Dr. Ute Kelly,Associate Professor in Peace Studies/Associate Dean EDI in Health Studies
Information about Dr. Ute Kelly at the University of Bradford.
- School of Social Sciences
(Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences) - Email:
- u.kelly@bradford.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 1274 236816
- Website(s)
- https://fromthehonestybox.home.blog/
- https://fromthehonestybox.home.blog/
Biography
I am an Associate Professor in Peace Studies and based in the Division of Peace Studies and International Development, working part-time.In the other half of my time at the University, I am currently seconded to the role of Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the Faculty of Health Studies.
Over the years, I have been involved in teaching and research on a range of issues within what I have seen as a broad interdisciplinary field concerned with contested values and attempts to put them into practice. Much of my work has revolved around the question of how to encourage meaningful conversations about difficult and potentially divisive issues. Currently, I am trying to encourage such conversations on our individual and collective responses to climate change, ecological crisis and the social justice issues they raise, on difference, otherness and inequalities within and beyond the University, and on how, in difficult times, we might cultivate and practice 'the moral imagination' in ourselves and others.
Research
Currently, my research focuses on two main areas of activity:Against the backdrop of the converging ecological, economic and social challenges we now face, I am interested in exploring the communicative and collaborative dimensions of resilience, the relationships between people and the places in which they find themselves, and approaches to enhancing resilience at different levels and in a range of contexts. This has included a grounded exploration of discourses of 'resilience', work on local food initiatives, and field research exploring community-based responses to the Boxing Day 2015 floods in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. Currently, I am involved in a three-year action research project commissioned by the Environment Agency for England and Natural Resources Wales that has been exploring how to engage communities at risk of increased flooding and coastal change in the UK in difficult conversations around longer-term adaptation challenges. Work on this project (with Rhys Kelly and Icarus) began with an extensive evidence review that identified a number of engagement challenges and potential approaches. Following this, our work with two pilot locations has included designing a set of tools to assess and enhance the readiness of professionals, stakeholders and communities to engage in critical conversations around climate adaptation. All of this work has been disseminated among relevant communities of practice. Currently, we are working on several spin-off projects, including a readiness assessment process for the government-funded Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme and, with HEIF funding, a role play simulation for UK coastal contexts.
As part of my own reflective practice, I have also been engaged in research around questions of pedagogy. This includes several co-authored pieces (with Rhys Kelly) on the implications of climate change and ecological crisis for our field and experiments with opening up difficult conversations around these issues with our students. With a group of Peace Studies alumni, I have engaged in a project exploring how we might encourage more honest explorations of challenging dynamics of privilege, difference and otherness within and beyond the University. At the moment, I am finalizing a book chapter reflecting on recent teaching for an edited collection on post/critical peace education, based at the Cambridge Peace and Education Research Group. In both format and content, this piece of work is an exploration of emerging interests in creative and trauma-informed pedagogic practices that I am hoping to develop further, both via my own teaching and through associated research and creative writing.
