Phoury graduated with a Master of Education (by Research) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She also holds dual honors degrees, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed in TEFL) from the Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL) and Bachelor of Accounting and Finance from CamEd Business School. Her research interests include aspects of academia, TVET, the roles of arts in science, enterpreneurship, philosophy in higher education, social psychology of the classroom, equality, and equity, monitoring, and evaluation in learning, and technology, creativity, and critical thinking in educ