Biography
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 are emerging at the convergence of the 6th Mass Extinction and the 4th Industrial Revolution. The Young People's Sustainable Futures Lab is a repository for our current research project collaborations.
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, these interests are framing the development of a research agenda titled: COVID-19 and Young People’s Well-being, Education, Training and Employment Pathways: Scenarios for Young People’s Sustainable Futures.
My previous books include: Social Justice in Times of Crisis and Hope: Young People, Wellbeing and the Politics of Education, Re-thinking Young People’s Marginalisation: Beyond Neo-Liberal Futures?, Young People and the Politics of Outrage and Hope, A Critical Youth Studies for the 21st Century; The Self as Enterprise: Foucault and the Spirit of 21st Century Capitalism, and Working in Jamie’s Kitchen: Salvation, Passion and Young Workers
Read more on Peter's profileAffiliations
Centre for Research for Educational Impact
Journal of Youth Studies (Taylor & Francis), Editorial Board
Knowledge areas
Sociologies of youth, education and training, work, young people's well-being, the Anthropocene, the 4th Industrial Revolution
Awards
Teaching and Learning Development Grant, Monash University (2005)
Teaching Explorer Award, Deakin University (2003)
Excellence in Teaching Award, The University of Queensland (2001)
Projects
Creative Industries Pathways to Youth Employment in the COVID-19 Recession. ARC Linkage Project (2021-2024)
COVID-19 and Young People’s Education and Employment Aspirations: A 3 Year Study in Geelong. Anthony Costa Foundation (2021-2023)
Publications
Javed Anwar, Sher Khan, Mir Shah, Seth Brown, Peter Kelly, Scott Phillips
(2023), Leiden, The Netherlands, A1
'Being young', 'living well', in/ beyond the pandemic: Exploring the entanglements between COVID- 19, the Anthropocene and young people's wellbeing
P Kelly, P Kelly, S Brown, S Brown, J Goring, J Goring
(2023), pp. 265-284, Wellbeing: Global Policies and Perspectives: Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond, London, Eng., B1
Health Promotion as a Complex Assemblage: Science and Technology Studies as Method
Peter Kelly, Kerry Montero
(2023), pp. 83-91, Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 3 Doing Health Promotion Research, Berlin, Germany, B1
J Goring, P Kelly, D Carbajo, S Brown
(2023), Vol. 147, pp. 103099-103099, Futures, C1
Young people and post-pandemic futures: scenario planning as a radical politics of hope
Peter Kelly, Seth Brown, James Goring
(2023), Qualitative Research Journal, C1
Youth arts as popular education: cultural studies at the edges of the creative industries
A Hickey-Moody, P Kelly, S Brook, T Hulbert, C Cornell, R Khan
(2023), pp. 1-12, Continuum, London, Eng., C1
Art-Based Social Enterprise, Young Creatives and the Forces of Marginalisation
Grace McQuilten, Amy Spiers, Kim Humphery, Peter Kelly
(2022), Cham, Switzerland, A1
Peter Kelly, Kerry Montero
(2022), Vol. 1, pp. 659-673, Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 1 Mapping Health Promotion Research, Berlin, Germany, B1
Young People and the Anthropocene: Futures, Past and Present?
