Hien Thi Nguyen

Hien is a Research Associate in the School of Arts and Humanities and a member of the ECU Migration Research Network at Edith Cowan University. Hien is also completing her PhD in the School of Allied Health, the University of Western Australia. With nearly 15 years of working as a researcher and development practitioner in Australia and Vietnam, she has gained expertise in domestic and international migration, ageing and aged care, gender and development, community development, gender-based violence, labour, women and children.  

Hien’s current PhD research focuses on the ageing and aged care experiences of older Vietnamese people in Australia, which is linked to ARC Ageing and New Media Project (2016-2021) led by Prof Loretta Baldassar (ECU) and A/Prof Raelene Wilding (La Trobe). Hien’s project examines diverse dimensions of grandparents’ migration experiences in a transnational life, comprising their life stories, reasons for migration, lived experiences in a new living environment, access to social and aged care services, challenges, intergenerational relationships, social and kin networks, use of ICTs and new media, and perspectives of positive ageing. She has been publishing outcomes from this research in two journal articles (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Social Inclusion Journal) and in two book chapters (by Policy Press under Bristol University Press and Springer).  

In addition to her position at ECU, Hien also holds several casual academic roles such as a researcher with Telethon Kids Institute, a casual academic staff holding a teaching/examining role at Murdoch University, UWA UniMentor, and a volunteer at Chung Wah Community and Aged Care (CAC) in Perth, Australia.