ProfessorPeter Kelly

Professor of Education

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact

  • Professor of Education
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact
  • +61 3 522 78003 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

RESEARCH INTERESTS

As a Professor of Education in the School of Education my research focuses on
young people, their education, training and employment pathways, and their
health and well-being, at a time of profound planetary crises that have been
identified as the convergence of the 6th Mass Extinction and the 4th
Industrial Revolution. The [Young People's Sustainable Futures Lab
](https://young-people-futures-lab.org)is a repository for our current
research project collbaorations.

Knowledge Areas
Sociologies of youth, education and training, work, young people's well-being,
the Anthropocene, the 4th Industrial Revolution

Projects
[Creative Industries Pathways to Youth Employment in the COVID-19
Recession](https://vital-arts.org). ARC Linkage Project (2021-2024)
[COVID-19 and Young People's Education and Employment Aspirations: A 3 Year
Study in Geelong](https://young-people-futures-lab.org/projects-3/costa-
foundation-project-young-people/). Anthony Costa Foundation (2021-2023)

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Creative industries pathways to youth employment in the COVID-19 recession
    6 Jun 2022 - 3 Apr 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hickey-Moody A,
    • Kelly P,
    • Brook S,
    • Hulbert T,
    • Khan R
    ARC Linkage - Projects - LP200301027 - $107,149.25
  • GRANT
    COVID-19 and Disadvantaged Young Peoples Education and Employment Aspirations: A Longitudinal Study of Young Peoples Transitions in Geelong
    1 Apr 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Peter Kelly
    Anthony Costa Foundation Grant - $67,798.42