Peter Kelly
(2022), pp. 117-132, Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene, Lanham, MD, B1
Preface: Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene
Peter Kelly, Peter Kraftl, Diego Carbajo Padilla, Rosalyn Black, Deborah Macdonald, Meave Noonan, Ana Robiero
(2022), pp. ix-xxviii, Young People and Stories of/for the Anthropocene, Lanham, MD, B1
COVID-19 and young people's 'Future Presents': lockdown stories from the Anthropocene
P Kelly, S Brown, J Goring
(2022), pp. 1-18, Journal of Youth Studies, London, Eng., C1
G Argent, S Brown, P Kelly
(2022), Vol. 43, pp. 48-60, Discourse, C1
Girls' education in Balochistan, Pakistan: exploring a postcolonial Islamic governmentality
J Anwar, P Kelly, E Gray
(2022), pp. 1-18, British Journal of Sociology of Education, London, Eng., C1
COVID-19, young people and the futures of work: Rethinking global grammars of enterprise
D Carbajo, P Kelly
(2022), pp. 1-20, Sociological Review, London, Eng., C1
School strikes for climate: Young people, dissent and collective identities in/for the Anthropocene
Peter Kelly, James Goring, Meave Noonan
(2021), pp. 177-197, Youth Collectivities: Cultures and Objects, London, Eng., B1
K Montero, P Kelly
(2021), Vol. 42, pp. 840-853, Discourse, C1
Belonging, Identity, Time and Young People's Engagement in the Middle Years of School
Seth Brown, Peter Kelly, Scott Phillips
(2020), Cham, Switzerland, A1
L Howie, P Campbell, P Kelly
(2020), Vol. 23, pp. 189-204, Journal of Youth Studies, C1
M Noonan, P Kelly
(2020), Vol. 23, pp. 481-498, Journal of Youth Studies, C1
The youth bulge: remaking precarity in times of illegitimacy
E Rowe
(2019), pp. 186-206, Young people and the politics of hope and outrage, Leiden, The Netherlands, B1
Young people, precarity and global grammars of enterprise: Some preliminary provocations
D Carbajo, P Kelly
(2019), Vol. 24, pp. 61-91, Recerca, Castellón de la Plana, Spain., C1
Social Justice in Times of Crisis and Hope: Young People, Well-being and the Politics of Education
S Duggan, E Gray, P Kelly, K Finn, J Gagnon
(2019), New York, N.Y., A7
Rethinking young people's marginalisation : beyond neo-liberal futures?
Peter Kelly, Perri Campbell, Luke Howie
(2018), London, Eng., A1
P Kelly
(2018), pp. 319-333, Interrogating Belonging for Young People in Schools, Cham, Switzerland, B1
Critical Childhood and Youth Studies
Annelies Kamp, Peter Kelly
(2018), pp. 739-748, Handbuch Kindheits- und Jugendsoziologie, Wiesbaden, Germany, B1
Three notes on a political economy of youth
P Kelly
(2018), Vol. 21, pp. 1283-1304, Journal of Youth Studies, London, Eng., C1
Growing up after the GFC: responsibilisation and mortgaged futures
P Kelly
(2017), Vol. 38, pp. 57-69, Discourse, London, Eng., C1
Neo-liberalism and Austerity the moral economies of young people's health and well-being
P Kelly, J Pike
(2017), London, Eng., A7
Young People and the Aesthetics of Health Promotion: Beyond Reason, Rationality and Risk
Kerry Montero, Peter Kelly
(2016), London, Eng., A1
The Self as Enterprise: Foucault and the Spirit of 21st Century Capitalism
Peter Kelly
(2016), London, Eng., A1
Food and Passion: Technologies of Self-transformation in Jamie's Kitchen
Lyn Harrison, Peter Kelly, Perri Campbell
(2016), pp. 95-112, Food Pedagogies, London, Eng., B1
Moral Geographies of Young People and Food: Beyond Jamie's School Dinners
Jo Pike, Peter Kelly
(2016), pp. 467-486, Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing, Berlin, Germany, B1
P Kelly
(2016), pp. 21-30, Youth Cultures and Subcultures: Australian Perspectives, Abingdon, Eng., B1
P Kelly
(2016), pp. 391-399, Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood: Second Edition, London, Eng., B1
Young people's marginalisation: Unsettling what agency and structure mean after neo-liberalism
P Kelly
(2016), pp. 35-51, Neo-liberalism, Austerity, and the Moral Economies of Young People's Health and Well-being, London, Eng., B1
Is neo-liberal capitalism eating itself or its young?
