Nhu Truong
About me
Nhu Truong is a Doctoral student in Science Education at the Department of Teaching and Learning at Stockholm University. Her primary research interests focus on academic resilience, educational equity, social justice and gender issues in education. Her ongoing research project investigates the factors that contribute to promote student's academic resilience in science.
Nhu is also currently working as a Research Assistant at the IMMPACT Project.
Nhu holds a Master degree in Sociology and Social Research at Trento University (Italy); was a visiting scholar at Department of Education (University of Oxford), and Department of Teacher Education and School Research (University of Oslo); and also worked at UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (Thailand).
Research
Publications
Truong, N., & Triventi, M. (2025). How do adverse family characteristics and shock events shape children’s educational outcomes in Vietnam?–Evidence from Young Lives surveys. International Journal of Educational Development, 117, 103375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2025.103375
Valero, P., Österling, L., Truong, N., Danielsson, A., Nunes, B., & Berge, M. (2025). First-year university students’ mathematics capital and identities. The Mathematics Enthusiast, 22(3), 311-334. 10.54870/1551-3440.1672
Österling L., Truong N., Valero P., Danielsson A., Berge M., Nunes B. (2025). Patterns of mathematics capital among Swedish higher education mathematics students. Proceedings of the thirteenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (accepted).
Working in Progress
Truong, N., Teig, N., Danielsson, A., Anderhag, P. Academic resilience in science: an examination of high achievers from low socioeconomic backgrounds [under review].
Truong, N., Danielsson, A., Anderhag, P. Unpacking disciplinary academic resilience: concepts, potential, and implications for science education research [under review].
Conference presentations
Truong, N. (2025). Giving up is not an option: How educationally resilient first-generation students see science as the future. European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Danielsson, A., Berge, M., Valero, P., Österling L., Nunes, B. L., Truong, N. (2025). Becoming with spaces and materialities: Physics student identity as material-discursive. European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Berge, M., Danielsson, A., Nunes, B. L., Österling L., Truong, N., Valero, P. (2025). The physics space that makes you (in)visible: inclusion and exclusion in the corridors of academia. European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Valero, P., Österling, L., Berge, M., Danielsson, A., Leticia, B., Truong, N. (2024). University mathematics students’ mathematics capital and identities. The 15th International Congress on Mathematics Education.
Adolfsson, E., Österling L., Truong, N. (2024). Tertiary mathematics students’ foregrounds. The Swedish society for research in mathematics education (SMDF) (MADIF – 14), Örebro, Sweden.
Truong, N., Danielsson, A., Anderhag, P. (2023). Understanding Disciplinary-specific Academic Resilience: Case Study of a Southeast Asian Scholar in Higher Education in Sweden. The European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Glasgow, Scotland.
Truong, N., Danielsson, A., Anderhag, P. (2023). Exploring Academic Resilience In Higher Education STEM: A Multifaceted Qualitative Approach. The 15th Biennial Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA 2023), Cappadocia, Turkey.
Truong, N., Teig, N. (2023). How do socioeconomically disadvantaged students overcome the ’odds’ to succeed in science? – Evidence from PISA 2015. LIVES International Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Danielsson, A., Berge, M., Österling L., Valero, P., Truong, N., Nunes, B. L. (2023). Walking ethnographies in Higher education spaces of Physics and Mathematics. The European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Glasgow, Scotland.
Truong, N.,Triventi, M. (2022, July). How adverse family characteristics and events shape children’s educational outcomes in Viet Nam? - Evidence from Young Lives surveys. European Consortium for Sociological Research annual conference (ECSR), Amsterdam, Netherland.
Invited talks
Academic resilience in science. Humanization of Computing and Engineering Education 2024 (HCEE), Uppsala University (Uppsala, 2024).
How do minoritised students overcome the odds to succeed in science? Department of Education, University of Oxford (Oxford, 2023).
Academic resilience in science - Evidence from PISA 2015. Department of Education, University of Oxford (Oxford, 2023).
Academic resilience – How do socioeconomically disadvantaged students overcome adversities to do good in science? Center for Educational Leadership and Excellence, Stockholm School of Economics (Stockholm, 2023).
Measuring academic resilience in the different contexts. Workshop on Academic Resilience – Large-scale Educational Assessment (LEA) research group, University of Oslo (Oslo, 2023).
Research projects
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