School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK 

Dan Tam graduated from Can Tho University (Vietnam) with a BA in Teaching English in 2001. Following this, she worked at a state high school and at an English language centre in Soc Trang city as a teacher of English. In 2008, she was Head of Studies at Vietnamese American Training College and, in the same year, won a full scholarship to study for an MA in TEFL at the University of Birmingham.