Biography
Max Kelly is an Associate Professor and Course Director of International and Community Development, and Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Action, at Deakin University, Australia. Her areas of expertise include international and community development policy and practice. She has a sectoral focus in food security, food systems, and sustainability at local, national and international levels, alongside a critical focus on global political economy of development, and social justice.
She holds a PhD in International Development (Kingston), a Masters in Rural and Regional Resource Planning (Aberdeen), and a Bachelors in Agricultural Science (Dublin). Her recent research has focused on Political Economy Analysis, livestock development and animal welfare, Impact Assessment in development policy and practice, and research methods in an African Context.
Recent books include: Rethinking Multilateralism in Foreign Aid: Beyond the Neoliberal Hegemony (Routledge), Foreign Aid in an Age of Populism: Political Economy Analysis from Washington to Beijing (Routledge), Women Researching In Africa, (Palgrave Macmillan), Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Trade (Academic Publishers/Elsevier). She has consulted and volunteered with a wide range of organisations, from international NGOs, multilateral organizations, and government departments, through to farm extensions services and lcaol community based organsations.
Read more on Max's profileResearch interests
Food Security, Food Systems, Sustainable Rural Livelihoods, Impact Assesment, Participatory Development, Community Development, Agricultural Extension, Civil society, NGOs and development, Natural Resource Management, Gender, Timor Leste, Bangladesh, Malawi, Uganda, Pacific.
Affiliations
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP)
Development Studies Assocaition of Australia
Institute of Australian Geographers
Teaching interests
International and Community Development incorporating agriculture, food security and sustainable development, Impact Assessment, community and participatory development, cross cultural communication and practice.
Units taught
ADH712 Food Security
ADH717 Sustainablility and Development
ADS715 Cross Cultural Communication and Practice
ADS753 Interantional and Community Development internships
Knowledge areas
Sustainability, Food Security, Political Economy, Rural Livelihoods, Community Engagement and Participatory Development, Agriculture and Rural Development, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Natural Resource Management, Water Resource Management, and the role of NGOs in development, and Animal Welfare.
Professional activities
General:
Co hosted the 2015 African Studies Association of Australasia and New Zealand Annual Conference: http://afsaap.org.au/conference/conference-2015/
Co-Editor of the Australasian Review of African Studies Journal
Radio:
ABC Radio, Future Tense with Anthony Funnell, Sunday 17th April 2016, podcast, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/aid/7320894
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/whatever-happened-to-foreign-aid/7339494
Consultancy/Voluntary:
Asian Development Bank, Mekong River Commission, Government of India, and NGO sector including local NGOS in Timor Leste and Uganda.
Publications
Foreign Aid in a World in Crisis : Shifting Geopolitics in the Neoliberal Era
Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly, John McKay
(2024), Oxford, Eng., A1
The sound of silence? Listening to localisation at the World Humanitarian Summit
M Kelly, M Pardy, M McGlasson
(2024), Vol. 48, Disasters, C1
Towards a post-COVID world order: A critical analysis
V Jakupec, M Kelly, M de Percy
(2022), pp. 1-18, COVID-19 and Foreign Aid Nationalism and Global Development in a New World Order, London, Eng., B1
COVAX, vaccine (inter)nationalism and the impact on the Global South experience of COVID-19
Max Kelly, Mary McGlasson
(2022), pp. 1-18, COVID-19 and Foreign Aid : Nationalism and Global Development in a New World Order, London, Eng., B1
COVID-19 crisis and the world (re-)order
Max Kelly, Viktor Jakupec, Michael Depercy
(2022), pp. 1-15, COVID-19 and Foreign Aid : Nationalism and Global Development in a New World Order, London, Eng., B1
COVID-19 and Foreign Aid : Nationalism and Global Development in a New World Order
V Jakupec, M Kelly, M de Percy
(2022), London, Eng., A7
Multilateralism and development aid: concepts and practices
Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly, Jonathan Makuwira
(2020), pp. 1-10, Rethinking Multilateralism in Foreign Aid: Beyond the Neoliberal Hegemony, London, Eng., B1
Competing multilateralisms: development aid under scrutiny
Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly, Jonathan Makuwira
(2020), pp. 236-249, Rethinking multilateralism in foreign aid: beyond the neoliberal hegemony, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Multilateralism, global development: unpacking the megatrends
Maxine Kelly, Jonathan Makuwira
(2020), pp. 11-30, Rethinking multilateralism in foreign aid : beyond the neoliberal hegemony, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Maxine Kelly, John McKay
(2020), pp. 215-236, Rethinking multilateralism in foreign aid: beyond the neoliberal hegemony, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Rethinking Multilateralism in Foreign Aid Beyond the Neoliberal Hegemony
V Jakupec, V Jakupec, M Kelly, M Kelly, J Makuwira, J Makuwira
(2020), London, Eng., A7
Foreign aid in the age of populism political economy analysis from Washington to Beijing
Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly
(2019), Abingdon, Eng., A1
Researching the rural: a Mzungu loose in Africa
M Kelly
(2019), pp. 131-152, Women researching in Africa the impact of gender, Cham, Switzerland, B1
Counterhegemonic food discourses and geographies of food: are we losing the rural?
