Professor Kelly Matthews

Professor

Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation
k.matthews1@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 51169

Overview

Professor Kelly Matthews is a well-respected applied researcher and higher education scholar, a multiple award-winning university teacher, and an educational leader known for co-creating successful networks that bring people together.

In 2024, Kelly is embarking on a cross-institutional study to explore student perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI), a project co-funded by Deakin, Monash, UQ, and UTS. She is also co-organising the 10th annual Students as Partners (SaP) Roundtable, a collaborative effort with students and staff from Australia, Pakistan, South Africa, US, and UK. With teaching focused colleagues at Monash, UNSW, UQ, and Sydney, she is co-creating an Australian Teaching/Education Focused Academic Network, a platform that values and connects academics committed to positive educational impact through university teaching.

Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn, learn more about her research in this podcast conversation, and read her latest co-authored book, Writing about teaching and learning in higher education.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Arts, University of New Orleans

Publications

View all Publications

Supervision

View all Supervision

Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Oberg, Glenys, Matthews, Kelly E., Lincoln, Jennifer and McGrath, Nathan (2023). Stretching the boundaries of pedagogical partnerships in higher education through the lens of recognition. The Bloomsbury handbook of student voice in higher education. (pp. 427-438) edited by Jarusha Conner, Rille Raaper, Carolina Guzman-Valenzuela and Launa Gauthier. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781350342484.ch-030

  • Liang, Yifei and Matthews, Kelly (2023). Culturally respectful pedagogical partnership (Asia). Inclusive learning design in higher education. (pp. 56-59) edited by Virna Rossi. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Matthews, Kelly E. (2020). Foreword. Building courage, confidence, and capacity in learning and teaching through student-faculty partnership: stories from across contexts and arenas of practice. (pp. vii-viii) edited by Alison Cook-Sather and Chanelle Wilson. Lanham, United States: Lexington Books.

  • 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

  • Marquis, Beth, Healey, Mick and Matthews, Kelly E. (2019). Afterword. Pedagogical partnerships: a how-to guide for faculty, students, and academic developers in higher education. (pp. 279-281) Elon, NC, United States: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning. doi: 10.36284/celelon.oa1

  • Motley, Phillip, Divan, Aysha, Lopes, Valerie, Ludwig, Lynn, Matthews, Kelly E. and Tomljenovic-Berube, Ana (2019). Collaborative writing: intercultural and interdisciplinary partnerships as a means of identity formation. Critical collaboration communities: academic writing partnerships, groups, and retreats. (pp. 212-227) edited by Nicola Simmons and Anna Singh. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004410985_016

  • Lawrie, Gwen, Matthews, K. E. and Gahan, Lawrie (2019). Collaborative, scenario-based, open-ended, problem-solving tasks in chemistry. Teaching chemistry in higher education: a festschrift in honour of Professor Tina Overton. (pp. 105-122) edited by Michael K. Seery and Claire McDonnell. Dublin, Ireland: Creathach Press.

  • Cook-Sather, Alison, Matthews Kelly E. and Bell, Amani (2019). Transforming curriculum development through co‑creation with students. Reimagining curriculum spaces for disruption. (pp. 107-126) edited by Lynn Quinn. Cape Town, South Africa: African Sun Media.

  • 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

  • Matthews, Kelly, Marquis, Beth and Healey, Mick (2017). International collaborative writing groups as communities of practice. Implementing communities of practice in higher education: dreamer and schemers. (pp. 597-617) edited by Jacquie McDonald and Aileen Cater-Steel. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-2866-3_26

  • McManus, Michael E. and Matthews, Kelly E. (2016). Review of the undergraduate science curriculum at the University of Queensland. Transforming Institutions: Undergraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century. (pp. 189-198) West Lafayette, IN, United States: Purdue University Press.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Edited Outputs

  • 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.

  • Kelly E. Matthews ed. (2015). National Students as Partners Roundtable Program. 1st Annual Australian National Students as Partners Roundtable, The University of Queensland, 23 October 2015. Brisbane, Australia: UQ.

Other Outputs

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Note for students: Professor Kelly Matthews is not currently available to take on new students.

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision