Hà, Thị Ân
Full Name
Hà, Thị Ân
Academic Title
Ph.D.
Email
anht@dlu.edu.vn
Current Affiliation
Biography
Ha, Thi An has been a faculty at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Dalat university, Vietnam since 2005. She recently got a Doctoral degree from the College of Social Work, University of Utah, USA. Her research interest includes community organizing with disadvantaged communities to better understand diverse community-driven processes effecting social change and increasing the participation of marginalized communities in local decision-making. Her dissertation focuses on community participation of communities from various refugee backgrounds who are resettling in the US. Besides her job at the Dalat university, she has engaged in teaching and operating an online Case Management Certificate Program, belonging to the University of Utah, for immigrants and refugees locally and globally.
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Present Position
2005 - present: Faculty, University ofDalat, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Vietnam
Employment History
2017 - 2020: Research Assistant, Social Research Institute, College of Social Work, University of Utah
2014 - 2020: Ph.D. Candidate; Online Instructor; Teaching Assistant; Graduate Research Assistant at College of Social Work, University of Utah
2011 - 2014: Chair of Community Development Section at Department of Social Work, Dalat University
7 - 8/2010: Intern in Odisha, India, working with Microfinance Institutes
2014 - 2020: Ph.D. Candidate; Online Instructor; Teaching Assistant; Graduate Research Assistant at College of Social Work, University of Utah
2011 - 2014: Chair of Community Development Section at Department of Social Work, Dalat University
7 - 8/2010: Intern in Odisha, India, working with Microfinance Institutes
Research Expertise/Interests
community organizing and development; capacity building; community participation and inclusion; minority groups; Assets based community development
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Experience in Applied R&D, contract research, consultancies, patents
1. Study Coordinator, “Image narrative with college students”. Seek Grant: College of Social Work ($30,000), 2020-2021.
2. PI, “Participation of former refugees in resettlement programs and community activities: Insider and multicultural perspectives”, Ph.D. dissertation, 2017 -2019.
3. Co-Evaluators, “TANF II Financial Education Program”. Grant Funder: Utah DWS ($55,939), 2018 - 2019.
4. Co-PIs, “Assessing the effectiveness of the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Program”, 2018 -2019.
5. Co-Investigators, “Community-based photo storytelling project with the Community Health Centers, Inc. of Utah for adolescent Latinas of Mexican immigrants: From depression to healing and thriving”. Grant Funder: Tanner Humanities Center ($7,500), 2017 - 2018.
6. Co-PIs, “Program evaluation of community capacity building project for identified communities of refugee background”. Grant Funder: Office of Refugee Services, Utah DWS ($30,000), 2016 - 2017.
7. PI, “Annual evaluation of the online Case Management Certificate Program for refugees living in camps”, 2016 - 2019.
8. PI, “Annual evaluation of the Case Management Certificate Program for immigrants and refugees in Utah”, 2015 - 2018.
9. PI, “The evaluation research on the impact of the Case Management Certificate Program on participants’ employment and community works”, 2016 - 2017.
10. Co-PIs, “Impact of microfinance programs on building community capacity under the lens of Social Capital”. Grant Funder: University of Dalat, 2013 - 2014.
11. PI, “Evaluating social and economic effectiveness of the Microfinance Program for the poor granted by Social Policy bank”. Grant Funder: University of Dalat, 2012 - 2013.
12. PI, “Asset-Based Community Development: Theory and implementation, a case of India” (Distinction), University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, M.A. Thesis, 2010.
13. Co-PIs, “Evaluating the impacts of IPDP (Indigenous People Development Program) on the life of local people who are affected by Dai Ninh Dam project”. Grant Funder: IPDP, 2010.
14. PI, “Community-based development: theory and practice”. Grant Funder: University of Dalat, 2009 - 2010.
15. Co-PIs, “Role of intellectual in industrialization: Modernization in Lam Dong province” Grant Funder: Lam Dong Province, 2006 - 2008.
16. PI, “Private system that collects garbage and institutionalizes this system in Ho Chi Minh City” (Distinction), B.A. Thesis, 2004.
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Service to, or leadership in, academic discipline or professional associations
Team Member, Bridging Borders Program since 2016 https://www.bridgingacrossborders.com/contact-us
Member, Global Social Service Workforce Alliance
Member, Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program
Member, Women of Color Association
Member, Global Social Service Workforce Alliance
Member, Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program
Member, Women of Color Association