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
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2009
Conference Publication
The first lecture for first year students
Matthews, K.E., Lawrie, G.A. and Moni, R.W. (2009). The first lecture for first year students. International Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Indiana, USA, 22-25 October, 2009.
2009
Journal Article
Putting it into perspective: Mathematics in the undergraduate science curriculum
Matthews, Kelly E., Adams, Peter and Goos, Merrilyn (2009). Putting it into perspective: Mathematics in the undergraduate science curriculum. International Journal of Mathematics Education in Science and Technology, 40 (7), 891-902. doi: 10.1080/00207390903199244
2009
Conference Publication
Translating the principles of Bio2010 into practice
Matthews, K.E., Goos, M. and Adams, P. (2009). Translating the principles of Bio2010 into practice. Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington DC, United States, 5-8 January, 2009. Mathematical Association of America.
2009
Conference Publication
The impact of social learning spaces on student engagement
Matthews, K.E., Adams, P. and Gannaway, D. (2009). The impact of social learning spaces on student engagement. Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference, Townsville, Qld., Australia, 29 June - 1 July 2009. QUT, Brisbbane: Queensland University of Technology.
2009
Conference Publication
Terms of engagement: Four countries, four courses, four commentaries.
Barkley, E., Vaughan, N., Matthews, K., Moron-Garcia, S. and Garrett, C. (2009). Terms of engagement: Four countries, four courses, four commentaries.. International Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Indiana, USA, 22-25 October, 2009.
2007
Conference Publication
Strategies for Enhancing Equity Practices in the Teaching, Learning and Assessment Priorities of Large First-Year Classes
Matthews, KE, Moni, KB and Moni, RW (2007). Strategies for Enhancing Equity Practices in the Teaching, Learning and Assessment Priorities of Large First-Year Classes. Equal Opportunity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia, Melbourne University, 19-22 November. Melbourne: Equal Opportunity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia.
2005
Journal Article
Can a herpes simplex virus type 1 neuroinvasive score be correlated to other risk factors in Alzheimer's disease?
Hill, J. M., Gebhardt, B. M., Azcuy, A. M., Matthews, K. E., Lukiw, W. J., Steiner, I., Thompson, H. W. and Ball, M. J. (2005). Can a herpes simplex virus type 1 neuroinvasive score be correlated to other risk factors in Alzheimer's disease?. Medical Hypotheses, 64 (2), 320-327. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2003.11.045
2005
Journal Article
Statins lower the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by limiting lipid raft endocytosis and decreasing the neuronal spread of Herpes simplex virus type 1
Hill, James M., Steiner, Israel, Matthews, Kelly E., Trahan, Stephen G., Foster, Timothy P. and Ball, Melvyn J. (2005). Statins lower the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by limiting lipid raft endocytosis and decreasing the neuronal spread of Herpes simplex virus type 1. Medical Hypotheses, 64 (1), 53-58. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2003.12.058
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
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