Research projects
| Role | Date | Title/description | Funder | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joint Principal Investigator | This project, run in partnership with the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and Icarus, aims to - co-develop a simulation exercise focused on adaptation choices and scenarios relevant to coastal communities facing increased risks of coastal erosion and flooding associated with climate change; - draw together expertise from the project partners to enable the development of scientifically and policy informed materials; - pilot/test the simulation exercise to generate learning and refinement of the materials, and to support the creation of a pack for use nationally; - disseminate learning through relevant publications and professional education activities. | |||
| Co-Investigator | The objective of the HEIF project is to understand existing cultural and community connections with Horton Park to foster conversations that consider current and future aspirations. Specifically, we will increase our knowledge of community views of the park as focal places, and themes related to culture, diversity, cohesion, inclusion, conflict, values and participation by: 1) Establishing the physical historical and cultural context of the park in relation to the City to contribute to community awareness and interest in learning, drawing from baseline surveys and 3D representation of the park as a planning resource. 2) Drawing upon inter-generational family memories and oral history to bridge conversations that allow older generations to bring their narratives about their enjoyment of these spaces within living memory; whilst allowing younger generations to respond to these and find 'common ground'. | |||
| Joint Principal Investigator | 2018-03-01T00:00:00 | Funded by the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, this project explores a series of engagement challenges facing professionals and communities as they attempt to engage in the difficult work of climate adaptation. This work involves both an extensive review of existing research and practice and a phase of action research and reflection in two pilot locations in England, including the development and trialing of customised tools for practitioner and community engagement. | ||
| Joint Principal Investigator | This project supported the development and trialing of a readiness assessment tool appropriate for contexts that are facing difficult and potentially contentious climate adaptation challenges. |
Teaching
Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Dr. Ute Kelly as follows:
Teaching interests
My teaching aims to encourage students to explore discourses and practices of peace, resilience, social justice and conflict engagement. This includes critical reflection on the assumptions, values and personal experiences that we bring to our study of these questions. My approach to teaching values reflective practice, dialogue about questions that matter, careful engagement with a range of perspectives within and beyond the classroom, and the development of 'the moral imagination', and I try to create learning experiences that encourage these qualities and dispositions.Teaching highlights
Over the last couple of years, I have particularly enjoyed bringing more reflective, dialogic and creative approaches into my teaching. These have included hands-on explorations of metaphors of conflict and peacebuilding, interactive exhibitions, creative writing and collaborative autoethnography projects.For some reflections on my own learning from these experiences and an attempt to broaden the dialogue beyond the classroom, see my personal blog at https://fromthehonestybox.home.blog/.
Publications
There are 46 publications involving or that are attributed to Dr. Ute Kelly. They are listed as:
- blog (13)
- book chapter (4)
- conference contribution (9)
- other journal (4)
- peer reviewed journal (8)
- published report (8)
Blog
Book Chapter
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confrontations with power: Moving beyond the tyranny of safety¿ in participation¿ | 2005 | Kelly, Ute | |||||||||
| An Education in Homecoming: Peace Education as the pursuit of Appropriate Knowledge | 2017 | Peace Education: Past, Present and Future | Peace Education: Past, Present and Future | Kelly, Ute and Kelly, Rhys | 9781138675643 | Routledge | |||||
| Becoming vulnerable in the era of climate change: Questions and dilemmas for a pedagogy of vulnerability | 2020 | Pedagogy of Vulnerability | Pedagogy of Vulnerability | Kelly, Ute and Kelly, Rhys | Information Age Publishing | ||||||
| Towards post/critical peace education? A meditation-in-progress | 2023 | Innovations in Peace and Education Praxis: Transdisciplinary Reflections and Insights | Innovations in Peace and Education Praxis: Transdisciplinary Reflections and Insights | Ute Kelly | David Tim Archer, Basma Hajir and William McInerney | Routledge |
