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• Infographic - Impacts of post-study work rights
• Final Report - Impacts of post-study work rights 
• Video (YouTube) - Impacts of post-study work rights video 


Journal articles and Commentaries

Books, Book chapters and Reports

Conference keynotes and presentations


Journal articles

Tran, L. T., Tan, G., Bui, H., & Rahimi, M. (2022). International graduates on temporary post‐graduation visas in Australia: Employment experiences and outcomes. Population, Space and Place.
Tran, L.T., Bui, H., Tan, G., & Rahimi, M. (2022). Post-graduation work visa and loopholes: Insights into support provision for international graduates from the perspectives of migration agents, universities, and international graduates. Evaluation Review.
Tran, L.T., Bui, H., Tan, G., & Rahimi, M. (2022).
“It is not O.K to think that you are good just because you have graduated from overseas”: Agency and contextual factors affecting Vietnamese returning graduates. International Migration.
Tran, L.T., Bui, H. (2021).
International graduate returnees’ accumulation of capitals and (re)positioning in the home labour market in Vietnam: the explorer, the advancer or the adventurer?. Jounal of Education and Work.
Tran, L.T, Thi Quy Do, T., & Bui, H. (2021). 'Employability in context’: The importance of considering contextual factors in reimagining employability through Australian student mobility to the Indo‐Pacific region". Higher Education Quarterly. 
Tran, L. T., Blackmore, J. & Mark, R. (2021). 'You are not as localised as I need': Employability of Chinese returning graduates’, Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning", doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/HESWBL-09-2020-022. Link to a pre-published copy of the article.
Tran, L. T., Phan, H. L. T., & Bellgrove, A. (2021). ‘There's a much bigger world of science than just Australia': Australian students’ development of disciplinary knowledge, transferable skills and attributes through a New Colombo Plan short-term mobility program to Japan. International Journal of Science Education, 1-18.
Tran, L. T., Phan, H. L. T., Tan, G., & Rahimi, M. (2020). ‘I changed my strategy and looked for jobs on Gumtree’: the ecological circumstances and international graduates’ agency and strategies to navigate the Australian labour market. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 1-19.
Tran, L. T., Rahimi, M., Tan, G., Dang, X. T., & Le, N. (2020). Post-study work for international graduates in Australia: opportunity to enhance employability, get a return on investment or secure migration?. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 18(5), 495-510.
Tran, L. T., Stafford, G., Soejatminah, S., & Gribble, C. (2020). Building experience, opportunities, and the resume: motivations of students participating in learning-abroad programmes through the New Colombo Plan. Higher Education Research & Development, 1-15.
Blackmore, J. & Rahimi, M. (2019) How ‘best fit’ excludes international graduates from employment in Australia: a Bourdeusian perspective. Journal of Education and Work, 32:5, 436-448, DOI: 10.1080/13639080.2019.1679729
Phan, H. L. T., Tran, L. T., & Blackmore, J. (2019). Internationalization, Student Engagement, and Global Graduates: A Comparative Study of Vietnamese and Australian Students’ Experience. Journal of Studies in International Education, 23(1), 171-189.
​Tran, L.T. & Soejatminah S. (2017). Work-integrated learning for international students: From harmony to inequality. Journal of Studies in International Education. 21(3):261-277
​Tran, L. T.  (2017). “I am really expecting people to judge me by my skills”: Ethnicity and identity of international students. Journal of Vocational Education and Training. 69(3), 390-404.
Tan, G. & Hugo, G. (2017) The Transnational Migration Strategies of Chinese and Indian Students in Australia. Population, Space and Place, 23.
Tran, L. T. & Vu, T. (2017). ‘Agency in mobility’: An examination of student agency in transnational education. Educational Review. 28(3), 283-303.
Wall, T., Tran, L. T. & Soejatminah, S. (2016). Inequalities and agencies in workplace learning experiences: international student perspectives. Vocations and Learning. 10(2), 141-15
Tran, L.T., & Soejatminah S. (2016).  ‘Get foot in the door’: International students’ perceptions of work-integrated learning . British Journal of Educational Studies, 64(3), 337-355. 
Tran, L. T., & Vu, T. T. P. (2016). ‘I’m not like that, why treat me the same way?’ The impact of stereotyping international students on their learning, employability and connectedness with the workplace. The Australian Educational Researcher, 43(2), 203-220. 
Tran, L. T (2016). ‘Mobility as becoming’: A Bourdieuian analysis of the factors shaping international student mobility. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37(8), 1268-1289.
Blackmore, J., Gribble, C., & Rahimi, M. (2015). International education, the formation of capital and graduate employment: Chinese accounting graduates’ experiences of the Australian labour market. Critical Studies in Education, 1-20. ​
Gribble, C., Blackmore, J., & Rahimi, M. (2015). Challenges to providing work integrated learning to international business students at Australian universities. Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, 5(4), 401-416. 
Ziguras, C. & Gribble, C. (2014). Policy Responses to Address Student ‘Brain Drain’: An Assessment of Measures Intended to Reduce the Emigration of Singaporean International Students. Journal of Studies in International Education, 1-19.
Tran, L. T. & Nyland, C. (2013). Competency-based training, global skills mobility and the teaching of international students in VET. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 65(1), 143-157. 
Pham, H. H. & Tran, L. T. (2013). Developing graduate skills, knowledge and attributes for the world of work: The case of the translation curriculum in Vietnam. Language, Culture and Society, Issue 36, 1-15. 
Gribble, C. and Blackmore, J. (2012) Re-positioning Australia’s international education in global knowledge economies: implications of shifts in skilled migration policies for universities, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management  34(4) 341-54. 
Tran, L. T. & Nyland, C. (2011). International vocational education and training - The migration and learning mix. Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 51(1), 8-31. ​
Gribble, C. (2008). Policy options for managing international student migration: the sending country's perspective. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 30(1), 25 –39.