P Kelly, J Pike
(2016), pp. 1-31, Neo-liberalism, austerity: the moral economies of young people's health and well-being, London, Eng., B1
Sociologies of terrorism: Holographic metaphors for qualitative research
L Howie, P Kelly
(2016), Vol. 52, pp. 418-432, Journal of Sociology, London, Eng., C1
Food and passion: technologies of self transformation in Jamie's kitchen
L Harrison, P Kelly, P Campbell
(2015), pp. 95-111, Food pedagogies, Surrey, Eng., B1-1
An 'Untimely' Youth Studies?
Peter Kelly, Peter Kelly, Annelies Kamp, Annelies Kamp
(2015), Vol. 2, pp. 526-533, CRITICAL YOUTH STUDIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, B1
P Kelly, P Campbell, L Harrison
(2015), Vol. 36, pp. 558-576, British journal of sociology of education, Abingdon, Eng., C1
The moral geographies of children, young people and food: Beyond Jamie's school dinners
J Pike, P Kelly
(2014), A1-1
ANTsy youth
A Kamp, A Kamp, P Kelly, P Kelly
(2014), Vol. 2, pp. 370-378, A Critical Youth Studies for the 21st Century, B1-1
P Kelly, P Kelly, A Kamp, A Kamp
(2014), Vol. 2, pp. 142-149, A Critical Youth Studies for the 21st Century, B1-1
Once were young: reflexive hindsight and the problem of teen parents
A Kamp, P Kelly
(2014), Vol. 17, pp. 887-900, Journal of Youth Studies, C1-1
A critical youth studies for the 21st century
P Kelly, A Kamp
(2014), Vol. 2, pp. 1-629, A Critical Youth Studies for the 21st Century, A7-1
In/between feminism and foucault : Iraqi women's war blogs and intellectual practices of the self
P Campbell, P Kelly
(2013), Vol. 39, pp. 183-199, Critical sociology, London, England, C1
The brain in the jar: A critique of discourses of adolescent brain development
P Kelly
(2012), Vol. 15, pp. 944-959, Journal of Youth Studies, C1-1
P Kelly, C Hickey
(2012), Vol. 3, pp. 35-50, Asia-Pacific journal of health, sport and physical education, Abingdon, Eng., C1
P Kelly, C Hickey, S Cormack, L Harrison, J Lindsay
(2011), Vol. 16, pp. 467-484, Sport, education and society, Oxon, England, C1
I don't know anyone that has two drinks a day : young people, alcohol and the government of pleasure
L Harrison, P Kelly, J Lindsay, J Advocat, C Hickey
(2011), Vol. 13, pp. 469-486, Health, risk and society, London, England, C1
Breath and the truths of youth at risk : allegory and the social scientific imagination
P Kelly
(2011), Vol. 14, pp. 431-447, Journal of youth studies, Abingdon, England, C1
An untimely future for youth studies?
P Kelly
(2011), Vol. 30, pp. 47-53, Youth studies Australia, Hobart, Tas., C1
P Kelly, C Hickey
(2010), Vol. 46, pp. 27-44, Journal of sociology, London, England, C1
Working in Jamie's kitchen : salvation, passion and young workers
P Kelly, L Harrison
(2009), Prahran, Vic., A1
J Lindsay, L Harrison, J Advocat, P Kelly, C Hickey
(2009), Vol. 28, pp. 44-51, Youth studies Australia, Hobart, Tas., C1
'Explosions and examinations' : growing up female in post-Saddam Iraq
P Campbell, P Kelly
(2009), Vol. 12, pp. 21-38, Journal of youth studies, London, England, C1-1
Dolly girls : tweenies as artefacts of consumption
F Brookes, P Kelly
(2009), Vol. 12, pp. 599-613, Journal of youth studies, London, England, C1-1
Player welfare and privacy in the sports entertainment industry
P Kelly, C Hickey
(2008), Vol. 43, pp. 383-398, International review for the sociology of sport, Munich, Germany, C1
Preparing to not to be a footballer : higher education and professional sport
C Hickey, P Kelly
(2008), Vol. 13, pp. 477-494, Sport, education and society, Abingdon, England, C1
New work ethics? The corporate athlete's back end index and organisational performance
P Kelly, S Allender, D Colquhoun
(2007), Vol. 14, pp. 267-285, Organization, Thousand Oaks, Calif., C1-1
Governing individualized risk biographies : new class intellectuals and the problem of youth at-risk
P Kelly
(2007), Vol. 28, pp. 39-53, British journal of sociology of education, London, England, C1-1
The competing discourses of workplace health
S Allender, D Colquhoun, P Kelly
(2006), Vol. 10, pp. 75-93, Health : an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine, Thousand Oaks, Calif., C1-1
The entrepreneurial self and youth at-risk : exploring the horizons of identity in the 21st century
P Kelly
(2006), Vol. 9, pp. 17-32, Journal of youth studies, Abingdon, England, C1-1
Governing the working population : knowledge, self and power in workplace health programs
S Allender, D Colquhoun, P Kelly
(2006), Vol. 16, pp. 131-142, Critical public health, London, England, C1-1
The professionalisation of stress management : health and wellbeing as a professional duty of care?
