Dr Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen (Minh) is a Laureate Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU. She earned her PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Melbourne in 2023. Her research interests are at the intersection of sustainability experimentation, urban transitions, and climate governance. Prior to her PhD, she graduated with a Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning (First Class Honours) from the University of South Australia in 2017.

Before joining ANU, Dr Nguyen worked as a Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts at Monash University for 2 years. Her work entailed facilitating the delivery of an Australian Research Council [ARC] project on Sustainable Transformation Pathways for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (as part of the international TRANSFORM project). While at Monash, Dr Nguyen also taught a compulsory graduate course, Corporate Sustainability Management, for Master of Business and Master of Environmental Sustainability students, and successfully supervised a Master’s student thesis to completion.

As an early career researcher, Dr Nguyen has written and co-authored a number of academic publications, of which over 70% were as first author, in “flagship” journals in the field of Urban Studies, such as Cities and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. One of her research outputs, which developed a novel approach to the framing of socio-ecological resilience in metropolitan planning, was cited by key global organisations in the United Nations Human Settlement Programme and United Nations Environment Programme (e.g., The 6th Global Environment Outlook for Cities Report: Towards Green and Just Cities, 2021). Outside ANU, Dr Nguyen has developed strong collaborative and productive relationships with key academics from universities and research institutes across Australia, the UK, Norway, and Canada with expertise in various disciplines, such as social sciences and environmental sciences.