Speakers: Happiness in Education Conference

               Dr. Mai Ngo

Dr. Mai Ngo is currently a Senior Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Flinders University. She is also a Founder of Smart Learn Solutions, providing online learning, coaching and professional development solutions for school teachers, leaders and education researchers. She has been working actively as a Teacher Educator for Vietnamese and international schools and teachers over the past twenty seven years. Dr. Mai has also been coaching and mentoring many young early career Vietnamese school teachers, university lecturers, and leaders to develop as hopeful optimistic thinkers who take purposeful actions toward achieving desired outcomes. One of her best-seller online courses is Becoming a Happier Teacher. She is recognized by many Vietnamese teachers as a “Happy Educator”.

Dr. Mai graduated with a Master of Education from the University of Sydney in 2000, Doctor of Philosophy in Education from the School of Education, the University of New South Wales in 2014. She received the NSW Institute of Education Research’s Beth Southwell Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in October 2014. She successfully completed her post-doctoral research in 2016 in the University of New South Wales. Her
research interests are teachers’ social wellbeing, happiness pedagogies and happiness in education. Dr. Mai received the Teaching Excellence Award from College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University in July 2021 and Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award in December 2022. Dr. Mai has recently been granted the Advance Higher Education Senior Fellowship Status in April 2024, in international, professional recognition of her attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education.