P Kelly, D Colquhoun
(2005), Vol. 15, pp. 135-145, Critical public health, London, England, C1-1
The Brazilianisation of youth transitions in Australia and the UK?
A Furlong, P Kelly
(2005), Vol. 40, pp. 207-225, Australian journal of social issues, Redfern, N.S.W., C1-1
Growing Up as Risky Business? Risks, Surveillance and the Institutionalized Mistrust of Youth
P Kelly
(2003), Vol. 6, pp. 165-180, Journal of Youth Studies, Oxon, England, C1
Governing the Stressed Self: teacher 'health and well-being' and 'effective schools'
P Kelly, D Colquhoun
(2003), Vol. 24, pp. 191-204, Discourse, Oxon, England, C1
Manufacturing the global locality, customizing the school and designing young workers
J Kenway, P Kelly, S Willis
(2001), pp. 119-141, Sociology of education today, New York, N.Y., B1-1
Managing youth transitions in the network society
P Kelly, J Kenway
(2001), Vol. 22, pp. 19-33, British journal of sociology of education, London, England, C1-1
Youth at risk : processes of individualisation and responsibilisation in the risk society
P Kelly
(2001), Vol. 22, pp. 23-33, Discourse, London, England, C1-1
P Kelly
(2000), Vol. 3, pp. 301-315, Journal of youth studies, London, England, C1-1
P Kelly
(2000), Vol. 23, pp. 463-476, Journal of adolescence, London, England, C1-1
Educational truth telling in a more reflexive modernity
P Kelly, C Hickey, R Tinning
(2000), Vol. 21, pp. 110-122, British journal of sociology of education, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Producing knowledge about physical education pedagogy: problematizing the activities of expertise
P Kelly, C Hickey, R Tinning
(2000), Vol. 52, pp. 284-296, Quest, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Wild and tame zones : regulating the transitions of youth at risk
P Kelly
(1999), Vol. 2, pp. 193-211, Journal of youth studies, Abingdon, England, C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Creative industries pathways to youth employment in the COVID-19 recession
Prof Anna Hickey-Moody, Prof Peter Kelly, A/Prof Scott Brook, Dr Tammy Hulbert, Dr Rimi Khan, Ms Lesley Giles, Dr Christen Cornell
ARC Linkage - Projects
- 2023: $35,591
- 2022: $35,117
Industry and Other Funding
COVID-19 and Disadvantaged Young People¿s Education and Employment Aspirations: A Longitudinal Study of Young People¿s Transitions in Geelong
Prof Peter Kelly
Anthony Costa Foundation Grant
- 2023: $17,481
- 2022: $50,317
Supervisions
James Nathan Goring
Thesis entitled: Young People, Twenty-First Century Skills and Uncertain Futures: A Genealogy of Australia¿s Neo-Liberal Education Apparatus
Doctor of Philosophy (Education), School of Education