Dr Kelly Farrell
Dr Kelly Farrell
Research Fellow
Phone: +61 3 8344 0205
Fax: +61 3 8344 7576
Email: kfarrell@ unimelb.edu.au
Kelly joined the CSHE in 2006. Her major research interests lie in the research-student experience, research supervision, and the nature of academic cultures and communities. She is currently undertaking research on the relationship of PhD students to their local ‘communities of practice’ and the explicit and tacit processes of identity formation that take place within them, as well as the contribution PhD students make to their local communities of practice.
Kelly is also managing the Centre’s Peer Review of Teaching Project, which is investigating how collegial peer review of teaching can be implemented within an institution’s existing culture and policies to foster a university-wide culture of teaching excellence.
Kelly brings to the CSHE extensive experience in postgraduate student support. Before joining the CSHE she worked at the School of Graduate Studies where her role included facilitating Postgraduate Essentials: Strategies for a Successful Start to Your PhD, an award-winning online course for first-year PhD students. Prior to this and while completing her PhD she worked at the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association as a Research and Advisory Officer.
Kelly has an honours degree in English from the Australian National University and a PhD from the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral research was an examination of the changing representation of masculinity in Western popular culture and the relationship of these representations to national identity.
From November 2006 to February 2007 Kelly was a Strategic Advisor in the Growing Esteem Strategy Office, Office of the Vice-Chancellor, which coordinates the implementation process of the Melbourne Model.