Carolyn Tran is a Lecturer with the University of New England's Business School. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at University of Technology, Sydney, and at Western Sydney University. She was formerly Senior Research Officer at NSW Public Policy Institute, the University of Sydney; Postgraduate Program Manager in Business and Director of Scholarship of Learning and Teaching at International College of Management, Sydney; and an education consultant of the World Bank.
Carolyn has written extensively on higher-education and public sectors, including local government. Recent publications have included research papers in Applied Economics, International Journal of Educational Development, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Public Administration, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Public Administration Quarterly.