Commentaries
Tran, L & Bui, H. (2020). Why host countries should support international alumni. University World News
Tran, L., & Tan, G. (2020). 90,000 foreign graduates are stuck in Australia without financial support: it’s a humanitarian and economic crisis in the making. The Conversation.
Tan, G. & Tran, L. (2020). Post-study work rights the key to attracting international students. Campus Review.
Tran, L. T. (2020). Understanding the full value of international students. University World News.
Tran, L. (2020). Learning abroad a uni essential. The Australian
Tran, L. T. (2020). How to secure recovery of international student mobility. University World News.
​Tran, L. & Forbes-Mewett, H. (2019). How to attract a desirable mix of international students. University World News.
​Tran, L. Tan, G., Rahimi, M. (2019). Australia's temporary graduate visa attracts international students but many find it hard to get work in their field. The Conversation.
Tran, L. Rahimi, M. & Tan, G. (2019). Tackling the post-study work visa chicken or egg problem. University World News. 
 Cebulla, A. & Tan, G. (2019). There’s one big problem with Australia’s skilled migration program: many employers don’t want new migrants. The Conversation. 
Gribble, C., Blackmore, J., Rahimi, M. (2014). Challenges facing Australian international graduates transitioning into the Australian labour market. AARE. EduResearch Matters
Tran, L. T., Ngo, N., & Nguyen, H. M. (2018). What do employers expect from graduates? Các nhà tuyển dụng mong đợi gì ở sinh viên sau tốt nghiệp? Khoa Hoc va Phat Trien
Tran, L. T. (2018). Discovering the new possibles through the New Colombo Plan. IEAA. 
Tran, L. & Gribble, C. (2015). International students have a contribution to make. University World News. Issue 387. 23 October 2015.
Tran, L. & Gomes, C. (2015). Stereotyping international students is unjust. University World News. Issue 635. 01 May 2015. 
Rahimi M (2012) Australian Higher Education Grapples with the Rise of Asia, media report, reported by Susan Woodward at the Chronicle of Higher Education, October 4, 2012
Gribble, C., Blackmore, J., Farrell, L., Devlin, M., Arber, R. and Rahimi, M. (2012) Work barriers block international students, Campus Review, May 28

