from 2017 to 2021 and supervises higher degree research students in her fields.