Kellie McGlynn

Dr Kellie McGlynn is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Learning in the School of Education at Deakin University. Her research focuses on applied learning, teacher education, trauma-informed practice, and systems change. Kellie uses Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and Change Laboratory methodology to examine how institutions, policies and professional practices can better respond to complexity, inequity and lived experience.

Her current research program, The Second Violence, explores how systems intended to support victim-survivors of family violence can also produce further harm through procedural, institutional and relational failures. Drawing on feminist autoethnography, public health perspectives and systems theory, this work seeks to make visible the often-hidden impacts of institutional responses and contribute to reform in family violence, education and public service systems.

Kellie has led and contributed to major research and partnership projects across teacher education, vocational education and training, applied learning and trauma-informed education. Her work is strongly grounded in collaboration with communities, practitioners and policy partners, with a focus on research that creates practical and systemic change.