Books and Book chapters

Tran, L., Ngo, N., Nguyen, H. & Le, T. (Forthcoming). Graduate Employability in Vietnam: Practices, Challenges and Possibilities. Palgrave. 
Coelen, R., & Gribble, C. (Eds.). (2019). Internationalization and Employability in Higher Education. Routledge.
Tran, L. T., Stafford, G., Vu, T.T.P., & Rahimi, M. (2019). Engagement with Asia via the New Colombo Plan: Impact on Australian Students’ Career Directions and Employability. In Hong T. M. Bui, Hoa T. M. Nguyen and Doug Cole (Eds.). Innovate Higher Education to Enhance Graduate Employability. Abingdon: Routledge.
Nguyen, N. T., Tran, L. T. & Le, T. (2019). Work-integrated learning: Moving from the periphery to the centre of the curriculum. In Nguyen, N. T. & Tran, L. T. (2019). (Eds.). Reforming Vietnamese Higher Education: Global Forces and Local Demands. Dordrecht: Springer.
Tran, L. T. & Soejatminah, S. (2018). International Students as a Vulnerable Army of Workers: Work Experience and Workplace Treatment. In K. Bista (Ed.). Global Perspectives on International Student Experiences in Higher Education: Tensions and Issues. Abingdon: Routledge.
Tran, L. T. & Dempsey, K. (2017). Internationalization in vocational education and training: An overview. In L. T. Tran & K. Dempsey (Eds), Internationalization in vocational education and training: Transnational perspectives (pp.2-13). Dordrecht: Springer.
Gribble, C. & McRae, N. (2017). Creating a Climate for Global WIL:  Barriers to participation and strategies for enhancing international students’ involvement in WIL in Canada and Australia. In G. Barton & K. Hartwig (eds.), Professional Learning in the Work Place for International Students. Springer.
Wall, T. & Tran, L. T. (2016). The transcultural dance: Enriching work-based learning facilitation. In Heyler, R. (Ed), Work based learning teacher handbook (pp.227-246). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 
Gribble, C. & Rahimi, M. & Blackmore, J. (2016). International students and post study employment: The impact of university and host community engagement on the employment outcomes of international students in Australia, Ch.2 (pp. 15-39) in Tran. L. T. & Gomes, C. (Eds). International student engagement and identity. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer
Wall, T. & Tran, L. T. (2015). Learning to be an international work-based learner. In Heyler, R. (Ed), Work based learning student handbook (pp.205-226). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Gribble, C. & Tran, L. (2015). Connecting and re-connecting with Vietnam:  Migration, Vietnamese overseas communities and social media. In C. Gomes (eds.), Multiethnic Southeast Asia and Social Media: Identity, Ethnicity, Community and Migration. Anthem Press.
Arber, R. & Rahimi, M. (2015). International graduates’ endeavours for work in Australia: the experience of international graduates of accounting transitioning into Australian labour market, Chapter 4 in: Ata, A. & Kostogriz, A. (Eds) 'International Education: Cultural-Linguistic experiences of International Students in Australia', QLD, Australia: the Australian Academic Press.
Tran, L. T. (2013). 
Work-based learning and experiential learning for international students. Chapter 8 in Teaching international students in vocational education and training: New pedagogical approaches. Camberwell: ACER Press. Winning the  International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) 2014 Excellence Award for Innovation/Best Practice in International Education.

Reports
Tran, L. T. & Bui, H. T. N. (2019). International graduates: navigating the host and home labour markets. International Education Association of Australia (IEAA).
​Retrieved from https://www.ieaa.org.au/documents/item/1743
Tran, L., Rahimi, M. & Tan, G. (2019). Temporary graduatification: Impacts of post-study work rights policy in Australia. REDI: Deakin University.
Berquist, B., Hall, R., Morris-Lange, S., Shields, H., Stern, V., & Tran, L. T. (2019), Global perspectives on international student employability. International Education Association of Australia (IEAA)
​Blackmore, J., Tran, L.T. & Rahimi, M. (2018). Cultural understandings of graduate employability in accounting in China and India: Analysis of interviews with Chinese and Indian employers, alumni and key stakeholders in Australian international education. Report for CPA Australia. Deakin University. Melbourne. 
Tran, L., Ngo, N., & Nguyen, H. (2018). Needs of and Gaps Encountered by Employers in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam. ​Research Report to DFAT's Aus4Skills Program.
Blackmore, J., Gribble, C., Farrell, L., Rahimi, M., Arber, R., & Devlin, M. (2014). Australian international graduates and the transition to employment. Project No. LP0990815, Final Report for the ARC Linkage, Funded by the Australian Research Council and IDP Pty Ltd, Melbourne.
Gribble, C., Blackmore, J., Morrissey, A. M., & Capic, T. (2016). Investigating the use of IELTS in determining employment, migration and professional registration outcomes in healthcare and early childcare education in Australia. 
IELTS Research Reports Online Series, 58.
Gribble, C. (2016). Exploring ‘employability’ in different cultural contexts. Society for Research in Higher Education. 
Gribble, C. (2015). Enhancing the Employability of International Graduates: A Guide for Australian Education Providers. Commissioned for the IEAA National Symposium on Employability.
Gribble, C. (2015). IEAA International Employability Symposium: Outcomes Report. International Education Association Australia. 
Gribble, C. (2014). Employment, Work Placements and Work Integrated Learning of International Students in Australia. Research Digest Series: International Education Association Australia.
Murray, D. Blackmore, J. Gribble ,C. Hall, R. (2013). Internships and Work Integrated Learning opportunities for International Students, Department of Business and Innovation, Vic.  International Education Association of Australia.

