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Dr Peter Kelly

Biography
Qualifications
Research Interests
Scholarships and Prizes
Research Grants and Consultancies
Selected Publications
Postgraduate Supervision

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Email: Peter.Kelly@arts.monash.edu.au
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Mailing Address
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Caulfield East VIC 3145
AUSTRALIA

Biography

Before starting at Monash in February 2005 I was a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Organisational Theory in the Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University. Prior to this (1999-2002), I was a Lecturer in the Behavioural Studies Program in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at The University of Queensland.

I currently hold a position of Senior Fellow (Honorary 2006-2009) at the Institute of Learning, The University of Hull, UK. I also recently held a position as Senior Research Fellow (Honorary, 2000-2001) in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK.

I have a keen interest in the many issues that affect today's young people. This knowledge of youth issues has been developed in my research and teaching and my experience working in the Youth sector in Australia as:

An after school hours funded Youth Activities Services (YAS) co-ordinator
An adult facilitator on a Local government Youth Network
A Local government Youth Project Worker in a large Secondary College

Qualifications

1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Faculty of Education, Deakin University
Thesis title Risk and the Regulation of Youth(ful) Identities
in an Age of Manufactured Uncertainty.

1990 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - First Class
Faculty of Education, Deakin University

1989 Bachelor of Arts (Education)
Faculty of Arts, Deakin University

Research Interests

For expert comment in the following areas, see Dr Kelly's ExpertGuide entry.

Globalisation
AFL football
Sport and leisure
Work-life balance
Youth
Workplace change
Youth identities
Youth transitions
Youth studies
AFL players

My research interests currently cover the following areas:

New Work Ethics: A research program exploring the emergence of new work identities, obligations, and responsibilities in a globalised risk economy, and the ways these concerns find expression in discussions about professionalisation, work related stress and Work Life Balance.

Aspects of this research area have been published in a book and a number of articles that emerged from an Australian Football League (AFL) funded research project (2004/5) that conducted research related to the professional development of AFL players, and the relationships between this professional development and player performance.

Youth Studies: I have an extensive research background in the area of youth at-risk, and a developing research program with colleagues at the University of Glasgow (UK) and Deakin University looking at two related areas - young people as workers, and young people as University students. A common theme in these projects is the way in which youth transitions - and the family, employment, study and peer relationships shaped by these processes of transition - are being remade by the emergence of a globalised Knowledge Economy.

Knowledge Practices in the Social Sciences: In a number of spaces I have argued that the ways that we have invented (inherited) for knowing various social and cultural phenomenon are governmentalised. For example, Youth is an institutionalised, rationalised and abstract artefact of behavioural and social scientific expertise. In the behavioural and social sciences this governmentalisation produces powerful incentives and demands to conform to the rule bound, institutionalised and evidence-based knowledge practices (Mol and Law 2002) that institutions, government departments, corporations, and NGOs understand as being capable of telling truths about young people.

In this program of research I do not suggest that these knowledge practices are bad. But they are and limited and rule bound: evidence based, qualitative, quantitative, constructionist, and/or post-positivist knowledge practices are not the only ways to know something. The challenges facing the social sciences are to imagine different ways of knowing something, of producing knowledge about these issues.

Scholarships and Prizes

2003 Teaching Explorer Award for The Age of the Bog Standard University? Massification, Vocationalisation and the Possibilities for Developing the Deakin Advantage
2001 Excellence in Teaching Award, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland

Research Grants and Consultancies

2009 'Defining and Understanding intoxication and drunkenness: the individual’s response', Drinkwise Australia, (with Drs Jo Lindsay, Lyn Harrison and Chris Hickey)
2007-2008 ‘"What a Great Night": The cultural drivers of young Australian’s alcohol use’, Drinkwise Australia Fedearl Department of Health and Ageing , (with Drs Jo Lindsay, Lyn Harrison and Chris Hickey)
AFL Research program. Title: Getting the Balance Right: Professionalism, Performance, Prudentialism and Playstations in the Life of AFL Footballers. Chief Investigator (with Dr Chris Hickey, Deakin University). Funding 2004

Selected Publications

Books

Kelly, P. & Harrison L (2009) Working in Jamie’s Kitchen: Salvation, Passion and Young Workers, Palgrave, London
Kelly P (2010, in press) New Work Ethics: Foucault and the Spirit of 21st Century Capitalism, Ashgate, London
Kelly, P. & Hickey, C (2008) The Struggle for the Body Mind and Soul of AFL Footballers Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, Australia
Order the book [pdf].

