Working together for a stronger future
UQ and Vietnam share a strong vision for economic and community development, with research collaborations across agriculture and food science, environmental science, digital transformation, tourism and public health. The UQ-VISTI Innovation Centre project, a collaboration between UQ Ventures and the Vietnam Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation, reflects this shared passion for harnessing innovation to create a better future.
Fast facts
246
Vietnamese students enrolled at UQ
80
Vietnam-UQ co-publications
37
academic staff born in Vietnam
11
research project collaborations
1,385
alumni in Vietnam
31
agreements with 25 official partners
Fast facts show full year 2024 data.
Collaboration in action
- War. Secret escapes. Stranded at sea. Pirates and eye patches. It’s a story of survival almost too wild to believe, and it’s inspiring a UQ student to want to change the lives of vision-impaired people.
- With the immense environmental challenges the world faces, our ability to adapt is vital. An international research team led by Dr Pedro Fidelman engaged with stakeholders involved with the co-management of coastal resources in Cambodia and Vietnam with the aim of understanding the conditions that enable adaptive capacity.
- Four University of Queensland undergraduate students are set to pursue their dreams after being named as 2020 New Colombo Plan (NCP) scholars.
- University of Queensland researchers have partnered with institutes in Kenya, Indonesia and Vietnam to investigate the prevalence of mental disorders in adolescents.
- UQ’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences offer four week, interprofessional, intercultural placement (IPIC) opportunities in Vietnam and Timor-Leste to final year occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech pathology students.
- More than 400 University of Queensland students will have the valuable opportunity to travel to the Indo-Pacific region to gain practical experience next year under the New Colombo Plan Mobility program.
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Alumni
UQ has 1,385 alumni living in Vietnam and is a corporate member of AusCham Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, which enables professional development and networking opportunities. Alumni with significant links to Vietnam include:
President, Hanoi University & International Alumnus of the Year (2024) for promoting foreign language education in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, and for strengthening educational ties between Australia and Vietnam (PhD School of Languages and Cultures, 2010, Visiting Scholar at UQ's School of Education, 2014)
Associate Professor Pham Thi Hong Nhung
Vice Rector of Hue University of Foreign Languages and Australia Awards Endeavour Executive Fellowship recipient (PhD – applied linguistics 2005)
Nguyen Thi Le Huyen
HIV prevention specialist (Master of Development Practice 2009, 2012 winner of the UQ-Vietnam Professional Development Seminar Series Alumni Award)