DrMerinda Kelly
(she/ her)
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education
Orcid identifier0000-0001-9995-9737 (opens in a new tab)
- Senior LecturerFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Education
- +61 3 924 68177 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ask me about PhD and Master's Degree Supervision in my areas of expertise:
- Inclusive and sustainable pedagogies, practices and pedagogies for visual arts, media, visual Communication design, creative practice, design and technology: textile arts and media arts and education.
- Social practices, socially engaged art, counter forms of public art, histories and public pedagogy
- Formal and informal arts, intercultural and heritage engagement and learning in arts centres, galleries and museums
- Counter practices and pedagogies for disrupting and decolonising art, cultural and historical archives
- Practice-led art, design or media production practices, pedagogies, processes and technologies
- Play-based pedagogies for children, youth and adults.
- Arts-based making and communicating with visual, media and multimodal literacies
- Decolonising practices and pedagogies for social and planetary justice
- Critical and Creative thinking through the creative processes/ visual communication and design processes/ media production processes
GRANTS
- COMPETITIVE GRANTMaking histories: Young people as visual historians of changing cities ARC Discovery Grant $572,916Australian Research Council19 Jan 2026 - 30 Dec 2028People funded by this grant:
- Roussell D,
- Hussey-Smith K,
- Mayes E,
- Moss J,
- Kelly M
- GRANTDesign Week - Arts Learning LabHopkins W.W. & R.M17 Nov 2024 - 23 Nov 2024People funded by this grant:
- Phillips F,
- Kelly M
- INTERNAL GRANTTowards multimodal youth histories of Australian cities:REDI4 Mar 2024 - 19 Dec 2025People funded by this grant:
- Kelly M,
- Mayes E,
- Mccandless T,
- Moss J,
- Rousell D
- CONTRACT RESEARCHHands-on Heritage at the National Wool Museum.30 Oct 2023 - 30 May 2024People funded by this grant:
- Kelly M,
- Mccandless T,
- Mayes E,
- Moss J,
- Chandir H
- INTERNAL GRANTPerforming transition: Socially engaged art and the immanent pedagogical encounter in the de/re/industrialising city1 Apr 2022 - 2 Sep 2024People funded by this grant:
- Kelly M
- INTERNAL GRANTREDI Research for Educational Impact3 May 2021 - 30 Nov 2021People funded by this grant:
- Mayes E,
- Kelly M,
- Moss J
- CONTRACT RESEARCHSustainable Strategies Geelong Gallery27 Oct 2020 - 31 Dec 2020People funded by this grant:
- Merinda Kelly
- CONTRACT RESEARCHMelbourne Zoo Exhibition and Research - Planet or Plastic.1 Nov 2019 - 31 Mar 2020People funded by this grant:
- Merinda Kelly
- CONTRACT RESEARCHGeelong Gallery Project - It's the Little Things4 Jul 2019 - 31 Dec 2019People funded by this grant:
- Merinda Kelly
- INTERNAL GRANT2019: Major Grant Development funding (Deakin Faculty of Education) - Deindustralisation, schooling and inequalities in the city of Geelong (with Merinda Kelly) - $10 000 over 2019)School of Education7 Jan 2019 - 22 Nov 2019People funded by this grant:
- Mayes E,
- Kelly M
- CONTRACT RESEARCHGeelong after dark public spaces, exhibition spaces, event spaces and installations research project.25 Apr 2018 - 2 May 2018People funded by this grant:
- Merinda Kelly
- PRIZE / AWARD2024 Vice Chancellor’s Award: WJC Banks Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Learning - Associate Professor Jo Raphael, Dr Merinda Kelly, Dr Fiona Phillips ($8,000)People funded by this grant:
- Raphael J,
- Kelly M,
- Phillips F
