Dr Tseen Khoo is an Associate Professor, Researcher Development (EMCR), with the Researcher Development Academy, Deakin University. She researches in the field of critical university studies and has published on early career researcher experiences, digital academic identities, and racial diversity issues.
Her most recent publications are Doing doctoral research at a distance (Routledge, 2024; with Katrina McChesney, Jamee Burford, and Liezel Frick) and Getting research funded: Five essential rules for Early Career Researchers (Routledge, 2023; with Phil Ward and Jonathan O’Donnell).
With Jonathan O’Donnell, Tseen created and runs the research development and research culture blog, The Research Whisperer (established 2011). The Research Whisperer (RW) is dedicated to the topic of doing research in academia and hosts a wide range of guest posts from authors around the world, as well as regular posts from its creators. They created RW to help researchers from various career stages navigate academia and develop sustainable, positive research cultures around them.
Tseen has previously been a member of the La Trobe University RED (Research Education and Development) team, a Senior Advisor (Research Grant Development) at RMIT University, and a Research Fellow at Monash University and the University of Queensland.
Tseen started her academic career as a literary studies scholar and is the founding convenor of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN; 2006-2017).
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