Maxine Kelly, Sonja Rewhorn
(2019), pp. 117-134, Interdisciplinary unsettlings of place and space: conversations, investigations and research, SIngapore, B1
Connecting landscapes and food in Africa: case studies from Ethiopia and Uganda
M Kelly, R Jackson
(2018), pp. 313-328, Routledge handbook of landscape and food, Abingdon, Eng., B1
M Kelly
(2018), pp. 475-486, Routledge handbook of landscape and food, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Women Researching in Africa: the impact of gender
Ruth Jackson, M Kelly
(2018), pp. 1-24, Women Researching in Africa: the impact of gender, London, Eng., B1
Women researching Africa: linking experience to practice
M Kelly, ruth Jackson
(2018), pp. 299-313, Women researching in Africa: the Impact of gender, Cham, Switzerland, B1
Conceptualizing impact assessment in foreign aid
M Kelly
(2016), pp. 17-29, Assessing the impact of foreign aid: value for money and aid for trade, London, Eng., B1
Animals in international development: ethics, dilemmas and possibilities
M Kelly
(2016), Vol. 14, pp. 113-132, Ethical issues in poverty alleviation, Berlin, Germany, B1
Development aid: regulatory impact assessment and conditionality
V Jakupec, M Kelly
(2016), Vol. 34, pp. 319-329, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid : Value for Money and Aid for Trade
Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly
(2016), London, Eng., A7
Farmers groups within extension networks in Northern Uganda : inclusive or exclusive?
M Kelly
(2015), pp. 1-17, AFSAAP : Africa : Diversity and Development, Dunedin, New Zealand, E1
Malawi: waving or drowning in the 21st century?
M Kelly
(2014), pp. 114-136, Development in difficult sociopolitical contexts : fragile, failed, pariah, Basingstoke, Eng., B1
Mzungu's Work? What role for local NGOs in Northern Uganda
M Kelly
(2014), pp. 1-20, AFSAAP 2013 : African renaissance and Australia : Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the 2013 African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, Perth, Western Australia, E1
NGOs, pluralism and advisory services-Timor Leste
M Kelly
(2013), Vol. 19, pp. 167-181, Journal of agricultural extension and education, Abingdon, England, C1
CLTS: Lessons learnt from a pilot project in Timor Leste
E Noy, M Kelly
(2009), pp. 1-8, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Sustainable Development and Multisectoral Approaches : Proceedings of the 34th WEDC International Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, E1
Anything new under the sun? Lessons learned from community based natural resource management
M Kelly
(2008), pp. 184-197, Community Development and Ecology : engaging ecological sustainability through community development, Melbourne, Vic., E1
J Remenyi, M Kelly
(2007), pp. 104-116, In poverty, poverty alleviation and social disadvantage : analysis, case studies and policies, New Delhi, India, B1-1
Conflict resolution and policy making mediation in the Mekong River Basin
M Buxton, J Martin, M Kelly
(2006), Vol. 41, pp. 26-32, Just policy, Collingwood, Vic., C1
Conflict resolution and sustainable water use in the Mekong River Basin
M Buxton, J Martin, M Kelly
(2006), pp. 191-203, Community development in a global risk society : conference proceedings : proceedings of a conference held in Melbourne 20 - 22 April 2006, Melbourne, Vic., E1
Australia`s box - ironbark forests and woodlands : saving the fragments of a threatened ecosystem
M Kelly, D Mercer
(2005), Vol. 36, pp. 19-37, Australian geographer, London, England, C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Industry and Other Funding
IKEA Foundation Research Scholarships
A/Prof Phil Connors, Prof Matthew Clarke, A/Prof Max Kelly
IKEA Foundation
- 2017: $153,046
A reimagined Crisis Leadership Programme for the Ukraine response.
A/Prof Max Kelly, A/Prof Maree Pardy, Dr Daniel Mcavoy, Dr Andrea North-Samardzic
The Humanitarian Leadership Academy
- 2023: $6,926
- 2022: $366,905
Regenerative Agriculture and the hasfting nature of farms in South-West Victoria.
A/Prof Max Kelly, Ms Jaime Hogan
DemoDAIRY Foundation
- 2024: $5,000
- 2023: $7,500
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from farming activities: a toolkit for farmers.
A/Prof Max Kelly
Heytesbury District Landcare Network
- 2024: $5,000
Supervisions
Maya Cordeiro
Thesis entitled: MEASURING PERFORMANCE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS BEST PRACTICE OR BEST FIT?
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Way Alege
Thesis entitled: Reconciling development interventions and communities' vital concerns in Ituri Province
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Timothy Sutherland Budge
Thesis entitled: Creating Change in Informal Settlements in Southern Africa
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Evelyn Noy
Thesis entitled: Aid in Post-Conflict States: The Relief-Development Relationship
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Helen Mary Dalton
Thesis entitled: Still struggling: market-based approaches to poverty alleviation in rural Timor-Leste
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ruth Jackson
Thesis entitled: (Un)safe Routes: Maternal Mortality and Ethiopia's Development Agenda
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Leanne Kelly
Thesis entitled: What's the point? Program evaluation in small community development NGOs
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Murray Boardman
Thesis entitled: Exploring quality in the implementation of development projects: Insights from development NGOs
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Janis Adeline Koolmatrie
Thesis entitled: The Social Impact of Gambling in Victorian Koorie Communities
Master of Arts, NIKERI Institute
Kate Neely
Thesis entitled: Developing A Systems Understanding of Rural Water Supply in Timor-Leste
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Luke Bearup
Thesis entitled: Trafficking and Protection: Theorising Reintegration and Defining Success
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Kim Dunphy
Thesis entitled: The role of arts in social change in Timor-Leste
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Maria Schmidt
Thesis entitled: Small-scale Irrigators, Pastoral Livelihood Diversification and Poverty Alleviation in Kenya
Doctor of Philosophy, School of International and Political Studies