Conference Contribution
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | All Things Resilience | All Things Resilience | n/a | Kelly, Ute | Hebden Bridge | ||||||
| 2016 | Critical Foodscapes: The future of urban gardening | Critical Foodscapes: The future of urban gardening | n/a | Kelly, Ute | University of Warwick | ||||||
| 2018 | Broadening Community Food Innovation: A Framework for Citizens' Food Research | Broadening Community Food Innovation: A Framework for Citizens' Food Research | n/a | Kelly, Ute | Todmorden | ||||||
| 2014 | Political Action, Resilience and Solidarity | Political Action, Resilience and Solidarity | n/a | Kelly, Ute and Kelly, Rhys | King's College, London | ||||||
| 2015 | Cambridge Peace and Education Research Seminar | Cambridge Peace and Education Research Seminar | n/a | Kelly, Ute and Kelly, Rhys | University of Cambridge | ||||||
| 2015 | Peacescapes: Exploring Landscapes of Peace and Peacebuilding | Peacescapes: Exploring Landscapes of Peace and Peacebuilding | n/a | Kelly, Ute | University of Oxford | ||||||
| 2014 | Reconstructing Peace Studies: Assessing New Knowledge and Outcomes | Reconstructing Peace Studies: Assessing New Knowledge and Outcomes | 1 | Rhys Kelly, Ute Kelly | Baker Institute, US. | ||||||
| 2014 | Workshop on the Radical Reductions Agenda and Implications for Peace Studies | Workshop on the Radical Reductions Agenda and Implications for Peace Studies | 0 | Rhys Kelly, Ute Kelly | University of Bradford | ||||||
| 2022 | Personalised Pedagogies: University of Hull Learning and Teaching Conference | Personalised Pedagogies: University of Hull Learning and Teaching Conference | n/a | Ute Kelly | online |
Other Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studying Dialogue - Some Reflections | 2013 | Kelly, Ute | Journal of Dialogue Studies | ||||||||
| Participation 'with Justice and Dignity': Beyond the 'New Tyranny' | 2002 | Bühler, Ute | |||||||||
| physical/distancing: reflections in progress | 2020 | Recast: A co-operative and radical education zine | Recast: A co-operative and radical education zine | Ute Kelly | |||||||
| a poem for my office | 2020 | Recast: a co-operative and radical education zine | Recast: a co-operative and radical education zine | Ute Kelly |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discourse Ethics and 'the Rift of Speechlessness': The Limits of Argumentation and Possible Future Directions. | 2006 | Kelly, Ute | |||||||||
| Resilience, Solidarity, Agency: Grounded Reflections on Challenges and Synergies | 2017 | Kelly, Ute; Kelly, Rhys H.S. | |||||||||
| Towards Peaceful Adaptation? Reflections on the purpose, scope, and practice of peace studies in the 21st Century | 2013 | Kelly, Rhys H.S.; Kelly, Ute | |||||||||
| An education in homecoming: peace education as the pursuit of 'appropriate knowledge' | 2013 | Journal of Peace Education | 10 | 283 - 302 | Kelly R.;Kelly U. | 1740-0201 | 10.1080/17400201.2013.846565 | ||||
| Reflections on the Position(s) of Peace Studies | 2002 | Peace Review | 14 | Buhler, Ute | https://doi.org/10.1080/10402650220118161 | ||||||
| Who Are We Talking to? An Addendum to Recent RIS Contributions on Discourse Ethics | 2002 | Review of International Studies | 28 | Bühler, Ute | |||||||
| The care and maintenance of CE capillaries | 1997 | LC GC: Liquid Chromatography, Gas Chromatography | 15 | 34 - 38 | Altria K.;Bryant S.;Clark B.;Kelly M. | 0888-9090 | |||||
| Readiness assessment in flood risk management and climate adaptation: A mechanism for social innovation? | 2023 | Journal of Flood Risk Management | Rhys Kelly, Ute Kelly | WIley | https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12915 |
Published Report
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civil society supporting dialogue and deliberation: Report for Carnegie UK’s Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland | 2010 | 1 | Kelly, Ute with Cumming, Lisa | 978-0-900259-65-4 | Carnegie UK | ||||||
| Community Engagement on Climate Adaptation: An Evidence Review | 2019 | 1 | Rhys Kelly, Ute Kelly | ISBN 978-1-84911-429-5 | Environment Agency | ||||||
| Experiences of Transition Research: Report for AHRC Connected Communities: “Connection, Participation and Empowerment in Community-Based Research: the Case of the Transition Movement”. | 2013 | 1 | Rhys Kelly, Ute Kelly | AHRC | |||||||
| ‘What Kind of Talk Does Resilience Need?’, | 2009 | 1 | Ute Kelly, Steve Smith, Rhys Kelly | C-SCAP | |||||||
| Working Together to Adapt to a Changing Climate: Review of Project Learning | 2023 | Ute Kelly, Rhys Kelly | Environment Agency | ||||||||
| Developing Tools for Readiness Assessment: Review of Learning. | 2023 | Rhys Kelly, Ute Kelly | Environment Agency | ||||||||
| Readiness Assessment: Tools and Techniques | 2023 | Rhys Kelly, Ute Kelly, Karen Saunders | Environment Agency | ||||||||
| Developing a simulation: review of learning | 2023 | Ute Kelly, Rhys Kelly | Environment Agency |