Overview
Background
Professor Kelly Matthews is a highly respected scholar of higher education curriculum, pedagogy, and student experience, multiple award-winning university teacher, and senior leader collaborating on university-wide teaching, learning, and student experience strategic initiatives.
Her research has shaped the discourse of student voice, arguing for students as partners in higher education. With over 120 academic publications and 80 invited talks, Kelly aims to impact the everyday relational practices of students, academics, and staff associated with connection, care, community, and commitment to collaborative learning.
Her strategic leadership has had a positive impact across disciplines and universities, and she has been recognised with an Australian Teaching Fellowship and a UK-based HEA Principal Fellowship. Kelly has played a key role in establishing international collaborative writing groups and change institutes, creating and sustaining the Students as Partners Network (now in its 10th year), co-founding the International Journal for Students as Partners, and mentoring scholars to write and publish about their teaching and learning.
In 2024, Kelly is collaborating on a cross-institutional study to explore student perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI), co-funded by Deakin, Monash, UQ, and UTS. She is also co-organising the 10th annual Students as Partners (SaP) Roundtable with students and staff from Australia, Pakistan, South Africa, the US, and the UK. With teaching-focused colleagues at Monash, UNSW, UQ, and Sydney, she is co-creating an Australian Teaching/Education Focused Academic Network to connect academics committed to positive educational impact through university teaching. At UQ, she is collaborating with colleagues to develop the Women at E (WE) Network to nurture the leadership capability and positive impact of women professors.
Kelly stepped into the Interim Pro Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) role in July 2024.
Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn and read her latest co-authored book, Writing about teaching and learning in higher education.
Availability
- Professor Kelly Matthews is:
- Not available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, University of New Orleans
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Works
Search Professor Kelly Matthews’s works on UQ eSpace
2022
Other Outputs
Impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning across the higher education sector: a scoping review
Kelly E Matthews, Victoria Sullivan, Jasmine Huang and Caelan Rafferty (2022). Impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning across the higher education sector: a scoping review. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2022
Other Outputs
5 problems with the Student Experience Survey’s attempt to understand what’s going on in higher education post-COVID
Matthews, Kelly E., Lodge, Jason M. and Johnstone, Melissa (2022, 08 22). 5 problems with the Student Experience Survey’s attempt to understand what’s going on in higher education post-COVID The Conversation
2022
Other Outputs
Stakeholder consultation report for the modes of delivery in higher education project. Appendix C to Modes of delivery in higher education final report
Kubler, Matthias, Johnstone, Melissa, Clague, Denise, Lodge, Jason and Matthews, Kelly E. (2022). Stakeholder consultation report for the modes of delivery in higher education project. Appendix C to Modes of delivery in higher education final report. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2022
Conference Publication
What do we know about cross-cultural learner-teacher partnership practices?
Zhang, Meng and Matthews, K.E. (2022). What do we know about cross-cultural learner-teacher partnership practices?. Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 27-30 June 2022.
2022
Conference Publication
Thinking ecologically about engaging students as partners in learning and teaching
Liang, Yifei and Matthews, Kelly E. (2022). Thinking ecologically about engaging students as partners in learning and teaching. Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 27-30 June 2022.
