Kelly Palmer

Kelly Palmer teaches Media and Communication at QUT. She has served as Acting Secretary on the QUT branch of the NTEU, and she has represented the university at National Council. She is passionate about widening participation and runs interdisciplinary workshops for Queensland students and teachers, as well as with local libraries and the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre. Her PhD explores class and belonging on the Gold Coast, and her fiction has been published in Voiceworks and Swamp. You can follow her on Twitter as @KellyAnnePalmer.

Articles by Kelly Palmer:

6 May 201911 July 2019 · The university

The casualties of academia: a response to The Conversation

Kate Cantrell and Kelly Palmer

Casualisation is not a valid hiring practice with ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ but a system of exploitation that brutalises academics and imperils not only teaching and research, but the spirit of inquiry itself.