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
2018
Journal Article
Frontier perspectives and insights into higher education student success
Coates, Hamish and Matthews, Kelly E. (2018). Frontier perspectives and insights into higher education student success. Higher Education Research and Development, 37 (5), 903-907. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2018.1474539
2018
Journal Article
It is a complicated thing: leaders’ conceptions of students as partners in the neoliberal university
Matthews, Kelly E., Dwyer, Alexander, Russell, Stuart and Enright, Eimear (2018). It is a complicated thing: leaders’ conceptions of students as partners in the neoliberal university. Studies in Higher Education, 44 (12), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/03075079.2018.1482268
2018
Other Outputs
Stop treating students like customers and start working with them as partners in learning
Matthews, Kelly (2018, 04 13). Stop treating students like customers and start working with them as partners in learning The Conversation
2018
Journal Article
Conceptions of students as partners
Matthews, Kelly E., Dwyer, Alexander, Hine, Lorelei and Turner, Jarred (2018). Conceptions of students as partners. Higher Education, 76 (6), 1-15. doi: 10.1007/s10734-018-0257-y
2018
Journal Article
Growing partnership communities: what experiences of an international institute suggest about developing student-staff partnership in higher education
Marquis, Elizabeth, Guitman, Rachel, Black, Christine, Healey, Mick, Matthews, Kelly and Dvorakova, Lucie Sam (2018). Growing partnership communities: what experiences of an international institute suggest about developing student-staff partnership in higher education. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 56 (2), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/14703297.2018.1424012
2018
Conference Publication
Values that matter to students in Students as Partners
Chunduri, Prasad, Luo, Benjamin and Matthews, Kelly E (2018). Values that matter to students in Students as Partners. STARS Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 8-11 July 2018.
2018
Edited Outputs
National Students as Partners Roundtable Program
Eimear Enright, Kelly E. Matthews, Stuart Russell and Catherine Sherwood eds. (2018). National Students as Partners Roundtable Program. 4th Annual Australian National Students as Partners Roundtable, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2 October 2018. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.
2018
Conference Publication
Doing ‘Students as Partners’ is not enough: the role of theory in our partnership practices
Matthews, Kelly E. (2018). Doing ‘Students as Partners’ is not enough: the role of theory in our partnership practices. ISSOTL18: Toward a learning culture, Bergen, Norway, 24-27 October 2018. Bergen, Norway: International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
2018
Book
Higher education learning framework: an evidence informed model for university learning
Nugent, Annita, Lodge, Jason, Carroll, Annemaree, Bagraith, Rupert, MacMahon, Stephanie, Matthews, Kelly E. and Sah, Pankaj (2018). Higher education learning framework: an evidence informed model for university learning. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/348c85f
2018
Book
Investigating impact in higher education
Ahmad, Arshad, Fenton, Nancy, Graystone, Leah, Acai, Anita, Matthews, Kelly E. and Chalmers, Denise (2018). Investigating impact in higher education. Sydney, Australia: Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.
2018
Book Chapter
Connecting learning, teaching, and research through student–staff partnerships: Toward universities as egalitarian learning communities
Matthews, Kelly E., Cook-Sather, Alison and Healey, Mick (2018). Connecting learning, teaching, and research through student–staff partnerships: Toward universities as egalitarian learning communities. Shaping higher education with students: Ways to connect research and teaching. (pp. 23-29) edited by Tong, Vincent C. H., Standen, Alex and Sotiriou, Mina. London, United Kingdom: UCL Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt21c4tcm.7
2018
Other Outputs
An Analysis of Interpretive Framing in Literature on Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning: Data Tables
Matthews, Kelly E., Cook-Sather, Alison, Acai, Anita, Dvorakova, Sam Lucie, Felten, Peter, Marquis, Elizabeth and Mercer-Mapstone, Lucy (2018). An Analysis of Interpretive Framing in Literature on Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning: Data Tables. University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2018.519
2018
Conference Publication
Writing for publication in the scholarship of teaching and learning
Healey, Mick, Matthews, Kelly E., Cook-Sather, Alison and Healey, Ruth (2018). Writing for publication in the scholarship of teaching and learning. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Bergen, Norway, 24-27 October 2018.
2018
Journal Article
On the use of history of mathematics: an introduction to Galileo's study of free fall motion
Ponce Campuzano, Juan Carlos, Matthews, Kelly E. and Adams, Peter (2018). On the use of history of mathematics: an introduction to Galileo's study of free fall motion. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 49 (4), 517-529. doi: 10.1080/0020739X.2017.1377301
2018
Other Outputs
The Higher Education Learning Framework: an evidence-informed model for university learning
Carroll, Annemaree, Lodge, Jason M., Bagraith, Rupert, Nugent, Annita, Matthews, Kelly and Sah, Pankaj (2018). The Higher Education Learning Framework: an evidence-informed model for university learning. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2018
Other Outputs
“Commitment to Collaboration”: What Students Have to Say About the Values Underpinning Partnership Practices: Dataset.
Lou, Benjamin, Matthews, Kelly and Chunduri, Prasad G. (2018). “Commitment to Collaboration”: What Students Have to Say About the Values Underpinning Partnership Practices: Dataset.. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2018.527
2017
Journal Article
Investigating students’ perceptions of graduate learning outcomes in mathematics
King, Deborah, Varsavsky, Cristina, Belward, Shaun and Matthews, Kelly (2017). Investigating students’ perceptions of graduate learning outcomes in mathematics. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 48 (sup1), s67-s80. doi: 10.1080/0020739X.2017.1352044
2017
Journal Article
Five propositions for genuine students as partners practice
Matthews, Kelly (2017). Five propositions for genuine students as partners practice. International Journal for Students as Partners, 1 (2). doi: 10.15173/ijsap.v1i2.3315
2017
Journal Article
We want to be more involved: student perceptions of students as partners across degree program curriculum
Matthews, Kelly E., Groenendijk, Lauren J. and Chunduri, Prasad G. (2017). We want to be more involved: student perceptions of students as partners across degree program curriculum. International Journal for Students as Partners, 1 (2). doi: 10.15173/ijsap.v1i2.3063
2017
Other Outputs
Co-designing a Community of Practice for Students as Partners in Partnership
Khouri, Fadia, Oberhollenzer, Yvonne and Matthews, Kelly (2017). Co-designing a Community of Practice for Students as Partners in Partnership. St Lucia, QLD Australia: The 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
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