2022
Journal Article
Examining the overlapping identities of teaching focused academics and academic developers: expanding ideas
Godbold, N., Matthews, K. E. and Gannaway, D. (2022). Examining the overlapping identities of teaching focused academics and academic developers: expanding ideas. International Journal for Academic Development, 28 (4), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/1360144x.2022.2082436
2022
Journal Article
Recognising cultural capital through shared meaning-making in cross-cultural partnership practices
Zhang, Meng, Matthews, Kelly and Liu, Shuang (2022). Recognising cultural capital through shared meaning-making in cross-cultural partnership practices. International Journal for Students as Partners, 6 (1), 64-80. doi: 10.15173/ijsap.v6i1.4893
2022
Journal Article
Student voice in higher education: the importance of distinguishing student representation and student partnership
Matthews, K. E. and Dollinger, M. (2022). Student voice in higher education: the importance of distinguishing student representation and student partnership. Higher Education, 85 (3), 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s10734-022-00851-7
2022
Journal Article
Insights into how academics reframed their assessment during a pandemic: disciplinary variation and assessment as afterthought
Slade, Christine, Lawrie, Gwendolyn, Taptamat, Nantana, Browne, Eleanor, Sheppard, Karen and Matthews, Kelly E. (2022). Insights into how academics reframed their assessment during a pandemic: disciplinary variation and assessment as afterthought. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 47 (4), 588-605. doi: 10.1080/02602938.2021.1933379
2022
Book Chapter
Toward trust in SoTL: the role of relational ethics
Bunnell, Sarah L., Felten, Peter and Matthews, Kelly E. (2022). Toward trust in SoTL: the role of relational ethics. Ethics and the scholarship of teaching and learning. (pp. 129-146) edited by Lisa M. Fedoruk. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-11810-4_9
2022
Book Chapter
Constructing higher education with students as partners in learning and teaching
Matthews, Kelly E. (2022). Constructing higher education with students as partners in learning and teaching. Global student engagement: policy insights and international research perspectives. (pp. 158-170) edited by Hamish Coates, Xi Gao, Fei Guo and Jinghuan Shi. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003254096-15
2021
Journal Article
‘It is difficult for students to contribute’: investigating possibilities for pedagogical partnerships in Chinese universities
Dai, Kun, Matthews, Kelly E. and Shen, Wenqin (2021). ‘It is difficult for students to contribute’: investigating possibilities for pedagogical partnerships in Chinese universities. Teaching in Higher Education, 29 (2), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/13562517.2021.2015752
2021
Journal Article
Students as partners in China: investigating the potentials and possibilities for growing practices across universities
Liang, Yifei and Matthews, Kelly E. (2021). Students as partners in China: investigating the potentials and possibilities for growing practices across universities. International Journal for Students as Partners, 5 (2), 28-47. doi: 10.15173/ijsap.v5i2.4767
2021
Journal Article
Connecting during times of disconnection: student-teacher partnerships in co-designing online education
Rafferty, Caelan and Matthews, Kelly (2021). Connecting during times of disconnection: student-teacher partnerships in co-designing online education. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (22). doi: 10.47408/jldhe.vi22.726
2021
Conference Publication
Learning together in a global pandemic: the losses and gains of moving online
Mårtensson, Katarina, Matthews, Kelly E. and McLaughlin, Celeste (2021). Learning together in a global pandemic: the losses and gains of moving online. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,, Virtual, 26-29 October .
2021
Conference Publication
To speak or not to speak: fostering inclusive cross-cultural student-staff partnership practices through a storytelling methodology.
Zhang, Meng, Vayada, Preeti and Matthews, Kelly E. (2021). To speak or not to speak: fostering inclusive cross-cultural student-staff partnership practices through a storytelling methodology.. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Virtual, 26-29 October 2021.
2021
Book
Student partnerships in assessment
Bovill, Catherine, Matthews, Kelly E. and Hinchcliffe, Tim (2021). Student partnerships in assessment. London, United Kingdom: AdvanceHE.
2021
Other Outputs
Impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning across the higher education sector: a scoping review
Huang, Jasmine, Rafferty, Caelan and Matthews, Kelly E. (2021). Impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning across the higher education sector: a scoping review. Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation Occasional Paper Series Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2021
Book Chapter
Pedagogical partnership: engaging with students as co-creators of curriculum, assessment and knowledge
Cook-Sather, Alison and Matthews, Kelly E. (2021). Pedagogical partnership: engaging with students as co-creators of curriculum, assessment and knowledge. University teaching in focus: a learning-centred approach. (pp. 243-259) edited by Lynne Hunt and Denise Chalmers. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge/Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781003008330-14
2021
Other Outputs
Teaching changes due to COVID-19: UQ survey results and case studies
Matthews, Kelly E., Lawrie, Gwendolyn and Taptamat, Nantana (2021). Teaching changes due to COVID-19: UQ survey results and case studies. Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation Occasional Paper Series Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland .
Funding
Supervision
Availability
- Professor Kelly Matthews is:
- Not available for supervision
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Disrupting and reproducing power: A focused ethnography of intercultural learner¿teacher partnership using Bourdieu's social field theory and intercultural communication theory
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shuang Liu
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Speaking for ourselves: Indian students co-constructed stories of engaging in partnership with staff in an Australian university
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Relationship, engagement, and culture: Exploring the conceptions of students as partners in Chinese higher education
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jason Lodge
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Being a teaching-focused academic in a research-intensive university: A focused ethnography
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Deanne Gannaway
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Enacting Pasin as storying as research: Ways of rethinking the health workers' curriculum in Papua New Guinea
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Di Eley
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
An exploration of Chinese students' learning experiences in China-Australia '2+2' articulation programmes: In between two systems.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Bob Lingard, Dr Vicente Reyes
Media
Enquiries
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- assessment
- education quality
- higher education
- student engagement
- student voice
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