Dr An Nguyen is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at King’s Business School, King’s College London, which she joined in 2024. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

An is Deputy Programme Director for the MSc Global Human Resource Management. She designs and teaches across postgraduate modules, including Global and Comparative Human Resource Management, Research and Consulting Skills , and Strategic and Contemporary HRM, and contributes to undergraduate teaching on Introduction to Management course. She also supervises dissertations on the MSc Human Resource Management and Organisational Analysis programme.

Her research focuses on Global HRM and Work and Employment, with particular interests in global and comparative HRM, the future of work (including AI in Education and HRM, and flexible working), and the sociology of work (including career aspirations, employability, and sustainable careers). She is a mixed-methods researcher, integrating quantitative, qualitative, and machine learning approaches in global contexts.

An publishes in HRM, higher education, and scholarship of teaching and learning, and contributes to public debates through outlets such as University World News, CABS Knowledge Sharing, and The Innovation Platform, on topics including student engagement, academic integrity, and AI in education.

She is the recipient of the King’s Digital Student Experience Excellence Award (2026), the British Academy of Management Early Career Education Practice Award (2025), and has secured several competitive grants, including the External Engagement Incubator Fund, King’s Strategic Teaching Fund, and KBS Innovative Education Funding.

Before joining King’s, she taught and conducted research at Coventry University. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET), The Open University.  She holds a PhD in Education Policy from the Open University, an MA in Education from UCL, and a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

An has extensive consultancy and professional experience working with corporations, NGOs, ed-tech organisations, and universities across India, China, Vietnam, and the UK. She is a trilingual researcher (Vietnamese, English, and Mandarin Chinese), with additional conversational proficiency in Spanish and Arabic.

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