Conference papers

Featured Talk. Post-study work for international graduates in Australia: Loopholes and implications. Graduate Employability Summit. Melbourne. September 2019
Tran, L. (2019). Keynote talk: Sustainable approaches to teaching and engaging international students. National Centre for Cultural Competence's Internationalisation in Higher education Symposium. Sydney. 
Impacts of post-study work rights policy. IEAA Research Summit. Perth. October 2019.
Post-study work rights policy and international graduates' strategies to navigate the Australian labour market. VicWISE Network Meeting. October 2019.
Post-study work rights and education-work-migration nexus. AMES Meeting. October 2019.  
Blackmore, J., Tran, L. & Rahimi, M., (2018). Graduate employability – Whose responsibility?  Conference paper presented at the Australian International Education Conference (AIEC 2018), Sydney, Australia, 9-12 October 2018. 
Blackmore, J., Tran, L. & Rahimi, M.,
(2018). ‘Homosociaility’ and Employer Perceptions of Cultural ‘Best Fit’: Recruiting accounting graduates in India and China, European Educational Research Association Conference (ECER 2018), Bolzano, Italy, 5 September 2018 
Tran (2018). Pursuing a career in an internationalised context. Monash Alumni Conference. September, 2018
Blackmore, J. & Rahimi, M., (2017). Does ‘Best Fit’ Lead To Productive Diversity? Employer Perceptions of Graduate Employability, European Educational Research Association (ECER 2017), Copenhagen, 22 - 25 Aug.  
Tran, L. T. (2016). New Colombo Plan and its influences on students’ career aspirations.
Rahimi, M., Tran, L. Tan, G., Dang, T.X. 
(2016).  An exploration of the impacts of the Australian post study work visa arrangements, the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference (AARE 2016), Melbourne, 28 Nov. – 1 Dec. 
Gribble, C., Blackmore, J., Rahimi, M. (2013) ‘From Beijing to the Big 4: The Journey of Chinese accounting graduates into the Australian labour market’, Conference paper presented at the Australian International Education Conference (AIEC 2013), National Convention Centre Canberra, 8 - 11 October 2013 
Rahimi, M & Arber, R. (2013) ‘International graduates' endeavours for work in Australia: the experience of international graduates of accounting transitioning into Australian labour market' presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference (AARE 2013), Adelaide, 1-5 Dec.
Tran, L. T. (2012). Developing a research career in international education. Invited Panel Talk at the International Education Association of Australia Symposium. Melbourne. June 2012.
Tran, L. T. (2012). Migration, cosmopolitan identity and knowledge enhancement: Asian student mobility. Paper presented at the Panel on Ethnicity matters on higher education mobility at the Asian Conference in Education, Osaka, Japan, 25-29 October, 2012.
Rahimi, M, (2012) ‘From study to work: The experience of Australian international graduates transitioning into the Australian labour market’, Conference paper presented at the Australian International Education Conference (AIEC 2012), Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, 2 - 5 Oct 2012
Tran, L. T. & Nyland, C. (2010). International vocational education and training: The migration and learning mix. Paper presented at the AVETRA conference: VET research leading and responding in turbulent time. Gold Coast, 7-9 April, 2010.
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