Book Chapters

Kelly, P. (2009) Generation Y, flexible capitalism and new work ethics, in A Furlong (ed) Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood: New Perspectives and Agendas, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp:399-405
Hickey, C. & Kelly, P. (2009) “We’ll Only Recruit Public School Boys in the Future”: Issues of Risk Management in Talent Identification and Professional Development in the AFL. In J. Saunders, C. Hickey & W. Maschette (eds) People, participation and performance: Contributions of professional practice in sport and physical education. ACU, Melbourne, pp: 116-123
Kelly, P. & Hickey, C. (2009) Professional identity, professional development and performance management in the global sports entertainment industry. In J. Saunders, C. Hickey & W. Maschette (eds) People, participation and performance: Contributions of professional practice in sport and physical education. ACU, Melbourne
Kelly, P. (2005, in press) Dangerousness, Surveillance and the Institutionalised Mistrust of Youth, in Judith Bessant, Rob Watts & Richard Hil (eds) Violation of trust: How schools and welfare systems have failed our young people.
Kenway J., Kelly, P. & Willis, S. (2001) 'Manufacturing the global locality, customising the school and designing young workers', Demaine, J (ed) Sociology of Education Today, Macmillan Press, UK, pp 119-141.
Kelly, P. (2000), 'Youth as an Artefact of Expertise', in J. McLeod & K. Malone (eds), Researching Youth, Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies, Hobart.
Kenway J. & Kelly, P. (2000) 'Local/global labour markets and the restructuring of gender, schooling and work', Stromquist, N. and Monkman, K. (Eds), Globalisation and Education: Integration and Contestation across Cultures, Rowman and Littlefield. MD USA, 173-197.

Monographs/Reports

Lindsay, J., Kelly, P., Harrison, L., Hickey, C., Advocat, J., & Cormack, S. (2009) ‘What a great night’: The cultural drivers of drinking practices among 14-24 year-old Australians, Report prepared and submitted to DrinkWise Australia
Kelly, P., & Hickey, C. (2005) Getting the Balance Right: Professionalism, Performance, Prudentialism and Playstations in the Life of AFL Footballers, Report submitted to AFL Research Board.

