Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I'm happy to supervise PhD students interested in Conversation Analysis and/or healthcare communication.

20162023

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Personal profile

Biography

Dr Binh Ta currently works as a lecturer (0.6 FTE) at Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, where she teaches academic writing and professional communication courses. Her research interests cover higher education, international students, interaction between educators and learners, healthcare communication, and conversation analysis. Since the conferral of her PhD in 2019, she has published one monograph book, one co-edited book, eight journal articles in Q1 journals, three articles in Q2 journals, and a number of book chapters. According to ResearchGate, Dr Ta’s current research interest score is 128.9, with 103 citations and an h-index of 5. 

She is currently working on the following projects

  • The behaviour change project - Exploring what communication practices are helpful in supporting behaviour change in the Australian primary care context.
  • The empathy project - Exploring communication practices for dispalying empathy in healthcare communciation 
  • The pain communication project - Exploring communication practices for communicating pains involving interpreters and Hmong patients
  • The PhD graduates' employment project - Exploring employment experiences of PhD graduates in Australia

Education/Academic qualification

Conversation Analysis, PhD, Monash University

30 Sept 200531 Jan 2015

Award Date: 15 Jan 2019

Second Language Education, Master of Philosophy, University of Cambridge

1 Oct 20103 Oct 2011

Award Date: 3 Oct 2011

External positions

ELICOS Teacher, Monash College

1 Nov 201631 Jul 2021

Research area keywords

  • Conversation analysis
  • Clinical Communication
  • General practice
  • Behaviour change communication
  • Medical interaction
  • Higher Education
  • Clinical Supervision

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