{"id":8012,"date":"2020-06-19T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/refugee-to-phd-carina-hoang\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:09:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:09:54","slug":"refugee-to-phd-carina-hoang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/refugee-to-phd-carina-hoang\/","title":{"rendered":"From refugee to PhD: Carina Hoang&#8217;s remarkable story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin graduate Carina Hoang escaped Vietnam as a refugee at the age of 16. She is now an actress and award-winning author and publisher.<\/p>\n<p>Carina escaped war\u2013torn Vietnam on a wooden boat with her two younger siblings at the age of 16. She survived harrowing conditions in a refugee camp in Indonesia before being given the opportunity to go to the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Since then she has earned a Bachelor of Chemistry, Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Gender and Cultural Studies, and Master of Business Administration. She has worked in the semiconductor, biotechnology and healthcare industries.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Carina relocated to Perth and began assisting a number of Vietnamese families to find the graves of their loved ones in former refugee camps based in Indonesia. Carina completed a PhD (Humanities) at Curtin in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, with no acting experience, Carina was cast in the role of Iris in the ABC soap series <a href=\"https:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/show\/heights\">The Heights<\/a>. The show aired in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Carina Hoang | The complexity of being a refugee\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V4LS9tw4pnU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carina escaped war\u2013torn Vietnam on a wooden boat with her two younger siblings at the age of 16. 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