Refereed Journal Articles

Kelly, P. & Hickey, C. (in press) Professional identity from the global sports entertainment industry: The struggle for the body, mind and soul of Australian Football League footballers. Journal of Sociology.
Brookes, F. & Kelly, P. (in press) Dolly girls: tweenies as artefacts of consumption, Journal of Youth Studies
Campbell P & Kelly P (2009) ‘Explosions and Examinations’: Growing up Female in Post-Saddam Iraq, Journal of Youth Studies, 12, 1, pp21-38
Kelly, P. & Hickey, C. (2008) Player Welfare and Privacy in the Sports Entertainment Industry: Player Development Managers and Risk Management in Australian Football League Clubs, International Review of the Sociology of Sport, 43 (4), pp.383–398
Hickey, C. & Kelly, P. (2008) Preparing to not be a footballer: Higher education and professional sport, Sport, Education and Society, 13 (4), pp.477-494
Kelly P., Colquhoun, D., & Allender, S. (2007) New Work Ethics? The Corporate Athlete's Back End Index and Organisational Performance, Organization, 14(2), pp267-285.
Kelly, P. (2007) Governing Individualized Risk Biographies: New Class Intellectuals and the Problem of Youth at-Risk, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 28,1, pp39-53.
Kelly, P. (2006) The Entrepreneurial Self and Youth at-Risk: Exploring the Horizons of Identity in the 21st Century, Journal of Youth Studies, 9, 1, pp17-32. Allender, S., Colquhoun, D., & Kelly, P. (2006) Competing discourses of workplace health, Health, 10, 1, pp75-94.
Allender, S., Colquhoun, D., & Kelly, P. (2006) Governing the Working Population: Knowledge, Self and Power in Workplace Health Programs, Critical Public Health, 16, 2, pp131-142.
Furlong, A., & Kelly, P. (2005) The Brazilianisation of Youth Transitions in Australia and the UK? Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol 40, No 2, pp207-225.
Kelly, P. Colquhoun D., (2005) The professionalisation of stress management: health and wellbeing as a professional duty of care? Critical Public Health, 15, 2, pp135-145.
Abbott, K., & Kelly, P. (2005) Conceptualising Industrial Relations in the 'Risk Society', Labour and Industry, Vol16, No1, pp85-104.
Hickey, C., & Kelly, P. (2005) The Transition from Schoolboy to Elite Sportsman: Education and Training and Early Career Players in the AFL, ACHPER Healthy Lifestyles Journal, 52(3-4) 7-11.
Kelly, P. (2004) The Etho-Politics of Community: Middle Class Institutions, Middle Class Manners, Middle Class Solutions, Just Policy: A Journal of Australian Social Policy, No 32, June, pp3-10.
Kelly, P. (2003) Growing Up as Risky Business? Risks, Surveillance and the Institutionalised Mistrust of Youth, Journal of Youth Studies, 6, 2, pp165-180.
Kelly, P., & Colquhoun D. (2003), 'Governing the Stressed Self: Teacher 'Health and Wellbeing' and 'Effective Schools'', Discourse, 24, 2, pp191-204.
Kelly, P. (2001) 'The Post Welfare State and the Government of Youth at-risk', Special Issue of Social Justice, 'The Impact of Welfare Reform', Vol 28, No 4, pp96-113.
Kelly, P., & Kenway J., (2001), Youth Transitions in the Network Society, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol 22, No 1, pp19-34.
Kelly, P. (2001) 'Youth at Risk: Processes of Responsibilization and Individualization in the Risk Society', Discourse, Vol22, No 1, pp23 -34.
Kelly, P. (2000) 'The Dangerousness of Youth-at-Risk: The possibilities of surveillance and intervention in uncertain times', Journal of Adolescence, Special Issue; Adolescents and Risk-Taking, 23, 463-476.
Kelly, P. (2000) 'Youth as an Artefact of Expertise: Problematising the Practise of Youth Studies', Journal of Youth Studies Vol 3, No 3, pp.301-315.
Kelly, P., Hickey, C., & Tinning, R. (2000) Educational Truth Telling in a More Reflexive Modernity', British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol 21, No 1., pp.111-122.
Kelly, P., Hickey, C., & Tinning, R. (2000) 'Producing Knowledge about Physical Education Pedagogy: Problematising the Activities of Expertise ', Quest Vol 52, No 3, pp284-296.
Kelly, P. (1999) 'Wild and Tame Zones: Regulating the Transitions of Youth at Risk', Journal of Youth Studies, Vol 2 No 2, pp.193-219.

Conference Publications - (E1 Full-written paper - refereed)

