Rate My Professor Binh Ta

Dr Binh Ta serves as a Lecturer (0.6 FTE) in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, where she teaches academic writing and professional communication courses. She holds a PhD in Conversation Analysis from Monash University, awarded in 2019, and a Master of Philosophy in Second Language Education from the University of Cambridge, awarded in 2011. Prior to her current appointment, she was an ELICOS Teacher at Monash College from November 2016 to July 2021.

Dr Ta's research focuses on conversation analysis in higher education and healthcare communication, including interactions between educators and learners, international students, doctoral supervision, clinical communication, general practice, behaviour change communication, and medical interactions. Her current projects explore communication practices supporting behaviour change in Australian primary care, empathy displays in healthcare settings, pain communication involving interpreters and Hmong patients, and employment experiences of PhD graduates in Australia. She has published a monograph, A Conversation Analytic Approach to Doctoral Supervision: Feedback, Advice, and Guidance (Routledge, 2023), and articles such as 'Australian PhD graduates’ agency in navigating their career pathways: stories from social sciences' (Higher Education, 2024), 'What makes a good general practice consultation? An exploratory pilot study with people from a low socioeconomic background' (BJGP Open, 2024), and 'Collaboratively pursuing student uptake of feedback through storytelling: a conversation analytic study of interaction in team doctoral supervision' (Applied Linguistics Review, 2024). Other contributions include 'Australia has way more PhD graduates than academic jobs. Here’s how to rethink doctoral degrees' (The Conversation, 2023), book chapters on storytelling practices (2022), and studies on supervising international social work students (2019–2022). Her work has 103 citations and an h-index of 5 on ResearchGate. Dr Ta received the Editors’ Award in 2020 and serves as a peer reviewer for journals including Journal of Language and Social Psychology and TESOL in Context. She presented at the Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators Conference in 2018.