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
2021
Journal Article
Recognizing students’ expertise and insights in expanding forms of academic writing and publishing about learning and teaching
Healey, Mick, Cook-Sather, Alison and Matthews, Kelly E. (2021). Recognizing students’ expertise and insights in expanding forms of academic writing and publishing about learning and teaching. International Journal for Students as Partners, 5 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.15173/ijsap.v5i1.4626
2021
Journal Article
Diversifying students-as-partners participants and practices
Cook-Sather, Alison, Slates, Sarah, Acai, Anita, Baxter, Jessica, Bond, Rachel, Lowe, Tom, Zurcher, Hannah, O'Brien, Jennifer, Tavares, Vander, Lewe, Marie-Theres, Khan, Ayesha, Poole, Heather, Smith, Alyssa C., Iqbal, Muhammad Zafar, Arm, Karen, Escobar Lema, Jose Ernesto, Groening, Julia, Garg, Kriti, Bello Rinaudo, Nadia Lujan, Crisp, Naima, Mukherji, Mallika, Addy, Tracie, Lewis, Lisa Marie, Vayada, Preeti, Zhang, Meng, Liang, Yifei (Scott), Rodgers, Holly Beth, Judd, Madelaine-Marie, Szucs, Brooke ... Lewis, Rose (2021). Diversifying students-as-partners participants and practices. International Journal for Students as Partners, 5 (1), 146-159. doi: 10.15173/ijsap.v5i1.4627
2021
Conference Publication
Learning together in a global pandemic
Matthews, Kelly E., Lawrie, Gwen, Mårtensson, Katarina, Roxå, Torgny, Bovill, Catherine and McLaughlin, Celeste (2021). Learning together in a global pandemic. u21 Annual Network Meeting and Annual General Meeting , Virtual, 5-7 May 2021.
2021
Other Outputs
Graduate Attributes
Matthews, Kelly E, Lodge, Jason and Sheppard, Karen (2021). Graduate Attributes. Institute of Teaching and Learning Innovations Occasional Papers Series Brisbane: University of Queensland .
2021
Journal Article
‘The university doesn’t care about the impact it is having on us’: academic experiences of the institutionalisation of blended learning
Huang, Jasmine, Matthews, Kelly E. and Lodge, Jason M. (2021). ‘The university doesn’t care about the impact it is having on us’: academic experiences of the institutionalisation of blended learning. Higher Education Research and Development, 41 (5), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2021.1915965
2021
Journal Article
Transgressing the boundaries of ‘students as partners’ and ‘feedback’ discourse communities to advance democratic education
Matthews, Kelly E., Tai, Joanna, Enright, Eimear, Carless, David, Rafferty, Caelan and Winstone, Naomi (2021). Transgressing the boundaries of ‘students as partners’ and ‘feedback’ discourse communities to advance democratic education. Teaching in Higher Education, 28 (7), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/13562517.2021.1903854
2021
Journal Article
Students as partners goes virtual
Taylor, Darci and Matthews, Kelly (2021). Students as partners goes virtual. HERDSA Connect, 43 (1), 10-10.
2021
Journal Article
Exploring the role of conflict in co-creation of curriculum through engaging students as partners in the classroom
Godbold, Nattalia, Hung, Tsai-Yu (Amy) and Matthews, Kelly E. (2021). Exploring the role of conflict in co-creation of curriculum through engaging students as partners in the classroom. Higher Education Research and Development, 41 (4), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2021.1887095
2021
Book Chapter
Engaging students as partners in assessment and enhancement processes
Matthews, Kelly E. and Cook-Sather, Alison (2021). Engaging students as partners in assessment and enhancement processes. Assessing and enhancing student experience in higher education. (pp. 107-124) edited by Mahsood Shah, John T. E. Richardson, Anja Pabel and Beverley Oliver. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-80889-1_5
2021
Journal Article
Students as partners practices and theorisations in Asia: a scoping review
Liang, Yifei and Matthews, Kelly E. (2021). Students as partners practices and theorisations in Asia: a scoping review. Higher Education Research and Development, 40 (3), 552-566. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2020.1773771
2021
Other Outputs
Learning together in a global pandemic: practices and principles for teaching and assessing online in uncertain times
Matthews, Kelly E., Lawrie, Gwendolyn, Mårtensson, Katarina, Roxå, Torgny, Bovill, Catherine and McLaughlin, Celeste (2021). Learning together in a global pandemic: practices and principles for teaching and assessing online in uncertain times. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2020
Journal Article
Students as partners: a new ethos for the transformation of teacher and student identities in Chinese higher education
Liang, Yifei, Dai, Kun and Matthews, Kelly E. (2020). Students as partners: a new ethos for the transformation of teacher and student identities in Chinese higher education. International Journal of Chinese Education, 9 (2), 131-150. doi: 10.1163/22125868-12340124
2020
Journal Article
Expanding the conventional writing genres: a matter of equity and inclusion
Healey, Mick, Cook-Sather, Alison and Matthews, Kelly E. (2020). Expanding the conventional writing genres: a matter of equity and inclusion. Educational Developments Magazine , 21 (3), 8-11.
2020
Journal Article
We are all in it together
Vayada, Preeti, Matthews. K.E. and Liang, Yifei (2020). We are all in it together. Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Connect, 42 (2), 15-15.
2020
Journal Article
Holding space and engaging with difference: navigating the personal theories we carry into our pedagogical partnership practices
Ostrowdun, Christopher P., Friendly, Rayna, Matthews, Kelly E., De Bie, Alise and Roelofs, Frits (2020). Holding space and engaging with difference: navigating the personal theories we carry into our pedagogical partnership practices. International Journal for Students as Partners, 4 (1), 82-98. doi: 10.15173/ijsap.v4i1.4093
2020
Other Outputs
Engaging Students as Partners Community Poll Results, 4 April to 11 May 2020
Matthews, Kelly E (2020). Engaging Students as Partners Community Poll Results, 4 April to 11 May 2020. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.846
2020
Journal Article
Crossing the ‘bridges’ and navigating the ‘learning gaps’: Chinese students learning across two systems in a transnational higher education programme
Dai, Kun, Matthews, Kelly E. and Renshaw, Peter (2020). Crossing the ‘bridges’ and navigating the ‘learning gaps’: Chinese students learning across two systems in a transnational higher education programme. Higher Education Research and Development, 39 (6), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2020.1713731
2020
Book
Writing about learning and teaching in higher education: creating and contributing to scholarly conversations across a range of genres
Healey, Mick, Matthews, Kelly E. and Cook-Sather, Alison (2020). Writing about learning and teaching in higher education: creating and contributing to scholarly conversations across a range of genres. Elon, NC, United States: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning. doi: 10.36284/celelon.oa3
2020
Book Chapter
The experience of partnerships in learning and teaching: a visual metaphor
Matthews, Kelly E. (2020). The experience of partnerships in learning and teaching: a visual metaphor. The power of partnership: students, staff, and faculty revolutionizing higher education. (pp. 119-121) edited by Lucy Mercer-Mapstone and Sophia Abbot. Elon, NC USA: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning. doi: 10.36284/celelon.oa2
2020
Other Outputs
Students as partners: reconceptualising the role of students in curriculum development
Matthews, Kelly E. (2020). Students as partners: reconceptualising the role of students in curriculum development. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment.
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
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
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
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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- education quality
- higher education
- student engagement
- student voice
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