Kelly, P. (2008) Breath: Allegory, Knowledge Practices, Youth at-risk, Paper presented at TASA Annual Conference, Melbourne, December 3-6, 2008
Harrison, L. & Kelly, P. (2007) Making the Cut in Jamie’s kitchen: Gender Relations and Young Workers, Paper presented at TASA/SAANZ Joint Annual Conference, Auckland, December 4-7, 2007
Kelly, P. & Hickey C (2007) Didaked: Celebrity, Privacy and Player Behaviour in the AFL, Paper presented at TASA/SAANZ Joint Annual Conference, Auckland, December 4-7, 2007
Harrison, L. & Kelly, P. (2007) Passion in Jamie’s Kitchen: The Vital Ingredient in Education and Training for Young Workers? Paper presented at Australian Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Adelaide, November 28 - December 2, 2006.
Kelly, P., & Hickey, C. (2006) 'Risk Management, Player Welfare and Privacy: Player Development Managers and Dilemmas for Employee Relations in Australian Football League Clubs', Paper presented at AIRAANZ Annual Conference, Adelaide, Feb 1-3, 2006.
Hickey, C., & Kelly, P. (2006) 'Professional education and training for early career players in the Australian Football League: Footy first, second and third', Paper presented at AARE Annual Conference, Sydney Nov 27-Dec 1, 2005.
Kelly, P., & Hickey, C. (2006) The Life Cycle of an AFL Footballer: If you sell your Body, Mind and Soul what is left when the cheering stops? Paper presented at TASA Annual Conference, Perth December 4-7, 2006.
Kelly, P., & Harrison, L. (2006) 'Don't be a smart arse': Young Workers, Individualization, and an Ethic of Enterprise in Jamie's Kitchen, Paper presented at TASA Annual Conference, Perth December 4-7, 2006.
Kelly, P., & Hickey, C. (2005) 'Talent Identification and Risk Management at AFL Clubs: 'We'll Only Recruit Public School Boys in the Future', Paper presented at ANZAM Annual Conference, Canberra, December 7-10, 2005.
Kelly, P. (2005) 'Growing Up: Risky Business? Paper presented at TASA Annual Conference, Hobart December 5-8, 2005.
Kelly, P., & Hickey, C. (2005) 'The Body, Mind and Soul of AFL Footballers: Tales of Identity from the Global Sports Entertainment Industry', Paper presented at TASA Annual Conference, Hobart December 5-8, 2005.
Colquhoun, D., Kelly, P., & Allender, S. (2005) 'New Work Ethics, The Professionalisation of Stress Management and Effective Schools', Paper presented at AARE Annual Conference, Sydney Nov 27-Dec 1, 2005.
Kelly, P., Colquhoun, D., & Allender, S. (2004) New Work Ethics: Foucault and the spirit of 21st century capitalism, Paper presented at the American Society of Business and Behavioural Sciences (ASBBS) 2004 Seventh Annual International Conference, Values in Business, Cairns, Australia, August 6-8, 2004.
Kelly, P., & Hickey, C. (2004) Foucault goes to the footy: Professionalism, performance, prudentialism and playstations in the life of AFL footballers, Paper accepted for presentation at the TASA Annual Conference, Latrobe University, December, 2004.

HDR Supervision

Student	Topic	Supervisor/s
PhD
Fiona Brookes	Fantasies of Belonging: Fashioning a Tweenie Self	Dr Peter Kelly / Dr JaneMaree Maher
Perri Campbell	Iraqi Women’s Warblogs: Writing the Self, Writing History in Cyberspace	Dr Peter Kelly / Dr JaneMaree Maher
Michele Huppert	Religious Fundamentalism in the 21st Century: Solutions to the Problems of Identity in a Globalised World?	Dr Peter Kelly / Prof. Gary Bouma
Anna Mackrenoglou	Food, Culture, Identity and Globalisation: The Place of Food in the Greek Community in Melbourne at the start of the 21st Century	Dr Peter Kelly / Dr RoseAnne Misajon
Debbie McCormick	Does my bum look big in this avatar? An exploration of the interrelation of avatar choice and customisation, and the construction of identity in virtual worlds	Dr Francesca Collins / Dr Peter Kelly
Kerry Montero	Young people’s understandings of and orientations to risk and risk-taking in relation to road safety	Dr Peter Kelly / Dr Jo Lindsay
Nicola Pitt	The Pornography of Mothering’ – Discourse(s) and Representation(s) of Motherhood in the Early 21st Century	Dr Peter Kelly / Dr JaneMaree Maher
Tisna Prabasmoro	Globalisation Football and Identity in Indonesia	Dr Andrew Singleton / Dr Peter Kelly